body snatching for fun and profit

moved

2010-11-21T08:55:00.003-05:00

funnyskullgrin.tumblr.com
experimenting with tumblr. posting over there now.

hello, november

2010-11-07T12:37:00.002-05:00

some small paintings on wooden plaques

wip

'tis the season.

2010-10-24T15:23:00.003-04:00

a painting, a sketch & a sale.

2010-10-18T12:11:00.004-04:00

its meaning fades
acrylic on canvas, 8x10.
This was commissioned by someone awesome who told me to just paint anything.

This was bound to happen...
In other news, I'm having a small sale at my Etsy shop. A couple of prints are on clearance, as well as some Halloween drawings. Some paintings have been reduced pretty low, too. So check that out!

october!

2010-10-10T01:57:00.005-04:00

I'm not dead! Here's a sketch!Haven't had as much time as I would like for Halloween artworks, what with school and its sinister time-sucking properties, but I am cooking up some small special things I hope to finish soooooon.

this is henry & that is good music.

2010-09-11T14:22:00.008-04:00

Henry
Still working on my army of pumpkin people. A few more can be found in this flickr set, and a couple are up for sale in ye olde etsy shoppe.

I'm woefully behind on scanning my daily drawings. It's been over a hundred days since I started this project, and so far I've only missed one. So I've failed, really, but that's no reason to stop. The day I missed I was really into the paintings I was working on, and it just slipped my mind. The realization actually woke me up the next morning. It was very theatric.

Anyway.

I love a lot of old music. When drawing and painting, I often listen to pop standards, doo-wop, jazz--all that good stuff. Go to Pandora, click on create a new station, type in The Platters and you will get a constant stream of perfection.

a drawing + week in review.

2010-09-04T20:53:00.005-04:00

mona
chalk, tea, pens & ink on watercolor paper. 9x12.
This week has been:
-parking nightmares
-lots of treking around campus in inappropriate footwear, and bearing the consequence of blistered and bloody feet
-David Foster Wallace
-being offered, unsolicited, frat boy tales of drunken idiocy while trying to concentrate on beginner's Spanish
-eyes glazing over in physics class
-thin walls and a neighbor who plays acoustic guitar and listens to the news very loudly during the morning
-painting on my Friday off

Now enjoying this long weekend and lovely cool weather with walks in the park and family and drawing up some things for Halloween. It's been nice.

new art + summer's last hurrahs.

2010-08-22T22:55:00.003-04:00

This is a commission I did for a nice fellow who wanted a creepy/zombie-ish portrait of himself and his friend. It's one of the most fun things I've ever been asked to draw. He specifically asked for the zombie owl, too, so how could I not love it?

Annnnd fall is on its way. We all know what that means, yeah? Halloween! I stopped by the dollar store the other day and was thrilled to be greeted by a display of plastic bloody body parts and little skeletons. Puts me in the best of moods, for my favorite time of the year is here. I never seem to have enough time to do as much holiday themed art as I'd like to. But this year, damn it, I'm going to make the time. It has begun with pumpkin people.
Burnadette and Macintyre

Eunice
I'm going to try to draw as many of these guys as I can by the time October 31st rolls around. It's nice to have goals.

In other news, this is the last week before my grand return to college, full of enthusiasm in place of dread. I'm looking forward to getting on with things, but my eternal internal kid still groans at the phrase "back to school." I'm going to get the most out of these final days before most of my time is sucked away by higher education. Linguistics, physics, literary nonfiction, topics in film and Spanish: my life from September to December. But I'm ready!

Now, I have a cup of coffee to make peace with and fingers to abuse. Another in a series of nearly perfect nights.

possibly my very favorite thing.

2010-08-19T23:44:00.005-04:00

It's this record, which I currently cannot actually listen to because the power cord for my record player vanished in the move but! youtube saves the day!My mom got this record and the book that came with it at school when she was a kid. By the time I came into the world it was long gone, but she had memorized the entire thing, voices and all. She used to recite the poems and stories to me when I was little. It made an impression. I found an absolutely pristine copy of both the record and book (in the original spooky Halloween bag it came in!) on ebay a while back and could've died, but instead of dying I showed it to Mom and she bought it for me for my birthday. And with fall on the way (yes!) it seemed appropriate to share.

daily drawings: bearded lady week, etc.

2010-08-04T12:26:00.004-04:00

Last week I drew a bearded lady a day, which was super fun and I wish I'd had more time to do more with them on certain days. But ah well. A couple of these want to be paintings. They told me so.

And a bonus bearded lady...My dad's birthday was yesterday and this is the card I made for him. Did he love it? Yes, he did. I've also finally had some time for painting, which has been nice. A little look at what I've been up to there: Sexy?
In other news, school starts at the end of this month. I have a ton of stuff to get done before then, so. Let's go.

daily drawing catch up: guys in ties week

2010-08-03T13:41:00.002-04:00

daily drawing catch up, pt 2.

2010-07-30T12:51:00.003-04:00

You can click those little ones big, you know?
Aaannnnnnnnd I'm almost completely caught up on scanning these. Alls that's left is last week, which was Guys in Ties Week. I'll post those in a day or two. Then I'll probably fall behind on posting again, as I don't have the Internet at my apartment! Oh no!

daily drawing catch up, pt 1.

2010-07-28T15:32:00.002-04:00

the eye hurt drawings.

2010-07-28T01:03:00.002-04:00

Sometimes tomorrow turns into next week. Here are days 42-45.

We'll try this again tomorrow. Maybe for real this time. I've been leaving a trail of typos and mistakes all over the Internet tonight, so I think it's time for bed. Go see Inception. Good night!

i am not dead. i am still drawing.

2010-07-20T13:01:00.003-04:00

I'm trying to get caught up on scanning and uploading my daily drawings, but it's going very slowly. 'Cause I kind of hate scanning things.

A little while back I had an eye infection of some sort which caused swollen eyelids, occasional leaking and enough hurting/itching to annoy the ever living hell out of me. And so, the drawings during this time all had an eyeball/missing eye theme. Here are a few of them:

I'll try to get the rest of these scanned up tomorrow...and then the drawings from the other 18 or so days....Today will be day 60. I'm honestly amazed I've lasted this long.

Anyway, the eye hurt drawings got me to thinking it might not be a bad idea to start having a weekly theme for the daily drawings, to keep me motivated and keep things interesting. I also thought about drawing every single character from LOST and Deadwood, as that would pretty much last me the rest of the year, ha. But, if anyone has any ideas for themes I could take on, do let me know! I think I will start off this week by only drawing guys. Will I be able to do this? I don't know. If I do, will they all be wearing ties? Probably.

wormface, moving, drawgasmic + fine art prints.

2010-07-08T12:23:00.003-04:00

pens, ink, chalk + tea on watercolor paper

I found an apartment. The current tenant's in the process of moving out, so I have to wait to move in. Hopefully I'll get the call that it's all mine by this weekend, 'cause I'm antsy and want to get this over with. Life right now has been packing, cleaning, yard sales, packing, going through things in storage, freaking out, packing, a thousand cups of strong black tea, True Blood and Lost marathons while drawing until my fingers fall off and brief, blissful moments of unconsciousness punctuated by crazy dreams involving pie and the Civil War. And did I mention packing? It is amazing how you never realize just how much stuff you own until you have to put it in boxes, and I even left a lot of my things packed up from the last time I moved. The bulk of it is books. I have so so many books, and yet, not enough...

In other news, the Drawgasmic show is coming up in a couple of days. If you're in the St. Louis area, do check it out. I won't be going, of course, but I wish I could. If you can't make it either and by any chance want to purchase my drawing, you'll be able to do so online.

Also, I now have some canvas fine art prints available from the Lowbrow Art Company. Go check them out here. And while you're there, check out all the other artists. Lots of good stuff there.

sketches.

2010-07-01T00:03:00.002-04:00

SKULL! SPIDER! YEAH!

2010-06-28T20:56:00.004-04:00

Acrylic on particle board that I rescued from the junk bin...had some kind of French chic decoupage something or 'nother on it before. Scraped it off and painted this. 7ishx9ish inchesish.

And with that, I've now finished all the paintings that had been piling up around here for the last few months. Now to start four more...So many things to do, so little time, and hands. Also, looks like my apartment search is to continue. Looking at more places Wednesday. I hate carpet.

wormeye + daily drawings.

2010-06-27T17:54:00.005-04:00

acrylic on canvas board, 8x10.
I am still doing the daily drawings! I'd just gotten behind on scanning them. For a few days I kept asking myself why the hell I was doing this, and I think you can tell I just wasn't as into it as when I first started...especially with all the other things going on right now. But I kept on and now I'm pretty much excited about the project again. 36 days so far. Perseverance!

In other news, I went on a serious apartment hunt this weekend. It's kind of been horrible, but I think I might have found a place. We'll soon see.

in progress: spiders and worms.

2010-06-20T14:03:00.001-04:00

7 more days of drawings.

2010-06-18T00:05:00.002-04:00

wisp, daily drawings + etsy sale.

2010-06-11T16:02:00.003-04:00

wisp, acrylic on canvas board, 8x10

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I'm having a small sale on 8x10 prints at my etsy shop. I've listed a couple more originals as well.

things i've been working on.

2010-06-09T18:20:00.003-04:00

spiders in your hair

acrylic on clayboard

some things i drew yesterday.

2010-06-05T15:02:00.005-04:00

A commission for a fellow on etsy. He basically wanted a non-spidery version of bloodwebs.

Mara from Ross Campbell's Wet Moon

day 14

daily drawings + books

2010-06-04T12:40:00.006-04:00

Books I read this spring:
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
We'll Always Have Paris by Ray Bradbury
Isaac's Story by Erik Larson
Spook by Mary Roach (2nd time)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers