agitated octopus

I can't believe I once ate a plate of baby octopus once (smothered in a delicious curry sauce, sadly).  They are such intelligent and amazing creatures.  Did you know that they smell/taste with their suckers??  Amazing.  And they can solve complex puzzles, and have one hell of a memory.  So here is my ode to the octopi!  Its a double canvas painting, to be hung in such a way that the painting flows from one canvas to the next (or from one end of a tentacle to the next).

another quickie

I tried another one of these black canvas/highlight paintings.  This is Two Hatchet of the Kiowa tribe.

the creep

I made this on a tiny 5 inch by 5 inch canvas. I wanted to try a tecnique I saw in a hand painted graphic novel, where the canvas is painted black and then highlights are painted on.

the forgotten bride

I realize that I haven't been true to the name of my blog of late.  My sunshiny Arizona pictures are less than goth cliche (unless you interpreted the desert as an endless tragic prickly field of death, hehe).  So, forgive me, and let me make it up to you with a sad little watercolor I made.  What oh what could be more forlorn than a forgotten bride, left to wither and wrinkle in her ragged ancient wedding dress? 

giants

There are lots of these in Eastern Washington.  I shot this out of a tinted window, which ended up acting as an interesting filter giving the photo greater denseness (in hue and shade) and intensity.  The composition slightly defies the rule of 3rds (which in all honesty is driving me crazy), but in order to maintain the dslr aspect ratio I'd rather not crop off the left 1/5th of it.  Clearly I'm trying not to let my ocd get the best of me :-P

sit down, shut up!

if only it were this easy! 

(in this picture: my significant other's chin and his verbose lips)

Arizona!

Some pretty nature pics from my trip to Arizona :)

THE OBLITERATOR

So today I was experiencing some internet difficulties, and being the idiot that I am, I pressed the "reset" button on the internet router.  I thought this would solve all my problems, but no, I ended up resetting everything, the password and yadayada.  I suppose my reasoning was "it works with Windows, so why not with everything else?" but of course I neglected to recall how terribly Windows is patched together.  Oh bother!  So naturally, being the stuck up computer geeks that they are, my brother and my dad started yelling at me for pressing the reset button.  I chastised them for making me feel like an incompetent child (or should I say No0b?).  Clearly, the chastising did nothing, because 5 minutes later I was berated for "obliterating" the whole system.  Oh, I "obliterated" it did I???  I'll show you obliterate!!!  And so I did.  Through a watercolor cartoon.

My boyfriend made his own rendition of "The Obliterator", as seen below...

welcome to the zoo

A couple of watercolors I did, just for fun.  I love strange animals :)

Springtime!

Thanks a bunch to my friend for being my wonderful model.  She was very patient with me, as I played incessantly with lights (bright enough?!?!) in her face.  Oh, and I learned how to make a watermark!!!!!!!!  So yes, I put annoying watermarks all over her face, hahaha.  The last picture of these five is my fav :)

the hope/faith balance

I dug out a few old paintings and decided to do the unthinkable...FINISH THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Here is one that I just finished, wohoo!  By the way, does anyone know how to take a good picture of a painting without getting that shine back?  I've done it with and without flash and either way, the photo never really looks quite like my painting.  Without much further ado, here is my golden apple of hope and faith painting