Book Dummy

Today I mailed out my book dummy to 4 publishers! Now I get to play the waiting game and try to distract myself from thinking about it. So in the mean time I will try to stay occupied and work on some portfolio pieces. Here is one I'm working on. It'll be multiple images similar to this, so I can have a narrative sequence in my portfolio.

Art-4-Health Exhibit at CSUF

Cal State Fullerton's College of the Arts and the Student Health and Counceling Center is hosting the 3rd annual juried student and alumni art exhibit!

The Opening Reception and Silent Art Auction is this coming Friday, September 11, 2009 from 4pm-7:30pm

Yours turly has three art pieces in the show. Come and see, bid on a piece of art, and enjoy the talented artists that attend/attended Cal State Fullerton!

Following the show is the 26th Annual Concert Under The Stars just outside on the field. Enjoy great music from our performing arts department and a fireworks show to end the night!

It's ALL FREE so make a night of it!

COLORING!

Well, it worked! I went to get some art supplies and after I got home I wanted to color! This is just a practice and experimenting with colors and a new colored paper for my Pearl Diver drawing. Hopefully it will be done sometime next week.

More Sketches

Eventually I'm going to have to just sit down and actually color a drawing. Tomorrow I'm going to the Art Supply Warehouse for some supplies. I'm sure that will inspire me to color a drawing. Also, I set a new goal to make 5 new pieces to put in my portfolio before Illustrator's Day on November 7th. You can hold me to it!

In other news I got a part time job today! It's an after school program teaching art lessons to children. It should be fun! I'm just happy it's art related and I don't have to resort to bussing tables or serving coffee. And it gives me time to do freelance work too!

Character Practice

I've been contemplating a new story and it is slowly developing into something I think can be pretty good. It would be more of a fantasy story, which I've never done before, but could be fun! I don't have a storyline yet, but the world is forming, and soon characters will come alive. Here are some sketches of a possible character. I'm not sure what her personality is quite yet, but it's getting there. It was mostly just to practice drawing characters consistently and doing different expressions.

New Projects

The wheels are starting to turn and ideas are starting to pop up, so it's time to get sketching! After getting stuck in a rut for awhile after my trip, I'm starting to feel like myself again and my motivation has returned, so it's time to get cracking on some projects. First up is reworking the Ant and the Cricket fable I did last spring. I'm doing it in my own style this time but I'm keeping the Hippie theme alive.

Alongside of that project I will be working on other stand alone portfolio pieces, some emerging story ideas, and a painting series that I have been wanting to do for a few years now.

Let the drawing begin!

I'm Back!

My apologies for not having blogged for the last few weeks. Yesterday I returned from a 2 and a half week trip to Israel. It was an unbelievable experience! I'm still processing everything I saw and did. It's going to take me awhile to sort through everything going on inside of me, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and artistically. Since this is an art blog, I will try to focus more on the artistic part, however it all connects and overlaps, so I will probably have to include a little of everything. Artistically, it was a difficult and frustrating trip because there really wasn't a lot of time to draw or even sketch because we were constantly busy. However, I did take loads of pictures and was very inspired by the landscape and sites I saw. Hopefully I will keep the inspiration and pull some ideas from my experiences there.

In the mean time, I have lots to do, including sending out my first batch of postcards! Hopefully I will have some ideas from the trip sketched out soon, and some finished drawings of sketches done before I left. In the mean time, enjoy some of the sites I saw in Israel!


Hey, that's me in front of the Dome of the Rock! We were asked to cover our heads when entering the site.


The West Wall/Wailing Wall. There were maybe ten Bar Mitzvahs going on while we were there.


In the Garden of Gethsemane. I love the olive trees there. This was one of my favorite places.


Visiting a Palestinian refugee camp and the wall that was built around it. It was very heart breaking to see.


The Jordan River. I had the opportunity to be baptized in the river. A wonderful experience!


The Sea of Galilee (which is actually a lake!) We got to swim in it as well as ride in a boat on it. Also, one of my favorite places.