Ego Boosters

We all know that being too prideful is bad.  The bible, my mom and Oprah all told me so, and who am I to go against Oprah- she has her own TV CHANNEL for pete's sake!

No one likes the egotistical jerk-face standing in the middle of the room boasting how  they are made of 100% pure AWESOME; that their cars are made of pure gold and their teardrops cure cancer but everyone likes having someone else point out their high levels of awesome.

The most recent person to boost my ego was our Domino's pizza delivery guy, he saw the Iron Man painting I did for Jake this past christmas and complimented it (and then babbled on about the story-line it came from, but he liked my painting!) So thank you Delivery Guy, it made me feel really good for the rest of the night.

A really fun art exercise

Random fact: if you google "art exercises" my blog is on the second page of results and I don't know why. I get lots of weird countries coming here, it's cool to see it on the visitor log thingy I have way down on my sidebar.

But today's exercise was to make picture using only one color. I used water colors to make these:




I am hoping to have enough sell-able paintings + odds and ends by the end of the month so I can show you guys something I've been working on for a few months. Now I have to clean this mess before Jake gets home :)

Dessin Designs

I've been promising for a few months now to get scans of some of my artwork up on here, now- I'm not saying that I am the next Picasso or Monet, but I'd like to think it's not half bad. mostly I doodle until I think of a cool image, sketch it out a few times, color it with pencils, and then paint it. It's a messy messy process that drives Jake CRAZY.

This is one of Jake's birthday presents, It's the godsend DNA symbol from Heroes. Basically it's the gene that gives the superheroes their powers. It works well in jake's dorkified office. :)

This is sorta tribute to my high school days ;) Colleen and I had a thing for octopuses, she got me really into to drawing them and loving them to death. I'm actually working on a stuffed octopus :) it's too freakin' adorable.

I did this one at the Faz, you'd be surprised how often I doodle while waiting for Jake to get off work.

This was one of my first paintings I did when I thought I may want to do it as my career. It's on cardboard (so is the octopus) and it's waaay watered-down acrylic, but it came out really cool.


So that's some of my better work so far. I have stacks of non-blog worthy stuff at our apartment. I'm still getting funds together to start at etsy.com, hopefully by the end of June I'll have stuff up on there
Now I'm off to craigslist to find cheap baby items :)