Illustration Friday: "Separated"

It is Wednesday and in 2 days a new theme will be given on Illustration Friday, but I 'na care...I wanted to do one right now so I did.

 

I LOVE MS PAINT!  I do.  It has been a favorite of mine since high school "supposed-to-be-working-but-goofing-off-instead" time.  And when I'm sleepy or just need to move my hands without much thought, this type of drawing appears.  Paint, colored pencil, marker, and now in MS Paint.  Naked lady with blocks of color separating her.  Apparently I enjoy that sort of thing.

 

Here it be, yo.

 

 

Calamity brings calm, conversation reaches crux...

Complications occur which brings about the birth of a new, lesser, calamity. 

 

That entire string from title to first sentence occurred from around my last post in November until today, December 7th.  I had to leave town because of a serious family illness.  Family member is on the mend, sans 1 lung, and a calm occurred.  I had a conversation with a different family member which became a sort of "Well someone [me] has to say something!" ordeal which, of course, causes complications and disaster!  Temporary disaster.  Completely avoidable temporary disaster. 

 

These life events have always derailed me.  In the past I would have been out of order for an undetermined (far too long) amount of time, but I have worked at getting myself to a point where I'm not really hindered for more than a few days to a week.  Progress.  There are a variety of factors that aid in this, not the least of which being a distance of approx. 500 miles between me and the area of destruction (the home, not the area of destruction that resides within myself).

 

When my psyche-train runs off the tracks, my home, work, and play are soon to follow.  Since I'm updating this blog today and have managed to get quite a bit of housecleaning and laundry done since my return this past weekend, I would say that I'm several steps ahead of where I worried I would be and am quite thrilled to be here.  Hopefully tomorrow I can get started on something...anything!

 

While I was home, I saw a few pictures hanging up in my parents' living room that I didn't notice, but were mine.  One I remembered giving to my little brother because, for whatever reason, he really really wanted it.  This is that:

 

 

Illustration Friday: "Vanity"

Before drawing this I wanted to doodle a bit to prepare for whipping out "Vanity". That's what I told myself anyway. I spent over an hour working on some eye as "preparation" and completely forgot about I.F. Hand tired, back and neck cramped and on fire I scratched this thing out.

A chick. A pile of bodies. A hand mirror. What else could anyone ask for?

This is a face...

This is only a face. I'm terribly uninspired, so I doodled a face with watercolor pencils.

Illustration Friday: "Silent"

A quickie!

Sensible blathering...

So, the whole purpose of this blog is to make myself get off my keister and keep being creative. I sometimes forget that one creative thing I enjoy doing is writing. One of the many things I wanted to be as a child was a writer! I loved it and still do. Lately, though, I have shoved it aside and focused more on the idea of making artwork (I would say doing artwork, but I haven't been doing much these past couple weeks) and beating myself up for procrastinating.

Writing certainly makes my head work and when my head is working, ideas always come to me - including ideas for visual works. So...I'm writing. I had thought about making yet another blog strictly for "Sensible Blathering" but, honestly, I have too many blogs. Way too many. Since I've been using "It Does Art", I haven't posted to the others, so there is no point in creating another one that will eventually be neglected. I'll just blather here because it's tied to being creative!

A little known fact about me: I have started writing 3 books in my life. One was started when I was still in high school and the other two were started in my early 20s. Note I said started instead of completed. Yes...procrastinator. I like the idea of going back to them, but out of the 3, 2 will not be picked up where I left off because I'm not the same as I was then. However, I can still take the ideas and form them around who I am now and the similar messages I want to convey. I think about them often and I think about how much motivation I had when I started them and how I just became overwhelmed with life in general, not the writing. I think about how I am now and there are still aspects of me that haven't changed much - the main one being my attention span and how frustratingly short it is. It's something I work on and as long as I'm doing something to keep my head working in a creative manner, I'm okay with it.

I keep reminding myself that there really isn't anything I'm incapable of doing. That includes finishing books, creating serious/ridiculous artwork, or even going outside when I'm just too afraid. It's the same for you. Not a "if you dream it, you can do it" message - more of a "break things down into their simplest forms so you can see how non-complicated things can be".

I want to make a candle holder out of paper-mache/papier-mache - I realize this would be along the lines of ridiculous artwork. Woohoo fire!

An Etsy test drive...

I finally (finally!) added some pieces to my Etsy shop. I've had an Etsy account for years, but never actually used it. I had the intent to use it, but I'm a procrastinator (as if I had to tell you that) and just never got around to it.

I put 5 ACEOs in my shop because I'm a bit hesitant about breaking out the big guns. These little drawings/paintings are harmless and inoffensive so I thought they would be a good place to start. Just to see, you know. Plus, now that I posted them, I'm motivated to start working on pieces again. I had to take a break for a bit over a week because I was busy being consumed with finding a reliable vehicle to replace our "Rust Machine Who Likes To Eat Money". I was successful with that, so now it's time to get back to my own thing!

If you would like to check out the Etsy shop, here is the link: http://itdoesart.etsy.com

Back to work!