30 day drawing challenge!

Behold, a post! Too long delayed, without much in it. Anyway, my husband and I are doing a 30 day drawing challenge together, so I thought I'd post my drawings each day. That means you get a post almost every day this month! Hopefully this burst of artistic activity will help me to create (and blog!) more consistently. So here's what I drew today:

Tiny Self-Portrait!

So there you have it. It was a small, quick sketch, about 2.5 inches high... Let me know what you think!

New Photo

So, I got another wedding photo all gussied up. I just plain used the "poster edges" filter on photoshop... I usually don't do just one filter, but it made it look like a comic book cover or something, and Michael loves comic books, so I left it that way. Sometimes I guess simplicity is best.

Me and Handsomeface, smooching.
Also featured: my exorbitantly effusive train.

On an unrelated note, I'm knitting a sweater. I'm using the o w l s pattern by Kate Davies. I should post progress pictures, but I don't have any right now... (I'm a bad blogger!) This is my first sweater, and will be my first time knitting with double pointed needles and my first time making cable designs. I'm really excited! Anyway, I'll try to get pictures done sometime soon and post them. Until then, goodbye, and thanks for reading!

Items for Sale

Hello, readers! I just thought I'd let you know I have a few items for sale. One is a necklace and earrings set, one is a painting. I was going to sell them at a silent auction for charity, but turnout was low and the amount of bids was lower, and they didn't sell. If these are bought, all the proceeds will go to Donate a Smile, a nonprofit organization that provides dental help to the Central African Republic. Please visit their webpage; it's a much needed organization! Here are the items I'm selling. If you have questions or would like to buy them, contact me at beth.jennys@gmail.com.

Necklace and Earrings  Set ~ $15

Pie Painting ~ 8 x 10 inches ~ Watercolor and Colored Pencil ~ $20

Retro Photo

Well, I just spent some time retouching a photo to use in thank you notes for my wedding (so late... fie upon me), and then thought the photo I was working on would look nice if it had a vintage black and white look. I've always liked old photos; they have so much personality. I found a good Photoshop tutorial that helped me out; I've done modern looking black and white photos, and vintage looking sepia ones, but never a 1940's/50's looking black and white. I like the way it turned out quite a bit, so I thought I'd share it with you. Thanks for reading!

Michael and Elizabeth ~ 10/11/12

Finished Pie

So, I added detail to the pie picture using colored pencil, so here's the final product! I wish I had started it earlier so I could have spent more time on it; It only took me about an hour in total. Still, it's not bad. What do you think, dear readers?

3.1415926, all finished.

Upcoming Projects

Well, I'm finally starting to make art again! Tonight I started a piece that I'll be putting in a silent auction to raise money for the organization Donate A Smile... It's going to be watercolor and colored pencil, and I'm done with the watercolor part!  I've lost my small watercolor brushes, so the detail will be added with colored pencil. The proportions in the photo are a little off... I took it with my webcam, so the picture isn't very good quality. The painting is a bit wider than this photo shows. It needs a lot more detail, but I'm happy with the colors so far.

3.1415926

Once that's done, I'll be working on a picture of the Little Point Sable lighthouse for my Aunt. She paid me way in advance for it so that I could buy my wedding circlet. Hopefully I'll have both done before Christmas so I can write another post soon! Thanks for reading!

I'm Married!

Hello to any readers that I still have! I'm married! Now I'm working on cleaning and organizing my apartment, and then hopefully I'll start making things and posting them again. In the meantime, here are a few pictures of me getting married. Hope you like them! My brother Ben took the last two photos... He's pretty terrific. He shot those with the sun setting behind us and they barely needed touching up because he's just that good at lighting. Just thought I'd brag about him a little before I finish up. Again, enjoy the photos, and thanks for reading!

Me in my dress. I designed it, and Kimberly Lynch of
thedressmakersshop.com made it. She's a genius.

This is me and my amazing husband, Handsome McHandsomeface...
more commonly known as Michael.

Me, Michael, and our posse of awesome attendants.