Our 1st Adventure

I know it's been awhile since I've wrote in my blog, So here I am. First let me just say this whole pandemic has been hard. Depression and anxiety really has been messing with me more. I learned keeping busy and self love help to fight it and maintain it. This past weekend, I went on a little trip with my fiance. It was our first little trip. I hope their is many more. But I found some hidden treats when we visited book stores. This was one of the treasures. Now I have two sketchbooks to fill up before I get to this Art Nouveau inspired sketchbook with beautiful texture🤯🤤🐙
Now this is the first of many posts I will be updating here. In more posts I'll show artwork I've been working on, ideas, and thoughts running around in my head. So I'll stop for now and post more about our journey in posts to come and books I'm currently reading and finished as well.
A guy made a comment on a social media account this weekend. And it bothered me. So it kinda made me think we'll I got to dig deeper in my roots.
He had said my piece " Just Another Day at the Aquarium" looks like just a shark in a cage. Which I took quite an offense too. But he made me look into myself and made me want to dig deeper with my passions for the ocean.

Sketchbook Project Favorites

Whales and Dolphins

My next piece will be a shark poster. The poster will focus on some shark spieces that have suffered and declined due to shark finning. What has also gone on is over fishing, captivity, and etc. I can go on but I won't. One photo is a collage of orca's, others stippled whales, and a whale colored pencil drawing. The poster I'm thinking will be done in water color and colored pencil.

Squishy

I love my Dumbo octopus collection of pastel drawings. And want to do more in the future. When I found out Dumbo octopuses were real I got excited like a little kid. They are so squishy and adorable. It's really easy to entertain me. My friends often share articles, books they find from time to time. The books I add the articles I read and some influence creation. When. I find articles I may post them on here. If I find it interesting maybe there is other people out there that will be interested too.

Clay Montage

I can mess with clay. It is not my specialty but I learn as I go. I had a class in college and I did some volunteering at the YMCA with a group of older woman in a Intro. Ceramics class.

Tentacle Obsession

I really do love creating jewelry and mean to get back into it. I have a collection of stones I need to wire wrap, but with that being said I also need to put up a shop to sell artwork. But what stops me is would anyone really be interested in my art. I wanna learn to do chapstick and candles also. Maybe make some wine glasses and have a painting section. What I want to do most is get my Aquatic art out there. But I see myself not improved enough yet to get to that level. I feel like I am some mature compared to some great artists I knew in college. All this doubt, how does one get past it?

Toxic

Sometimes creating is easy for me especially when it doesn't involve much thinking. I love experimenting with acrylic pours. It allows me to not think just do. I've often experimented with combining different ingrediences. My last project in intermediate painting was just that. Creating 25 mini wooden pour paintings expressing the issues of pollution through my choice of colors. The project was titled " Toxic". The middle faint canvas was also expressing the main issues that threaten our oceans. Their are many layers. With that piece it kind of got out of control, which is what the pollution is doing to our environment anyway. Little tiny microp get into our food supply and then us. What's to change in the future? If nothing doesn't the future doesn't look to clear. With what's going down with us being on lock down pollution has gone down. Has anyone thought about this probably not. We are too busy fighting over toilet paper because we don't want to wipe our butts with leaves. The last image which is the one at the top went with the jellyfish trash pieces. This acrylic sat on the floor. It represented our world with the bright beautiful colors of nature and earth being engulfed by the jellyfish made of trash. I love this painting so much. I used different paints together to create this. If interested I'll look into this and post it back here.