Giving an Old Painting New Life: Reworking "Oh Deere!"
The painting was technically "done," but it had been sitting in my portfolio, unhung, waiting. So I pulled it back out. My original idea was to keep the tentacles light and atmospheric — but the concept was cool, and the execution just wasn't quite there yet.
Surreal Portraits, Fountain Pens, and Painting Outside My Comfort Zone
I bought a fountain pen in Victoria with my birthday money and then promptly had no idea what to do with it. Flowers and animals are my comfort zone. Surreal portraits are decidedly not. So naturally, I decided to combine the two problems: use the pen I had no excuse for, paint the kind of portrait I had been avoiding, and do it all on cheap paper so I could YOLO my way through a cloud. Here is how it went — honestly, imperfectly, and with a few things I would absolutely do differently.