Today was one of the hardest days of my life. Today I officially said goodbye to one of the main men in my life, my grandfather. My Papa passed away Tuesday morning surrounded by his wife, children, and me, the eldest grandchild. The spouses and other children came over soon after and joined us in our grief. While technically he left us on Tuesday, today was his wake. And it felt like it was finally time to truly say goodbye to my Papa.

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'm generally a very indecisive person. No more is this true than what I'm about to do. I'm back on blogger! XD. I switched to wordpress for a while. Thought it was fine...but eh...not what I wanted or needed. So it's home again home again jiggity jig. And with a new name! Oooh lala! While I loved the name Crims0nScarf, it never felt final to me. It always felt like something that was just a placeholder until I figured it out. Well my public, I have now figured it out!
  So time to catch up. Well, I started college out with a major in art thinking I'd go into photography since I couldn't do any other sort of art. Then I switched to art ed cause I really felt a calling on my heart to do that. And yet...at the beginning of this semester, it didn't feel right. I didn't feel like teaching is what I need to currently be doing. And while it might be a slightly more stable job, why would I geta  job doing anything but what I'm passionate about? So I switched yet again. Back to art this time with an emphasis in painting. If you had asked me 5 years ago if I'd ever thought I'd be prepping to be a painter I would have laughed in your face. If you had asked me 8 months ago if I had wanted to be a painter I'd have thought you were insane. But good golly miss molly I freaking love it.
  Last week I was killing myself in the studio working on paintings and ideas, as we only have 2 weeks left (internal screaming and panic). But within this week of freak outs, I found a new appreciation, and sort of addiction, for painting. I'm not always 100% focused (I'm currently writing this instead of painting if that tells you anything), however, I feel in a weird sort of calm storm. I feel all sorts of ideas and craziness swirling around my mind, but as I paint, it makes me happy. Much happier than I've been in a long time.
  I've started doing portraits of close friends and messing around with mediums on them. For some reason this gives me even more insight into who these people are. I'm able to actually look at them without distractions or people or having to hide the fact that I'm sketching them. I can see all their imperfections and it is GLORIOUS.
  I hope to post a few pictures once this semester is over of some of my finished work. In the meantime, welcome to the new and improved Crims0nScarf. The Ooddities.

After alot of thinking and looking around I've decided to move my blog! Instead of being under blogger I will now be working under wordpress. You can find the new home of my blog riiiiiiiight here ->https://crims0nscarf.wordpress.com/

While blogger has been good to me, I've come to want different things. The new blog has all of my old posts and I will be updating it hopefully pretty regularly! So come join me in our new home!

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This is an embroidery piece I'm doing with a few succulents. Pictured here are just the very beginning stages. But even that little succulent took quite some time!
These two are hand carved stamps that I put onto muslin so that I can embroider around the quotes. I have to wait for them to dry before I go wild on them, but I assure you it will look AWESOME!