Deluge!

I am finally keeping my promise! But I will soon neglect you again, so to make up for that  I am flooding you with many pictures. Two of them are paintings I have done in class, the other ink drawings are things I did (actually almost all of them were done on the 24th this month. I was on a roll.) at home. Enjoy!

Here is the first self portrait I did. Keep in mind it is only ink. That means I didn't lay anything in with pencil beforehand. At first I wanted to use hatching to indicate shadow, then decided to do a wash anyway. Not too bad, eh?

Then I did this one, after I had completed the two still life  you will see below and had looked at an ink wash portrait of Isabelle Bishop. I didn't want to do any hatching, just a few lines then all wash. I like her much better.

Here is the first still life. The darker washes that add the lovely contrast came after I had completed the second still life. Perhaps later I will go back into the second one and make the oregano pot darker.

Oops, this one cut in front of the second still life. It is a slice of my bedroom as viewed from an arbitrarily placed mirror. You can see Oscar the plant in there on the left!

Here is the second still life. I like it much better because it seems more airy and free. I might, as I've said before, go back and add a darker all over wash to the oregano pot. This is actually more true to life since I've already drawn it once, I could correctly place the items in the image, and you get to see the tiny oregano sprouts!

A tiny 6 x 6 " painting on masonite board in oil paint. I might go back in and make the front of the brown cloth less transparent.

Same size, same medium as before.  This was my break painting from the one up top while I waited for the background to dry. It is also my first successful attempt at painting a glass object. 

I had recently bought many art books from Thriftbooks.com  and had been flooded with so much inspiration from so many different artists. Originally it was super van Gogh-y with how I laid in the brush strokes, still kind of is with the sunflower. 

So, this is it. I will probably have more for you later. I do have more for you, but they are no where ready to be seen by people. So embarrassing. 

Well, hello there stranger!

So, as some of you know, I've been working full time running my darling little tea shop AND going full time at school these past 5 weeks or so. I haven't had any time to upload pictures of what I've been up to, but hopefully soon that will change! (I HAVE been working on stuff, you see, just taking the time to bring everything over to my scanner... )
What I can tell you is that I've been a very, very bad girl (meaning I've gone over my monthly book budget...) and made yet another purchase. But you will forgive me. Want to know why? Because I've found a smashing good copy of an Isabel Bishop book for only 11 dollars including shipping. I've been using my newfound superpower (finding nice books on the cheap) for nothing but good (my bank account still doesn't consider that so good...).
Perhaps in the near future I will be a very good girl and upload EVERYTHING so that I have plenty of material to last me a good while.
I can tell you right now, however, that I have quite a good many drawings, a few miniature paintings and one semi-large painting in the works. In a few months I have an exciting project (meaning a giant 3 x 4 ft panel) coming up. I have no idea what will take place on that but it will be good, so stay tuned.