Woah-livia

This chick is a total babe. Also she is my baby sister. I enjoy taking photos and have been practicing with some of my family, most recently Olivia's senior photos and my sisters newborn photos. Baby wasn't really newborn by the time I got my hands on him so he was a little wiggly. Wiggles and indignant cries at being put in strange positions makes taking baby pictures hard....but oh so cute. Let's just say Olivia was easier to photograph. Not only is she photogenic, beautiful, and a snappy dresser but she is also a dancer. aka-she can do crap that other people just can't in a photo. Enjoy her crazy moves.

Cheater Pants

Sometimes I feel like a cheater when I art. The project in my drawing class this week focused on stencil drawings with chalk. Something about using a stencil to create my project felt like a trick, like I wasn't trying as hard. Art teaches me new things every day. Mainly I have been grasping the fact that art isn't any one thing. It is everywhere in everything and there are countless ways to create. I have the same problem of feeling like I am cheating somehow when I do projects with computer programs like in my Photoshop class this semester. After our first digital painting my teacher proclaimed his distaste for all who call digital art "fake". The painter has to have skill, creativity, and knowledge to make a painting whether on the computer with a mouse or on a canvas with a brush. Another of my great teachers says that all art is a self portrait because no two people create the same and no two projects are alike. So for your enjoyment today is my stencil and chalk portrait of Aaron, also digitally remastered for his less colorful and more "manly" tastes, as well as my recent digital painting. Thanks to Aaron, Michelle, and Phillip for being my models.

I Resist. Wax Resist.

I don't like trying new things. It makes me uncomfortable. I love art. Art classes make me uncomfortable. The older I get the more I understand that what makes you uncomfortable changes you and change is usually good. Now I'm not saying that I'm going to start wearing a corset everyday because the discomfort will be good for me but doing things a little different IS good for me.

Wax resist is new for me and I don't love how it came out but it was a lot of fun to try. Oil pastel drawing covered with India ink and then scratched out. Great texture, not a lot of space for detail. Also below is watercolor and India ink, also new for me.

Try new things! It's scary and fun.