Lock eyes from across the room

Down my drink while the rhythm's boom

I have NO idea if an update of our blog is due... or if it's just a comment... so here's some silly pictures of me being stupid and adding little comment things on them. :D (They're kind of like bloopers in picture form)

We're Gunna

Take yo mamma out all night
Yeah we'll show her what it's all about
We'll get her jacked up on some cheap champagne and let the good times roll on out

Anywho, I can't think of what to update my blog with, so I'll talk a little about henna and tattoo designs. Well, as most of you know, I like drawing swirly swirls and cooly cool designs, and the majority of people that see them think they're tattoo or henna designs. In this case, they're henna. Henna is most commonly confused with plain ole' drawings. Henna is a paste used for body paint, it's not a specific style of drawing.
At Oregon Country Fair last year, I did henna designs all up and down my friend's arm and face, and she did some on me, too. The above picture is my friend Diana's work, as well as the 'Dyke' sharpied on my back picture. There's a funny story about that... kind of. More so of a 'GAAAAH PEOPLE ARE STUPID' kinda thing, though. Aaanywho.
I'm doing henna again this year at OCF, this time maybe charge for it. Like, $5 for your arm or something. Maybe. Probably. We'll see. My friends and I are going as DRAGONS. Maybe. Probably. I think dragons would be cool........ plus henna up and down our arms and faces would be epic and shit.

Yeah... so the pictures below are some designs I did on my friend, and the ones above are my friend did on me. (that sentence sounds SO AWKWARD. BUT IT WASN'TTTT. IT WAS JUST PAINTING, I SWEAR.) It's too bad I didn't get pictures of the other people I henna'd. :/

In my time

Of Dying

Does the media have this much influence over my taste in music? Do I let it have such influence? Do I just have the same taste in music as most movies/tv shows!?
I found a recent example of TV playing a role in my taste in music. I've been listening to the 'Be Good Tanyas' almost nonstop for the past few days, one song in particular being 'In my Time of Dying' (LOVE IT), and when I looked up info about it, I realized that the title of the song is also the title of a song I really like from the show 'Supernatural' and the song (not the one in Supernatural) was featured in 'the L Word' on one of its episodes. They really aren't that popular, from what I've found... and yet, I've found two TV connections right there.

Or does that mean that my choice in music is just really gay?

I'm watching too much tv, either way.

Here's a picture of a hat that I recently made:

Ain't it pretty?

Eternal Rest for the Wicked

Praise the Dead

It's been a good weekend. Hope y'all had a good time too. :)

Random sketches. Lately I've been into drawing imaginary faces... but now I've gotten out of my face drawing funk, so I'm just doing... random... I suppose...

Everybody Everybody Everybody Living Now,

Everybody Everybody Everybody Dies

Family Portraits? Ugh. My family does a complete 180 every two months. One month it's aaaall about peace love and harmony, next everyone's sick and flying to France or I find out my brother has been mormon for two years and getting married. So what would be a nice portrait to portray three brothers, sister, and five nephews? Maybe I'll take a picture of a slushy or scrambled eggs.... If we can use past photos, it'll make the project a lot easier.

Eat you up

Eat you up

Anywho, here's some photography I did in Alabama. The above image is an insect eating a bee, and before I had the chance to take a shot of it, it had been in my dad's face. We were cruising in a golf cart on my Grandad's horse-ranch-field-place, when that sucker flew in my dad's face. I laughed and took pictures, basically.

This was one of the best Alabama sunsets that my dad and Grandad had seen in a while...

Here's some sketches with photoshop...

Yaari Yaari (OMG HINDI POP SONG)

I think we're supposed to make a post... or something... but I can't find the sheet thingamagig that has the directions on it, so here's a mini post. And a comment on the main blog stuff... yaaay art class~!!

It's the... Eye of the Tiger~!

It's the dead of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival~!

The advice I give for next years AP2-D students is to put some effort into what they're doing. Don't take advantage of the opportunity that you're given, and work longer on projects than you think you should. Go into detail, try something new- enjoy what you're doing. Rock it out, dudes and dudetts~!

I learned that although I'm good at art (mostly still life), I'm not good at piecing it all together into an official piece I can submit to somewhere or sell. I need to work on backgrounds this summer, and figure out how to combine my simple charcoal/graphite/ pen drawings into a better and greater professional piece. I can draw anything in front of me- but if I go by memory, it dies before it begins. Color is a huge factor.

The thing I confirmed this year, about myself, is that I HATE PAINTING.

DIE, PAINT.

DIE
DIE
DIE.

HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

:P
My favorite piece I've made this year... was probably the creepy piece I did of my favorite alp character, Zach. Alps are creatures that sneak into your house at night and give you nightmares. They're really cool little creatures. x3

I have to say that there were two events that I enjoyed most this year, and that was the trip into Portland at the beginning of the year, and Scholastic Art Awards. Because Scholastic sounds so fancy, it made me reeeally paranoid about submitting anything. I literally had no idea what kind of pieces to put in, what was considered good, etc. After going to the Portfolio Day and seeing what kind art work was there... I realized that you could submit a stick figure drawing and still get a gold key. The feedback I received from the college folks were a great help, and especially got my brain doing twists and turns in new and awesome ways.

The one thing I strongly disliked this year was the Jesse Reno workshop. But that was just a personal thing... the attempting at a style I'd never tried before with a medium that I absolutely hated and people I don't know, PLUS some weird ass music that made it feel like I was on a spaceship, caused several head explosions and GRA^&8L$%FH#$%KAFGH$fA;LKG%ness.

“Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive.”



BTW, Mrs. McBride: I found the blue watercolor piece... I found it in a pile about a week after the AP Art show. :(

I'm gunna put a-

Spell on youuuu~!

Hey, I forgot to repost this! D:

Graaaaa, reposting.
Anyway: Artsy fartsy topic of the week? Tattoos in Portland. One of the many tattoo parlors in Portland is Captain Jack's Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio. I don't know about you, but I think it would be pretty... entertaining, to get a tattoo there.
They also had a Yoda and Stitch (From the cartoon Lilo & Stitch) one. XD

Another exciting place is Forbidden Body Art. I WONDER where the tattoos go? Hmmm...Actually, looking through their gallery, they've got some really cool stuff... Like, the tribal, nice clean lines. I might get my future tattoo there...

It's just like the ocean, under the moon

It's the same as the emotions that I get from you~!
You got the kind of loving...
Give me your heart, make it real or else forget about it.

Spark the angel, I believe,

^^
(Not mine, but cool)

You are my savior, in my time of need...
I see the angels, I'll lead them to your door.
There's no escape, now, no mercy no more...
I remember the smile when you tore me apart.

Yes, I am reeeeeally really really really really bored. -_-

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."-2000"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."-2000"My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate."-2004"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
-2000
"The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them."
-2001

"Bear me a bang: get a blow from me"-Definition in Sophomore English book, pg. 842
"Watch your pleasure: wait for your orders"
-Definition in Sophomore English book, pg 857

"Ya know, I kinda wish Jesus would come back and say, 'THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!'"
-comedian Margaret Cho
"War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?" -The Value of Families
"I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming." -Unknown

"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." -Robin Tyler

"Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons." -Letter to the editor, The Advocate"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft we can all declare homosexuality instead of running off to Canada." -Lorne Bloch

"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"" -John Stewart
"Sparkle Van Smoothie Bomb Harnier? That's kind of a mouthful. . . . Is that a qualification for a stripper, though?" -Anonymous
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ~Sally Kempton, attributed

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. ~Florynce Kennedy

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. ~Claudette Colbert, quoted in Kindling the Spirit by Lois P. Frankel
Me: Where's Diana and Maddie?
Meryl: They're probably having an orgy somewhere
Me: ... Meryl, that would just be sex.
Meryl: ... you actually thought about your answer?

"If you are afraid that being gay is contagious- then YOU'RE GAY." -the amazing Margaret Cho

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~Ernest Gaines

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~Jane Galvin Lewis

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.

That word "lesbian" sounds like a disease. And straight men know because they're sure that they're the cure. ~Denise McCanles

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt. ~Dennis Miller

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants. ~Lynn Lavner

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant. ~Paul Newman

If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals should be called "ecstatic." ~Shelly Roberts

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~Lois Wyse

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~Marlo Thomas

My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. ~Bill Kelly

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man? ~Edith Evans

Tomboys are an assertion of reality, of practicality. Forced femininity is a waste of energy and resources, and therefore of oneself. Live to live. ~Morgan Torva

As long as society is anti-gay, then it will seem like being gay is anti-social. ~Joseph Francis

I'm Pretty fly

A rant on fashion...

For a White Guy

What. The. FUCK is with the fashion this year? Why are they trying to make GRANNY CLOTHES stylish? Like, yes, I think some of the old styles are pretty fashionable in FEW cases, but really people? Dressing up in skirts that go up to your hips can only help you so much- old ladies wear them when they start getting the old fatty belly so that they can hide the bulge. Wearing your mother's curtains and helplessly tying ropes around it makes you look like a parachute that opened too early, and then the sky diver DIED in it. (actually, that would be a REALLY cool costume. Wear one of those dresses and then drench yerself in fake blood) And, lastly, making shirts and dresses of your deceased greatmother's couches and furniture is not sexy. "Where'd you get that dress? It looks like my grandma's sofa!" "..." Oh, and the other style that's been going on besides the granny look? HOBO LOOK. FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL.

Although, in the picture above, even though it undoubtedly fails, I don't disapprove of the nudity. Tee hee.

What did you do to granny's wallpaper!?

Granny's sweater- made during her 'witch phase'

It seems as though some kind of animal is trying to escape her pants... see how it billows out in said manner? and because her left foot is forward, it looks like there's a bulge on her thigh. ;)

Rawrs! Watch out for my vampirely ways! I will attack you with my caterpillar hands!

I'm too lazy to FIX my tights or get new ones. So, I'll just walk around like a homeless person and see if anyone jumps me.

The ones on the outside- how is that not reminding you of your dead aunt Sally?

Goth girl going to... work? Party? The girl on the right only pulls it off because of her bad ass hair.

Little orphan Annie has finally grown up~! Into a prostitute, that is.

You... you stole my curtains! Is there a dead guy in there??? Helloooooo~?

Curtains from granny's funeral. :(

I... um... WTF?

Where's her pants? Is she even wearing panties?

Man on the left: GAY. Woman on the right: homeless gal wearing a blanket to keep warm. Poor gal...Beware! Pirates of the Catholic church are on the move!