Oil Paint...

Afternoon people,

I just kicked myself in the ass seriously...

So last year my Grandma asked my Mom whether I would give her a painting I had recently done.  My mom naturally called me to tell me.  I was so touched by the gesture...  I was like "Ma.. imma do one for her... you think she would like that?" Of course my Mom said yes.  So I started researching what I would do for my favorite Grandma.  Who by the way called me to thank me for the Christmas Card I sent her.  She loved it!!!  So me in all my wisdom thought to my self.  "Self do another mixed media picture for grandma it will be awesome.  Why don't you use oil paint this time. You're not using a lot it should be dry really quickly."  STUPID!! STUPID!! STUPID!!  I painted part of the picture last night and the part thats oil is STILL WET.  I just hopped on line  and the part thats oil might take up to TEN DAYS TO DRY.  WHO HAS TWO WEEKS TO WAIT FOR THIS TO DRY. AIN'T NO BODY GOT TIME FOR DAT!!!  I can't go forward until that part drys.  I feel like Sokka right now in the cave of two lovers.  UGH!!!  I wonder if throwing it over some heat will help things dry faster..... Yes.  I have a patience problem you should see me on the road.  SO ANYWAY....

Instead of uploading the painting I am doing for granny.  I uploaded the one that granny wanted originally. Its my first mixed media work, and its also my first Official painting.  I hope you like.

By the way computer science is HARD... MIT ain't no joke... but free classes online you can't beat em.

Toodles talk to you guys soon.  Oh yeah I already started designing next years Christmas Cards... FUN STUFF!!!

Little Bit of Inspiration

Evening EM sprites. 

This weeks definitely been a eye opener.  I feel like i been dragging me feet getting the feel of getting into blogging on a regular.  it definitely hard to get inspired when i live where i currently live and its about as inspiring as a box of rocks.  Although I got a bit of inspiration this week from the movie the Vow.  if you haven't seen it its a movie about a women who loses her memories of the last five years and the love that she rediscovers with her husband.  It was kind of cool to see her work and watch her in many ways discover her self. It reminded me of my journey and how i am in many ways starting over from the beginning.  This made me totally excited about what i will look like five years from now.  I pray my progress is as magnificent as i hope it will be.

My second kind of eye opener happen actually this afternoon.  My mom who is a photographer BTW its my mom's birthday…HEY MA HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! We were talking as we usually do and she was telling me how as an artist its not the work your working on but the work is working on you.  How as artist we are the unfinished art work.  How we should always be striving to learn new things experience new ways of looking at life and new ways of creating art and that all these components will add to our finished selves and thus are final style.  Mom always leaves me inspired so although i don't have any pictures to give you guys this week because i was Hiatus i hope that my bits of inspiration can maybe be your bits of inspiration. 

But i promise next week i will have something because i plan to finish my grannies water color painting.  I have to say its going to be AWESOME… i hope she likes it.  Until next time art lovers. 

BTW if anyone knows of a cheap affordable place to rent a small art studio in philly that would be awesome. 

Toodles!!

Christmas Cards Continued...

It was easier to just record a video for this week.  Enjoy!  See you next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h6l2qoKCr8&feature=youtu.be