weekend adventures.

this weekend our favorite nebraskan friends came to visit and it was epic as always. in addition to multiple marathons of a certain british mini-series, we got to visit the Nelson. never disappoints. it was even nice enough outside that we could walk through the sculpture park!

here are some photos of the adventure:




thiebaud! and the knight.



that's all folks.

what I'm grateful for today.

in anticipation of thanksgiving, I have been writing down a few things I'm grateful for each day. just the little things that happened over the course of the day for the two weeks leading up to turkey day. but it's sorta nice because you can take a step back and see that even if the day felt completely crappy, there is always something you can be grateful for.

here are some of the the things I came up with:

eleven.10.eleven: not a lot of drawing homework
eleven.11.eleven: chinese buffet and harry potter night!
eleven.12.eleven: fast five
eleven.13.eleven: yellow sub!
eleven.14.eleven: a campus art tour instead of lecture, help when I wanted to scream at Adobe
eleven.15.eleven: a good critique
eleven.16.eleven: a new furry little friend named chloe
eleven.17.eleven: making an itty-bitty stencil, and the Kohrs getting here!

and here's a picture of the lovely chloe:



and here are some of my autumn photos before it's not autumn anymore:



peace friends.

eleven.eleven.eleven

not every day do you get to witness 11:11 o'clock on 11.11.2011. it's pretty fun.
to make it even better, the last part of the last Harry Potter came out for this day. obviously this was cause for celebration, which included, but wasn't limited to: eating incredible amounts of food at a chinese buffet, watching both parts of the last movie back to back, and definitely stopping for a couple minutes to observe all the elevens all together.

and just for fun, here are some photos of a couple of us with the HP characters halloween weekend.



that's all for now folks. . .

the one where she shows she's still being creative.

admittedly it's been a while since I've done a creative endeavors post. there's a bit to catch up on, but thankfully I don't even have pictures of it all so this post can't be TOO obscenely long.
first, some of the last few design projects we've worked on, including the finished color temp design. woot!
then the last three drawings I have pictures of.

mounting in progress.

finished! (the colors are off in the picture though, sadly)


then some tedious gouache work.





then the drawings. check out what happens when the sunlight hits a cd and bounces onto a drawing!


and now we're on to pastels!


till next time folks. . .

fall traditions #489-505: halloween weekend!

I love halloween. enough said. this weekend started with final fridays which is always a terrific time, then saturday we went to the importance of being earnest and that was a blast. sunday's when the real halloween fun started though. we carved pumpkins, and watched it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown, and then monday night I dressed up as a pirate and we had some awesome people over, left half to bake a terrific cake, and went extreme trick or treating, then we watched some classic Hitchcock. this is the way to celebrate, people.









that's all folks. promise I'll show you some more artwork in the works soon.

(source for dvd covers: google image search)

the day doug cancelled class.

yesterday a terrific thing happened. yep, drawing class was cancelled. it's not that I don't like that class, it's just fantastic to get a break. I still worked on my drawing, and I still went to the lecture that we would have probably gone to as a class, but the pressure was off and it felt great.

here's how my day went:

I spent the morning and some of the afternoon working on my drawing/painting while listening to Les Mis (best).


then I went to a lecture by a sculptor from Paris.


after that we ate dinner on the back porch because it was so nice outside.
and then I spent the evening making my first-ever stencil. it turned out a little messy so I think I'll remake it, but I liked this one enough to cover it in brightly colored dots made with a nerf dart. genius? why yes. basically it was just a lot of fun.




it was a wonderful day.

fall tradition #452: pumpkin patch!

nice-ish weather? check. loads of flannel? check. much hay? check. bonfires? check. pumpkins!? check.
this past weekend we got to go to our favorite pumpkin patch. visits to the pumpkin patch are the greatest. we can break out the fall playlists, get covered in marshmallow goo, get our faces painted, AND, most importantly, eat basically the whole time. what more could you want? that drizzle to stop? we call that atmosphere.











oh, and did I mention strawberry and cream sodas? they're pretty great too.

and that's all folks.

things that made my day.

this weekend we had a picnic at the park, (ya know when the weather was still nice) and turns out all the homecoming groups chose the same spot to take pictures. super entertaining! we even got these goofy glasses out of the deal. total win.

proof:







and here is some future reading, or "exciting random books about artsy things that I haven't gotton a chance to read yet, but seriously do look interesting."


thaaat's all folks.