I fell yesterday and hit the same spot I hit when I fell a couple of months ago walking across a steel grate to class. (cept I fell on concrete this time) My butt is all swollen now and it hurts to sit. :/ Might interfere with some plans to finish some artwork n stuff...

I have some old photos to restore and I was going to work on some other stuff... darnit!

Oh well at least I can get some chores done. I hate sitting still not doing anything. Could be worse!

Today started out badly. When I was upstairs working on my greeting card project, I discovered that I’d lost my stamps – couldn’t find them anywhere and I searched high and low. When Mom got up I asked her to drive me to Wegmans to get stamps there – only to find that our local Wegmans no longer sells stamps. I was so upset that I started crying, ack! I'm not normally a crier. I felt like an idiot.

Well, at least my Christmas image is now finished. It's not what I originally planned -- a Madonna and child, or even my "plan B" image (partridge in a pear tree) -- but a Christmas squirrel painting. It turned out pretty well.

PRE-FALL 2010 COLLECTIONS...Part 1
CHANEL - ZAC POSEN



A Shang-hai Surprise from the esteemed House of Chanel...

I have decided that, as the interim collections - both Pre-Fall and Resort - are now becoming more and more important, and widespread amongst the fashion designers of this world, I am going to start featuring my red carpet picks from them both, as well as the Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter Fashion Weeks that I currently look at...
As I discovered, there was an amazingly beautiful quantity of dresses that were absolutely red carpet-worthy, and probably will be chosen before the awards season is finished..
In Part 1, I have included the red carpet dresses from all the designers who had the usual small preview-style collection for Pre-Fall...in the second part, I have taken three designers for whom the title Pre-Fall appears to mean another full-size major collection, and therefore warrant a longer look... ( Read more... )

The visuals. I just read a review of the movie in my local newspaper, and they gave it a four (out of ten). The reviewer said the story and dialogue were bad. But it *looks* super cool in the commercials I've seen on TV. So, I'd go for the eye candy.

Didn't get to work on the tattoo flash I said I started the other day. I ended up having to go run up to Greenville twice to get stuff to hook up our new heater! It's pretty cool, gets really freakin hot. It has the blue flames, gets the whole house warm real quick. Yay! Debated on working on artwork today, or just housework. I decided to do artwork. >.> Especially since the heater is up and going now it gets the office area warm and I can work at my desk without freezing my fingers off. Soooo.. I'm working on my Oni Oiran pic... I'm pushing pixels around on the Juban right now.. some cool snake shibori pattern it's pretty wicked! I wonder how many people will pick up that its rather snakey looking? Maybe I should hide the head of a snake in there somewhere. And since the pic is a sort of mesh of rockabilly/fetish in style I thought about doing a sort of flame pattern or devil girl motif on her Kimono. I dunno, still debating.

This painting started as a sketch way back in 2006. The idea stayed pretty much the same, with the addition of with some better perspective knowledge. And of course, she resembles my own cat. It's great to finally be able to mark this one off the list!



Midnight Magic
medium: Watercolor and acrylic

Prints will most likely be available after the new year.

kazeno_taka - cliches exist in "fine art" too

moonvoice - How a society that doesn't value art convinces artists and everyone else that they're not worth anything

LOL

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!

Featured again at SA

http://www.sheezyart.com/feature/artwork/

Plus there are a lot of really cool artists on there.

Wow 45 messages to go through on SA

(This one got into Epilogue too, yay!)



In other news....

The Lawyer has been hired. We worked out a pretty good deal. (He's ready for some courtroom blood n gore n all that lawyerish stuff :D awesome). Gotta go run to the JP when the office opens and pick up some paperwork on the eviction notice that was on the door of this place before I moved in...

This also probably means I will have prints on sale again on eBay soon....

Then I gotta come home and do laundry, top secret santa stuff, and work on some tattoo flash I started yesterday. <.<

P.S. Our rat terrier 'Nosey' says hi to everyone.. she's smiling too... sweet baby!






www.sheezyart.com/feature/artwork/

Still working on my greeting card. I know...this is ridiculous. It's all my fault for playing Bejeweled Blitz when I should be painting!

I got featured this week in 'The Best of Zazzle' with my 'Windows to the Soul' piece, yay!


www.squidoo.com/the_best_of_zazzle_week_51_2009

Zazzle has a lot of sales going on-- I've got some nifty stuff in my Zazzle store too--




Also, I got featured for Moderators Choice on Elfwood for 'Windows to the Soul'

www.elfwood.com/mod_picks.html

Yay!

Athena
8x10 watercolor Dec 2009

Athena was commissioned at a convention this fall. The description was simple, with just the owl and aegis (her breastplate with medusa). I used olive trees in the background, since it said the olive tree was Athena's gift to the city of Athens.

BRITISH FASHION AWARDS 2009

The British Fashion Awards 2009 were held on Thursday December 9th, in the illustrious halls of the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand...



Isn't this a fabulous venue for such a grand event in the British Fashion Industry calendar ? This great hall seats around 650 people and is often used for Awards ceremonies and other events of this type apparently...it's also very pretty when done out for a party like this, don't you think ?!! I must say, a little lighting goes a very long way...
The exterior of this historic building is equally imposing and grand, and resembles one of our more beautiful cathedrals:-



( Come and see who wore what ... )

Yikes, it's getting close to Christmas and I haven't even finished my greeting card painting yet! I'll be working on that tonight.

It's bitterly cold out.