LifeBook 2012 Nov - Celebrating Successes

This week's lesson was about painting a stylized mermaid. It was suppose to be swimming upward to represent swimming up toward success. Sounds a little fishy to me, but whatever. Here's my finished painting. Yep, it's a little weird, but at least it's a real painting. I tried to make the mermaid long and willowy looking like the seaweed. Oh. Since the idea was to celebrate our own personal success, I had to paint a merman instead of a mermaid. You can't really tell the difference anyway. I need to practice painting mermaids!

Art Journal Caravan Week 25 - Verb - Catch

Digital Whisper Blog Challenge #18 - Pond

Here is the picture Kimmie from the Digital Whisper Blog provided us this week:

This is my altered version:

 

Whoa! Mermaids seem to be everywhere these days!

Real Mermaid

Well, she's real in the sense that she was hand drawn and hand colored. Yay! I hope Suzi Blu will be proud. She has plenty of flaws, but at least I did it physically instead of digitally. Now I feel like I can call myself a real artist.

Digital Mermaid

I'm a little nervous about coloring my mermaid for Suzi Blu's class with Prismacolor pencils, so I played around with her digitally tonight. It's actually kind of cool to draw something, and then add it to a digital picture. I think I can call that multi-media.

Mermaids?

Yep, I'm drawing mermaids. I'm taking Suzi Blu's current class on drawing and painting mermaids. This is another attempt to get myself back to creating physical art. Suzi is a wonderful, talented artist, and such a crazy character! She could easily be one of the CocoRosie sisters.

I stayed home from work today, because I've been feeling lousy after getting a flu shot on Monday. (I always get a mild case of the flu after getting the shot each year. It's sure better than how sick I'd be if I got the full-blown flu!) I was able to beat my inner critic down for a little while, and was able to draw a full mermaid. Here she is:

She didn't scan very well, but it's good enough to see. The next step is to start shading the picture using Prismacolor pencils. Supposedly we will be painting a seascape background on a piece of wood craft board, and then glue the mermaid on. If I can even get my final painting looking half as good as Suzi does, I'll be very happy.