I Want Adventure in the Great, Wide Somewhere

I want it more than I can tell. 

~Belle-Reprise: Beauty and the Beast

I wanted to paint something really special for my friend's eighteenth birthday. After mulling over a few possiblities involving travel, I suddenly remembered her graduation photos. This one happened to be perfect, because I don't feel terribly confident painting faces yet. Also, source photo credit goes to Jason Bailey at Pixlphoto.com

Two Drawings!

I really haven't been ignoring art, just never got around to uploading stuff. So, here are two of my latest pieces.

The girl here looks a bit too old to be riding one of those stick horses, but children are hard. I have yet to make them look young enough. Also, by the time I got to the horse, I was rather tired of the picture.

Lately, I've been in the mood for drawing lines from songs. This drawing I based on "Thrive" by Switchfoot. It portrays the line, "I wanna thrive, not just survive." 

Watercolour Phone Booth

In honour of my love of Great Britain

Dreams of Magic

If you may not have yet noticed, I tend to favor the romantic, magical scenes. Therefore, I scour the internet in search of these scenes to alter and make my own. Here is one such piece.

It's rather difficult to photograph a canvass covered in acrylic paint without getting some glare, so really there shouldn't be any white marks in the darker areas.

Rhiannon

While browsing the web in search of a bow, I came across the etsy store of Arm Street, an incredible store which specializes in Medieval costumes and accessories. Having quite the obsession with anything medieval, save torture devices of course, I promptly downloaded a bunch of photos from the shop. Consequently, many of my future drawings will probably be renditions of those.
Oh, and my friend gave her the Welsh name Rhiannon.

My Dog

For the last year or so, I've fallen out of drawing animals. Drawing each hair takes so much time and I find people, well, more interesting. Animal's portraits cannot express the same emotion that a human can. While a dog may seem to smile, humans have different smiles for different emotions. While a dog may bare his teeth, humans use their entire faces to convey anger. Anyway, a couple days ago, I decided to take the plunge and go through the work of drawing my Golden Retriever. To my surprise, drawing each hair wasn't extremely tedious.

Feather

A couple of days ago, I set out to draw an average feather with far from average colors. Instead, I glanced at the peacock feather in a glass soda bottle on my dresser and thought how awesome it is. They are just such fascinating feathers, changing colors in different lights. To simulate this, I mixed green glitter with some of the paint. All in all, the painting would look a bit better with a different background color, but I'd rather not change that now.