a special illofriday for the season....holiday...

well here is yet another twist to the chacha illustration friday part of the blog. i decided seeing as how it is the holiday season and the topic being just that, holiday, that i would do some sort of christmas picture. i knew i wouldnt have enough time to actually pull out the paints and the brushes and throw something together that i would be proud of because things are crazy hectic here at my rents house in anticipation for christmas tomorrow. so seeing as how i had quite a few pictures that are christmas related i thought i would take one that i liked and pull it into photoshop and tweak it a bit. therefore after a few filters and some text, i came out with the finished product that i have posted above. i know i have been here and there with my illos lately, but with the holidays and family and friends being in town, its been so distracting and left little time for my art. me being in the christmas mood and it being christmas eve i decided to do a little holiday photo and not only do an illo this week but it get it in way ahead of schedule. so to you and yours have a happy and healthy holiday!! enjoy.

Apocalypse now, its...The Epitaph Weekly Newsletter!....

Seeing as how i have missed out on a couple illo fridays here and there because of the busy holiday schedule, i decided to atleast give you a little excerpt of funniness from Matt over at Epitaph....so here goes.....
'If the world is not going to end soon, it needs to. I’m all for science and all that good stuff, but I just learned that a doctor Margaret A. Keyes, M.D., Ph.D. is currently injecting human brain cells into a mouse and the f-ing thing is developing memory, extended motor skills and an extremely high level of intelligence! Now, the hope of the researchers is to try and see if they can get the mouse to the point of communicating by sound or even primitive language! I’m not scared of the end of the world, but now that it’s here, I am getting kind of scared… This is cartoon shit! Talking mice… what the hell is going on? With all the weapons in the world, talking mice will be our demise! I say GOOD!
So, talking mice are just around the corner and nanotechnology is also upon us. How stupid is it that humans are smart enough to kill themselves on purpose? Overall, it’s pretty awesome I guess.“(Whatever a mouse will/would say when they can talk)”Matt HeinemeyerEpitaph Blizzard Beast'
sounds pritty crazy to me, but then again who knows. no longer will the Bear City skit on SNL be funny because it will be that way in the future, but with walking talking mice. talk about bizarre, sheesh!

ive returned....with an illo....blue....

so when i saw the topic of blue i was all excited!! finally a topic that suited this piece perfectly to where i could share it with all of you. this is another one i did back in high school but one that i love sooo much! (youre probably thinking, hmmm how does this differ from any other pieces that shes done....doesnt she love all of them sooo much). but unlike the others, this one doesnt really have any personal meaning behind it, but it does have a quick story. we were to find a picture from a magazine and identify and outline all the different shades, whether it be light or dark. then only using one color, would make a few different shades to use to match the picture to where if you looked at it from a distance, you could still recognize the photo. well i saw this add for Hard Candy and had to use it, for all of you guys its a makeup line. anyways, i worked really hard on it and was so pleased with the outcome that i did another one that maybe ill share with you some other time. the size of this one is another reason why i like it so much. the original is about 24' x 36' and is on a black piece of matting that i decided to crop out of the picture. my art teacher loved it and wanted to put it in the art show. it hung there along with a few other pieces that my teacher had picked of mine to be in the show. eventhough my art didnt win any ribbons or trophies, it still was a great feeling to walk into a crowded room and see my artwork hanging on the wall and to see that people were actually enjoying it. so here it is. enjoy.