Finished Horse With Pumpkins On it's Tail

I'm mad at it and I don't want to look at it anymore, so it's done. I think the biggest mistake I made with this was that I didn't really map out the colors, I just started throwing them down. The next horse I do is suppose to be yellow, so I will definitely plan first since I have a harder time with the lighter colors.
But that might be fore a while yet, I'm taking a break from the horses to pursue some holiday related drawings! Yay! The first thing I have started is a lovely bunch of...pumpkins! (Yes I'm very excited about them) This is another ACEO.


I'm toying with the idea of doing abnormal colored pumpkins, but I'm not sure. Should I do normal orange pumpkins or crazy, blue, purple, red, and green pumpkins? I don't think I've ever really drawn vegetables before...

Orange Horse Head In the Works

When a bottle of Gorilla Glue says "Don't get glue on fingers" please listen to these very wise words. I just found out what getting gorilla glue on your fingers is like and it's not pleasant. I had to file the glue off because I don't have acetone to break it down. So on that happy note, here is an orange horse.



I'm not happy with the way it is turning out, but I really don't know how else to work the orange. At least it is looking better then my first orange horse attempt I made six years ago..


I think o.O

If I do decide to finish this before the end of my weekend, maybe I'll draw some pumpkins. Been thinking about them a lot lately and I don't even care for anything pumpkin flavored, just think they are a cute looking vegetable.

Past Marker Madness

As I wait for my wrist to stop aching from strain at work, thought I would share some past drawings I've done due to mood or weather.

This one is my favorite. It's the first one I did due to it raining so much here. I had started wondering if it could drown the sun, it was so bad.


Another stunt on the sun was the first time I saw six inches of snow. We also had these big, gorgeous icicles hanging outside our kitchen window where we lived at the time and I had to try my hand at them.


I tend to have a lot of urges to make rainbows...



Hopefully tomorrow will be a new art day. I have so many ideas trying to burst their ways out all at once, I can't wait to get them down.

Wordless Wednesday(I'll post art sometime, I swear!)

Wordless Wednesday

Rainbow's Storm Finished

Sometimes it's just too much effort to come up with a good title so Rainbow's Storm this is. Even as I make this post it is thunder storming. I really hope it lets up in a few hours, I want to go play!
Still don't know if I like doing colored pencil over the marker, it is a lot brighter though.

50th Post and a New Camera!

I am very excited I have made it this far with this blog, even if most of it wasn't posts that it was intended for. Which on that note, I am also very excited that today I got a new camera! I got the Canon PowerShot A3300 IS. It's 16 megapixels, 5x zoom, 3in. LCD screen, and has about a gazillion other totally awesome features that I'm not going to list here. I already played with it a little bit, and took some pics with both cameras to see the difference.

This is from my Fujifilm finepix A 400



This is from the Canon



It seems to take a wider view picture and looks more crisper. (Can click on the pics for larger view.) Then again go from 4.0 to 16.0 mp and I would hope there is a difference.
May be tomorrow I can go to the park...just hope it doesn't rain.

A Slow Down

I don't know why, but the past week and a half I haven't wanted to work on anything. I did finish the outside of the birthday card, but that was it. It has really been bothering me lately that I have all these wonderful ideas running around my head, and I can't get the will power to get them on paper. It's like I'm scared I will be disappointed because they won't turn out the way I want, or I can't do them. Sometimes when this happens I can go months without drawing anything. The point of this blog was to keep that from happening and I'm not sure it's going to work.
Any ideas to get the 'courage' back to want to draw, or is it better to let this run it's course?