Slacking...

The other day my husband told me I should make videos of the DIY stuff I do or when i'm creating my paintings. I then had to explain that half the time I do all this stuff by myself over time. Not like a week but sometimes i'll work on something for like a month.Yet there are some things I knock in a couple hours. I also do not own a tripod nor is my "art room" set up for me to film anything. Basically I'm just making stuff as I have time or materials and then I come back afterwards and write about it on here. 

Lately i've been slacking though. I have painting i've been working on for months. I started calling it "Black Girl Magic" and I have no idea when i'll be done with it. I just keep adding layers and staring at it for a few days. Yet this year I have given myself the goal of completing 10 paintings. 

This will be interesting. . .

Wine Glasses: The Beginning

   So one day were at my Aunt and Uncles house I cant at the moment remember why but we were all over there. My Aunt Marie then asks me what types of art I normally do and I replied painting, drawing and etc. She then proceeds to tell me how Uncle Braxton broke one of their hand painted wine glasses while doing the dishes the other day and asked if I could possibly paint one of their plain glasses to match so their set wouldn't be incomplete. Naturally I said of course. After months of trial and error and measuring and painting then whiping off and re-painting I FINALLY got the job done. 

Aunt Marie LOVED my work and thought maybe I should do it as a craft business. Funny thing was I sort of had the same ideas after I painted the glasses for her......

I thoguht I took AWESOME pictures of the finsihed glasses but sadly they have disappeared. 

About A Year ago......

Its been a year since I grauated from Towson University. How time flies! The other day I realized I never posted my AWESOME grauation cap that I customized or as some say Leni-er-rized. lol 

I always knew i'd decorate my cap for grauation but not until the day before did I finally come up with an idea/design I was happy with. I went with a pin-up girl with this kind of trippy design that I tend to always come back to. This cap is one of the few things ive done, art wise, that I have no reqrets and no changes id want to make. Maybe in the future i'll decorate caps for other people as well. 

Self portrait progression ....

I've decided to tackle a self portrait but instead of the usual I thought it be interesting to do one entitled "Dark Side" 

I have always disliked self portraits because they reveal a lot more about you then you are usually willing to reveal in the first place. This time I figured why not put all the "ugly" on the table and see what comes of it. I'm using this as a learning experience. 

the original source (my face)

stage one

stage two 

Finished Product