Showing posts with label Dogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dogs. Show all posts

Monday, May 28, 2012

Pressure

"Hermits have no peer pressure."
~ Steven Wright
 So. I'm still pretty vague about this Blog "Thing". I think mostly I do it because Other People do so I should do too... Right? That is pretty much the reasoning as well that put me in the position of focusing on an art career later rather than earlier in life. For me, there was always this feeling of society pressuring me to have a "real" job to make enough money and live "decent". Even though it was entirely myself pressuring me with what I thought were other people's perceptions and expectations of me. I think a lot of it was thinking it was necessary for that whole Love and Relationships thing.

I finally decided (a couple months back) that perhaps jumping from one unhappy unfulfilling job to another and getting no where with either a real job or the art was probably not so conducive to being happy (and secondly, for success). So for now, I'll just be happily working a few days a week in a bookstore (Chapters) and focusing on art. Finally! Although, I still keep having this urge to go back to full-time just because of a potential love interest... But I've resisted my past stupidity so far... *cough*

And the art...!

The first one I did for a friend's birthday. I haven't actually titled it but it generally gets called "Tabi's Tiger" in all my filename organization [Oil, 11"x14"]

The second is "Diesel".  A portrait commission [Ink, 8"x10"]

"Tabi's Tiger"
"Diesel"

Friday, January 15, 2010

Barney

Commission, 9x12, Ink




Saturday, December 26, 2009

Clarence

Clarence 11x14, Commission, Ink

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Bucket

I would have to say this was my toughest yet. All the shades of gray, changes of fur direction, and so on. It took three tries to get it right! I also thought I'd start including the photos I'm working from. When the client allows it that is.

Bucket, 9x12, Commission

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Monday, August 3, 2009