It is very quiet in the blogosphere these days. I like blogs better than Facebook or tumblr or twitter, but it seems that people are all about the social networking sites these days. It may not seem like I do like blogging so much, as I haven't posted much at all, but I feel like I am posting to nobody and that defeats the purpose. I don't know if I'm going to continue blogging, but I may just come around and post once in awhile, just as I have been doing. So, here is a post, whether anyone is going to read it or not. First I will post my Van Gogh man (the book is across the room now, so I can't post the actual name of the painting, as that would involve getting up or googling and I appear to be too lazy tonight to do either). He was done with my Staedtler pens which are fine point, so this is quite different from the Sharpie version that I posted on an earlier date. I do think that this guy (well, the guy that this guy is based on, anyway) is my favorite of Van Gogh's portraits.
And next I am going to post my leaf monsters. When I was out walking one morning, I was crunching through the leaves and thinking about how much I love walking through them and wondering if I could use them for some sort of art project. I picked some up, brought them home, and inspiration struck. I love drawing faces on things. If you look at any of my college notebooks from my undergraduate years (and ridiculously I still have one or two), you will see that I drew eyes and faces all over the margins. And I see faces in everything--in campfires, in peoples' clothing, on floors, on ceilings, etc... So, I drew faces on the leaves. I only had a limited number of leaves, as some shriveled and died before I got to them and were too fragile for me to use. So, I was limited to three and only ended up liking one of them--the one in the middle.
So, the one in the middle (we'll call him Goldie Leaf) had to go through a photo shoot of sorts (well more of a scanning) where he got to hang out in Van Gogh's paintings. I did a bunch, but will only subject you to two of them for now.
You may recognize the masked man as the source of inspiration for my Staedtler pen sketch.
And I thought he looked like he belonged in this painting. He visited the more famous Starry Night painting as well, but I like this one better. But, upon thinking about it, I might as well post Starry Night with Leaf Monster too as he looks like he is flying.
Whew! This turned out to be a long post.
