Another WIP

Bottled continues!

Cleaned and refreshed my pallet today. CT seems to have settled down so it’s time to try smarter painting productivity schedules so it hopefully won’t come back!

I realized today that I have specific memories and stories about a lot of plants from my childhood… I may do a psuedo-journal painting project using this list as a guide: 

Plants I remember!

Flowers:

Azaleas

Bleeding Hearts

Clover (white and pink)

Crocus

Honeysuckle

Irises

Lady Slipper

Lily of the Valley

Mountain Laurel

Morning Glory

Periwinkle

Tiger Lily

Tulips

Rhododendrons

Roses (white bush)

Waterlilies

Trees:

Arborvitaes

Ash

Black Birch

Crab Apple

Holly

Maple

Pussy Willow

Red Oak

Red/White Pine

Willow

Edible:

Asparagus

Carrot

Corn

Cucumber

Green Beans

Huckleberries

Lettuce

Potato

Pumpkin

Radish

Rhubarb

Strawberries

Tomato

Wheat

Yellow Squash

Zucchini

Misc.:

Briars

Cactus

Cattails

English Ivy

Ferns

Gourd

Grass

Devil’s Walking Stick

Donkey Tail

Pond Weed

Rock Moss

Skunk Cabbage

Wintergreen

crazychick08:

thearcanetheory:

modernanglophilia:

Tumblr, please spread this like WILDFIRE. This teenager has been wrongly suspected of being one of the Boston bombers. He’s scared for his family. 

Please pass it on.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311248/Sala-Barhoum-track-star-teenager-denies-involvement-Boston-Marathon-bombing-picture-widely-circulated.html

racism kills

stop it

Signal boost or GTFO. NOW.

(via xen0phile)

thistleburr:

By popular request, I have opened a print shop of my sailing adventure paintings!

I’ve added most of my travel paintings to the shop, and will be adding more as I have the time. If you follow the link above, you also get free shipping on any prints!

My talented friend Angela is part of a tall ship crew, and she’s opened a print shop for some of her watercolor work. Check it out! Also check out her tumblr because she has other cool stuff there, too. 

More of my Sticks & Stones golems, Lith and Rodu. And stunning dialog. 

I’ve been doing a lot of sketching with brush markers lately. It seems to be a lot easier on my hands, which are currently suffering from carpal tunnel and some nerve damage to my thumb pad that seems to have healed. 

Everyone, remember to take breaks and take care of your hands! 

Regardless, I’m trying to loosen up a bit and experiment with ways to draw for some comics I want to write. These golem characters are from a little thing I’m calling “Sticks & Stones” for now. 

I finally got around to playing Bastion. Beautiful game with beautiful art and music. 

Listen to Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme) by Darren Korb

Reblogging another friend’s project! Shelly has a super-cute style, so if you like cute grumpy things you should totally check out her kickstarter!

inki-jinx:

The Crabapple Kickstarter is 96% funded ($4,331 out of $4,500!)!!! :D A huge thank you to everyone who reblogged and backed the project! But our work isn’t done yet~

Yesterday I announced a couple of stretch goals: 

$7,000 -  Everyone who backed at the “No Frills!” level ($35) AND above will also receive an acrylic charm set consisting of Lovelyapple, Lumpapple and Crabapple! (This level of funding allows me to make 500 crabs instead of the original project goal of 250.)

BONUS ROUND! The Squiddiest of Stretch Goals

$12,500 - The first 250 people who backed at the “CRAB GRAB BAG” level ($65) AND above will ALSO receive a brand spankin’ new IKA plush in an exciting navy blue x aqua colorway! Two plush for the price of one?! YES! WOOHOO! (This level of funding allows me to make 500 crabs PLUS a big ol’ run of blue IKA plush.)

Will YOU be the one to tip it over 100%?

emilysculpts:

Pre-Orders are Closing TONIGHT At Midnight EST!  Order Now!

Go to emilysculpts.com/preorder for the full info!

Please reblog and share with your friends.  Pre-ordering not only guarantees you a copy of the book but you also receive discount pricing, freebies, and entries into a special raffle.

Paperbacks are being produced in a limited number. Everyone that pre-orders a paperback is guaranteed a copy! If you are interested in the paperback version of Creature Sculpt, it is highly suggested that you purchase it through pre-order as I cannot guarantee the number that will be available once pre-orders close.  I will be selling the remainder of my stock at Monsterpalooza, and whatever is left after that will go up on my Etsy store at the end of April. 

Shipping of pre-orders is scheduled to begin mid-late April. 

Don’t forget, if you refer a friend and they purchase a copy of Creature Sculpt, you will receive a $5 refund.  This is limited to one offer per person.  You can find the full information about this by clicking the link above.

Be sure to check out my Facebook giveaway as well!  I am giving away a dual pre-order of Creature Sculpt along with extra raffle tickets and a coupon to my Etsy store.  If you have already pre-ordered a copy of the book, and you are chosen as the winner, you will receive a full refund, including shipping!  The winner will not be announced until after pre-orders close so make sure you order a copy of Creature Sculpt just to be sure!  You can read all the details about the giveaway on my facebook at facebook.com/emilysculpts  

Thank you for helping to make this dream a reality.  I have been blown away by the response this book has gotten so far and I thank each and every one of you for your support.

I’ve been thinking lately that I’d like to try streaming a painting session at some point, and for that I’ll need a webcam that isn’t built into my monitor. 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about something like this on the hardware end? I do have an old clamp-on crane arm from an old desk lamp that died, so I think I can use that to help position whatever I get over my desk.

glassshard:

Working with watercolours again makes me feel about fifteen years old. Do other people get medium nostalgia? I think I will put on old Mighty Max episodes.

I get nostalgic sketching on colored or toned paper; there was a secretary in my Dad’s department who knew he had little girls. It was before office recycling was common so she saved a lot of the old office memos for us. I grew up drawing on the backs of pink and green xerox copies! I still remember the smell of the ink. 

We certainly never lacked for paper thanks to Lucy!  I sometimes wonder if I ever would have pursued art so seriously without that start of limitless available paper when I was a little kid… 

Watercolor and Gouache.

This started out as a simple character floating in microgravity with a bit of shadow, and then I suddenly decided to paint some kind of wall texture behind them and ended up with this. Probably would have done some things differently if I had planned for this from the start, but hey it was fun. Also, I realize that no matter how crazy I make their hair, chances are that in actual microgravity it would be much crazier. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdMuRkwgWE

Meet my Eclipse Phase character, Devon Gray. They are a robotics engineer, an extremely amateur hobbyist cook and they go by neutral pronouns. I may have to start working back through my list of old RPG characters…