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I've been wanting to get more plants for my room, so I went on a succulent hunt last week visiting about 5 different places looking for them. I did finally find them but it took a lot longer then planned. I hope these last longer than the last ones...cause I don't have much of a green thumb but I can try dammit.

I also wanted to make one of my 7" Munnys into a planter, so I decided to create one that had an old wooden sign/barrel look to it. I only cut my self a few times with the box cutter while working on it, and painting didn't take as long as I thought. Here are some pics of the finished planter and part of the process:

 These are the other plants I picked up and planted in the other planters I had.

 I thought I would try some air plants to see how they fair.

 And this is a planter I made from a reclaimed wood box I pulled from a dumpster a few years back.... yes I do dumpster dive on occasion. 

 And they lived happily ever after on my window sill.... hopefully.

In Other News:
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My film was in another festival: 2013 Moonrise Film Festival [Link]
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And my grandmother passed away on Friday and I'm still mostly in shock from it. I wouldn't say it was sudden because the whole family knew that she wouldn't be around for much longer. But going to the care home to check up on her after getting a bunch of conflicting phone calls only to have the nurse just come out and say she passed 10 mins before I got there was a little sudden. And my parents were in a different province at the time so everything kinda fell on me for a bit....but it all got sorted out in the end. That all aside....... I will miss her very much and I think it will take some time for it to sink in that she is actually gone.

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 Failed attempt at painting a cornell box to practice how light interacts with different surfaces... some things should not be started at 4 in the morning. I will be doing many more of these for practice.

Some colour studies from imagination.

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Decorative Armour.

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I haven't posted in awhile so I figured I should share a few things I've been working on. I've also added more to my DA account: Link

 I need to start doing more characters again. I've kinda been taking a break from creating characters for the past couple years just because I've found it very frustrating to work on them. So I took that time to work on my environments more, which (at the time) really sucked. But now that I'm feeling a little more confident with my environments, I need to start working characters back into the equation... because I'm very rusty at drawing people >.>

 I'm wanting to do a set of firehouses in different styles...just because I can. So this will be 1 of 4. Or hopefully 4....I've been starting so meny projects lately and then just stopping them cause I get burnt out or lose confidence in myself.

And I've been trying to do more colourful, whimsical things.......but I don't think it's working out very well. I'll keep trying though.

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I've reached my wits end again. I'm burnt out and I don't know which direction I should head in, but I know I need to do something cause I can't live like this anymore. Some days I'm a chicken running around with it's head chopped off, and other days I just feel like curling up in a corner and crying. It's hard to think when I feel like this. I know I'm being stupid...but I just don't know what I'm doing anymore.

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I also did a bit of animating. Nothing amazing, but I just wanted to make sure after effects still worked on my computer. I'm thinking of more things to animate at the moment.

MangaMinx Title Sequence from Carolyn Fisk on Vimeo.

I also entered a couple contests on this site so if you want to check them out and maybe vote for them if you like them:

1) http://creativeallies.com/creations/2dn2/contests/766/design-a-dress-for-joy-formidable

2) http://creativeallies.com/creations/z8n2/contests/771/design-commemorative-art-for-onerepublic

3) http://creativeallies.com/creations/x8n2/contests/771/design-commemorative-art-for-onerepublic

4) http://creativeallies.com/creations/t8n2/contests/771/design-commemorative-art-for-onerepublic

5) http://creativeallies.com/creations/l8n2/contests/771/design-commemorative-art-for-onerepublic

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So I painted another 2.5" micro munny and this time I wanted it to look like it had a wood inlay. I think it turned out well.

And I finally finished this....yay?

Also check out my 'awesome' photo shoot set up...... yeah this is how I do it. That box with stuff taped to it is the 'tripod' for my iphone to sit in to take pictures.

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So I made another entry for the Tomb Raider contest. I didn't go with my original idea for the 2nd entry because it was too similar to my first entry and I wanted to do something drastically different. Here is what I started for the "other 2nd entry" that never came to be and the BW for the one I went with.

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This is the final image for my first entry to the Tomb Raider contest on DA: (Link)

If you want to help me out, you can head on over to DA where my entry (Link) is and leave a comment, critique, or even a favourite if you like it. You will need to be a member on the site though.

Here are some process pictures for this image. I tried to remember to take some while I worked, but by the time I got to working on "Lara" I forgot to take some....and I was working all in one layer for her :/