I really am running out of things to put up here right now, which really is just a sign that I need to do more art. Well in a couple of weeks classes start and I won't be able to avoid it. For the time being here is another piece from the abstract drawing class I took this summer.

This is gouache on paper.

And on a completely different note, have you ever come across a ridiculous captcha? Well I have recently.

How are you ever supposed to type that? Would "x/l(x" work? Anyway, I came across that while making accounts on a bunch of art sites to try and promote some of my paintings. I have seen more ridiculous captchas but this is the worst that I personally have gotten.

I'm starting to run out of paintings to put up. At least ones that are decent in any way. Then I realized I have had more classes than just painting classes. I didn't exactly specify that this was only a painting blog. I think. So anyway. This summer I took my final required drawing class. It was an abstract drawing class in which we explored various different mediums and techniques. It was really fun, and very free. The projects never really had very much in the way of restrictions which left it very open for exploration. Unfortunately (or fortunately in a way), the professor is holding on to some of our work to have a small show to display the work that was made in the class. That means that she still has some of my best things from the class. Doesn't mean I can't put up some of the not so great things.

So here's one:

This was done with graphite powder and some conte crayon.

I think I may give up and giving titles to my posts. I can never come up with anything. I'm not a very creative person...

I'm not sure I have much to talk about so we're just going to get straight to the art.

So here is another one I did early in last spring semester. It was probably finished sometime in January or February. It's one of my larger pieces. It's 34 x 45.5 in. This one was actually in two separate art shows at my university, the big undergrad one and a smaller one just for the advanced and intermediate painting classes.

So after this week is a big training week for supervisors in the cafeteria, then another week, and then classes start! So once classes start I should be able to update this blog with a lot more new stuff. Get excited!

Work, Work, Work, and No Play

This whole trying to sell art thing can get pretty discouraging. So can this blogging thing. I think I'm up to 50 views on my blog and more than half of them are from Russia, and find my blog through a website to get payed while wandering around social websites. I know I already mentioned this but I think it's funny. I can't figure out how my blog would be related to those websites. Anyway, I doubt they actually read this. Let me know if you do! I'd love to talk to some people from Russia anyway. I also have one visit from Macedonia and one from Germany.

More than that though is I'm working in the cafeteria full time, as well as a bit for teaching English. Adding this blogging thing and keeping my Etsy up, which no one has visited my shop in 4 days, I'm getting pretty busy. Basically it's all a lot of work with nothing to show for it. Well, I knew it wasn't going to be easy!

Well on to today's art!

I do believe this one was accepted into the art show last year as well. I'm already forgetting which ones were in there. I don't really have much to say about this one.

Well, now I'm going to have to start pulling out more of my paintings and taking pictures. Maybe even paint some more new things. I'm pretty much out of one's that I've already taken pictures of.

Keepin' It Up

I think I may already be running out of paintings that I have photos of to post. What shall I do? I can start posting not so good things I suppose. Or paint new things. That's a lot of work. I guess I don't have to post as often as I have been. Not many people read this anyway.

 I've found one of the things I enjoy the most about this is the statistics I get through blogger. I get to see who's looking at my blog and all those fun things. There also is Google Analytics which I just recently found out that I can in fact put that to analyse my home page as well as putting the code in my posts. Before it only collected data from the posts that I had the code but not many people actually click into the separate pages for the posts, they just read it on the home page so it wasn't very accurate. Anyway, according to blogger a good portion of the people who visit my page are from Russia, and they come from some other page so I think they're not actually reading it. Now that I have Google Analytics on it I can tell because it lets me know how long each person stays on my page. Is that a bit creepy?

 Anyway, here's a quick art thing because this is an art blog after all.

This is another small one, and pretty old-ish. One of the first ones I painted at the beginning of last semester I believe. It's only 11 x 13 in. I'm a little fond of it. That might be because it was accepted into the art show. Every spring semester MSU has a big art show for all the undergrad students. You're allowed to submit up to four pieces in every medium. Many people will submit as much as they can in every medium they have things in, so four paintings, four drawings, four ceramic pieces and so on. Every year they bring in someone else to judge the pieces. I can't remember who exactly judged it last year, but it was a woman who was the curator for some relatively large art museum somewhere. Anyway, I submitted four paintings and they were all accepted and this was one of them. I was a bit surprised they all got in, especially considering how small this one is. To hang it they just stuck some Velcro on the back, which I thought was funny.

So you should bother me about painting new things because the more people who bother me about it, the more likely I am to do it.