Saying goodbye to summer...

Its official. Summer is gone. Well, after today it will be anyway. I had lunch with an old friend and the boyfriends today, and it was great to catch up. Now its time to get ready...oh how I am dreading it! Where has the summer gone? Here are some things that remind me of this summer...

Working on my bike.

Late nights watching Sons of Anarchy.

Galveston.

Long road trips.

And new beginnings. 

The Sketchbook Project

So sorry its been so long since my last post. But with school starting next week, we've been trying to get in as much summer as we can! One thing i've been doing a lot of is working on my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project. For anyone who doesn't know about it already, its a project put on by the Art House Co-op, were you are sent a blank moleskine, given a theme (or you can choose from a list), and then you create your sketchbook based on that theme...My theme is "Its raining dogs and cats". I know it seems backwards to me too...but thats what they had it as. If your interested, you can click on my link to the right. Theres also a video at the bottom of that page that explains it a little better...

This is what the sketchbook looks like when you get it...

This is my cover...I titled it "..And other stuff too." As in, its raining dogs and cats, "and other stuff too."

I drew rain drops on each page, then im going to cut out pictures of animals and put them inside the raindrops...

Like this...

After I fill up all of the pages with animals, i'm going to go back and draw around them...some things will be funny, and some things wont...I want this to be a fun project but I want it to have a purpose too...

The books will tour to various cities, including Austin and San  Francisco, then finally make there final stop at the Brooklyn Art Library were they will live forever! This label is important, because its how people find my sketchbook. All you have to do is go ask for my name and they'll find it.

What I really like about this project is that anyone can participate. And lots of different people do! Everyone from famous artists, to children's finger painting. This is probably the first post of many on my little sketchbook, so I hope yall enjoy it! :)

Adventures: with a throw away camera.

Sometimes its just fun to buy a throw away camera, and go wild you know? There aren't any feelings of pressure to get "that" picture, because its not expensive film, but you still have the fun of not getting to see every picture until its developed. This time, since we went to the beach, I thought it would be fitting to buy a waterproof throw away camera. Some of the picture turned out pretty neat. I think there was a error in developing, because there are some tears on some of the film...but I felt like being nice to the little girl at Walgreens today. Besides, it WAS just a throw away camera after all...:)

Polaroid Film = my candy.

I finally ran out of my of my Polaroid film. Well, my actual Polaroid brand film anyway. I took the last picture every from Polaroid today, and I actually didn't even realize it was the last one. Im glad it was a good picture though. But the up side of that is that I can finally dig into my Impossible Project film! I cant wait to finally get to use it!

I took some really fun pictures this weekend polaroid and not, but I haven't had time to upload and scan them yet, so for now I am posting some of my favorite polaroids from different people...:)