Brave Scene

As most of you know I don't get too excited about very many movies. There are a few that I want to see, but I only go to the theater if it works out. Rarely do I MAKE time to go to see a film. However anything by Pixar automatically is a "Make Time" film, and this summer they are releasing what people are calling their first "Princess" film. Brave is no ordinary "Princess film" however, as it is set in ancient Scotland. From what I've seen, the film looks amazing. The thing that strikes me every time is Merida's hair. It has got to be the most amazing hair in any film ever.

Pixar just released their latest trailer for Brave, and it's not so much a trailer as it is an entire scene from the movie. Watching this makes me want to see it even more.

 I've gotten so excited for this film that I did something I haven't done since Tim Burton released his version of Alice In Wonderland - Used a promotional image as my desktop background!

Second only to her hair, I LOVE her horse!

June 22 can't get here soon enough!

Last Two Paintings

These last two paintings took me the longest to do because I put so much detail into them. First I will show you the whole painting, then the details so you can better see what all is in them.

For this first painting the assignment was to paint a surrealist painting, so I decided to do a seascape where the birds were swimming, and the fish were flying, with a few other backwards details thrown in for good measure.

Such as an octopus climbing a tree and seahorses hanging like bats.

Flying Jellyfish

And flying penguins. :)

I also did a forest of sharks. :)

For the birds, I did cardinals in coral,

Along with Canada Geese and Ostriches

And probably my favorite part, a Barn Owl. :)

Our final painting was to be based on a famous painting, but we were to give it a modern twist. I chose “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat.

And for my “Modern Twist, I made it into a parody of the Apple Advertisements that have a silhouette against a solid colored background, with almost no other detail besides the iPod and ear buds.

As you can see I added some iPads as well.

I moved all the animals so that I could paint them better. It’s difficult to show two silhouettes if one is in front of another.

I remedied that here though.

And that concludes my paintings from last semester. Hopefully I’ll get this semester’s up a bit sooner… :)

Fall Semester Paintings

So I am FINALLY getting around to posting the paintings I did in Painting one. I will post most of them in this post, but I have two others that I painted that were very detailed, and I want to do some close up shots of some of those details. So I will save those for a later post. For now, here are the rest of my painting from last semester.

Let’s just get the horror over with. We HAD to do a self portrait. I HATE doing them! The only GOOD thing about this painting was the clothes. :) *Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb. :) The rest is awful. I could not for the life of me get the skin tone right. I look like I have leprosy. Want an extreme close up, to fully grasp the grotesqueness of my hideously pale face?

SCREE! SCREE! SCREE!!! *Horror Movie Music*

This one is not so good. I painted it completely out of my head with no reference picture, and it shows. Always use a reference picture.

Of course, there’s an exception to every rule, I also did this one out of my head. It is watercolor though, so it works better than if I’d tried to do the same thing with acrylic.

Our still life assignment. I was pleased with how the vase turned out. It’s hard to tell, but there are some lighter flowers to the left of the yellow ones. I think if you click the picture you might be able to see a larger version.

Finally, the painting that I was most proud of, besides my final, (Coming next post) was this one, based on a photograph I took last year, right after I got my new camera. It’s also a picture I entered in the fair, so you may remember seeing it. If not, I will link to a post that contains it HERE.

And that’s all for now. Stay tuned, I hope to get the last two paintings up soon. :)

So Much Stuff…

I have been neglecting my blog lately. I have quite a bit I’ve been meaning to write about but school has gotten in the way. My Design 2 class has kept me very busy working on my Beanie Baby project that I showed you a glimpse of the other day. I finished that project and turned it in today, so I hope to get that on my blog soon. In my Digital Drawing class I haven’t been quite as busy, mainly because I’ve gotten everything done in class. I will have to export a few of those files into publishable pictures so you can see what I have made there as well. Aside from my Beanie Baby project, the class that has kept me the most busy has been my online graphic Design class. There are so many projects in there that it’s kind of ridiculous. They are all pretty fun though, so it’s not like I’m miserable doing them, it’s just kind of hard to juggle everything sometimes. One of these days when I get some free time I’ll make all those files into images so I can share them here as well. My last class is my Painting 2 class, and of course I’m having fun with that. I have some sketches that I will scan into my computer to share one of these times, but the paintings themselves will have to wait until I get them back at the end of the semester.

Speaking of paintings… I have not yet shared the ones I did LAST semester! Today I finally got them all out and took pictures of them, so as soon as I get them ready I will be sharing them on my blog. For now I will share a couple of the early ones with you, and hopefully I’ll get the rest up by tomorrow. We’ll see what happens with my Graphic Design class. I still have a lot to work on for that one.

These were the first “Two” paintings I did. They are color studies of an orange and a stool. You may have seen the orange already, as I took a picture of it the week after I painted it.

       

Art History Brush

I have discovered that the Art History brush tool in Photoshop actually has a use! I could never figure out what good it was when I tried it out, but I came across a video online that told me how to use it. It's basic function is to create painted effects. To try it out for myself, I took a picture of one of my old Beanie Babies, (This is for a school project, more on that in a future post) and I started playing with it.

This was my original picture.

The first thing I had to do was clean it up for my project for school.

After I had it looking good enough for my assignment, I saved it and started playing around with the Art History Brush. This was my result.

I had no idea I could do this before! It looks like a watercolor painting or something, and that's only one of the many, many possibilities with that brush! I can't wait to see what else I can do!

Frustrations…

I am rather aggravated at the moment. I'm trying to find a suitable blog editing program for my mac. I want something that I can easily use when I don't have my PC around to use Windows Live Writer. There is no software that can even come close to doing what Windows Live Writer can do. So far NONE of the programs I have tried even have easy-access formatting tools! You have to access them from a drop down menu, or a separate window. It's just rubbish! I am not the only one who feels this way either. As I searched the internet I found hundreds of comments everywhere from people looking for a program for their Mac that would even do half what Windows Live Writer does. Right now I am using a program called MarsEdit. The description for it in the App Store claims that it is similar to Windows Live Writer. To that I say, "What a bunch of Bull Honkey." (Homestar Runner reference) :p This is not even slightly close to touching Windows Live Writer's capabilities. It serves its purpose, but if I want to use it beyond the trial time, I have to shell out 40 bucks for it, and this puny little program isn't even worth half that. Someday I hope to sever all ties with my PC, but until someone steps up and developed a suitable blogging program for the Mac, I'm stuck with my PC. If anyone out there has any good ideas let me know!

Facebook Friends #5

It has been so long since my last Facebook Friends post! Over a month now! School has been taking up so much of my time that I haven’t had time to just sit down and write anything for fun. I’ve actually been working on this post since before I wrote the holiday one, but with school taking up most of my “Free” time, I haven’t gotten around to finishing it. I try to get around 20 statuses per post, so it can take awhile. Last night I decided that I would finish this one off, so I sat down and came up with the last few statuses I needed, and in the process I came up with a couple new characters. Enjoy. :)



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Does anyone have any tips on removing tie-dye, ketchup, blue toilet bowl cleaner, oil paints, and something green and chunky from a 400 year old heirloom wedding dress?
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A flame thrower.

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Sally Sharitall Shared “I Totally Just made this random facebook page for no reason whatsoever’s photo.


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Dose anyone actually reads my posts? Let's see who reads this entirely...leave me a one-word comment describing me that starts with the third to last letter of your first name- it can only be one word. then copy this to your wall so I can leave a word for you and don't just post a word and not copy!!! Do it!!!! my incredibly fragile self esteem depends on this!!!!! if you don’t, I will spiral into a deep depression from which there is no hope of escape!!!

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So few good candidates left. The left sure made short work of them. By November I’m sure we’ll be stuck voting for yet another RINO.
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I can’t wait to be old! :D

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