Upcoming Pieces

So here are a few pieces I want to work on this summer:

I'd like to get a few more religious pieces/sketches out of the way since that's most likely what my BFA will consist of.  No real ideas yet, but we'll see.  I'll definitely have another post or 2 regarding my concept and theme and the story behind it.  Hopefully going back to the original concept will help my work be more focused.  We'll see.

Another topic I want to cover in my art is obviously my foster greyhound, which I told you about in my last two posts.  Now that there's a chance we'll get to keep her longer, I'm putting off sketching her for the time being, but I definitely have some fun drawings planned for her.

A huge focus of my summer work is going to be beach art and pictures of my favorite place in the entire world, Wildwood, New Jersey.  At college, all the professors want art with meaning and dialogue and soul searching.  So every summer, I like to take a step back from all that and just focus on art that makes me feel good.

Similarly, I want to do some fan art pieces for Disney stuff, favorite books, movies, etc.  Just like most artists, I suffer from some severe artist's block and there are times that I just feel no will to create.  I try to be more lenient with myself in the summer since I don't have the luxury of just doing nothing at school, but to work through these blocks, I try to just do stuff that's fun and enjoyable.  Sometimes I just need to remind myself of why I went into a major in the arts and just do something to keep that flame alive.  Some of the art I want to do include references to  Harry Potter, Stardust, Queen (2014 Bollywood movie), Pirates of the Caribbean, Tarzan, and definitely Hunchback of Notre Dame (which incidentally has been inspiring my religious themed artwork as well).

I also plan to finish up a lot of the Disney art I started last summer but failed to finish.  My original plan was to create little pictures that I could put up on my wall in college and create a cool mosaic/collage.

I'm also taking a figure drawing course in the fall, so I definitely have to get back in the swing of drawing people, since I've been avoiding it for a few months now.

There are also some major birthdays coming up regarding my friends and family, and I always make art for people just as a special way to give back and say "thank you" to them, so you can expect to see some works like that as well.  (I have a lovely Corona bottle on a beach picture that I've been working on for a while now that I plan to give to my mother for her birthday so stay tuned).

  I plan to update you guys on my process and sketches and ideas as I go.  I might also make a Facebook page for my art just so I can get the word out more.  I'm also looking forward to using my new Youtube page since my first oil pastel video was so popular.  (Don't worry, I promise the videos will be a lot less awkward now that it's not a school assignment).  And hopefully, you'll see less of me and more of my artwork.  That's all I can think of at the moment.  I just wanted to write everything down so I don't have any excuses next time I tell myself I have no ideas and nothing to draw!