More doodling at work

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The printed t-shirt looks great!

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Digital design

So, in case you didn't know it, I also play with digital design in Adobe Illustrator. I was asked to recreate the Arkansas Capitol building in a stylized/illustrated manner for the back of a t-shirt. I saw people wearing the shirts at the office today, it was fun!

Experimental painting

New post! Can you believe it?!!

I just need to do something creative in the afternoons to keep the artistic side thinking and just unwind while I'm creating something-anything.

So, recently I've decided to just have fun with painting. I don't have time to paint representational things right now, so I'm just doing abstract paintings in the afternoon after work. I've found a new paper that is synthetic, so water-based paint doesn't soak into it. I can water down paint and blow it through a straw, splatter it, tilt the paper to let it run, splatter it and then blow it, etc. Then I let it dry overnight and go after it again the next day. I'm having a blast!

This is my first foray into experimental painting, acrylic paint on YUPO paper.

Playing with watercolors.... my first attempts.

I'm having a lot of fun with watercolor right now. I'm working at a place that stresses me out, so I wind down by doodling in watercolors while I'm vegging on the couch with the hubby. I'm not using professional grade watercolors in these, just the palettes left over from the kids' Prang sets every year and Aquastroke brush--perfect for doodling and just messin' around.

Regret...and new drawings...

OK, so I didn't enter anything in the competitive...it came down to the wire and I just decided to wait until next year. Of course, a classmate entered...and had TWO figure drawings accepted. Soooo, if I had entered some myself, I may very well have had one picked.

Anyway, this is one of my latest drawings. I stalled for a bit as my instructor was doing demonstrations for a couple of weeks, but I'm moving again.

To enter...or not to enter...

So, there is an annual student competitive at UALR. Each student can submit 4 pieces to be judged for entry. I've actually had a photo exhibited in one of the shows a couple of years ago... Anyway, I'm trying to decide if I should bite the bullet and try to get something together to submit or not.

I don't feel as capable in drawing or painting as I did in photography, so I'm not sure that I'm up to the challenge this time. Plus, the deadline for entry is 3/19, I think... That would give me about 5 class periods with a model to actually work on something interesting, considering composition, etc, etc... Before now, I was just concerned with making the drawing look like a human, without much thought to what I drew or where I put it on the paper...

UGH. Decisions, decisions....