Carolyn's Art Blog

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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Just some sketches. We have a lot of plants in the house right now.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

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More work from earlier this year. I feel like I should have posted something different for the 69th post... But this will do.

Hey I'm back! I have no real reason as to why there is such a big gap between posts other than life getting in the way and art block. But I'm hoping to post more often again and I'll start by posting some old work I've done over the past year. This one is from October and was part of an artist drawing challenge called InkTober. The goal is to do one ink drawing a day for the entire month. InkTober was started in 2009 by Jake Parker as a challenge to improve inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. This was my first time participating.

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

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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.

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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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.

Friday, August 2, 2013

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Decorative Armour.

Friday, June 7, 2013

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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.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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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.