Finally finished her! It took WAY longer (in days, not actual paint time) than it should have but I got scared as usual and had to force myself along at the end. The whole time I was hoping that it was something worth bringing in to the world and pretending to be brave and like I didn't really care how it came out in the end. But I do care! Grr!

Also, I reread one of my favorite books and it made me question art for art's sake. AGAIN. Why do I love that book so much?? Where am i going with this?? GOOD LORD! (In the most non-religious, non-medieval way)

Ok, so good news is I'm pretty happy with her and therefore I get to show her off a bit instead of having to burn all the evidence of my imperfection. The other good news is that I now have another clean slate to begin again and try to bring something expressive to the world.

ps. I don't want to hear anything from Yoda or his disciples.. and thank you StarWars lovers for making me think of that along with every thought with the word "try" in it.

pps. I literally had to question if I was getting Yoda mixed up with Jesus for a second.

ppps. I am going to download the bible as an audiobook.

Sorry for the ramble! Just look at the pictures!

I dont have any painting to show for myself this week... But I have started quite a few tattoos this week that I am really excited about. I put all my free time in to artwork for those and I think it was worth it. Also I have decided to start an in progress folder on my facebook page so I can show where I am now instead of always having a portfolio a year behind my actual thought process. I'll do that at some point this week.

Also, this week I finished a very fun little project. I created a small design for a friend and client who has started her own side business making hair accessories called "Touch of Envy". (www.touchofenvy.org) It's an honor for her to want her company to be represented by my art, so I put a little love in to it for her. I just gave her the art yesterday and got the thumbs up so her website should be up soon. Anyway, here is the design I drew for her cards and/or stickers and what not.

Staying Accountable

Ok.. starting a blog.

For those of you who would like to see the progress or some of the process, I will mainly be dedicating this thing to art that I am working on at the moment. I plan to update it fairly often! Weekly probably. Or hopefully ;)

So to give it a proper start I will now "unveil" my latest effort. One, my mean little harpy that I sketched while I was guestspoting at Brooklyn Tattoo in New York in september and finally got around to actually starting to paint now. While I was there I was overwhelmingly inspired by the city, the people and all the art. I drew a few things while I was there that have become favorite sketches and a couple that I wanted to see finished in oil.. Both of these are from that same set. The sphynx is my latest finished painting. With the sphynx I tried a few new things. Those things helped me make some decisions for the harpy painting. I think I am liking how it is working out so far. Back to work ;)