Sketchbook pages 50-53

I've been doodling in my sketchbook!  Hooray!

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1. Gesture sketches.  I referenced poses from a book about Bruce Lee called Bruce Lee; The Art of Expressing the Human Body.  The quote reads, "Knowing is not enough, we must apply.  Willing is not enough, we must do."

2. I read an article about Marilyn Manson's love and use of make-up and wanted to use some red and blue paint.

3. A collage; "Shamanism.  Explore. Learn. Discover.", "Impulse.  Mania.  beauty.  liven up.  day-night.  amazing.  choices."

4. An important reminder collage; "Wake-up call: The 'Not Good Enough' Trap.  Some of us are so used to feeling bad about ourselves, it's become normal.  We have to make a change now, to let go of the 'ideals' we've been taught to achieve, and to stop being ruled by fear.  Essentially, we are addicts, addicted to viewing ourselves in a negative way.  Basically, we're crippled by the fear of not being enough in general.  We have learned...to be afraid of being imperfect - and of being human. That's no way to live. It's tiring and uncomfortable and time-consuming.  We need to stop thinking of ourselves as insufficient, as not good enough.  Essentially, we are addicts, addicted to viewing ourselves in a negative way. A wise woman once told me you can't just stop thinking something, because that leaves a void; you have to replace the old thought pattern with a new, healthier one. What if we replaced our negativity with positivity, replaced the hate with love?  I look in the mirror everyday and say, 'I love you; you're beautiful.'  My mind didn't want to break the habit of hating myself. But the more I did it, the more natural it felt...until it eventually felt good.  I'm over feeling bad about myself."  "Be your beautiful you."  "Kick the habit."

Old Sketch of my Partner

I found this old sketch the other day and was rather titillated by it - it's my partner*!  He's playing video games.  He and I have been together for 12 years!  That's longer than most American couples stay married these days!  I love him, he's so cute, I can't get over him.  I guess we're old souls or something, because even after everything we've been through (and there was a rough patch these past few years) our bond is stronger than ever and we still want to be with one another (and we met in Middle School).  

His father wants me to do a painting to put up in his office - I ought to get on that!

*I use "partner" as a gender-neutral term - I'm an androgynous, sometimes gender-fluid lady-person and he's also rather andro and effeminate but identifies as a male-person.

Old Figure Drawings

I've been uploading content onto my deviantART again and I just dumped a bunch of old figure drawings on there.  The nostalgia was hittin' me somethin' good so I've decided to post them here to inspire me to draw EVERY DAY (newsflash: I started a drawing today!  I got my easel out and everything!  omg!).  All of these drawings are from 2007 when I participated in a three-week program at University of Oregon called JumpstART!.  It was one of the best experiences of my art career thus far.

All of these were drawn with a time limit and a live model.

I'm pretty proud of these still, despite them being...OMG SEVEN YEARS OLD!!!  (Holy cow!  Has it been that long, really?!)  I've got to get crackin' on some new pieces!  Thanks for looking!  Cheers!

"artsy fartsy" sketchbook pages

New pages from the sketchbook!  I guess I dredged up old art school exercises 'cause these are all blind contours & "artsy fartsy" type doodles.  Remember, you can see all my sketches together in one place in my online sketchbook ;)

cups cups cups...(drinkin' out of cups...)

 

use your eyes - can't you tell this is a hinged box?! jeez!

all these cups are beginning to look like the Mad Tea Party!

...at least we got some color in that last one...

...but wait!  there's more!

partners always make good subjects!  

when he saw these he said, "cool! looks like ghosts playing violins and stuff!"

right on.

It was nice to draw on paper with some different physical media again.  I actually started wishing I could be drawing on the tablet when I was working on those shaded pencil cups - who'd 'ave thunk it, me, actually enjoying drawing digitally more?!  Haha!  It's pretty exciting to me, honestly.  You can almost see the disinterest in these sketches...I'll just have to get on my tablet and sketch it up and see if this feeling is true!

Digital sketching

I've been practicing on the tablet. Here's a couple sketches that I'm proud of:





I hope to have more soon!

New(ish) Piece; "Receding"

This is an old piece that I completed over a year ago; posted this on fb and tumblr but forgot about my blog. So here it is. I believe at the time of this piece's inception, I was obsessed with Pink Floyd's The Wall and the line "There is no pain you are receding" was the actual inspiration. The final piece followed by the rough draft sketch:

Nude Couple Sketch; mild nsfw

Mildly NSFW:

Portfolio!

I have a new home for my art!

Strange Art by Teresea

You can view my paintings (ex. first image), drawings (ex. second image), mixed media pieces (ex. third image), and some current works in progress. Come check it out - just follow the link above!












All three of these images and more can be seen at my new portfolio.

Strange Art by Teresea

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