struggle

I have no idea but for whatever reason I had the hardest time drawing the past week. I've started and stopped and redrawn so many different works. So of them have been placed on the back-burner due to my frustration with them. This one was re-worked and restarted four times over. It's still no perfect but I am pretty happy with it all the same. One of my new housemates was looking over my shoulder while I was roughing in the lines and said it looked like a Escher drawing. Believe I lost that appeal when I inked the rest of the drawing. 

Details; ballpoint ink pen on paper.

#Draw4Atena

An artist that I follow Gavin Aung posted http://zenpencils.com/comic/atena/ today and brought to my attention the plight that Atena a Iranian woman and artist is undergoing. I can't even start to imagine having all my rights striped away from me and barred from as these women. Atena is stronger and braver than I can ever comprehend and maybe that is because so many American woman have already fought and continue to stand in the fight for equality, choice and freedom of voice. I can only hope that my drawing can join the thongs of others to offer support to my fellow artist who is being beaten by those who don't want to or worst can't understand there fellow country woman. I know that her life has been upturned and she will never be the same person that had innocently placed a political caricature on Facebook about a ruling that was undergoing in her country that would continue to limit her and fellow women status in there culture and daily lives.

This is for you Atena Farghadani.

Details; Pen and Ink pen drawing

June Third

freedom

"It's not just a keel and hull and a deck and sails. 

That's what a ship needs.

But what a ship is... what the Black Pearl 

really is... is freedom."

                                                  - Jack Sparrow

20 of 22

Having a day off is always helpful when one feels inspired. Though it seems there is just not enough time to get everything done. Yesterday I decided that I was just going to let the rest fall to the way side and draw cause that's what I needed. The rest of the week may well be interesting since I didn't make it to the grocery nor did I pay any heed to my mound of laundry. Though I did set my goal on Monday 4/30 and going to see just how many tree house drawings that I can create. Understand that this is going to take time, I know that creating one hundred different/interesting creations is a lofty one. This is one of the three that I brought to life yesterday. 

Details: cheap ink pen on paper.

drawings 3/23

Some redo drawings for a project I've been working on. Hopefully these are easier to tell what they are unlike my first go around. Which were a little suspect, beautiful of course but to artsy. What do ya'll think they are? 

Details; pen and ink on paper.



Hint... it's not cotton but the other crop that has been known to keep North Carolina afloat.

line drawing (Durham bull)

Super rough but wanted to share, been working on a whole host of project over my mid week weekend. Most of which involving a lot of Photoshop and layout. But this is a fun side project that I picked up at work; being the second resident artist.

happily

Happiness isn't just stumbled upon; 

it's searched for fought for each and every day. 

Bear Fort

I haven't had a whole lot of luck drawing pine tree's in the past. This was the day to change all that. Being a good southern girl I typically would chose a set of Black Bears. My mom loves these lovely, timid, fierce creatures.

Details; ballpoint pen on paper

Alice

Playing with different ideas of reuse with my last drawing throw open the doors. Using doors in substitute for solid walls makes perfect since being a tree house. Being of an inquiring mind I wanted to create a tree house using doors as the platform. Think just how interesting to be able to stand on a glass section of the floor and see what's going on below. All the while surrounded by all the different old doors of different weights and dimensions that have come together to create a whole. Understandably not very practical for a tree house since the glass sections would have to be reinforced and/or very thick glass to hold anyone but all the same. 

So if you will lets turn the world a little and walk on the doors and glass windows as shelter. 

Details: ballpoint ink pen on paper

Throw Open the Doors

Details: ballpoint ink pen on paper

Spinning to the Top of the World

This is for all those who miss the sunshine on there faces and the wind at there back. Seems that it's been a cold and damp winter thus far. The dampness is sinking into my bones and don't know if I'll ever warm up. 

I do have to admit it's been a good long while since I've been able and/or willing to sit at my drawing table. I've moved since my last post, started a second job, traded in my car that kept catching on fire and was blessed to be able to leave Starbucks for a full time retail gig. All of this seemed to send me spinning in a tizzy and I've since then been trying desperately to regain my center. 

Details: ballpoint ink pen on paper

Daisies III

I started this painting last weekend. That was after treating a canvas for reuse, that originally had a strange little black terror on it. My current housemates seemed to really love the original canvas as they found it airing out on our front porch airing out on a rainy Saturday. All the same I went ahead with my plans of using the canvas for my own purposes. 

As you can see (if you've been following my work as of late) it is the third insulation in my daisy. Probably my favorite so far. Due to the illusion of depth given by the smaller daisies thrown into the mix. 

Details: acrylic on canvas.  

boy digging

I've been working on a large project for the past couple of months with a friend. As I finally clean up my paint and put away my paint brushes a part of me is sad to have such an undertaking has come to a close; at lest for now.

Details: acrylic, water color and ink pen

Audrey (line drawing)

There's really been no excuses but I lost my drawing mojo and really struggling for creative juice. Went through a huge reading kick believe I've read at lest thirty books in the past two months. One of my reads was a biography about Audrey Hepburn. It's amazing how someone that is so beautiful and lovely inside and out struggles to see there own beauty. This is my struggle of a first sketch in months. It's not beautiful in the way that every line is perfect but only in the way that it's like each of us.

the great collapse

I haven't just sat down and drawn anything in so long. It's been a painful process but this sketchbook drawing is passable enough to share. I love the composer and complexity of my stacks and stacks of books some falling others standing strong. My childhood desk/bookshelf has been moved into the basement. I migrated all my books to my room just stacks upon stacks of them. With no where to go or be stored at the moment.  I hope that you enjoy my composer as much as I do as I am trying to figure what to do with them all. Some I could never part with much like old friends/memories and others are possibly heading to the used book store...  

Puppy Dog! "Give me a Kiss!"

 

                    


                      I may be having too much fun at this point. 
                        This here is a originally a photo I found 
                       online and then played with Photoshop 
                        a wee bit. I always love a golden mix!

Cola Bottles Repeat

I've been hard at work and finally getting to play again. My part time gig is crazy understaffed at the moment and that was before yesterdays events so we'll see how that plays out. I strained my back and wasn't able to do much of anything for about a week. But now I am back and in black! I am ready to play and create again! Luck for me I have great friends and loving family that always supports me and all my madness. That being said a good friend of mine that I've known for ever, and I mean forever, we've been friends since running camp in middle school! (Yes I was one of those kids that went to running camp.) Helped me out and set me up with Adobe suit. 

I've been playing for the past couple of days and this is a recreation of an earl post but still a whole heap of lot of fun. I love taking every day objects and giving them some character. I am still playing with this one and there may be a cola bottle re-amp part III if I like one in particular.  As always I'd love to know what you all think and if you have any suggestions or pointers as I play and work on projects!

Daises Love

Since my last daisy painting was so much fun to create and widely well received I am hoping to work to create a Daisy series and see where this adventure through the rabbit hole leads. My desk is a mess like much of my life and I truly hope that doesn't subtract from my work but only gives an idea of scale. 

Details: acrylic on cotton stretched canvas. 

Fields of Daises & Red Poppies

So good news bad news. I started painting again and even received some free canvases to work on. Which was an interesting experience over all. I was working full time for a canvas gilcee printing group out of Raleigh. Mostly customer service stuff but did work in the production center for a couple days and for there sister company that creates invitations. Which was no fun at all and I found it is amazing what people will say to someone in email when they are upset. I digress, after the peak holiday season there were a number of canvases that out customers choose to not have printed for an assortment of reasons and were given away. I found four of assorted sizes that I could paint over. Especially since I was laid off once again, no surprise since this seems to be my thing. I have lots of free time to paint and work on projects that I wish.

This painting is whatever you like it too be; I set it up as a field of daisies and red poppies. Though my over all mood is still up beat I really needed to paint something black and really really love this work. I started a sister canvas of just daisies that is going to be red and much much smaller. Like always really appreciate your support and any input or direction. 

Thank you,


Details: cotton stretched canvas, with acrylic.