Of Paintings, Dog Kings, and Chalk Drawings

I have been working very hard of several pieces of art, few of which are actually finished. 

Okay, so this is technically not art, but I drew on my nails with a nail pen and I thought it was cool.

 I finished the drawing I was doing of the little blue man. I used all the shapes I had drawn on the paper to come up with crazy creatures. I am actually quite proud of it!

It is titled "Visits to the Planet of my Brain"

This is an oil painting I am working on. I am using a picture I took of my cousin as a reference. 

So after I finished my "Visits to the Planet of my Brain" I had little to work on except paintings. But I often don't have more than a half an hour at a time to work on art, so paint is usually inconvenient during the school week. I was baffled at what to do, so I started looking through my old stuff for inspiration.

Very cute drawing from my childhood.

New drawing.

My mother and sister think it's freaky. I like it. 

It's a King Dog! Actually modeled after a stuffed animal of mine. I just added human features.

I am also working on a chalk pastel of my bedroom. But the last time I worked on it, I was covered from head to toe in black chalk dust. No joke. I had to take a shower and scrub myself. 

Here's the drawing

Here's a picture of my actual room. Artistic Liberties!!

A photo I took of my sister in the snow. I thought is was pretty.

This is an acrylic of myself I am working on. I am painting it from my reflection in the mirror.

Of Christmas Gifts, the Backs of Heads and Blue Creatures

Now that Christmas is over, I can finally post some of the things I made but didn't dare post online in case they were discovered!

I made this for my aunt and uncle by mod-podging music paper onto canvases and then using acrylics to paint the silhouette. 

The color in this picture is really bad, but this is what I did for my sister. I drew her and her guitar in chalk pastel.

The pencils are AMAZING!!!

I did this one with the chalk pencils... obviously an eye.

I am still working on this one. It appears to be a blue distorted man, but who can really tell? I used light coming in from a window to draw shadows of my hands in odd positions on my paper ( the brown lines in the background) and I am using them to create odd creatures. 

This is a sketch I did of the back of my dad's head. I was in the car with a blank sheet of paper and chalk pencils. So I drew the first thing I saw. :)

Here is a drawing I have been working on for a while. It is me and a friend of mine. I think it is coming along well if not quickly.

My grandma got me a new light switch cover that I found very pretty. So I am posting it. ( I like to state the obvious.)

I forgot to post this sculpture I did. If any of you normal people out there have no idea what it is, he is in fact a man with a heart growing out of his head (hence the veins and arteries). 

 Anyway, I took some good pictures. 

My cousin and brother looking out of the window at the snow.

My sister at a grand piano. I thought the lighting was beautiful. 

Of Progress on "Forgery"

I haven't been working on this a ton, but here it is! She now has a chin.

Of Cards, Feet and Acrylics

I made these cards for my grandma for Christmas!

They kinda remind me of an Andy Warhol...

These cards I made out of different stamps. Starting from the top left, the stamps were lemons, potatoes, potatoes, lemon, paint roller, and the last one is potato and marshmallow.

I did these sketches of feet in a mirror

It's pretty messy but I think it is beautiful. I did this one last night in acrylic. I worked from a picture of my cousin.

I forgot to post this. It is just a random jumble of shapes I did.

This one I did in the car. I put the media I was using (crayon, pencil, oil pastel) and let the car bump my hand around for a very  long time. Highly entertaining.

Of Photography, Painting and um... um...

Because of the fact that I have been reading the 5th Harry Potter book, I have neglected to do my email, blog, chores and some school. I have been doing some art in my reading schedule though. I will start off by saying that I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving and took as many pictures as I did. As much as I am sure you all would love seeing the numerous photos I have taken, I will not torture you. Here are some of the ones I like. (Photography is art!) 

This would be the back of my brothers head. His hair is so spiky I just had to take pictures. In reality, I took about 10. I will only show you one.

Sun over a rock at Dorsey's Knob, WV.

If anyone other than me has wondered what the end of a slide is like, look no further. I took this just as I was rocketing off the end of one.

Graffiti star on a rock

 OK... I will admit it. If I don't know what to post or I don't have a lot of drawings, I will post random pictures I have taken. It's kinda fun though. I will post my actual paintings and drawings now.

Here is the still life I am doing for my art class. The only thing that is done is the apple, I am still working.

My progression on 'Forgery'

Cloooose up!

This is the picture that the part of the post title 'um... um...' refers to. I drew them this morning after my math lesson.        
If you would like to know what they are I have no idea, go ask someone else.

Of Oil Paint, Pumpkins and Flowers

I have been so busy reading that I have forgotten to post. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel is wonderful... but yes, this is a blog about art, not books. So I have been taking an oil painting class, and while I am also working on a still life, I have no pictures of it. We must content ourselves with the portrait. 

This is a portrait by Ingres I am copying for the class. This is the original, I didn't paint it unfortunately.

Here is my preliminary sketch.

My beautiful, glorious paint that cost me about 100 dollars... 

And voila! The beginning of my 'forgery' (that's its nickname. I have no prospects whatsoever of selling it mind you... this is just practice)

Here is my mom's Christmas present. I am trusting in the fact that she never looks at my blog. 

My mom already knows she's getting a leaping giraffe though. She wasn't thrilled with the idea, but I think she will like it when she sees it. 

Here is a 2 minute sketch I did of myself for practice.

I did this acrylic paining this week. 

Here is my meager studio...

These are our family Jack-O-Lanterns! Guess which one's mine... I'll tell you at the end of the post.

Flowers in the snow we got in October. Sandy sure messed the weather up, but it was a picturesque scene...

A rose with no petals

My favorite one... the picture quality is great.

OK... The one on the far left is mine. It's the one that's a rib cage if you didn't know what it was. The one in the middle is my brothers, and the one on the end is my sister's.