Saturday, April 12

day

i came to my studio to paint today, and after about an hour i couldn't concentrate anymore. Megan and Robin were here too, as usual, each with their complaints about the guys they are seeing.

that just started driving me crazy, and i couldn't paint, and the internet was sucking out my soul. and i wouldn't stop eating chips. :P
so i took a walk down to the beach, and ran into Tiffany on the boardwalk. she was taking pictures of textures for an illustration project she is working on, and after 10 minutes or so we walked back to school together.
some guys yelled out of their car to us "HAVE MY BABIES" and we laughed. she asked if i wanted to hang out at Red and Phill's later, which i gladly agreed to.

i really really need God's peace



i don't have much else to say...

...guess i'll go eat pizza and watch some movies...


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march mustache madness retrospective

just a few pictures i stole from Beau of the party last Saturday night...see how many of my staches on sticks you can spot :)
Beau's opulent culinary magnificence...

the host himself and Phill

Phill, myself, Tiffany, Nicole, Jared, and someone whose name i do not recall...

Jared and me

the sweet dj

this picture makes me extremely happy...i had no idea people were really using my mustaches!



woo hoo.

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Thursday, April 10

i heard my first Tupac jam last night

here's that underpainting i slapped on so begrudgingly last friday...


my friend Beau (not McFarland, this guy is a total art hipster to the MAXX) had a "March Mustache Madness Retrospective" party Saturday night...and i went nuts and made 20 'staches on sticks (because some of us are not as blessedly endowed as others)...


apparently, they were a hit :). I'm waiting for someone to get pictures out there so i can post some...

Sunday morning Blondie (the dog ) had puppies...


she got to have some ice cream...


She gave birth to 9, but they lost 2 of them :( so she's got a lovely, healthy litter of 7.

The Ashlee painting is about 90% finished!!! here's a crappy picture!!


last night i was in my studio until 1 a.m. in turns painting to 90's hip hop that my friend Robin was blaring, and talking to Danny. i'm really going to miss it here...

a few more in-process peeks at Nick...



we just had the reception and awards ceremony for the Student show where my painting of Edan is displayed and i won an award for it :) along with about 10 of my other friends. so that was excellent.


today is Edan's birthday, and his party starts at 9. it is 8:33. i should probably leave soon.


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Tuesday, April 8

just let it go

"...any problem, and there are many, that is alongside of me while I obey God, increases my ecstatic delight, because I know that my Father knows, and I am going to watch and see how He unravels this thing.”
~Oswald Chambers

it was really good for me to read over this (i had written it down a few months ago), as i feel like so many things are knotted and tangled up right now. and my fingers are sore. and i am definitely lacking in ecstatic delight. i wish i was better at giving them up to my Father...

lots of things going on, lots of pictures to post...but later.



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Friday, April 4

it's a wonderful life that you bring. it's a wonderful thing.

So my presentation actually went pretty well this morning.

i am so so very tired today. it's my own fault, as i was up until 3am this morning doing very geeky things. i now have an alter-ego Karta Mal'kyla, a Bothan with feats of running and force-sensitivity (among other things). and i know how to handle a blaster rifle. apparently i'm lacking in charisma (bad roll...but i make up for it in dexterity).
i love being in art school.

i'm in my studio...i wish i could take a nap in my bed and then paint...but an hour of driving would not help me now i think.
i'm also hungry. but there is no food here. i just ate 6 stale pretzels and thus depleted our nutritional store entirely...there's still some coffee candy...

it's very lovely out today...i should sit in the sun for a bit before it's gone.

tomorrow night a friend of mine from school is throwing a "March Mustache Madness Retrospective" party. so that should be pretty amazing, considering the time is slated at 9pm-5am...

Pip's birthday is on Sunday (big 25)...
Edan's is on Thursday (epic 30)...
Anna just had hers on the 31st (pretty 24)...

i've been researching MFA programs...is it worth the two more years and gazillions of dollars...? i don't know. it depends...i do know i don't want to stop learning yet. and maybe someday i'll be brave enough to really see myself teaching at some point.
it's not like i have any big commitments holding me back from anything. i'm not the one getting married this summer (cough*Sarah*cough) and i'm not trying to hold down a job.
maybe i will study language and literature in Ireland...

My world is revolving to the music of Nick Cave, Beach House, Joanna Newsom (left) and The Chapin Sisters. i suppose they are all quite melancholy and/or dreamy...but that's just how i'm feeling lately. thinking a lot about running tirelessly. of skin, flying machines and soft touches. of orange flowers, love and silver leaf.

yesterday and today i have been a bit out of sorts. certain things in my life just won't let me go...i'm having a hard time being content. i hate fear because it cripples me. i hate loneliness because it drains me. i hate doubt because it makes me apathetic. i hate feeling like i'm missing something from my life because God has given me everything i need...
...but Lord what about something tangible to cling to...

for the first time i'm getting worried about where this world is going. mostly because i really want to have children someday (Lord willing) but not if things keep spiraling downward the way they are. i guess it's not up to me.

i don't know if i'll do much painting today. i'm going to force myself to do an oil sketch of Nick onto my final canvas and maybe that will get my blood flowing a bit.

i want to write a novel.

i really would like to sing a lot more.


where's my palate...



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Thursday, April 3

real quick...




good art day...more done on Ashlee, and got my figure study done for Nick!! that was important b/c i combined 4 different pictures to make it...now i can paint it!!

tomorrow i'm giving a presentation on my portfolio apparently...i have no idea what i'm going to say...crap crap...


gnite


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Wednesday, April 2

naked people warning...

stuff i've been up to...bla bla, me me...


currently on the graffiti wall...

current state of the Alshlee painting...i'm finally getting happier with it--thank God...

Starbucks always gets my name right...

"finished" head study for my 3rd painting of Nick...

watercolor figure painting...

in-process pastel figure study...

i still have to push some of the darks back.


okay home i go to work some more.


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Monday, March 31

by the way...

thanks for prayer. thanks for everyone being lovely. i've got that over-scraped-butter feeling these days and i'm holding on to the Lord for dear life. i know i'm not the only one...

in-n-out once a month is okay

Laguna has been insanely crowded...

my friends and i are insanely busy...


beginning of a pastel drawing...

my wonderful friend Nick will be the subject for my 3rd painting and i took a gazillion pictures of him over the weekend...

Start of a head study of Nick...

After church yesterday...


there are two lovely pregnant ladies in this picture...



Today animal trainers brought a bear cub and a tiger cub to school for 3 hours and that was incredible.
here's Cheyenne...









wrestling!







drawing like crazy...
























and Skye the tiger!
















picture taking


gorgeous animal

They were so so beautiful...

oh check this out...



okay gotta get back to work...


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