I collaged on top of a couple of sketchbook covers over the weekend. Certainly was a fun distraction from my actual homework. The “five thousand mistakes” is from Kim Nicolaides’s The Natural Way to Draw. “The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them.” Pretty good reminder for a sketchbook, eh?

Sketchy doodlyoos and paint thingos.

Made this painting in my sketchbook today after Michael planted this idea in my head. Just thought the idea of my little bulldog friend stretching to reach the door knob with one hand and a little briefcase in the other was too adorable.

Watch me paint!

I’ve had these little 3”x3” canvases for a while now and it’s taken me forever to hunker down for a painting session with them. The nice thing about the size is you can finish a painting in one day and it makes you feel really accomplished, hehe. So here is hopefully the first in a series of tiny paintings done just for fun.

Also, because I am in love with stop-motion animation, I decided to make a time-lapse movie. Paintings take so long to do but when they’re done I almost have no memory of having painted it because I’m just so excited to have finished. At some point I nudged the camera and it lost focus, but it was an interesting experiment anyway. The next one will be better, for sure.