So, I spent all day Sunday drawing Medusa. I'm not sure why I'm all about her right now. Maybe I just like drawing her hair. But, anyway, this isn't really a cartoon, but I think you'll like the thought. Y'all are twisted like that. This is a collage of some of my meds warnings plus some psych pages I had lying around. Sounds MUCH more dramatic than it really is. Then I just . . . used a pencil. Also, a note to all my NYC buds - I'm at Gotham Comedy Club tomorrow night, performing #STORYTALKS in the Vintage Lounge. Call for reservations! (Not me, them.)
FOG OF WORRY: CALORIES
FOG OF WORRY: DIET TIPS
Art Journaling: Wing Practice
FOG OF WORRY: BEAUTY PRODUCTS
STUDIO TIPS: travel paints
I take art supplies with me everywhere I go, because I'm an obsessive art-maker. (A friend told me I have an "artist personality," and we laughed, because it's not necessarily a compliment.) Though I mostly work in pen-and-ink and art markers these days, I do love painting. I love working in acrylic on large (as in "bigass") canvases, and I love working small and detailed. I carry this art journal everywhere I go, and I tape in different types of papers for different things (though this Moleskine book with the thicker pages takes watermedia fine.) I've been practicing painting and drawing food and drink, wine and cocktails. It's a challenge to show the food and drink realistically, but make it appetizing. Which is usually a goal for me, I'm not one of those Dutch painters who wants to draw rotting fish. Well, now that I say that, it's sounding kinda interesting . . . I've always thought food and drink are art forms - it fascinates me the way people come up with tastes, recipes, and visual presentation of their work.
So, I take art supplies with me everywhere, and I'm always looking for ways to make them travel-friendly. I save tins and tops of all kinds to mix paints in, and I saw a watercolor palette in a tin on Pinterest, where a guy glued half-pans into Altoids tins.
I wanted something where I could change out the colors, and this is the perfect thing for me. This is my traveling pomegranate palette - using screwtop wine tops, just placed (not glued) into a MYNTZ tin (from Trader Joe's.) The height is perfect (so that the tops don't slide around or up-and-down when the lid is closed), and the colors can be changed out at will. It's working great - I just squeezed gouache into the wine tops. That one hard lump of paint you see is a tube which was dried up - I just cut it in half and peeled back the tube. (DON'T THROW AWAY OLD GOUACHE - you can just open the tube up and make your own half-pans for travel or studio.)
Do you have any studio tips? They are always welcome!! Happy Painting, Y'all. :-)
FOG OF WORRY: SOCIAL INEPTITUDE
FOG OF WORRY: HOUSEWORK
FOG OF WORRY: LET'S GET TOGETHER
FOG OF WORRY: MASCARA
FOG OF WORRY: THOUGHTS ON ZOMBIES
ART JOURNAL: BLUE ANGEL
So, this is so weird, because this image is showing up HUMONGOUS. FYI, it was done in my 5x8 Moleskine, with Faber-Castell Artist Pens. My total favourite. (Decided to spell that the Brit way, since I've been watching so much MI-5, and not just because Richard Armitage is in it. Summa dat, but not ALL.) Richard Armitage, who I've just added as one of my blog categories. Bwaaaaaahahaahaaa.
ART JOURNAL: Angel Wings Practice
ART JOURNAL: The Play Pray
This is an art journal spread I did really quickly. It started out as a drawing of a guy on the Metro messing with his iPhone. But, he kept catching me looking at him, so I sorta wimped out. I made it into a praying someone . . . and I'm praying I finish this play I'm writing . . . also, working on it will, most likely, help.