Just Do It

-oil pastel-

Super super super quick little project. You get a large blank piece of paper and place tape over it to create borders and a pattern. Then you begin to color in the untaped parts with oil pastel. Once you're done coloring in the paper, you take the tape off and BOOM you've made a masterpiece in just a couple of minutes. Be careful not to smudge the color into the white borders while taking the tape off.

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Retro Lovin'

-paper cut outs collage-

This is just a rough draft of a collage that I started. The images aren't glued down yet since I'm still working on the composition, and resizing some of the images. The background is just of the board, but I'm going to create a rainbow background with oil pastel and go over it with black, then scratch out thin straight lines. The end product is supposed to have wax painted over. Hopefully the crayon won't smear or ruin the images.

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meow.

-ballpoint pen-

I think the whole word is literally going to through a cat obsession... Am I criticizing it? ABSOLUTELY NOT. I love cats despite their allergy inducing effects on my nose and eyes that basically turn me into a toad. One day I saw one of the mini-desk calendars that have different images for each day. One of the days had a picture of a cat, and you can guess what I did after. I started to draw it using a ballpoint pen. I was super nervous to start because if I messed up there was no turning back.

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From Down Under

-watercolor-

I live in California and I'm lucky to say that we're blessed with the opportunity to go to the beach year round, but also enjoy the pleasure of weekend getaways contrasting the coastal scene- the mountains. The fish I painted above is of a golden trout which is our official state fish. Going to big bear and fishing with my family sort of inspired this feeling of drawing fish. The viewer of the photo is supposed to be able to see in between the waterline, so that you get a view of above and below the water.

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Comes From Me

-watercolor-

I think it was all the post-apocalyptic movies I watched as a kid that really kind of freaked me out and got me interested in the health of the Earth's environment, and how human interaction with it can have either a negative or positive. The movies I watched were all fiction of course, but the reality of environmental disorder remains eminently clear.

When you first look at this image it might seem strange and random, however there's actually a story behind it. The face in the image is of a person who cares for nature. I put it to the extremes of having their eyelashes be trees and their tears being capable of creating a river. It's almost like a Mother Nature type of figure. The river is made up of tears not because it's just an ability they possess, but also because they are upset; they're upset that progressively through time, the environment is gradually being polluted and abused. The progression of birds turning into skeletal figures represent this diminishing beauty of nature.

The title of this piece is called "Comes From Me" because the ironic part of this image is that people themselves are the culprit to this tragic series of events; humans are the leading factors of the landscape being mutilated. All we seem to do is feel sad about it or acknowledge the fact that our environment is in jeopardy. Little though is put in by people into really trying to help make a change. Don't just hear about the world's problems, do something about it! It all comes from you.

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