Feeling Harvesty

SMMMMUUUHHHH….

Fall? Is that you? It must be. My mom is starting to pull out her dried corn and walnuts decorations from 1999, a definite sign that fall is around the corner. My FAVorite time of year. I cannot wait to scarf down criminal amounts of pumpkin pie and stomp on crunchy leaves.

Well, speak of the devil. Here’s a digital watercolor I did for an assignment in my online class. It’s fallish! Can I just say, it was by the GRACE OF GOD that I happened to paint this in what could pass (with a little imagination) as a primary triad color scheme. Miss I’m-Too-Cool-To-Read-Important-PDF-Files missed the memo. I realized it after I had already turned in the assignment. PHEW. Bullet = practically dodged.

Corel Painter is definitely still a mystery to me. Much to learn…

Old Lace

This is Edna. She’s lived in the same little old house for 45 years. The locals call her The Widow Brown. She’s not technically a widow and her last name isn’t Brown but she never bothered to correct them.

Edna used to rob trains in her youth so an alias was probably to her benefit. Back then people called her Twitchy Malone on account of her nervous tick. She could best any man in an arm wrestle and may have ripped a few off in the heat of the moment. She couldn’t be sure.

Now, she can be seen with the Good Book under her arm, trotting to Sunday services, leading the Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid Society or tending to her petunias.

Get ready, this post is packed…

This is possibly the last emotion we are sculpting in facial expressions. I call this “Mild Happiness.” Notice the 70s, I-Belong-to-the-Brady-Bunch feel. Totally intentional.

Okay,  I change my mind. Watercolor is not the demon spawn from some unholy center of the Earth. It is, in fact, a little fun and maybe kind of relaxing. But you didn’t hear that from me. Here’s a little something from class today (new model!).

And on a COMPLETELY unrelated note, I’ve been obsessed with “Glee.” I know, I know, me and the rest of the country. Well, along those lines, here is a little hilarious Jimmy Fallon action (who, with his show-tunes attitude and fancy choreography, has become kind of adorable. Go figure.). If you don’t want to sit through the whole thing, just scroll to the end.

Episode 1:

Episode 2:

Jimmy’s shirt gets kind of pretty by the end.

A Couple of Final Projects

A commissioned portrait of my great aunt. Colored drawing pencil on toned paper.

This was the culmination of my color theory/watercolor class last semester. I cried bitter tears over this thing. We had to copy a masterwork. In my case, I chose a background from the original “Snow White” (1937). The finished project ended up lighter and cooler than the original.