An exercise in letting go

     Nothing like giving yourself only two hours to completely finish a self-portrait. I am happy to say it vaguely resembles me. My eyes are crooked, but I think that means I need to stop tilting the paper when I draw (I'm left-handed. All of my papers show that..... and the side of my hand), I don't care.



      And I also have to share this fellow. I have him down to family (Trigolo-something-idae). And then I accidentally broke his head off. Oops.

     That's all for now, I've put off calling a guy about an apartment for too long now.

     Breebird out.



The story of the little college student who could

     Whew, the last few weeks have flown by and I've barely had time to catch my breath. Last week was Thanksgiving break (so much fooooood), and I had the entire week off but wasn't really able to enjoy much of it due to some papers and a presentation and the like. My dad and I got three does which will last us most of the year; yesterday he put 5 pounds in his new smoker to make jerky. It is fantastic and I definitely recommend deer jerky or steak to everyone, it's not only delicious, but is more ecologically responsible than most other meat products as well.
     Two more weeks before finals and then I have a month off XD Can not wait. I have a painting I sketched out last week I'll be able to work on net time I'm home. And not ID-ing bees, which is what I'm going to be logging heavy hours with the next few weeks.

The metallic ones are my favorite. Especially when they look just black or brown until you get them under the scope. And then BAM! *gasp* they're blue or green

This one's a little creepy looking but still really neat



     My brother finally brought my art from the alumni show home, so I can finally share my favorite painting to date:

Voila. :) Five/Six hours of my love right there

     And I turned in the last of my little art cards for the kids who will be spending the holidays in the hospital. Lesson learned: if I do this again net year start way ahead, and sketching each one out (5 min max) before coloring is the fasted method. A shout out to the Tumblr community for posting age-appropriate stuff that day just by chance ;)



 

     In total I made around 60 of these little guys. Hope the kids enjoy them or feel inspired. I know I do. Feel there are going to be some larger sized paintings from these.

     "I think I can I think I can" said the little college student who thought maybe, just maybe she would survive this semester with a box of Christmas cookies by her side.....

     I'll get off my soap box, 'cuz I need to pack lunch :D

     Peace out, chickadees.

A little something I wrote

     After much deliberation... I bring you poetry. After coming to college I stopped writing. My old laptop was full of character historys, parts of their past, the palce we would all meet for tea. There were pages of poetry and scatter-brained sentance fragments floating around. Now, there are a surplus of academic essays, lab reports and scholarly articles about bees and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi diversity.

An imaginative wasteland

       So I've decided to change that. The Frankenstine of my words shall live again! (Feel free to evil laugh) Anyways, my goal with what I pen is to transport you to another place, and constructive critisism is welcome! These are pretty much rough-drafts, but when I finalize something it'll be here and here. (There's a longer piece in the works that I'll get to, that I'm hoping to illustrate, more on that later, post-editing).

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Feel the wild places on your skin

Hollow places seeking heat within

Deeply turning in fogs of doom

By lightening boom, heralds sing

Welcome again to the King

Wild places joy again

Long lost the fear, the pain within

Aching for untold sin

Never to end, never to begin

In deep dark forests, spirits wait

For pale weak souls to find their peace

Not minding time or place

Ignoring the summons of a rhyme

Crackling songs unknown to those

Lost in wild places under creeping boughs

Birds flit softly here and there

But naught land for shame of fire here.

*Insert Freakout*

     Sometimes professors get together and plot your demise. Not really, but I feel like workloads at school come in waves and sometimes I have stuff to do for all five of my classes and not enough hours in the days. But it's cool, because I have beautiful insects to identify (Bringing my camera to the lab next time so I can try to take shots through the dissecting scope), and actual drive to do a triathlon; possibly on my birthday this summer :)
     Anyways! That's all sorted out and my printer kind of works! Well, it can scan... but doesn't recognize that there's actually paper in the slot. So close! But here's the painting I was finally able to scan, and it looks a lot better.

     Her face needs some work. Going to attempt to get some more practice in before doing any thing dramatic.
     Up on the plate is another painting based on a dream I had over the weekend and some more cards once I have some time to sit down and do them.
     I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! (Or a nice Wednesday, I stayed in and watched werewolf movies) :D