New Project and Such

So as some of you may be aware, I'm starting a new art project. I started it yesterday, and here it is so far...


Yes it's a crappy photo, I know. I'll be sure to catalog things better when they're done. Anyways, this is Trish's house so far! Just those two sides are done. I was hoping to get her house done this week, but yea..it's taking a pretty big chunk of time to do (I haven't read any of that book I'm supposed to read for work in the past two days...oops), and I'm gonna be pretty busy the rest of this week/weekend. So yea, two more sides, a roof, and a garden to go. Not to mention a pathway and the ground it'll be sitting on. I need to figure out how to do that. I'm thinking making the ground like puzzle pieces, so I can put all my little houses together in a village, but also take them apart and still look pretty.

Yes, the brickwork is tedious, but I've watched pretty much the whole "Legend of Zelda" animated series (for the Super mario Bros. Super Show) while doing this tonight, and I must say...that show is terrible. In an awesome way tho. I guess next I'll watch all of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World. Then I'll have to get some more DVD's...

ANYWAYS...if you want a little house in my paper village, just tell me what kind of house you want. It can be made of puppies for all I care. I'll prolly finish this one in about a week? And I'm estimating most houses (and I've gotten some pretty complicated ones...) will take about a week or 2 to make. So far I have 3 more lined up, so yea. Don't expect to see your house too soon.

Oh and I guess for reference, the front side of Trish's house is 3 1/8 inches wide. So yea...they be small.

Woot some art!

So Friday night I took a little walk downtown and did some sketching. Went home, wanted to do something more with it, but haha, I left all my markers, paints, and pretty papers in Florida, and I don't remember if I brought my tablet with me, if I did, I don't know where I put it. Plus, no scanner, so the best I could get on my computer was a fuzzy photograph. So...I pretty much just colored it in Photoshop with flat colors and textures I got off the internet. And here it is:

Pier 39

Went over to San Fransisco yesterday by Pier 39. Didn't get too many good shots, but here's what I got...

the color's kind of wonky on that one, isn't it?

Stinson Beach

Went over to Stinson Beach with my Mum today. Have some pretties...

My New Home!

Yay! Here's a lil tour of my new apartment. I guess the video was too big for poor blogger to support, so I had to go through youtube.

Carlsbad Caverns

We stopped at Carlsbad Caverns on the way over to California, and it was awesome. Really pretty. I tried taking some good pictures, but failed miserably. It was just too dark for my little camera, or else I couldn't hold it still long enough for it to process the image (try holding a camera perfectly still for 8 seconds...its hard). But out of the many, many terrible pictures, I did get a few keepers. Enjoy!





As per usual, if you're interested in seeing all the other pictures (as terrible as they may be), you can check them out on Facebook!

California!!

So I'm moving out to San Rafael in about a week, and I just got back from short lil visit over there. I really liked walking around the rose garden in Golden Gate Park, so here's some choice photos from that. If you want to see all the pictures I took from my trip (plus some photos of friends and I having epic battles during my Michigan trip), check them out on my Facebook album, here. Otherwise, on with the pretty!!


And then here's a couple o' photos of the view outside where I'm gonna be working.