Don't Hide the Light

SO I got my pieces back in Drawing that were displayed in the Fine Arts Fair. Which makes me very pleased, because I can share them with you! These are actually just lame camera phone pictures, because Mom has the good ones on her camera, and the scanner is on mental summer vacation already. I don't have my very first projects (a blind contour of my face and a lovely picture of my favorite shoes) because they're still in the room. You won't see them for awhile because the face is ugly, and she's putting the shoes in the summer atrium display.

Anyway, this was our first large picture. And EWWW THIS IS A DISGUSTING COMPRESSION. Remind me to never ever settle for camera phone pictures again.

If you can tell from the horrible fog that the magic of technology has given the picture, free of charge, this is a lighthouse, done in #2 pencil. I actually quite like it...It was very, very hard to do because water is insanely difficult to mimic in pencil. But it was fun, and a great challenge. I'm reasonabl pleased, and there are some bits I really, really love.


This next one, which has also been brutally murdered through the glory of my adorable phone, is probably my favorite accomplishment all year. I've already told you about this one, and besides the fact that it does indeed look realistic and saturated and cool, (from a distance, Mom thought it was oils and not mine) the reason I love it so much is because I really, truly had no idea I could DO that with colored pencils.

It's nice to get it back because my current project is coming out kind of not-so-awesome, so this is a nice reminder of "hey! you do have some awesome in you, I promise!".

And maybe once I figure out how to get the scanner to get off of its ego trip and work properly, I'll show you how much better they are in person. Even though scans aren't exactly in person....shhh.

Lyrics from "The Light" can be found by April Meservy