Winter Break!!

Hello everyone who still reads this!

FINALLY!! Made it to winter break! And ever since I got home on Wednesday I've been doing almost nothing but artsy stuff! When I got home from Starbucks, my new second home..I'm there like everyday I KID YOU NOT, I opened my package from amazon and my adult coloring book was in there! It took the rest of the afternoon/evening but I got the first page done! I'm trying to be artsy with it, so that's probably why it took so long ^^'

But other than that, I've worked on an abstract watercolor painting I've been wanting to try out based on the Ancient Mayan art style, I've made a set of a coasters I plan to make an ASMR video out of, I went to my first art journaling class at my worked and loved it so much I spent a LOT of money at work today ^^''''' Ooooops...but my mom paid me back for it and said she'd wrap it up for one of my Christmas gifts, haha.

I've also dragged the silly unicorn painting out again. I WANT to work on it and get it done by Christmas..it all depends on my motivation. I know it's for a 7 year old..but she's going to, hopefully, have this painting for the rest of her life. I want it to be so kickass my sister wants to pay me a million bucks for it. Although that's very unlikely..but ya know, I can dream, right?

I've also started scrapbooking again! I even finally finished my Prom album! This job has really helped me branch out to be more of a crafter! I love doing crafty things, and now I finally have the extra money to buy some of the "real" stuff for it, instead of knockoff stuff that doesn't really work! Once I get a couple more pages done in my art journal, I'll do a whole post about my art journaling journey. But for now it's just experimental! Sadly, water and ink have made a mess of my art journal's crease...so there's a lot of damage there. But that's part of art journaling, I guess! It's not supposed to be perfect. Here's my progress, but not the finished product:


^^^^^ I'M SO PROUD OF IT LOOK AT MY BABY ^^^^^

As for YouTube, I'm mainly only working on ASMR videos now. I don't have the time, space, or recording set up to make real art speedpaints. I'm surprised any of my ASMR video angles work, honestly. I DO have ideas for art videos, don't get me wrong. The unicorn will be a big video, hopefully. I just need to get my butt up and get it done. It'll be the first installment of a series my boyfriend came up with! It's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my progress and what my art space looks like c:

I'll be working on my Christmas ASMR video and the painting tomorrow, since it'll be my first TRUE day off. I've been working or out and about all the other days of my break so far. ASMR videos are my favorite thing to make. It's relaxing for me AND my viewers, and I'm helping people at the same time. And they're so fun to make! I feel like with my art videos I'm rushed because I have limited amounts of time on my camera/phone and have to stop, usually, two or three times, maybe more depending on the project, so I can transfer the recordings. It's a weird process haha.

Other than that, I don't think there are any other art updates. I don't have any pictures of anything special, really. I hope you are all alive after finals, and are doing well! Merry Christmas if I don't get a chance to write anything else before then! (Hopefully I will because I'll be doing a lot of artsy stuff, believe me!!) It still hasn't hit me yet that I'm on winter break..so I feel like I have something due on Monday when I DON'T I'M FINALLY FREE!!!
Ahem..have a nice day/night/afternoon/Christmas! \o/

Flowering Antlers Progress

Here are the progress photos for Flowering Antlers!! (: I forgot I had taken those first two photos, honestly!! So I figured I'd make a short and sweet blog post to let you see how different art looks through the stages. I could have made a bunch of extra stages inbetween, and maybe I'll do that for the next piece I work on, but this will suffice for now! These are the three basic stages anyway..

If you like these progress posts, let me know! c:

Flowering Antlers

I did it, guys! Here's my revamped Inktober piece! I DID finish the ink part in the last stretch of October, but I finished the coloring last night. I'm really happy with out it turned out. Just how I saw it in my brain! It's done with watercolors, india ink, and Copic markers. I've been really trying to do more with mixed media, and I will probably add more to this if I get bored sometime (if it doesn't sell before I get to it).

With this idea, I wanted to do something girly, but at the same time, something that could be hung on someone's living room wall even if they're not that girly or outdoorsy. And when I sketched/planned this piece out, I was really into antlers and flowers at the time..so I put them together and BAM!

Funny story about the blue background!

I had colored in the bottom sections of the background (underneath the antlers) and noticed my marker wasn't as strong as it was when I had started. I panicked and got to a good stopping point, ordering a new marker immediately (and some refills). School picked up and I didn't have time to work on it, so it sat there a while. Then, last night I started out with my original marker and decided I would go for as long as it would and then switch to my new marker. Well, THE ORIGINAL MARKER MADE IT THROUGH THE WHOLE BACKGROUND AND MORE!! What a little trooper!! I eventually switched to my new marker, but it was just funny that it pulled through.

Here are the materials I used:

Paper - Strathmore Watercolor Paper (9x12in, 140lbs)

Artist's Tape

Van Gogh Watercolors

Speedball India Ink

Copic Markers: R32, R35, R37, R39, YR01, YR02, YR04, YR07, YR09, Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, YG11, YG13, YG17, BG11, BG13, BG34, BG45, BG49, W0, W1, W2, W3

THIS ORIGINAL PIECE IS FOR SALE!

Without Mat - $45

With Mat - $60

(Since it's watercolor you'd have to get a mat for it to hanging anyway, just FYI)