Project #5: "Express Yourself with Art."

When I created this, I was thinking about how in some schools, they always feel the need to cut the arts, whether it be music or art.  The academic classes are important, yes, but so are the arts.  For some kids, it is a way to be expressive and show who they are.

created in Adobe Illustrator.

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For my next project(s), I'm still working on a continuation of the previous castle drawing I did; a series, you can call it.

Have a great day/evening/night!  ( :

Edit on April 4, 2011:

   Hello again!  I am editing this post to inform everyone (as I had found out myself not long ago) that today and tomorrow (April 5) is Arts Advocacy Day!  What is this, you may ask?

Well, Arts Advocacy Day is a day to support the arts when leaders in the arts travel to Washington DC to show the importance to funding the arts to Congress.

If you wanted to read up on it some more here are some websites: ArtsUSAdotOrg and the facebook page.  Spread it along and support the arts!

Hope everyone is doing well! ( :  

Project 4: "When Words Fail, Music Speaks" painting

I'm not the best painter around, but I did take a painting class a couple of years ago and I found that I kind of love it.  This one was the first that I actually liked.  Not really much too it, but I enjoyed it, nonetheless.

Full View (i spy a furry little creature in the corner above painting.)

I decided to not paint the mouth because the point of the quote is that when you have no words, music is supposed to do the speaking.  Unless you sing, but I don't sing.  Therefore my mouth is not there. :] It's more of a dream sequence type of painting, so it's not realistic looking.  This is painted on a stretched canvas (I stretched and gessoed it myself!) about 24 x 30 inches.

up close of upper left corner

up close of upper right corner

Too be honest, I forgotten all about this painting.  I was just drawing something else when I looked to the corner of my room and saw it and something in my head told me, "Hey!  That should go in your blog!"  

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Project #3: Hufflepuff-inspired Scarf

I decided to make a Hufflepuff-inspired scarf from the Harry Potter series to get back into knitting.

The end result turned out to be about 70 inches -not including the fringe- but the fringe is not that big, anyway.  I like long scarves.  I used a mustard yellow yarn (I have seen some scarves with just plain yellow, but I liked this way better, personally) and black.  19 stripes, all about 13 knitted rows. 

Should I make one for each house?  I'm not sure if I will.  It'll be a lot of work, I think. haha, we'll see. I'm not sure what my next project will be.  I'm going through a bit of a 'creative block'.  Inspiration is needed. :]

Have a great day!