#2 Love

At first thought I had no idea what I was going to do with this theme. So I thought to myself what do I love? Well I love my family but that has its own theme.... oh duh! I love art! Then I got to thinking about my freshman year in high school, when the sparks really started flaring for my love of art. I remember this one time in art class it must have been a free day. I sitting at the table with my feet propped up trying to figure out what to draw. Of course the teacher didn't appreciate me slouching with my feet on the table so she hollered at me to put my feet down. My response "Uh... I'm working on a still life drawing of my shoes..." and yes I just happened to be wearing my favorite cons that day. For some time after that converse became the thing I loved to sketch the most.

I use to have a whole folder of converse shoe sketches. I tried looking for it the other night but sadly I don't know what happened to it. = (

#20. Fortitude

When the going get tough, the tough get going.

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."    - Albert Einstein (a Pisces)

“Patience and fortitude conquer all things” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (not a Pisces but I like the quote)

37. Eyes

Simple but fun eye collage created via photoshop. Happy New Year! 40 themes down for 2011 and 2012 is looking bright.

80. Words

What better words than from my favorite kids book author Dr. Suess! It started with a pencil drawing but realized I made a pretty big oops after it was all done. Oh well it looks a lot better in color anyways. I was actually thinking of doing a whole series but I have a lot of ideas floating around in my head and I hate to put them off. Maybe I’ll come back to it. Here are other inspiring quotes by Dr. Seuss.

·         “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

·         “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

·         “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

·         “I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

·         “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

·         “If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”

·         “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

·         “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

·         “If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up”

·         "We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."

·         "It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,for the places and people you're lucky you're not."

·         "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads."

Here's a rough sketch of the next one I was thinking of doing.

78. Drink

Dr. Pepper anyone?

So this is actually kinda old. I built it back in 2009 for an art show. It took a little more than 2 large trash bags full of recycled Dr. Pepper cans. At the time I worked with a guy that drank at least 4 or 5 cans a day so it didn't take long to accumulate the amount needed. Sadly, the table wasn't very functional because it lacked a strong structural support. Two of the legs broke after the art show and I never took the time to fix it... eventually I recycled all of it.... I'm kinda regretting it now.

Anyway, I came across this picture when I was doing some clean up on my computer I thought it would make for a nice change up from my recent sketches.

38. Abandoned

Have I abandoned my project? That's a negative ghost rider! I've just been a little busy creating art for a different audience and none of it has really seemed to fit my themes. I'm sorry.

I created this in my studio art therapy class on Monday. It's been frustrating the last few weeks because I feel like I haven't been able to produce anything worthy lately. However, there is nothing better than picking up a pencil and getting that creative vibe.

93. Give Up

Inspiration = Linkin Park. I've been kind of lazy the last month... no excuse. Anyway, I started back to school for my last semester. So excited! I ended up adding a last minute class ART THERAPY STUDIO! I absolutely loved the art therapy course that I took last semester and it helps soooo much with stress levels. For this course we basically get to make our own art projects and work on them for 2 hours in class every week. I really hope this will help me add new artwork to my challenge every week. I've had the idea for this theme for a while now but I just hadn't taken the time to do it. First class of art therapy studio = success!