Welcome, my friends, to Provo, Utah! This city has been my home now for three weeks. I live in the heart of Historic Downtown Provo just a minute’s walk to fun shops, an array of delicious restaurants, and the location of the new LDS temple. Oh and let’s not forget that I am only ten blocks from an Asian Market. Ah, bliss! So with a new city to explore and currently jobless, I can engulf myself completely in art.

provo canyon

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I just learned how to animate my illustrations from a good artist friend of mine, Hope. So I played around with one of my pieces, and volia! Magic! Ah, so much fun!

true artist...

Plein air paint. So yesterday, in Rexburg's freezing weather (yeah, freezing in June) me and a couple of friends crosses flooded fields and jumped across rivers (that's exhaggerated) to paint. Monet once boarded a train to paint on sight. When he got to his location of choice, he found that the lighting wasn't right and took the train right back home. True artistry. Or insanity, you're choice. Check out our adventures. Oh and excuse our crazy outfits. It's not part of the art thing, we just weren't prepared for the weather.

i clearly don't belong due to my lack of preparation.

i forgot a bottle of water, so i had to use the mossy river water near by for my watercolors. yum.

6 weeks til...

BFA opening peeps. I'm working my butt off to get everything finished. I've taken over the art office. There's seriously art supplies everywhere! This is the life; stress, art clutter, and dirty hands. 

fun illustrations...

Meet Dadu Shine, a wonderful illustrator. Her work is simple and profound. Check out my favorite piece...

I looove this color palette. Beautiful! OH and she doesn't only do conceptual illustration BUT fashion illustration as well. Follow her on tumblr called i don't like clothes. She's amazing! Enjoy and have a happy weekend.

art night....

It was my first ever art night! Art night is when students and professors gather together on Thursday and create art together. There's mostly always food involved. We noshed on an array of cheeses&crackers, shortbread, and pie crust covered in sugar& cinnamon and dipped in raspberry jam. Pretty amazing. Our concept, the brain. We started off with our piece, and then passed them around so we could add a little bit of ourselves to everyone else's piece. You can check out the work on my tumblr, but here's some of the fun we had last night after our art making.

holy cow....

Hello hello! So I'm checking my email, instead of doing work like a good student, and I happen to land upon good news! Ok peeps, you know how I like to post about new artist I find. Well, my recent stalkee, Rebecca Green commented on the post and she said she liked my work! I know I probably sound really childish, but for some reason I feel like there's this line separating the professional artists and the loser amateur wanna be student artists. I am that loser amateur wanna be student artists and knowing that some cool and professional crossed that line to greet me is just mind blogging. Again, I know it's not a big deal, but it kinda is. Ah, still freaking out! But seriously, not a big deal........

oh just baking...

There are times when I just want to bake instead of draw because at that moment that's what I'm inspired artistically to do. So my Saturday was spent mostly sitting on the sofa watching 30 Rock, but then I found inspiration in chocolate.

I love that you can make a chocolate cake without any flour. It's amazing what eggs, sugar, and chocolate can do. Work wonders! Chocolate Pudding Cake. You can find this lovely recipe on Martha Stewart dot com. 

new artist find....

Hello peeps. So I discovered a new artist introduced to me by my friend at The Fishfry. Meet Rebecca Green! She's a remarkable illustrator and fine artist. Here's a variety of her work. Check it...

Beautiful work right?! Well, I hope you're inspired and I wish you a happy weekend!

so i've just been printing....

Oh, just spent Friday working on my third plate for my BFA.