I am so glad to finally be done with this painting. It seemed to take me forever!

This is another one I did in my painting class. The assignment was to go see a play, (The House of Bernarda Alba) and to make a painting based upon one of the characters in the story. I wasn’t that crazy about the play, though it was a good story and I did rather like the character of Bernarda Alba, so I chose to focus on her.

This is the first painting I have completed in oils! What a change! I had been working only in acrylics for the past few years, but I really liked the oils. I plan on doing a lot more painting in them now.

My teacher also selected this as one (out of three) of the paintings from our class to be submitted in the gallery at school. I am really excited about that.

It is 20”x24”

For the most recent painting assignment I completed we had to bring in an object that was meaningfull to us, and paint it in a monochromatic scheme. The first object that came to mind was this troll doll. This was my mom’s when she was a little girl, and she passed it down to me.

This week in my drawing class we started working on portraits. My teacher printed out a bunch of images of “heroes” and we were allowed to choose from the selection. I chose Frank Zappa.

Lately I have been doing small projects at home to practice painting from real objects.  A few nights ago I painted this bell pepper. I accidently ate it without thinking before I could put the finishing touches on it, but it was mostly done.

Our most recent project in my Design class was to work with balance, and create a Mondrian inspired image.

I just put the finishing touches on the piece I had been working on in class last week. My teacher brought in several different white objects and assigned us certain set ups based on what she thought would challenge us all individually.

I can’t wait until next week when we can actually start using color in our paintings!

I have been so incredibly busy with school, I have hardly had a chance to get on the computer to do much more than homework!  I have such a busy schedule, I go to school from Monday to Thursday from 9 to 4 everyday. Then I get home and have to do homework. I can’t even begin to explain how horribly messy my home is right now.

This is the most recent work I completed in my painting class. The assignment was to bring in a white object and paint it using only white and black. All I could find around the house that was white were plates. I didn’t think that would make for a very interesting piece, so I went to the thrift store. I found this little owl statue, and brought it home and painted it white. I am semi pleased with how it turned out.

Everything I make turns out so cartoon-y looking! This weekend I have to finish up another black and white painting for class, so expect to see another one up in a day or two or three.

Last weekend Russ and I went with my dad over to the house that he is in the process of buying. It is out in the country, on a huge plot of land. He has a small rosemary plant right outside his front door.  While we were watering we saw this monster! I have never seen a grasshopper this big in San Diego!

My weekend has been spent working on this design project, and another one based on shape. I finally finished this one though.