Posts tagged painting

oh man, i’ve been meaning to do this one for quite some time. i love randy’s donuts. i wish there were still more kitschy buildings around town. like, why is the brown derby not still in business?! come on now. 

hooray for hollywood! does anyone else wish the sign still said “hollywoodland”? what i wouldn’t give to see that back up on that hill. regardless, as long as i live here, i don’t think the hollywood sign will ever get old. i love it so. 

the last couple of weeks i have had zero motivation to paint. not a great issue to have when you’ve resolved to paint at least once a week. i know it shouldn’t feel like a chore, but if i don’t make myself do it, then i’ll end up like last year only doing two paintings the entire freakin year. marshall suggested i maybe try a different style or subject to get me out of my funk, which was a great idea…but turns out the reason why i paint what and how i do is because i have no other ideas. finally i was so frustrated i just had to get something on canvas, so i ended up with these little guys. nothing special, but i guess the resolution never stipulated that they had to be special paintings, they just have to be paintings. i may go back and outline them in black like my usual style, but i do kind of like the hand drawn quality the non-outlined images have. we’ll see. so these are for the last two weeks and the current week we’re in. i have wednesday off, so i’m hopefully going to regroup in my brain, go to the art store for supplies and inspiration and run around town to take some photos. 

here’s the last painting i did before the slump.

i got a new pen and i’m super annoyed because its doing this bleeding thing on the bumps of the canvas. time to go back to the art store. regardless, i’m still pretty pleased with how this one turned out. 

last weeks painting.

it’s been on my LA bucket list to go into camera obscura for quite some time. i finally did two weeks ago and it was really strange. its attached to a senior center, so it smelled like old people and old people food and was just kind of sad. and then once up there, i think it was broken…there was another girl trying to figure it out with me, but we couldn’t get the “360 view” of santa monica, it was just stuck on a view of the parking lot area if i remember correctly. so that was sad too. ah well, at least now i know. i do still love the building though. 

see last weeks painting here. 

ta-daaa! the last in sunny’s custom series. i love this one too! i think its a little more cartoon-y than even my usual style, but thats cool. and sunny’s in town, too! so hopefully i’ll get to see the lady friend and give her these bad boys ;-)

last weeks painting: 4/52

i’m so proud of this one. i flippin love it! i almost want to keep it for myself, but alas, it is number two in sunny’s four-part series. i’m gonna try and be better and do this weeks painting tomorrow, rather than put it off until saturday night again. but i am pretty excited that i’ve stuck to it thus far. i know its only week three, but still. i think in these three weeks i’ve done one more painting than i did all of last year. thats sad. i hope its not true. anyway…week four comin up!

ta da! painting week two! technically, i painted it a day late, but shh. this is number one in a 4-part series that i’m doing for miss sunny!

you guys, i’m so excited about this resolution. i’ve been wanting to paint this guy for some time now, so here it is - my first painting of 2012! Its the library on ocean park and…i wanna say 31st. i just now realized that i forgot “fairview branch” underneath “library.” oops. i’ll do that as soon as i get home and then promptly post to etsy. 

holy cow it has been forever since i’ve painted anything. until i was faced with the dilemma of a wedding gift for one of my best girls. i couldn’t think of anything that would be appropriate for the couple that i could afford, so i figured i would make them something! then i remembered the scene of their budding romance was a dorm at college which back in the day was a motel with awesome sixties signage - just like i like to paint! so voila - here it is - the downtowner motor inn, now oglethorpe house at the savannah college of art and design. i’m pretty pleased with it, and i hope the newlyweds are too!