Watercolor Still Life of a Violin

This painting had tons of unhappy accidents along the way. Violins are a challenge!!

Illustration Friday - "Stay"

I thought would be cute to have a tiny little kid be the boss of a big giant Great Dane. In retrospect I think I could have made the dog's head even bigger.

Here's a closeup detail shot.

Okie Dokie, hope you like it!!!!!!!
Tiff

When I Was A Stupid Kid - DO NOT LAUGH

 When I Was A Stupid Kid, I would often find myself on the receiving end of a hearty chew-out by my mom.

The short pauses between each mini-sermon was the hard part. The uncomfortable silence felt like forever.

O M G she just farted. Dang that was loud. And funny. Crap. Too funny. But I can't laugh now!!!! I'll be signing my own death certificate.

 OH PLEASE, may I be excused?! NO!!!!!!! She's starting up again!!!!!!

 JUST HOLD IT IN!!!!!! Use will power! Control your facial muscles!!!!!!

 WHEN WILL THIS END?!?!

 Finally! Another second and I'd be dead!

And that was a chew-out that was well worth receiving, When I Was A Stupid Kid.

Tiff
ps. I know fart jokes are low-brow, but as comedian Lewis CK once said, "You don't have to be smart to laugh at a fart, but you'd have to be an idiot not to."

Naked Lunch - Kelli Bland

 It's been a while since I got my butt back to Naked Lunch Figure Drawing for Animators. This session's model was Kelli Bland.

 The session is about 2 and a half hours of very short poses, from 1 minute - 7 minutes.

I'm glad I went because I got a fantastic ego boost by having the winning drawing for a free Naked Lunch session! Unfortunately I can't share the winning drawing because I gave it to our model as a token of my appreciation. :) I really hope she likes it! For her sake, I hope to become rich and famous, so that the drawing I gave her might someday be worth something. I'm nice like that! (hehehe)

I hope you enjoyed my drawings! Thank you for visiting!
Tiffanny

When I Was A Stupid Kid - Sibling Rivalry

When I Was A Stupid Kid, I was on the dishing end of a sibling rivalry. On the receiving end was my unassuming, OH-SO-CUTE, Little Miss Perfect, younger sister and roommate, Bonbon (Derived from her name Ebony. E-BON-y). Look at how cute she is.

She was SOOOOOOOOOO cute, that teenaged girls would AWWW and SQUEEEE at how CUTE she was. Seriously, I kid you not. She was just SO CUTE! Look at them big ol' eyes. I tell you, when I was a kid, I found all the gushing quite disgusting!!

In addition to being SOOOOOOOOO CUTE physically, Bonbon, was....

As her name suggests, OH SO SWEET.

AND, to make matters WORSE, while I was an academic lump of coal,

Bonbon was an academic DIAMOND.

The most infuriating thing was that all this was all-natural. She didn't do these things to suck up to parents, or to make me look bad. All this cuteness, this sweetness, this smartness, was ALL NATURAL. No plastic!! She always wanted people to be happy...

... even if you were mean to her!!

And that's how I acted like an jackass, When I Was A Stupid Kid, because disliking Bonbon, is like disliking a puppy or a duckling. What jackass doesn't like puppies or ducklings? You know what I mean!?!

ps. Bonbon grew up just as sweet and cute. If you're a person that gets her angry, you must REALLY be a d-bag.

Watercolor Sketchbook - Dog Park!

I wanted to spoil my dogs today so we went to the dog park!!! Unfortunately the dogs kept splashing on my sketchbook so I stopped painting and finished at home. So this isn't completely an on-the-spot painting. :)

The dog to the left is Gracie, the brown dog is my other dog Honker, and the man in white is my hubby :)

Hope you like my painting
Until next time!
Tiffanny

Watercolor - "Turtle Watching"

Went to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center today to do some painting. The pond at the entrance entices an audience with it's collection of cute little turtles. Unfortunately, from where I was painting, I couldn't see any, so don't try to find any turtles in my painting :)