Venus Sketch

I am starting to get the "art itch." Its been awhile since I have really had it so I welcome it back. Though as this sketch shows, I am a little rusty...

I should really post more often.

I really SHOULD post on here more often. Whenever I tell my friend Lee that I have posted, he makes some sort of snide remark about how I never do post anymore.

Anyway, there is a lot to "report". But I will just give you the cliff notes version: Was sick for 3 weeks, now allergic to penicillin, office broken into: they stole my computer and the Wii, Amanda's aunt-in-law died, Amanda is a "zero hour employee", and Tim's grandfather died. That's the short version of whats been going on.

Maybe from now on I will post little "snippets" every so often. Kinda like this:



This was drawn at the Art in Steam exhibit at the Nelson a dew weeks back. Not bad in my own opinion,

Ashes to Ashes

This past weekend was really busy. Amanda and I left KC in the afternoon to drive up to St. Louis. Saturday we drove 2.5 hours up to Quincy IL, went to my grandparents internment, and then drove back to St. Louis. Sunday we drove back to KC... So I am so tired of driving.

But even with all the driving it was worth it. The service was nice and I got to see some family that I don't normally get to see. On saturday after we got back to St. Louis we all went back to my mom's house- ate, drank, and talked the night away. So that was nice.

Anyway, the headstone turned out pretty well. You can see the pictures below:





If you want to see the design it is based on, click here.

E.T. Mask

Wow, I never knew my ET mask would be so popular. I had someone write me about 3 weeks ago asking to use it for their costume, and I just got a photo from someone who used it and wanted to thank me.



I made it specifically because there is no mask online that I could find to make my ET costume last year. It's nice to know that there are few people out there who have the same idea as me and like my mask enough to use it.

As for our traditional halloween party at Andrew and Alison's, our costumes were very popular (for the people who knew who we were). We won best group costume. You can see a picture of us below:



Unfortunately I won't be home this Halloween. Amanda and I are going up to Quincy Illinois to meet with family to inter my grandmother. At least I will get to see some family and find out how the etching I did for the headstone turns out.

Lightship Basket

My grandmother died recently. I got a call at 4 telling me that she wasn't doing well, I got a chance to call her and basically say 'goodbye' and she was dead at 4:45. Then a couple of days ago I got a call from my dad asking if I would do a drawing of Nantucket Lightship Basket for the headstone. Kinda freaky, but I agreed.

The one below is the first one I did which was WAY too detailed:



This next one is the one that most likely is going to end up on the headstone. There may be a few more changes, but this is where things stand now: