brannyrocks

feeling blocked

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:18:40 GMT

I'm feeling a bit blocked, I have this idea for a painting that I want to do and yet, I just can't seem to get in a doodle mood. I tend to get deep in though, just make these doodles, random drawings, of patterns or shapes over and over, yet right now I want to capture those with paint and I just don't seem to be able to. Part of me is wishing I would have saved the ones I've done at work, and that I could just transfer them to canvas, but its not possible because I have this annoying habit of throwing them out. I've been told they have a tribal feel and one of the guys at work thinks I should do them up as tattoo's. Its just had right now, because I've been jotting down ideas, and just wish I could finish this one idea. I'm thinking that I need to get some "canvas paper" to work with, less expensive than using my real canvases, and I could do some trial runs of my ideas.

I've had a bit of paint splurge, buying some liquitex paints, which are much easier to mix colors with. I've been learning how to mix colors that I've seen in the store as well, which means fewer paints to buy and more control over my colors.

Nov 12, 2007

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:05:34 GMT

Well this past week has had its ups and downs. Things haven't been going easy for me. Today I went to the gym. It helped a tiny bit with my mood. I just have to keep going, sooner or later it will help relieve the stress and other thoughts in my head. I get so overwhelmed sometimes. Well I need to go figure out what I am having for lunch.

Nov 8, 2007

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:12:42 GMT

I am finally settling down and setting up a schedule, for myself, I'm trying to figure out the details but I am thinking tomorrow I willl write down my plans, and then starting saturday I will start and stick to it. Planning time for the gym, art and studying.

Nov 8, 2007

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:10:45 GMT

Randomish thoughts on my current situation

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:59:16 GMT

Another day, I've been thinking about a lot of different things, I've been thinking about the different goals I have in my life right now, to get down to a healthy weight, to work on my art, find away to get my work out there trying to make a go at some sort of artistic career, learn new things, become more disciplined at things, so I am able to achieve these goals and other one. Some days life just seems so much harder then I imagined it would be. I want to get back the sense that I could do or be anything. I've been doing a lot of reading, watching and listening, all of which I believe will help me to create this plan for my life and help me to get where I want to be going. I just need to keep working on it, and have enough faith that I will get there. I am trying to focus on the path of success rather than failure. I need to truely believe that I can do this, because that is the only way that things will work out in this life.

Writer's Block: Happy Halloween!

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:12:21 GMT

I'm carving pumpkins and handing out candy.

Boo! How did you celebrate Halloween?

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feeling a bit annoyed

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:24:36 GMT

Somedays are just rough, right now I want to talk to a friend of mine but I can't. Which really sucks a lot. Need to get my head sorted about a bunch of things, which I'm not sure what to do about them yet. I was doing so good at keeping things together, but right now, I'm back to that sense of what do I do. I don't want to talk to my husband about it because I know what he will say, plus I have something slightly unpleasant to say to him, because he wants to sit down and talk. ughh... I need a vacation from my life for a few days.

Oct 27,2007

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:07:10 GMT

Well I've decide that I will move my blog here from 360, I was using live journal, which I may still use, or the blogger account that I just created. I guess I will be doing a bit of trying to see which I like best.

transfering enteries

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:56:57 GMT

So right now I am getting so annoyed because i have this habit of putting things off, I keep meaning to transfer my enteries from 360 to here, but have put it off, so now a bunch of them have disappeared, then reappeared, so I'm not sure what is going on and if i will be able to get them all over here or not. I need to find some more time to do it.

finished collage

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:09:05 GMT

So this is the finished collage, I have to take some photos of the other one I've just finished.

I justed started a third one, on a very large canvas, 16x20, and bought 2 more canvases today along with some paints. I didn't think about how much paint I would use up on such a big piece.

collage 2

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:52:45 GMT

Collage 2, still un-titled, and I need to add the word love to the bottom right corner of the collage.

I've been working on a lot of pieces lately, in my journals, and on canvas. I'm hoping to start a large canvas this week and get a series of 4 smaller ones as well. I'm thinking I will stick with the heart theme unless something else sparks my interest.

What Do You Have To Say? - Two Tickets to Paradise

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:23:36 GMT

If you won two free round-trip plane tickets anywhere in the world, where would you go and who would you bring?

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Humm... that would be a tricky one, right now I'm really wanting to go so place warm, so it would either be some carribean island or it would be to India. India has always had this strange draw for me, so most likely I pick India. I'd probably take my husband.

another picture of my current collage

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:25:48 GMT

My current work in progress. I'm finding it interesting, taking pictures at each major step in the process. I've found a fun way to create the papers that I want using my printer. I love different fonts and scripts, so for the heart I found tons of quotes on love, saved them to word then printed them in fonts and then tore the pages up in different sized strips, then used a glaze base mixed with paint to color the paper. I'm already thinking a head and going to look online for international dictonaries to look up defination of different words and create a new "paper" for fun.

I did a trial run with another heart last night that didn't look right, it came out a purplish-red, and just didn't look right, but I have an idea to do another collage similar to this one using a blue background and some hand written words, rather than stencil.

I think I'm on a bit of a heart and love kick right now.

More lyrics

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:51:22 GMT

ROB THOMAS LYRICS

"Streetcorner Symphony"

It's morning

I wake up

The taste of summer sweetness on my mind

It's a clear day

In this city

Let's go dance under the street lights

All the people in this world

Let's come together

More than ever

I can feel it

Can you feel it

Come on over

Down to the corner

My sisters and my brothers of every different color

Can't you feel that sunshine telling you to hold tight

Things will be alright

Try to find a better life

Come on over

Down to the corner

My sisters and my brothers there for one another

Come on over

Man I know you wanna let yourself go

Some people

It's a pity

They go all their lives and never know

How to love or to let love go

But it's alright now

We'll make it through this somehow

And we'll paint the perfect picture

All the colors of this world will run together more than ever

I can feel it

Can you feel it

We may never find our reason to shine

But here and now this is our time

And I may never find the meaning of life

But for this moment I am fine

trying to move stuff from 360 to here

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:37:13 GMT

Wow, I think I'm liking this format better than 360, I'm sure it will take me sometime to get it all figured out, but so far so good. I'm sure it will be a slow process trying to move things to here, I may not move some of my entries. I'm loving that it will let me decide who can read these, which means I don't have to think about what I'm writing so much, and if I want to keep an entry private I can. I'm looking forward to learning more about this site. I love it already with the spell check.

trial run collage

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:43:56 GMT

So this is a bit of a trial run for my larger canvas piece. it was done in my journal.

current collage

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:38:26 GMT

Okay so this is what my canvas looks like so far. I'm planning on doing some more work to it tomorrow or friday, since I'm going to work early today and tomorrow its looking like friday.

So my next steps are to build the heart that will be attached to the canvas, I've found a ton of quotes on love that I've printed out in different fonts and am going to tear up and apply to water color paper.Once that dries, I will paint it, using a glaze base. I'm thinking I might do a test run of colors to use, and see how things work out. I was going to use reds, but am now thinking about using the copper color or dark reds, or possible a beige color. I will probably do a couple of tests to see what I like best. I had envisioned it with dark reds, but the color I was planning on using looks like a dark pink/purple color when mixed with the glaze, so now I'm re-thinking my plan. Its funny how easy this piece has been to work on.