Hello everyone!
So today I've been busily working on some new pieces. Nothing completed yet, but I should have a piece or two to post tomorrow. I sent out a press release to CCAD since they like to know what their alumni are up to. And I've been doing some work on my computer since it's been having some sound issues. I'll try one last fix before heading to bed for the night.
Otherwise I've been reading through Volume 5 of A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori (A Christmas gift from my mom), which has beautiful manga illustrations and a sweet set of stories. It's set mainly around a young bride in Central Asia in the 1800s, but there's some side story that follows the travels of an English doctor. He travels the silk road from east to west and there are other stories about brides and their respective families and cultures along the way. Apparently this post is very fitting since according to Wikipedia volume 6 of the books was published (only in Japan sadly) just today! Here's a link to a lovely blog post (probably? It's in Portuguese from the looks of it) I found with some great images from the Bride's Story series as well at the artist's earlier Emma: a Victorian Romance - http://desenhaporra.wordpress.com/category/kaoru-mori/ I really enjoy all the attention to details and exquisite patternwork involved. She's great about being historically accurate as well, which is wonderful. Even if you don't like manga her series may surprise you with their charm.
Well, I'm off to continue my computer repair attempts. More tomorrow!
Love, Lydia
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Days 11-13
Well everyone,
My weekend did not go as planned. haha Just show what I get for trying to be an overachiever! Saturday our power went out around lunchtime...right before we made lunch. So, we hopped in the car and headed to Bryan's parents home, picking up something to eat on the way. We played a lot of Magic the Gathering and I got my press releases written and sent out. Since we'd reported our power outage we got a call around 8pm saying "not to expect a return of power until 6am Monday. So, we were just a touch panicked and went home to pack up the contents of out refrigerator and pack overnight bags thinking we'd stay with Bryan's parents. When we got back to our home the power was on and things were fine. We returned for dinner (and to collect all the things we'd left thinking we'd be staying a while), more Magic, and some episodes of Doctor Who with Bryan's family. (Yes my geek side will be showing up here sometimes too...it just means if you want some fun fan art or original game/tv/movie themed work I might just be your gal!)
Sunday was spent doing all the little boring things around the house we didn't do Saturday, and I really still have more to get done, though I've been working on it today. I also completed my first piece of the year today. It's very unlike my usual pieces, but I had a hankering to work on a self portrait for the first time in years and gave it a go. I'm pretty pleased with the results.
This piece was created with some found paper, Neocolor II Wax pastels (some of the new ones I got for Christmas!), pencil, ink, and iridescent lavender tone acylic from Golden(on the white stripes and background area as well as the glass portion the the glasses), all on a 5"x7" oval canvas from Fredrix. It looks like I'm going to have to go back to Askew Taylor (an absolutely fantastic local art supply store!) and pick up several more canvases like this one.
Today was the kind of day where I was having some hints of depression tugging at me, and almost just did nothing except be lazy. However, when I started thinking about doing the self portrait, I knew it was just the right thing to do to help. So this piece was done from start to finish in one day. I have 10 other pieces started, but sometimes I work better if I interrupt my routine with something like this to give my emotional energy levels a jump start. I've now got much more energy to work on a couple of the other pieces, though they'll have to wait a bit til I'm done here and with a few other projects online.
This piece is going to go up in my Etsy shop ASAP, and hopefully I'll have some more newly completed pieces for tomorrow as well. Remember, my Kickstarter is up and going HERE and if I'm unable reach at least my minimum goal I may be retiring from art for quite some time, which I really don't want to have happen. The thought scares me and is half the reason I deal with depression these days to be honest.
So, lots of brutal honesty here today. Hopefully not too much for you all. I look forward to seeing what tomorrow brings and am glad I get to share it with you for at least a little while longer.
Love, Lydia
My weekend did not go as planned. haha Just show what I get for trying to be an overachiever! Saturday our power went out around lunchtime...right before we made lunch. So, we hopped in the car and headed to Bryan's parents home, picking up something to eat on the way. We played a lot of Magic the Gathering and I got my press releases written and sent out. Since we'd reported our power outage we got a call around 8pm saying "not to expect a return of power until 6am Monday. So, we were just a touch panicked and went home to pack up the contents of out refrigerator and pack overnight bags thinking we'd stay with Bryan's parents. When we got back to our home the power was on and things were fine. We returned for dinner (and to collect all the things we'd left thinking we'd be staying a while), more Magic, and some episodes of Doctor Who with Bryan's family. (Yes my geek side will be showing up here sometimes too...it just means if you want some fun fan art or original game/tv/movie themed work I might just be your gal!)
Sunday was spent doing all the little boring things around the house we didn't do Saturday, and I really still have more to get done, though I've been working on it today. I also completed my first piece of the year today. It's very unlike my usual pieces, but I had a hankering to work on a self portrait for the first time in years and gave it a go. I'm pretty pleased with the results.
Today was the kind of day where I was having some hints of depression tugging at me, and almost just did nothing except be lazy. However, when I started thinking about doing the self portrait, I knew it was just the right thing to do to help. So this piece was done from start to finish in one day. I have 10 other pieces started, but sometimes I work better if I interrupt my routine with something like this to give my emotional energy levels a jump start. I've now got much more energy to work on a couple of the other pieces, though they'll have to wait a bit til I'm done here and with a few other projects online.
This piece is going to go up in my Etsy shop ASAP, and hopefully I'll have some more newly completed pieces for tomorrow as well. Remember, my Kickstarter is up and going HERE and if I'm unable reach at least my minimum goal I may be retiring from art for quite some time, which I really don't want to have happen. The thought scares me and is half the reason I deal with depression these days to be honest.
So, lots of brutal honesty here today. Hopefully not too much for you all. I look forward to seeing what tomorrow brings and am glad I get to share it with you for at least a little while longer.
Love, Lydia
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