Apologies for being terrible at the livejournals! Rachel is begging me to post these XD And I'm not sorry that she is ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything in my art tumblr for years, but I was struck with the need to do Tolkien fanart and there seems to be a really nice, thriving Silmarillion fandom over there. So I drew a picture of Thranduil. If you like, have a look!

I started taking an oil painting class in September, and this past Thursday, I signed my first painting! It was thrilling -- everyone clapped for me <3 I enjoy painting with oils so much. I learned to oil paint when I was in elementary school, taking a class in my slightly-crazy painting teacher's breezeway, with the wood stove blazing at all times ( Read more... )

Last weekend, Rachel and I went to one of my favorite places in the world: the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Rachel’s library has a membership so we can reserve passes to go down there whenever they’re available. Rachel got up early to put the egg strata we’d made the day before in the oven, so it came out hot and smelling delicious when I woke up ( Read more... )

OMG you guys - so, I used to use Photoshop all the time, even though it was a way toned-down version that came with my tablet... but when I upgraded my operating system version to Lion, my Photoshop was no longer supported. I don't have the cash to buy a more recent one, so was trying out GIMP, which worked okay... except that GIMP and my tablet ( Read more... )

I'm extremely excited to announce that we've put our first original art prints up in Cerulean Tree Studios! They're pagan-inspired illustrations done in ink and professional art markers. You may remember one from the Yule edition of Nature Nurtured :) We only have two prints right now (both available in 5x7 inches and 8x10 inches) but we're ( Read more... )

Remember back when I bought a Hujoo Yomi plastic BJD so I could practice faceups?

Himawari thinks your soul looks yummy.

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I've been following a bunch of tumblrs lately (mostly focused on faeries and mori girl fashion and cute lesbians) and I came across a really adorable one full of drawings (misskattoart) that made me want to draw too. So I'm attempting to draw one picture a day - even if it's just post-it note art - and post it on tumblr. Maybe I can actually keep ( Read more... )

I forgot these pictures in my last post! And Rachel says they should get their own post, so here they are XD

( Athelthryth and Faethuil, our LOTRO characters, and Kyrielle and Illian, two other characters of ours. )

I've been trying my hand at making chainmaille jewelry, and I found it really fun. Tiny little extremely shiny circles that fit together in patterns! For some reason that's really satisfying XD I had a little difficulty starting up because I had crappy materials AND a crappy tutorial (blurry pictures and skipped steps and typos in important number ( Read more... )