It Figures!

I've been craving life drawing ever since my graduation. I missed it terribly for years, and finally at the end of summer I signed up for figure drawing at my local college.

It felt SO GOOD to draw from a model again even though I was super rusty. I hope I can keep it up and continue figure studies on my own!

(gestures are always my favorite)

 (colored pastel on paper - my values are fortunately improving)

Encaustic ALL the things!!

I've gone encaustic crazy. Any little drawing or print of mine I find - it must be drizzled with hot wax.

Oh well, at least it smells good!

A couple of Christmas Trees:

Eliza looking depressed:

And my favorite - Mr. Giraffe! Which is actually a watercolor painting mounted on birch and painted with encaustic:

Twins and Candy Corn Ice Cream

It's no secret that I suck at updates. But I do try... sometimes!

My two pieces I picked up from the Day of the Dead show (which was great fun!) -

The top one is oil on birch panel which I christened "Twins" (who says twins have to look alike, right?...) 

For which, my awesome boss built a maple frame.

And Candy Corn Ice Cream is a familiar one to many, though I "enhanced"(?) it with encaustic medium, and decided to make it a limited edition of 125.

Time for an Update

Long time no see, my dear friends!
I will remedy that as soon as I get an extra minute or two.

For now, I leave you with this:

I have two pieces in Day of the Dead Show at Starkweather Arts Center curated by Heather Hansma.
Opening Friday October 7th - I cannot wait!

Chupacabra - the spooky goat snatcher

(pretend shirt design)

...drawing while listening to Spring!

--my favorite season!

I'm all inked out, and here's why:

"Just Robots"

and

"How to Levitate a Llama"

Both designs were completed for a weekly shirt design contest on Woot (which explains the heather grey background texture!...) The yellow of the robot drawing is pretending to be gold ink. So please imagine that instead of yellow globs!