just get in there already!

I saw this on a twitter feed from sip wine education.  they said they need it in their house.  I think *I* NEED it more than they do!

I like watching the tv show Downton Abbey, but there is NO WAY I could live like that - servants and the class system. UGH.  however, if someone told me I could have this bell and a servant who responded to it, I would do it.  wouldn't you??

what do you think?

there is a post on apartment therapy about a makeover.  i'm digging this picture except for the weird rug.  i love the bookshelves and the variety of art on the wall.  i love the windows, too.  thoughts?

it is from here.

br ba

i love seeing fun art based on pop culture and fun things to creatively decorate your house with pop culture references that you love, but that are kind of hidden - just look like "random art" from far away.  and thats what this is.

found here.

how cool is that??

new years resolutions

so i'd like to make some new year's resolutions for my apartment and this blog and my art.  yes, i get that i am not posting this until january is almost over.  its still a new year compared to a month ago.  so there.

actually, they are more like goals.  yeah, these aren't resolutions.  goals.

goals

1. take nice photos of my place
2. put photos up on my blog
3. finish woman painting
4. redo art hung above tv (you'll see once i take pics of my place)
5. donate more stuff
6. set up wii
7. paint wine rack black (or some other color??? ooooo.  CRAZY idea!)
8. paint pictures for brothers
9. get some green in the house - most likely cacti  (ha! i thought cactii had to i's.  it does not)
10. declutter some more (although, to be fair to myself, i have done a TON of decluttering since moving here - i'm quite proud of myself)

here is a picture to tease you of my place:

that picture is actually SUPER old.  over a year. my place has changed a lot.  i love it.  i love all the changes.  you'll see soon.

socks

i love when you can buy art on commercial products.  i'm not a huge fan of "fancy" art - all the stuff that is really old and considered fantastic or whatever.  the mona lisa?  yeah, it was cool to look at.  but not my favorite.  BUT i do love these socks.

discovered on boingboing.  i think these could make a fun gift for someone who is in to art.  what sort of cool art have you seen on things you can buy that you liked?

art is everywhere!

let's take a break from me showcasing my painting for me to indulge in some more self-promotion.  :)  growing up, my 12 cousins and i would play pictionary every year at christmas.  my cousin sara and i, my left half, always won.  we just did.  it was a thing.  and then people stopped liking playing.  or, most likely, people started speaking up for themselves and said they didn't want to play anymore.  sara and i could play wherever, whenever, though.  its good fun.  then, the tech world created a way to play pictionary digitally.  enter: draw something.  i have stopped playing only recently (tech issues, and no one plays it anymore).  but before i stopped, i had some pretty darn good drawings that i saved.  so i'll put them here.

Can you figure them all out??

the point is, other than for me to remember my finger paintings, is that art can be found anywhere.  it's easy to become disconnected from the world around us these days.  so, just take a step back and admire.

more black and white

so after my first art class, we got homework.  the assignment was to find a painting we liked, print a copy in black and white and then recreate it.

i went back to my favorite, as described before, charles dwyer, and found a painting i hadn't seen before.

here it is (from gallery m, the gallery in denver i love), bella's call:

isn't that just beautiful??

here is the black and white printed version on 8 1/2 by 11 paper (the lines i drew, which is a painting technique to get sizing and whatnot):

and then here is my painted version:

i quite like how it turned out.  i should try practicing some more.