Dance floor....

So, I've titled this one "dance floor." Why? I am having my floors redone downstairs so I am confined myself upstairs to stay out of the way (pictures of the floor to come). This may be first painting I finish in a record 2 days! It's about time. AND this is the first painting I have painted lately without a purpose in mind! I found a picture I liked and thought it would make a fabulous painting! Stay tuned...
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straight from...the closet

More pictures from my visit home! I was able to go through old art bags. It was a blast. I feel like I've come a long way. For those of you who do not know, I was an art minor in college. (It was a great balance to the constant business case studies.) Each project has a story...


This was the very first fruit I ever oil painted!


I had to incorporate certain items into this project. Note: This is Brittany Spears' crotch I photocopied. There may be some foreshadowing there!


This was one of the most agonizing projects before it was due but looking back it is actually one of my favorite design projects. The words are lyrics to "Champagne High" in different fonts (one of my fav songs)!


design project


...pallet knife painting which took YEARS to dry...


...my backyard and my first attempt at an oil landscape...


Port-a-potties. No, really. We passed around a sheet of paper and people wrote down items. We had to pull those items together in a charcoal. You can thank Ryan for the subject (potties). It turned out to be the artwork that lived in my college bathroom for years.


...just working with different oil subjects...


...typical geometric project...I had to start this one over twice. I remember staying up late to complete it. I believe there are a few layers of paint under what you see!

how it all began...

When I was home this weekend I took pictures of my childhood paintings on the wall. (I had a hard time with glass reflections so the pictures aren't as good as I hoped.)

Kindergarden
2nd grade (I think)
4th Grade

I honestly think the kindergarden picture is my favorite. Pay no attention to the arm coming out of the stomach....I managed to win first place...

"Sips N Strokes" with Mom

Mom and I headed to Sips 'N Strokes yesterday. I had the idea months ago to go for her birthday. We just got around to it this Tuesday. I've wanted to go for awhile now and always wondered why I didn't think of the idea myself. She picked the abstract flower painting (which is like telling me to paint with my toes). Yes. There was finger painting involved. Here are our materpieces!

As they say... "One man's trash is another man's treasure!"

This post is about a painting I had done in college for a class project. I got the idea from a picture I took at night with different camera settings. I had the painting on my blog slideshow when Allison saw it and wrote me asking all about it.

Funny thing was...I was not sure what happened to that painting. I was never fond of it and in the past I always toyed with the idea of throwing paintings away rather than moving them. To make a long story short, my mother unearthed it from my closet at home under a piles of old clothes and give away items. It will now find a home in Allison and Michael's new house. How exciting?! I touched it up tonight and, you know...it isn't that bad after all. I wonder what else I have hiding in closets...

And it's done...

I got to finish this tonight! I say "finished" but I never know when I am finished. I go back and touch up constantly till it either dries or I get rid of it. Now it has a month to dry! :) Not sure what to title it. I am going to start to think of that now...after I go to bed!