Lincoln x 4

Yay another update!

I was working hard the last couple of days to finish a new piece up! It's been seriously busy here. I had a paper and art piece due, but luckily the topic was ghosts so I had a pretty easy time writing it. I just HATE writing papers in general. And I always hate doing endnotes and bibliographies! I never know what exact style to use so I always wind up doing a strange mix. LOL. Good thing I passed on going to Harvard ;) ho ho....ho.....ho.......

The four works.....just after completion! They're about 4x6inches, but they sure took me a long time to finish! Each one is on a different coloured paper. You'll see why I used bright paper below!

This s the first one I did, based on a sketch. Lincoln looks on in anticipation of a tasty smiley face gumball. This drawing also helps to make my actual candy jars (with the smiley face gumballs) from the installation make more sense.

Second one done. I am the happiest with this one. I like the drawing, and most of all I like the way the coloured pencil looks on the orange paper. Since some of the paper shows through in each drawing (impossible to completely cover), the orange infuses it with a nice warm glow I think! Mm...mint chocolate chip shake......hehe. That's supposed to be me holding a cherry :)

There's always gotta be one of these in the bunch.....the one I don't like! Actually, I kind of hate this one. Abe's skin looks like a cadaver thanks to the gross effect the red has on it. I shoulda drawn him with his tongue sticking out...

The fourth and final one for this series...This macaroni and cheese paper colour made me think of Mexican food for some reason, and I have also been craving Taco Bell. LOL. But yeah so I did Abe emerging from a hard taco shell. It's not obvious right away but you can see he's taken a bite out of the shell. I tried to use blue in each piece after the first couple featured blue colours, so that they would all be cohesive colourwise as well.

Aaaaaaaaaaandddd.....ta-da! Here they are in their lovely little frame. Because the frame looked so serious and austere, that's why I chose to have colourful papers. I think it works nicely, and I'm pretty happy with it as a whole :) I can't wait to see how it looks in my studio!

Bonus picture of my coloured pencil system...! lol. I am weird. The big container (in the back) holds all my colours. The smaller container in the front, the colours I use the most often. and the green lid on top holds specific colours I was using consistently with the four drawings. That saves me time digging through all the pencils to find the right colours :)

Bonus picture!: Chris wearing the knitted booties my aunt sent from Serbia......LOL! He'll kill me when he sees this here ;D As you can see, they are circulation-constricting. 

What's going on...

Hey all :D Thought I'd update since I made a couple new drawings.

This weekend was rough. Chris' dad came down, and we did manage to have some fun with him (wink wink oo baby that's what I like. hahaha). There were other elements to the weekend that made it really awkward and uncomfortable, but that's behind us for now. Except being forced to watch Couples Retreat. Which. as you can imagine I'm sure, is TERRIBLE. DRIVEL. Vince Vaughn has never been more irritating to me.

I'm still healing from that moviegoing experience. I wish I had had my kindle so I coulda just read instead. lol.

Anyhow, worked on a couple drawings last nite and today, so here are some pics.


Here they are together..as well as Veri Deli product placement. hahaha!

Not a great picture. I'm not too happy with this drawing either. The texture of the cardstock made it really hard to work with at such a small scale. Even so it's not a complete failure. Gets the point across! I don't think I'll be using the superdark cardstock anymore though unless I make a larger drawing.

Oh how I love this one! It's got its problems, but overall I really like it. It makes me laugh! They were meant to be going down the yellow brick road but I decided a rainbow was much nicer looking. Hahaha. That's sammy in my basket :) I think I need to add a sparkle-look to my ruby slippers though.

And. I got a package from my mom and niece and nephew today. It. was. hysterical!! My mom managed to pack in 2 super shammies (as seen on tv!), chocolate bars, a tablecloth (fancy with roses..? lol), a soft hand towel, a hat for chris (too small for his massive noggin :D!), and a lovely marilyn monroe purse (<3!). She also included two silver necklaces with crosses that my brother and sister in law bought for me. They are really beautiful! On top of that was the necklace pictured above.......apparently, while in serbia, my niece saw this necklace somewhere and insisted they buy it for me cause I would love it. LOL!!!!! I don't know what amuses me more....that my niece is aware of my love of 80s hair metal imagery so keenly or that she demanded that this treasure be purchased for me. I am so blinging now!!



I've been downloading 50s duwop songs the last few days.....my favourite song is "Sea of Love". It makes me feel so sad, though it's not a sad song...it's the way certain parts of it are sung that make me feel really strange.....kind of lonely....? weird!

Snot Rockets

Well hello hello!

I'm sick. again. Head cold....my nose is constantly leaking. But it's feeling better after a couple days, which is good since I've got a presentation tomorrow. Also my nose is so raw and red that if I keep wiping it it's going to fall off I'm pretty sure.

Here are some updates!

A new Abe drawing done last nite while Chris and I watched a show about Stephen Hawking and his theories about the universe. Sorry for the poor photos....I took them after I put the drawing in its frame, and the glare always makes it tough to photograph.

Closeup of top portion. I'm really happy with the colouring of Abe's lips. At one point it looked like he was wearing lipstick but that was quickly fixed.  LOL.

Amother shot, this showing a bit more of the bottom portion.  I'm pretty happy with this though I wasn't so excited by it initially. I think the floating smiley faces worked out well with the entire thing, and Chris' suggestion for the worm in the apple (complete with top hat and beard) is cute! The apple is there because Lincoln ate apples quite frequently, and from what I read he usually ate them from the bottom up. WEIRDO! ;) 

Here's a funny idea, using a mini chalkboard acquired at Arthur Daleys for $5. I thought this would make for a nice new visual interest amidst all the samey-framed drawings. This also reminds me of school tablets from the oldentimes.

Here's something a bit different. I found this picture of Marilyn Monroe holding her framed photo of Abe. As I'm sure I mentioned before, Marilyn admired Abraham alot and considered him a father figure. Now it's not entirely legal to use this photo since it's copyrighted ralph greenson, but I figure if I alter it enough it may be alright to include it. It may be that I have to make a drawing depicting this instead. Hmmm..I haven't though of that before...drawing Marilyn and Abe! heehee....maybehe can be looking up from the famous vent????

That's it for now. I'll be working on a lot more stuff in the next week so check back for updates soon!  Also I think I'm gonna put up some photos of my apartment just for fun, so probably within the next few days. :)

Take care everybody! <3

Odds and (Rear)Ends

Oh it's been a few days..I've been lazy about taking pictures, so here are some showing a few of the lovely items I've acquired for my installation.

Let's get this party started!!!  booyah! haha...oh my. Remember when people constantly said "booyah"??!?!?

Oh here's a clay charm I made for Jack... It's pretty huge, and I decided it should have some butter! I added a caramel scent to it but I think that the baking process baked most of the strength of the scent out unfortunately. It does have a sweet scent but it's not quite caramel.

I figured I should have one more candy jar with a different candy inside for my installation. I found these gross peppermint circles and used my food colouring pens to draw the faces on them. I thought the peppermints looked like old fashioned candies.

Here's the handsome stovepipe hat I ordered from the UK. It came with that ribbon, which I was really happy about since the picture on ebay didn't have one. It adds a perfect touch!It's just a costume hat....but I couldn't afford a real stovepipe hat.Oh well..it still looks nice!  I'm not 100% sure where I'm putting this in my installation, but I'm thinking on the desk :)

Mini plastic party top hats....they're meant to be for party favours. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with these to be honest...but at least I've got them in case I think of something!

This is Chris' favourite of all the stuff I ordered (even above the stuffed Abes. No way!!!!). Anyhow, this is a vintage Avon aftershave done as a series with different presidents. Look how nice the box is!!!

Here's the other edge....I guess it's Abe as a whippersnapper outside his log cabin home *tear* heehee.! 

On the back of the box is the Gettsyburg Address. Such a beautifully written document :)

And here he is, the bust of Lincoln! Posing with him is another major bust in our household - Sammy's best friend, Toot. Yes, Too has a pteradactly as a companion (Tootie D). Yes, he wears a hat I made for him based on DJ Lance Rock's hat from Yo Gabba Gabba...

LOL! The head is made of plastic, the bust is ceramic I think. Inside is "Wild Country" aftershave, which smells actually quite pleasant.  I love how the head and bust are different shades of white.

Here's a photo of a closeup of the golden velvet curtains Chris won for me on ebay long ago..the first of a stream of subsequent ebay purchases for Abe. LOL. I'm still not sure how the heck I'm gonna get this installed but we'll figure it out :)

This is a picture I ordered for myself...heehee...a reprint of a cutecute Marilyn photo! I really love this picture...it's so cheeky...she's waiting for like 56 guys to return from war.. The autograph is laughably fake but it's still cute! :)

Capitol of Thailand

The fact that I'm sitting here wondering if I spelled "capitol" right saddens my very soul! I used to have such amazing spelling skills. I'm pretty sure it's wrong.

Not much has been going on on my end art-wise. Chris and I ran around the city yesterday doing errands, namely purchasing those fiddly things we always forget to buy on normal shopping trips (ie 150 metres of baking paper, naturally.). I did get a few cheap frames from the local dollar store and they need filling with ridiculous Abe artwork. 

I've been feeling somewhat down the last several days. Just issues with family, and feeling uncertain about things and, as a result, angry about it all. It seems like from time to time I need to just cry that garbage out. I find the concept of being friends with your parents really strange. What would it feel like to not feel like a caged monkey around my dad? He's got a notepad and he's writing things down as he's observing me, all of these notations negative and warranting, in his eyes, immediate change.

Anyhow.... I dyed my hair for the firsttime last nite. Well, mildly bleached it. The top was getting a gross mousy colour that just made my hair look perpetually greasy. Chris helped me with it, so we had a good lol. In the end I didn't get enough on so it's not completely light where it should be so I'll have to do those bits over again. They make it sound so easy in those instruction leaflets!

Haven't heard from V in a while, but I did get her itinerary in an email, which was funny to read and exciting.

Off I go now...have a great remaining weekend my lovelies :D!!!