daily drawings: bearded lady week, etc.

Last week I drew a bearded lady a day, which was super fun and I wish I'd had more time to do more with them on certain days. But ah well. A couple of these want to be paintings. They told me so.



And a bonus bearded lady...My dad's birthday was yesterday and this is the card I made for him. Did he love it? Yes, he did. I've also finally had some time for painting, which has been nice. A little look at what I've been up to there: Sexy?
In other news, school starts at the end of this month. I have a ton of stuff to get done before then, so. Let's go.

in progress: spiders and worms.

things i've been working on.

spiders in your hair

acrylic on clayboard

one, two, three.

tea, chalk, pens + ink on watercolor paper

a sketch + AHHHHHHH + etsy stuff

I was working on my piece for the Drawgasmic show I mentioned a couple posts ago, but something was feeling very off about it, and I couldn't fix it. So I just started it over. Everything is better now. Tonight, we ink.

Yesterday I went to a used furniture store in town to see what they had in the way of couches. The place had a hobo kind of smell to it. Most of the sofas were threadbare or covered in interesting stains and ridiculously overpriced. But! The trip was not for naught. This dummy was in an upstairs back room that I probably wasn't supposed to go in, and it was creepy as all getout. So there was that.
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In other news, these here paintings...
...are now up for sale at my Etsy. I'm trying to get rid of as much as I can before I move, so I'll be listing more things in the near future as well. I'm also very trade friendly so if someone had, say, a couch or a scary dummy they would give me in return for a bunch of paintings, I would probably be into that.

april showers.

I'm not dead! Just busy! Some things:

1. A painting I've been working on for a lovely lady who won a contest I held over at devART.


2. I will be participating in the Drawgasmic art show in July. I'm going to get my piece for it finished up this week so a look at that will be coming up soon.
3. I was featured in a Keep It Weird article at Etsy earlier this month, and I've had a steady flow of activity ever since so that's been nice. I started this experiment unsure about my expectations, but I'm thrilled with the results thus far. Though, I keep wanting to spend all the money I make on steampunk/horror themed bath and beauty products, soooo not sure that's the best side effect.

4. I spruced up my website a little. No more template layout, but nothing fancy. There's only so much I can do with a wysiwyg editor before I start bashing my head through the screen. Getting a real website is definitely on the agenda, as is an overhaul of this here blog.

5. I'm going back to school in the fall, meaning I'm going to try to get as much done as possible this summer before both my time and soul are sucked away by the cruel institution of higher education (I signed up for a physics class next semester! What the hell was I thinking? About Prince of Darkness, probably.)

in progress + birthday yeah.

A couple of paintings I started over the last week or so, abandoned for the time being.
I've been doing some house painting for my parents and I'm sore and tired and probably crashing from days of living on red velvet cake. I had a nice birthday, full of books and antique store adventures and hanging out in my fort. But I'm glad it's over.

painting in progress + sketches

Yes, I'm aware that a lot of people have done this before me, and no, I don't really care. I guess there are just some things a monster movie fan has to do. I did the watercolor/ink version of this a long time ago, but messed it up. I've been meaning to redo it ever since. The time for that is now.

A couple o' recent sketches. The time for more spiders is also now.

I used a picture of a brown recluse as reference for the spider there. Brown recluse spiders don't weave spiral orb webs, but let's just pretend they do. I'm probably going to paint it blue or something anyway so whatever.

getting there.

I don't know what I'm doing but I'm enjoying myself just the same.

etsy, etc.

www.etsy.com/shop/wormswormsworms
My etsy shop is up and running!


Hello, February. I've been holed up painting and watching The X Files..all things going according to plan.

January book list:
Neuromancer by William Gibson
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

All excellent and recommended.

so far, so good

Working on this painting has been something between cathartic and mind-numbing. It's the bandages. I'd like to finish it tonight but my gnarled aching hand says no.

Well, we're halfway through January. The perception of time has been inconsistent for me so far this year. It feels like we should be well into February by now and it surprises me a little every time I realize we're not. Last weekend lasted about two weeks. Days speed up and slow down, I've lost some time completely and I think I spent a few hours in 2003 the other day. I don't know how to account for this. Alien abduction, maybe.

In other news, I had an interview for a job that I'm pretty sure I didn't get. I dropped a can of soup on my foot. I've been listening to old country music. I've watched Re-Animator like 20 times. 2010...so far, so good.

So, the job search continues, secret projects are in the works and an etsy shop is coming soon. A haircut as well. I think if I attacked my hair with styling products I could make it look exactly like a 'do Blanche once had on The Golden Girls. I have hair that was attractive on elderly women in the '80s. And with that thought, I'm out of here.

the old girl does jabber up a storm.

Yes, yes, plain old flowers. These are to be gifts for family this holiday season. I wanted to do something for a select few who are awfully supportive but don't exactly have a taste for "creepy/weird." So, flowers.



Mummyish. I don't know where all this pink keeps coming from.

I keep thinking about the episode of The Oblongs where Milo stops sleeping. The scene where he makes tea and crumpets in class. That is essentially me as of late, but with the added bonus of a lingering cold. It seems rare that I manage to stay asleep for more than three hours. Eventually I will flood the house to get some rest. In other news, earlier today a tree fell on our dog. He's okay--his trolley cable took the worst of the impact and he was just trapped under some lighter branches. So that was fun. First a tree fell on the neighbors' house, now this. What will be the trees' next victim? My car? Probably my car.

more of the same.

Except hey, look, she has a body. Part of one anyway. I'd like to finish her up tonight but I've been feeling under the weather since Thursday. I will be in bed drinking tea and watching season 5 of The X Files if anyone needs me.

november

This has been an incredibly long month of gloomy dawns, catching two or three hours of sleep whenever I can, trying to find a job that wouldn't require wearing a visor or khaki pants, trying to figure out what's wrong with my car, being a reliable expert in the happiness of others, Nikola Tesla, obsessing over my surroundings, countless cups of tea and occasional painting. And now this week the real craziness begins. Things to avoid this holiday season: the holiday season.




The series of mistakes I've been working on inbetween other projects and holding my own personal universe together. I finally had a chance to finish her up tonight. Her name is Agnes after a mystery woman whose mail sometimes ends up in our box. She gets a lot of Christian newsletters, this Agnes. This is the biggest painting I've done so far at 16x20. I think I could be pretty content just painting big horrible things but I have a lot of cute girls to get out of my system yet. I'm going to attempt to do that before the year is over, then I'm going somewhere else.

a sketch from tonight

Candy corn spiders! I've been sketching and watching horror movies all night. Lovely. It seems like I've been drawing a lot more lately than I had been. Probably it's the insomnia, or October, or both. It feels good.

smeary inks and tea

Let's have no more nights.

Okay, blogging again. Let's go.
Some things I've been working on the past few days: