Away, away!

By the time you read this, I will be driving away to Minnesota, where I will reside in a woodland cabin near two lakes and with no internet. So, though I will try to check online every once in a while at the public library, emails and such will probably go unanswered until I return, in late July.

I do have a couple other posts already made and scheduled, so do check back here! I also might post from the aforementioned public library. I will be doing alot of art; hoping for the fruitfulness of limits, I'm leaving behind my markers and inks and relying only on pencils, pens, watercolor, and oil. I will be participating in the plein air painting competition I've mentioned, too!

I watercolored the above picture of the landscape going by as I was riding in a car. I should be doing alot of that!

Mother of Stars

Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy, this time in oil.

Holy Face of Mary

I finished the commissioned painting of Our Lady and delivered it to the client. Here it is, in the mat she provided for it.

It was a challenge filling out and making colored the faint image from the Pieta Prayer Book. What frustrated me, however, is the book says it was drawn by an Italian mystic, but it doesn't say who, or when, or give any information more specific than that! And I couldn't find the image anywhere else but the Pieta Prayer Book. Practically everything in there is private revelations--I hope it was an approved one! If you know anything more about the image, do let me know!

Minding my own business

I got into the Jaques Plein Air competition! This means I'll be part of an art show, and may get inquiries, so I'll need business cards! And that means I'll need a business card holder.

I made it using this tutorial.

Miku tablet test

We got a wacom tablet! So to try it out, I drew Miku Hatsune in Deviantart's drawing program, DAmuro. It's harder to use than I thought, but fun.

Selkie Lullaby

Oh! Hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.
The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us,
At rest in the hollows that rustle between.

Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow,
Oh weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease!
The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee,
Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seas!

~Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling

I made a bag

That I did! It's for me, and made of denim and upholstery that I had in my fabric stash. The only thing I had to buy to make this was some interfacing, and that cost 65 cents. 

I didn't do perfect turning the corner, but I really like the upholstery colors.

The clasp is a wallet, cut in half and each half sewn to each side. As it turned out, the bag was too floppy for the clasp to stay shut by itself, so I supplemented it with zippers. Fortunately they were a matching color too! (In my opinion, but I am told I the colors I think look great together are crazy.)

The handle is an old belt.

In hindsight I should have made it less wide, but it'll do.

This is what's going in it so far:

A sketchbook, a notebook, crayons, and another set of watercolors to supplement those in my purse. The whole idea of this is to be a slightly-less necessary addition to the necessities I carry in my purse, which is jam-packed with my wallet, checkbook, coin purse, moleskine, keys, phone, smaller watercolor set, pencils and pens, and my waterbrush, which I might post an entry about soon. (I love it!)