Life gets in the way

So do not fear, I do not fear I have not been slacking on my art or anything, but as we all know life has gotten in the way of the creative presses. I have had to work a lot and do some basic things around my house such as tend to my four animals and clean my room so that I have some walking space. But I have been painting and some drawing, I worked on my large painting that I hate of Tommy and I also worked on my new one of me looking in the mirror. I would be working on that right now if It were not for the fact that I do not have good light in my studio when night comes. oh well I guess I will just have to wait till morning to continue working on my painting.

forgot

Sorry I forgot the load this image into my post, it is the new rat image, enjoy!

Animals...why not?

so for some reasons I can not seem to help painting the strange animal pictures we have at the studio for the kids to paint. We have tons of old animal pictures that for some reason never get picked by the little ones and I for some reason have had the uncontrollable urge to paint them. This started with the frog and has now moved onto hippos, water birds and most recently rams and even stranger pointy frogs. i have however also started a new larger painting continuing on with the rat theme. I have been thinking about doing paintings of everyday activities in which my rats will be present. This is to show that no matter where I go, or what I am doing, they are always there waiting to be bothersome. I am hoping it turns out well, however I am not really feeing it yet. I apologize for my photographs they did not come out so well this time.

More Drawings but now sick

So as it turns out I woke up very ill on monday. I blame this on Chris. So I took this time to not only sleep, because being sick is very tiring, but I also did another drawing. it is more of me with rats. I did the drawing a little different than I normally do but I think it is cool and I plan on doing some more drawings just like this one.

Making up for Etching

Recently I decided that since I am not currently able to do printmaking because there is no space at my house for my press that I would do a lot of drawing until I can figure out my lack of etching situation. So Today in addition to stretching and preparing four canvases I did a large amount of pencil drawing. Above is a drawing I had started a little over a week ago and today I made some major progress on it. The piece is relatively large, and drawn on a oversized illustration board I found at the gallery. I have high hopes for this piece. I am still working through some small drawing issues which i have discovered such as the face being to wide but all will be repaired. I have intentions for also making a second drawing to match this one to hang together for my show in september.

Way to forget the computer

For those who do not know I am working on a very large painting of one of my students Tommy. For those who also don't know, I hate this painting but that is not the point. On Monday I forgot my computer, which I have an image on and I paint directly from. This absent minded move of mine turned into a happy accident and I instead decided to paint a silly image that I might be able to sell during the arts festival that the town has in July. In the end I loved the little painting so much I am going to keep it. It will forever be mine little frog in the flower!

I took J-Mans advice

Hello All!  

So I took j-mans advice and I got a blog, not really sure how it all works but i guess I am going to figure that out.  This is a blog that will be used to show my art and talk about the art I am creating and thinking about.  Right now I have been continuing my Rat and fear series.  I also have a solo show coming up at the Marblehead Artists Association in September in the Emerging Artists Gallery on the second floor.  I also will be submitting Paintings into the arts festival this summer.  If all goes well you will be about to see my art hanging in the show there as well.