Well, it happened. I skipped a day in my one-post-per-day challenge. It was bound to happen. But it only happened because I was busy doing actual work, so I guess it's a good thing I was focused on that at least. I will be working on an assignment until Monday, so I think I'll take a break from the one-post-per-day aspect of this...
I'm A Belieber... ...a believer in the great marketing/production/strategy that went into the release of Justin Bieber's new album! I never thought I'd ever say this about JBiebs. But have you seen his music videos? - no, not the one of him randomly walking around scenic greenery and green scenery doing literally nothing. I mean the ones where he doesn't even appear in the...
If you haven't noticed, these days, rather than embarking on long-term projects like my previous DIY, I've been instead trying to find how I can incorporate art in the simple everyday activities I end up doing. This is partly because I've actually gotten quite more busy during the day while still holding myself to the 1 post per day. (A challenge is a...
Watching the Golden Globes tonight, I decided to sketch some gowns instead of merely shouting at the screen "YEAHHH", "EWWW", "I want to wear THAT!" etc. Here's a few that, although weren't necessarily my favorites, were fun textures/forms to sketch. Fun Fact: Dream Career #1 in my life was fashion designer! lol. MORE FROM MY "1 POST PER DAY" PROJECT ...
Me working through a part of the piece. Artsy shot. Not-so-artsy playing. Ew. Every once in a while at school or at home, I pick up an old piece from my piano repertoire and try to see how much I remember or how much I can revive -- since I don't know how long it will be before I find time to practice...
I thought I'd choose a short quote to repeat a bunch of times on a page to play around with fonts, with both regular ink pens and a calligraphy pen. I recalled a quote, something like "live life like drawing without an eraser" and found through google that it comes from John W. Gardner (wiki page linked. I didn't know who he was either)...
Continuing with the theme of hands I guess... here's a sketch I made. Tbh, hands are a great go-to subject to practice drawing skills, while almost always looking really artsy. I drew these based on a photograph of my own hands. Hey, there's a nice DIY art project! And here are closeups, of course, because I like them. :) MORE FROM MY "1...
Becoming (2013) Medium: Acrylics on canvas My Most Recent Composition ...If junior year of high school still counts as "recent". I technically have composed another short work, but it was an arrangement (on Soundcloud), and I never typed out the music so it's not official. Either way, I really want to get back to writing! As much as I don't want to admit,...
Rhapsody No. 2 - for flute and piano The second to last in this series of my past compositions... Recorded with me on the flute and my piano teacher, Rebecca, on the piano. This one I nearly forgot existed. I gotta admit, listening to it now, I'm realizing it really lacks cohesion overall. I remember getting some comments along those lines, too, but...
In the spirit of throwbacks, here's photos of me and my sister and me doing musical stuff. Circa low-2000's Rhapsody No. 1 This one's from my second summer at Csehy, recorded with my sister on the violin and me accompanying on the piano. What energy in this piece. Same with The City Of Night from yesterday's post - in my memory these pieces...
A cool closeup of piano pegs I took spring 2015 Over the years as I've had less and less time to dedicate to my art and music, I've realized that music is a lot harder work on and create "on the side" than art. It takes something like a constant state of distraction from the daily matters of life to let a melody...
DIY Completed A few days ago I started these wall-art texture DIY's, and now they're complete with this last aluminum foil-based piece! "Dancer" - acrylic on aluminum foil I've always had the habit of focusing on making images really realistic, which is useful to be able to do, but sometimes limiting. So I try to "loosen up" my art - learning how to...
DIY Part 1.5 Happy New Year everyone! I tried to do something more with these two tissue boards from this DIY attempt - like accenting the patterns in the folds with white paint, but it just looked weird. I think they're best left the way they are. The aluminum foil one, however, is looking pretty cool! I'll post the final product tomorrow. PSA: I...
