Scketchbook Project scetchbooks 1 and 2

These are some scans from two of the illustrated sketchbooks that I am doing for Art House Coops "Sketchbook Project" for their Brooklyn International Art Library, set to open in 2010.

The first one is "It's not easy being green" in which a kitten has developed a passion for "painting" , much to the dismay of her human who just wants her to stay clean! , hilarity ensues.
Note: I will be adding some color to this one, but I wanted to scan the drawings in first just in case.















The theme of this bottom one is "The Elephant in the Room", I explored the theme of elephants and did finally get a mini-story involving a circus elephant and a acrobat girl .

:)

I'm just testing how different styles of posting will look,
this is a flyer for my first gallery show that I was in.

It was a dual show and very fun :)

My Maya Bunny

Kawaii, no? Look at my first maya project. I did a journal, lollypop and a plush bunny. Here are some jpegs of it. I have not learned animation yet, just rendering and texturing but it is a lot. A very big program. I really like the cute bunny, its my favorite :)

Ah, Memories........

I love Tania Raymonde as Cynthia in Malcolm in the Middle... She's so cute. I was soooo this girl at that age. Very nerdy, though I was much shyer but just as persistent and - the hair, I would do all kinds of funky updo's with mine, from princess leia hair buns to briads all over ......sometimes both at once. and the "please be my friend" party invitations (see clip) .........cracks me up...yep.......................................

hahahaha

Finnaly? Well this one I like the kitten on......

What shall my future background be?

I drew this tonight but it does not look right. It looked ok when I tried it but I think I shall try another design that touches more on "window forrest" theme.......

a konno pic and a wish for mail

must post this cute pic of Konno Asami, my favorite celebrity. she's so sweet ^^


Also I was thinking..... I wish I could suscribe to something that sent me art and gifts and surprises each month. I love getting things in my mailbox. I want to get flyers for artist shows, and art galleries, poems, candy, free samples, stickers, magazines, postcards.......

Trouble is that most places now do their promotions via email.
hmmmmmm..... Its not as fun as real mail at all ...wwaaaaaa!!!!!

new look

I changed my template again :) Even though I had a super background *ahem.... one could not read anything and I thought "it looks cool but I can't really read the words, I keep starring at the background..." So I cropped the pic and now have it as my header background, and I have a new template that I like..... very stretchy....
so until I have time to draw an amazing blog background that wont drown out all of the stuff ON my blog I might just use this look :) hope everyone likes it.

Drawings for the Drawing Show

Ok so here are some of the drawings I have been working on to consider fo the drawing show @climate gallery ....... You have no idea how hard these were to upload, I scanned them in emailed them to myself then opened the email and tryed to upload but my files had gotten "corrupted" but I could still upload them on flickr so I had to upload them to flickr then download them from flickr and then I could get them off my desktop, finally! did I metion I love flickr now? Anyways i will probably have to clean them up and maybe ink them or something......... but I actually really like leaving my drawings in black and white.

myspace???

Why do I dislike myspace? why cant I get into it? Maybe it is because of the fact that if you use it for personal use then all there is to to on there is stare at the same friend pages day after day.....which really don't change.... it is fun to add/view bands and artists and stuff and view their wall spam, but I don't need to be ON myspace to do that. It is cumbersome to find anything on myspace between all those adds. I don't buy the jazz about it being a good networking site......It is hard to even find where the common interest groups are......

One writer on readwriteweb sums my feelings up..."MySpace's core nature is to express yourself into a void and hope people come to visit your page and check it out."

Exciting news (as you can see)

As you can seee......I finally finnally finally figured out how to change my background to a picture.......I used to think that there was no way I could really ser my blog to look unique but I finnaly learned how to tweak my html :) :) So happy. Right now I have a wallpaper from a japanese teeny-bopper first love type drama. It goes nicely with my Robert Frost quote though its a little distracting. I had toooo much trouble trying to get one of my own works from flickr though I think I will draw something special, just for this blog and scan it in. !!!! :)

hmmmm......I think I like blogs better than twitter. I like being about to see the photos and such all together on the page, sort of like a magazine. I guess twitter is good for making announcements and networking maybe but....its sort of boring.

Well, I jumped on that twitter bandwagon....not because I envision myself writing down my random thoughts and doings at any/every moment of the day, but rather, a LOT of people, bands,artists and such seem to be using it and I was curious about them I suppose... www.twitter.com/musicaltree
Does it matter? I don't know yet.

Also, I have my links on my website. I wonder which ones I ought to have up....I don't think I need to have the flickr one because I'm bad at uploading to that...and my website already has an art gallery people can look at and my blog has photos and art they can look at.... I might delete that link just like my myspace, because..... what is the point if you have already found my website? I mean its just the same stuff all over again right?

artist stuff

I updated my website ( www.musicaltree.webs.com ) with the tour dates for the sketchbook Project and the Drawing Exhibition I am going to be in. More Events/Shows to follow. Please go if you are in those cities and tell me how it was. (can't afford to travel with my art, can't mail myself :)
I feel sort of like a musician, putting in all of these dates and places where people can come see some originals of my art, like bands go on tour too, ya know?.......


P.S. (the link is not working because blogger is being buggy and keeps putting extra stuff at the begining of the URL, so just type the website URL address in your browser:)