Quirky Heartmade

Hey guys! Working on a new project. I was inspired to create a whirlpool for an upcoming project. The basic principle was a dry painted acrylic swirl. I added puffy paint for depth & just the bright hue. I'm obsessed with puffy paint & using textures. I know crayon isn't a common medium in art pieces such as this, but I felt like the texture that crayons create complements the dry brushing of the acrylic. The red was my first thought, because I loved the way it looked in my mind. A beautiful contrast between the blue & red.  I colored the center of the whirlpool with a layered combination of cerulean blue, yellow & the scarlet red from the outside to tie it all together.  After the above picture I created another stream of the puffy paint whirlpool because a real whirlpool usually has a double stream.

I recently set up my inkjet printer! Yes!!! It was a pain in the butt to set up, because I had no idea how to load the paper and it was just frustrating. At first the printer just wanted to eat the paper and I'm like no that's not what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to print, gosh dang it. Golly gee whirlirkers! Electronics seem to mess up a lot for me. It took me some time to adjust and I'm still adjusting because I learned it's best to print stuff from my adobe acrobat pdf reader thing. P.S. It's a Brother workforce inkjet Printer. I think I added in extra words there. That thing is a beast! I haven't had a large inkjet printer before, so that was a good investment and just made me feel so fancy. I've wanted one for the longest time. As a graphic design student, I love learning new tools like that but it can take me some time. It was just so exciting to have one & not only have one, but have one that prints LARGE poster size stuff. One

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Ever since I was a little kid I dreamed of being an artist. I thought it was so cool and special if I made someone art. I would sit at my kitchen table and draw nonstop because I was so in love with it. I had a super active imagination, because I couldn't really get outside much. Maybe that's why I still have an active imagination? Well, one of the times I made a drawing was for this cute little boy in my kindergarten class. You know how you make those notes with do you like me. Check yes or no? Well I made him a drawing to go along with it, because I thought for sure he would be impressed by me if I did something super mushy like that, so I drew him a picture with that note attached and passed it down the lunch table. That's how I got my first boyfriend. He "accidentally" threw it away with his lunch. I was so insulted. I mean my art was everything to me. I still was his girlfriend, though. We would hold hands and walk past tables. I felt so grown up, until he

It's weird how I looked through my old sketchbooks and it's like traveling through a wormhole and realizing that I didn't allow myself to create as much as I know I wanted to. There was a long stretch of time where I let everything get to me and I wasn't able to create anything and times where I felt inspired and didn't take it as far as I know now I could have. I guess that's the beauty of learning and growing as an artist. Funny story about art and drawing, I remember one time where my assignment for class was to do gestural drawings of people sitting and someone walks up on me as I was sitting in the lobby waiting for my bus to come. I was off in dream land sketching someone sitting who had rather interesting hair and just a cool overall form. A classmate walks up behind me and says "What are you doing? Are you drawing that person sitting over there?!? " I was so mortified because I felt like if the person I was drawing heard them say that they woul

"Do or do not. There is no try." ~apparently Yoda, I thought it was some early U.S. Pres.

Sorry... I just felt like making a random video. I would love to hear your thoughts and btw I'm over 21 just so you know. Drinking under age was never my thing but I was pretty strict on myself in my younger years so now I'm trying to figure it all out. Trying to say drinking under age is a bad thing! :) Please wait until legal age. I read something that said you should consider others feelings before speaking which I try to do but I'm pretty guarded so in a way unfiltered thoughts are my defense. It's hard to hold in with everything else I'm trying not to let escape. But it's one of those things that eats at my soul because I have strong urges to just say my thoughts whatever they may be because honesty and realness is awesome especially in art. I love when I make pieces that involve words and writing like a journal in a sense but on canvas. Maybe that should be my next art piece? Am I crazy? Or just being authentic? I don't want to upset people but I w