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It always takes me forever to get around to scanning my sketchbook pages, but here’s a compilation of pages from this last semester at school, and a few from this summer. I need to get a new sketchbook to fill now…
Sorry I haven’t updated in a while…very busy trying to attain full time work. Just wanting to work on something for fun, I found this painting that I had started in a sketchbook last year and decided to finish it. It’s not Christmas time and this movie came out in 2003…so all I can say is I heart Buddy the Elf. I was thinking about what good reason, beside this, that I would have to do a painting of him and I thought about how enthusiastic he is. He has so much blind faith in Christmas spirit and Santa Claus. We can all find a wonderful example in his zeal. I strive to have this same excitement every day about my savior and His imminent return.
Favorite Elf quotes:
Arctic Puffin: “Hey Buddy wanna pick some snowberries?”
Buddy: “… smiling’s my favorite”
Buddy: “SANTA! OH MY GOD! SANTA’S COMING! I KNOW HIM! I KNOW HIM!”
Buddy: “First we’ll make snow angels for a two hours, then we’ll go ice skating, then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookiedough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle.”
Buddy: “[quickly, and high pitched] i love you. i love you! I LOVE YOU!”
Buddy: “I’m in love.. I’m in love and i dont care who knows it!”
Ray and I recite these at any given moment to each other on a regular basis.
So for my self portrait I decided to stick with the vector look seeing as that’s the trend I’m in right now with thesis and everything…though I could certainly have used any other media as well. I also chose to include my husband, Ray, as he’s not only a huge part of who I am, he also has really really been there for me throughout my entire Ringling experience. Through many of the late late nights, through the computer issues, helping me with the heavy duty stuff (power tool, hardware type stuff), changing majors and having to wait another year for me to be finished with school, not to mention completely supporting me and taking on my mounds of student debt in partnership with me. So he completely deserves his spot on the poster too. ^_^
These are the pieces from this year’s figure painting class that I don’t completely hate. The drawing is col-erase, which I like for line sketches…but I discovered is not very good for creating range in value. The last piece is a digital painting (done on my tablet pc) and the rest are oil. All are from life. I had Hodges Soileau for first semester and Carl Johnson for second.
