So! As I might have told you guys, though I honestly can't remember if I did, I am currently in the 2nd oil painting class in my journey of being a painting major. My first oil painting class did not go well, I was very into doing washes of color...such as one would do when using water colors...which does not work very well. I got a C. Good LORD was I bummed out.
Now I'm in my second oil painting  class and y'know what? I actually feel like I'm hitting my stride! It took me about halfway through the semester to make stuff that I'm getting pretty excited about! So here are two WIP that are noooot at all done but that I'm getting pretty psyched about! XD

I was back in the oil painting studio actually painting for the first time in quite some time yesterday and I think I began quite an exciting journey! I've been a bit obsessed with organs in general over this summer and decided I was going to try and paint them once I got back in school. Well, there is a heart! You guys have no clue how excited I am about this. I literally did a happy dance when it got to this point cause I was so jazzed about it. The background's gotten a bit screwy since this point, but this is my favorite state of it, and I think I'km going to try and do some messy abstracted backgrounds on another few. For some reason the human heart is so incredibly gorgeous to me. I'm not sure if it's the fact that it's something we literally NEED to survive, or that it's all gory and bloody and gorgeous. Either way, I'm super exited to continue this series and just kind of explore what can happen with it.

....part of the problem with me actually making posts is that I'm so consistently worried with them having to be about my art. And that is just not at all true. Like, this is my blog guys, I can just word vomit all over the place! Hooray for finally realizing it!

Hello Humans!
I AM SO CLOSE TO SUMMER! I can almost taste it (lemonade, fresh cut grass, hot dogs, and pool water in case you were curious). I have a ridiculous amount of stuff to do...so much...so much stuff guys...I'm terrified. I have about 6 or 7 paintings to finish up for my oils class, so many papers, and a vessel for metal smithing (and guys, I am no metalsmith...it's not my thing...).
HOWEVER, I am super excited to be closer to summer cause that means more time for the art I wanna do! Huzzah!
Some of the stuff's I'm working on. The two copper bowl looking images are my vessel project for metal smithing. The one with all the black lines is for my chasing. Which best I can tell is when you fill a metal vessel with wax and then punch in bits of it. It's a good stress reliever.


The green and pink/blue paintings are portraits I'm working on. The green one was a study and I'm beginning the final piece tonight. The pink one, the painting portion is done and I'm now adding a bunch of texture through embroidery...so we'll see if I like it...













Finally this loveliness on the bottom is my figure in the environment piece...still majorly in progress..

Overall I'm super happy with the volume and quality of stuff I've been churning out this year. I'm not to a point where I feel AT all like I know what I'm doing, but it's a lot of fun :).

  I found this quote on pinterest months ago and it really resonated with me. There are so many of us creative types out there who wonder what classifies us as a true artist. Is is selling a print? Having a show in a gallery? It certainly can't be enjoying what we create and creating fantastic things can it?

  It is my belief that every artist has this self doubt. They know that they can create things and they know that they love to do it, but they don't know if they are truly an artist. Well, I'm here to tell you that you are. We all are. Wether you like making paper mache poodles, graffiti, or are a performance artist. You ARE and artist.

  The dictionary has many different definitions for an artist. From: "a person who produces paintings or drawings as a profession or hobby." to "a person skilled at a particular task or occupation." I don't think the dictionary does it justice.

  I think that an artist is anyone who creates. Wether it be drawings, paintings, sculptures, websites, movements with your body, anything you create can be art and you are the artist who brought it into this world.

  Being an artist isn't something anyone can define you as, it is something you must define yourself as.