black velvet

"It isn't an easy job to paint oneself, at any rate if it
  is to be different from a photograph." -van gogh

Happy birthday to me! I'm sixteen, yeah! Darn, now I have to update all my profile pages... maybe later. ;) Hehe. I like this piccie. I'm definitely using it in my next layout. She's supposed to be dressed in St. Patricks Day Parade garb in a place with nice tropical weather, i.e. not the Chicago area...

2/24/2003 03:38:19 PM
 

 

Weekend! Yippee! This might be the last in my series of long-haired boys. Just maybe. It's one of the first doodles I made in the little purple sketchbook I got for Christmas. My blue spiral is all full. *sniff* I didn't draw the background tho. Used Painter Classic's image hose to make a semi-convincing landscape, then blurred it in Photoshop.

2/21/2003 09:29:06 PM
 

 

Hmm. I've been trying to draw Tony Vincent for a while now. This is the first one that looks even remotely like him. I'm terrible at fanart. SLIA Feis on Saturday was fun. Terribly chaotic, but what else is new? I got first places in jig and traditional set (the ones that don't count, of course) and second places in reel and hornpipe (which was quite shocking, and good because I'm doing those dances at Oireachtas this year). I sketched plenty during the long car trips and waiting between dances. Now the only problem is scanning the pics in a finishing them.

2/17/2003 10:55:19 AM
 

 

Another sketch. Photoshop enhancement is fun. Ergh, those gridlines are starting to annoy me. Luckily there's only four more pages in my sketchbook, so I can probably use a new one now. Ahhh, a fresh start.

2/13/2003 04:42:33 PM
 

 

From my sketchbook. A guy. In a chair. Whee. I feel semi-sick. And alone. And uninspired. Bleh. Ooh, St. Louis Feis this Saturday. Must practice dance, but I don't feel motivated. Grr.

2/12/2003 04:33:04 PM
 

 

Life's okay I guess. I had to choose my courses for next year already. I'm hoping I won't regret my choices. AP American History, AP Calculus, Advanced Physics, plus the regular stuff. I must be nuts. Actually, I'm not worried about anything being too hard, just about getting too much homework.

2/9/2003 07:19:08 PM
 

 

Yet another Art Club project. We made t-shirts. Mrs. G had stuff for making custom foam stamps, but I decided to go the old brush way. Painting on a shirt with acrylics is quite different from painting on canvas. The thing kept stretching this way and that. It looks pretty funky. I haven't worn it yet, and I'm a bit afraid of washing it.

2/8/2003 10:05:19 PM
 

 

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Sandra. Girl of sixteen. Chicago area. Filipino. Art, design. Graphire 2, Photoshop LE, Painter Classic. 0.5mm mechanical pencil. Open level Irish dancer at Reel Studio. Dreams. Procrastinates. Fidgets. Doodles. Longs for summer.

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Sandra's weblog since July 2002. An online doodle dump and personal site. FYI, Black Velvet refers to neither the band nor the alcoholic beverage. CSS layout works best with recent browsers.
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