Performer

Always Performing - 14"x11" Acrylic and Collage

Finished this one for ARN. I rarely go back to a piece. I usually put it aside and move on. But with the annual group show coming up, I really need pieces to contribute!

I'm not sure it's entirely successful, but I'm ok with it. The last "real" painting I did was for Salad months ago. I want to get back into doing self portraits using all the collage, transfer and textural techniques I've learned over the last several years.

I had a bunch of self portrait ideas lined up just after graduation, but then shit hit the fan with Boy#1's behavior, pregnancy, birth, and finally Boy#1's diagnosis with Asperger's. It's taken me 6 years to get back to the point where I feel like painting something personal.

Illo Dump - Summertime Edition

Over 6 years after graduating with my art degree and I'm finally getting back my motivation to make art on a regular basis.

Mondays seem to be a very good day for this. I've been working on what I hoped to be small, quick pieces for Illustration Friday for the past several weeks. Except with the boys home from school quick gets its own new, shiny definition (ie it won't take you long, but the time you actually get to work on it will be stretched out over several days and/or weeks.) You'd think by now I'd know this and would plan for it. I swear I developed a very persistent version of postpartum ADD that becomes exponentially more severe with each child birthed. Sigh

Double

Scrambling eggs is sometimes the most satisfying part of my day, 6"x4", Acrylic and collage

Breakfast

Breakfast is Coffee, 4"x6", Acrylic and Collage

Diary

What if her goth friends find out that she has a crush on Justin Bieber?, 2"x3", Acrylic and Collage