Photoshop Image

This is an image that I can pretty easily say that I'm not going to paint. I do like the original sketch, so I might hang on to it and see if I end up using that idea sometime, but I just don't think this stands alone well, so I'm not going to take this one any further.

Art Journal, part two

Alright, I'm posting some more scribblings here.



Here's another one I plan to photoshop, mainly because I want to see how it looks when it's all cleaned up, solid and bluish. I'm not entirely sure what I could do with this one, but I'm sure I'll figure something out.



This one started out as a neat idea, but came out as a not so neat sketch. Oh well. It's sort of based around how our negative thoughts can affect us physically.

The smoke is there to show a connection to smoking cigarettes, as being pessimistic is similarly damaging and is also a difficult habit to free yourself of.

I love being optimistic.



... Well, this appears to seriously contradict what I just said about being optimistic, but uhm...

This is basically a 'bad things happen to good people' picture, but the wings (they look like fire, yes) are still there to show that there are beautiful things in the world, too. See? Optimism.

Art Journal, part one

As of late I've been messing around with an art journal, so I thought I would post some of my extremely rough sketches.

I didn't have an abundance of good ideas throughout this process, but I came out with some okay stuff, I think.



Cards! Or rather, the little symbols (are they called suits?) that are printed on cards, springing out of one card.
Despite the scratchy lines and bad scanning job, this one is probably one of my favorites, and I plan to clean it up and colour it in photoshop later today.



I was just messing around with shapes here. There's probably not a lot that I could, or rather, would do with this as a two-dimensional piece. However, this would be a pretty fun looking fused glass necklace. I really would love to learn how to make fused glass someday.



Yes, that is a ton of spark-plug-headed, blobby comic people rising from the earth. It's sort of a mental image I get from the internet sometimes. There's a lot of uniformity and overall it's pretty silly, but I like it anyway.

Regarding Toxic Pigments

As someone who is fairly new to the idea of using paint that comes from anywhere other than the local Michael's, I had no idea that pigments could be detrimental to your health. When I found out about this, I thought that it would be a good idea to locate a list of which pigments are toxic and how to handle them (and it's probably a doubly good idea when I take my ever so slight clumsiness into account.) Hey, it's always nice to know what you're dealing with beforehand.

At any rate...

I present to you, internet, a lovely list of pigments, their ingredients, and their hazards:

http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/arthazards/paint1.html

So many of them were classified as highly toxic. Especially when consumed.... Who on earth tried that?