Shoe update

worked on the shoes yesterday, nearly finished one. although I'm realizing that the edge of the part where the laces go is looking a bit rough, so I want to try to smooth that out. and I think I'm going to make the white border/rubber bit on the bottom a black-ish orange and pick/add a pattern in the iridescent copper paint I bought. gah and I still have a whole other shoe to do before tuesday!

In progress...

We're painting on shoes in my materials and techniques class. It's the first time I've ever used acrylics, so I'm a bit intimidated. I'm liking the way they look so far, but it's in the beginning stages so there's always time for things to go wrong.

here's what they look like now:

(sorry for the crappy photobooth pic, I can't find my camera charger!)

I'm going to keep running with this 'demon woman in the woods' thing until it wears out, because it's really the only thing inspiring me lately so I'll take that as a sign that I need to keep doing it until it's out of my system. we'll see where it goes!

Recent Pieces

Recently I received an e-mail from the SCAD Illustration department saying they'd like me to submit up to 8 pieces of my best work from the past year so that they could submit them to upcoming illustration competitions. I'm so flattered, and excited! I only submitted six pieces, because there's no way I have 8 quality pieces to send to them. These are the pieces I gave them....I feel like this is the year where my art is really coming together, though, because I'm really happy with everything I've done so far this year. Definitely a good start I think!