Hey I was gonna buy that!

Maaaaybe. Eventually.

Going through my favorites and seeing things that sold almost make me more sad than seeing expired listings. At least when something expires, I usually don't remember what it was. But seeing something that sold is like when I find a shirt I like and there's only one, so I tuck it behind some other clothes until I can come back for it...and then it's not there when I come back. :(

But yay for all the people selling things lately, lots of my favs have gone.

48 hours until my first class. Almost exactly. 49 hours. Where oh where has my summer gone.

3 weeks?

I've gotten so used to spending my days on etsy that school has crept up on me. Just 3 weeks to go. :(

Six days until the concert of the year (Poison/Ratt/Vains of Jenna), sure to provide all kinds of colorful inspiration. At least when school starts I'll have this blog to post some of my larger work outside the hyper-critical world of school. Though if y'all wanna be hyper-critical too, that's ok. :p Another 8 months of defending that pretty boys with girl hair and spandex are valid artistic views.

Speaking of which, my latest blast of inspiration has come purely from this picture.



No idea what I'm gonna channel it into yet, but my fingers are itching to make something fabulous after the latest puppy commission is done.

So much to do in the next three weeks! O_O Etsy has made these last couple months fly by. I can't wait to make my Christmas list.

When it rains, it pours

I woke up today to find my slightly tardy ebay auction winner had paid for her item *and* I had made an etsy sale (the guitar pick cards, the least viewed item in my shop even). When I went to convo the buyer, I found that I was in the front page treasury too! :D What a good day. Going out for a nice big dinner tonight to celebrate a friend's birthday, but inside I'll celebrate a little bit for my meager success.

Monday will be one time I won't be grumbling all the way to the post office. :p

Oh, and my talentdatabase PopFactor is at 89. lol Sweet.

I'm excited about all this again. :)

Song To Say Goodbye

I love painting on wood. Last semester I made the switch to 99% panels after getting really tired of keeping my hand from denting canvases. Plus, the smooth surface works much better for my painting style. What I regret about it a little is that since joining etsy, offering panels just really isn't an option. The shipping would cost almost as much as the painting, not to mention the sheer trouble of packaging. Large canvases can at least be taken off the stretcher bars and rolled.

What I can do, however, is paint on solid wood scraps. At school, the shop is always full of people building god knows what, and their scraps always end up being tossed. I try to grab the bigger ones when I can. A few nights ago I found a small box of a few wood scraps I saved from my freshman year and decided to make good use of one of them.





MDF is such a nice surface but so heavy. I think I did a double take when I calculated the shipping; I'm too used to illustration board and little canvases. But hopefully someone on Etsy will give Brian a good home; he looks like he could use it.

Is it obvious yet that I really enjoy painting eyes? It's usually the first thing I paint and my favorite part. Once I get the eyes looking good, I know the rest of the painting will work out. After all, that's usually the first thing people look at in a portrait. If the eyes look dead or crooked or dull, no amount of great skin will save them.

Anyway, here's what inspired the painting.



And might I say, he simply gets cuter the older he gets.

Life Is Beautiful

"There's nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home."

Pimping someone else's art now. The video for the first song off the soundtrack of Nikki's new book.



The book is going to be amazing (Heroin Diaries). The Dirt is one of my favorite books ever, and Nikki's chapters are by far the best written, most entertaining, and most powerful (aside from maybe Vince's chapter about his daughter's death). It's worth looking into, fan or not.

'K, I'll fangirl over Nikki silently now. :)

Origin of "live wire"

I named my art after this song by Motley Crue. For those who don't care don't know. :)



I'm hot, young, runnin' free...a little bit better than I used to be.


Vince's hips used to be so swively...