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Showing posts with label photograph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photograph. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2012

starfish in love

i just returned from a 2 week visit to the beautiful state of california. this explains my recent lack of posts, and to make things worse, i arrived back home in new jersey to find myself homeless... which means all of my art projects and supplies are packed away carefully. i've been left with all this free time, that should be spent on art, wasting away on nonsense.  but fear not! after an abnormally long and painful process, i will officially be a homeowner tomorrow, which means my art-making will get back on track shortly. my sincerest apologies to all who have been patiently waiting for art from me! 


in the mean time, here is my favorite photo from my trip to california.  starfish in love! i took a long journey to the aquarium of the bay in san franciso, all by myself! it was maybe an hour or so walk from the apartment to the aquarium, which i pushed myself through in my shaky, obnoxious wheelchair like a champ.  normally i'm too nervous to do certain things solo, especially in the chair through a big city i don't know, so this was kind of liberating.  i think i did it more because i wanted to prove i could rather than actually wanting to go. although there's nothing more lovely than staring at giant fish and sharks with funny overbites gliding around in a quiet aquarium atmosphere. it was a tiny aquarium that i slowly browsed through twice, but finding these two stars was the highlight of my day.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

jessface and randy go to the grand canyon



after seeing my little photo paintings of tim and i, my friend jess wanted one of her and her boyfriend at the grandcanyon.  she sent me a photo of the canyon and i painted their cartoony portraits on top for a cute combination of their own personal memories/photos and original painting.

how cute. to refresh your memory, look back at my past photo paintings here!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

big sur


number 2 of the paintings on photographs on canvas.  made in celebration of 3 years of fun festivities with tim.  again, like the yosemite one, this was a practice piece for the ultrasound.  tim and me at the prettiest place in the world (so far that i've seen) big sur in california.  it's not as fun as the yosemite painting with the focus point on tim's misery, but i figured i'd make one for him to portray our fun and happy memories... despite the fact that hours after this photo was taken, tim barfed up his roadside burrito once we drove off those long, winding, neverending roads along the monster cliffs in the dark under the starry night sky..  so romantic

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

the yosemite disaster


as of last week, i've "officially" been with tim for 3 years. no need for presents so we just make each other stuff cause we're artsy.  i used this as a chance to test out the painting on top of photographs on canvas (the practice pieces i mentioned for the ultrasound).  thought it'd be fun to print out some photos we took during our trip to california this past april and paint cartoony characters of us.  this is the first of two that i did, my favorite view from our day in yosemite.  tim was unfortunately horribly sick that day thanks to an awesome tooth infection that ruined the first few days of our cali trip.  so here we are at yosemite, i was overwhelmed with excitment! and tim...overwhelmed with pain and misery. it's funny...

ps- don't ask me why i'm standing.  i started painted me too high up didn't know how to fix it so i just painted in legs. awkwaaaard

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

big sur

i'm not even close to being ready to be home and restart my routine of waking painting and sleeping. so here's a picture from big sur instead...