Self-Portrait #6

I swear when I decided to do this I had all of these great ideas and then I did two...and I got sick, boring and forgot all of my ideas. I'm still pushing ahead. I really hated #5 so I see #6 as an improvement but I still feel like I'm barely functioning above the artistic level of an 8th grader.

Tonight, while trying to drown out Bad Veins practice with my new favorite album, She and Him: Volume One, I played around with my old watercolor pencils for a 4x6 self-portrait which accomplishes two goals at once!




Back to She and Him. I've been having a hard time being impressed by new music lately so this record is a breath of fresh air. Some of the tracks remind me of the "oldies" that my best friend Sarah and I used to listen to while driving with her mom tapping her thumbs on her steering wheel when we were in middle school. Zooey Deschenel,you may remember her voice from movie Elf, has that sweet nostalgic voice that is reminiscent of singers like Peggy Lee or Dusty Springfield. My favorite track on the record is a cover of Smokey Robinson's song You've Really Got a Hold On Me. Her collaborator on the album, M.Ward another favorite musician of mine, duets with her on this song and it just sounds like a lazy, tired summer night which I love. I also adore the cover art.

Self-Portrait #5

Apparently I forgot how to draw and I'm not sure what I look like. Does that ever happen to anyone else? I just don't recognize my face sometimes. Maybe it's the cold/flu medicine.

Self-Portrait #4...The Doctor's Office

I got out of bed today to go to the doctor only for her to tell me
that I have the flu and there's nothing that she can do for me. She
did comfort me by saying that the first four days are usually the
worst. THE FIRST FOUR DAYS!?!? I think I feel better then yesterday
so I'm hoping my immune system is better then average.

Sick Sucks

Self-portrait #3. Fever going down. I went from 0 to sick over night.

Tired Monday

Self-portrait #2 - I ran out of time at work today so I had to bring some home with me since Ben had locked himself out of the house. I decided to take a break and snap my second self-portrait with my iPhone. I look tired and pale.

Follow Up To Previous Post

The Knife- Heartbeats
I love this video. It makes me long for summer and skateboarding.
I'll fix the format later. The iPhone can only be so perfect.

Again In One Week?!?!

Yes, it's true!
Quite some time ago I bought a few tools to try out cutting my own stamp. The supplies have sat in the bag that they left the store in for what I'm guessing is a year. The other day I finally gave it a try and here are the results. It was pretty easy and just from the first try I've learned a few things to do differently. I played around with filling in the stamp with my Micron Brush pens.
Then I made a card to send to Nanny (my grandmother that is still living).



These are two little paintings that I hate.



I've been feeling really uninspired so I've been trying to find more sites with illustrations, paintings, and drawings to get me out of this. I sort of blame the weather too. I added a few to my blog roll including:
Yellow Monday
Poppytalk Handmade
Lily Moon




I've also given myself a little challenge. I was reading Artsy Crafty Babe's blog where she was doing a 365 self-portraits challenge. I'm sure I won't last a week but I'm going to give it a try. My first picture really sucks...it's blurry and has horrible lighting but I thought it was a good self portrait to illustrate how I don't understand how to use my camera still and how I'm not photogenic...even my feet. I was making my grandma's famous butterscotch squares in my favorite apron that was a Christmas gift from Stephanie. Her Christmas gift is still in a box in my studio....yikes.