Passing It On

My first blog award :-)

Earlier this week I was awarded the Liebster Award by lespersonnage. Les Personnage was one of the first art blogs that I found on WordPress back in November. This blog is chock full of creative, beautiful fashion drawings.  Her creativity blows me away every time. I really admire her ability to come up with something fresh everyday! I struggle sometimes to create everyday because it can be so exhausting putting your heart into your work, but Les Personnage has reminded me of the joy of letting your imagination rule. Check out her blog!!

The Liebster award (German for “Favorite”. See, I was listening in class, Herr Martz) is an award created to help build readership for blogs with less than 200 followers. At my rate of readership I should be able to keep getting this award for quite a while ;-) No, but seriously, thanks for reading!

So now, as a recipient of the Liebster, I must pass it on to 5 more blogs. Below are my favorite young blogs (DISCLAIMER- if you have more than 200 followers already, then congrats and I apologize for not knowing how to check other people’s follower numbers… :-D)

kenleydarling- A great artist who, like Les Personnage, updates often with fantastic works

nvrhaveievr - Super cute blog about two girls who are out to experience new things in 2012. Plus one of them is my sister :-)

kittybloger- This blog is full of funny cat gifs. What’s not to love??

leanimale- One of my very favorite Etsy artists! In fact, I’ve given her some blog love already in this post.

burpsandkisses- Burps and Kisses is studying Edinburgh College of Art. I selfishly love this blog because its exactly what I want to do!

I hope you check out each of these blogs and give them a read!

A Shih Tzu

Its been a while! I’ve finally got my schedule worked out  and am getting used to my new job. I’ll  hopefully be able to get back into blogging art updates now!  This painting is one I just completed yesterday for my roommate’s (very patient) sister. Her new puppy was just begging for a portrait… haha

I used some new paper for this one. Still 140lb press but its cold and the brand was a new one for me -Fluid. I really liked the absorbancy. I chose cold in anticipation of getting the fuzzy fur texture. Hot press would have added more of a challenge because of its silky smooth texture.

I’ll be back sooner this time!

 

 

Personal Life Update!

Well, I’ve finally landed a part time job in my tiny town and I’m really proud.

Its been no easy feat, let me tell you. Much harder than I had anticipated! It was mainly difficult because I am a bit of a finicky person when it comes to my work environment (I suppose that’s the artist in me) and just the thought of working at some places makes me uber depressed. That being said, my new job is not anything fancy (or even remotely related to my brand spankin’ new degree) BUT it will help supplement my income as I build up my portraiture and art business! So, hurray!

I hope that this will not negatively affect my art career. In fact, I think it will improve it because now I don’t have the pressure I had before to be very successful straight away.  Plus I’ll be able to purchase even more awesome art supplies. I know it’ll make for some enthralling posts ;-)

 

I’ll be back to update with more art soon!