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I started this over the summer and just now finished. I discovered if you layer colored pencil over colored ink washes you get super saturation because the ink has already soaked into the paper and made it less "toothy"


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Yesterday at my grandmas we were discussing the talking mother goose. (Did anyone else have one? you put tapes under her wing and she read you stories and there were books you could follow along with) Claire was TERRIFIED of her because Chad and I told her she talked because there was a ghost trapped inside her haha ( Read more... )

Joe's mom just alerted me to the fact that there are photos from each week of bootcamp up on the Fort Sill website and I found Joe in a few of them... He looks miserable! And he has a retarded haircut and really lame looking army-issue glasses. It's kind of cool to see what he's been doing though (looks like non-fun though! Under no circumstances ( Read more... )

I thought my dad was perhaps joking or exaggerating when he said he had a bowling ball chained to his ankle in all of their wedding pictures... Well I found them today and he wasn't joking. There really is a bowling ball in about 85% of the pictures...


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My old college roommate Marissa (the only one I never had any problems with- I think it's because we liked the thermostat the same temp and we were the same degree of messiness. I'm convinced that that is what makes a good roommate haha) is getting married. She and her fiance just bought a cute little house, so as a wedding present I drew it for ( Read more... )

I got excited about painting St Cecilia, so I drew her last night and painted her today. I'm pretty happy with the way she came out. She's a little less medieval inspired than the last two, but I think that's ok...


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Saint Scholastica was the sister of Saint Benedict. I picked her, because she has some interesting stories and imagery associated with her. She became a nun at a young age. One day Benedict was over studying with her and decided to leave early. She begged him to stay because she was enjoying their discussions so much, but he refused, insisting that ( Read more... )

So when I was young I found this big hat box thing full of pictures of my dad in the 70's... which he promptly took away from me (I'm assuming because there is one picture involving mooning and also quite a few in which he has his arm around various bikini-clad girls who are not my mother... whatever) Well last week my loving mother accosted me and ( Read more... )

I felt the urge to paint today... Usually I'm not big on animal portraits, but I love these two little dogs that belong to my aunts ( Read more... )