lonely evergreen

so my church is full of artsy people. and it's wonderful. this year they're having an open group on flickr called 52. the members of the group are to do something creative every week and post it to flickr. that's so great. i'm really excited to add my 2¢ and see what everyone else is doing. the picture here is entry #3 for me. it's an illustration i did while trying to get more comfortable with the gradient mesh tool in illustrator. most people are adding photos, but so far i have used a picture of a dinner i made (thanks esther for the cooking lessons!) and one of a hot dog necklace that i made (which yes, that was made a while ago, not this week. but i love the way it turned out and i'd like to show it off!).

your team

me and morgan at work like to play the "your team" game (assigning weird/ugly/gross objects/people to each others "team"). this seafood medley picture comes up in our ads a lot and always grosses us out. yesterday while she was at lunch i put this picture as her desktop wallpaper.

donut necklace

i've had some fun making food themed necklaces. i thought donuts could be good jewelry since they already come in a variety of colors.

jewelry

i've been making a lot of jewelry lately. i'm going to sell it at the craft sale at work and then on etsy. before i do that though i am making some mini business cards that have my etsy page and my name and stuff on one side. the other will have pictures of the beads that i use. so i just got done taking all of the photos, now i have to decide which ones i will use on the cards :)

ms. keys

i did a drawing of alicia keys a few months ago. but i didn't like it. the symmetry was off and shading was no good. my sister's friend is in love with her and asked me for the picture so i gladly gave it away. this is my second attempt - much better.

right is a closeup
of her eye (i have a problem with eye's - so i'm pretty proud of these).

why so serious

in some of my down time i decided to do some drawing. using celebrities or something i can study a photo and draw some faces - something that's pretty hard for me. i started with the joker from the new batman movie. he has a very iconic face, with lots of interesting details, not entirely symmetrical - a good place to start.

mini cooper

 yay - i got my new car!!

pink vines

i did this painting in my bedroom a while ago, but i thought i'd post it here because it's still awesome.

new chandelier

just painted a chandelier in my living room. awesome. i kind of think of it as the shadow / alter-ego of the small light in the celing :)