Organization is key!

So I got this great art desk awhile back from my Dad... but the problem was that I didn't use it as much as I would like. It was too cluttered for my border line OCD organizational nature. So I got 2 "wall ledges" from Target, and put some of my "in progress" and completed works on the wall (as motivation... and to get them off the desk) and TADA!


Yes... I'm fully aware there are currently 5 projects on my desk... I am a work in progress. I am going to attribute it to being overly ambitious... haha

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Two steps forward, one step back.

To enjoy my last day off I decided to paint. The goal was to fill all the white space so next time I paint I can go in with skinnier lines and details. No such luck, I didn't like some of the brown areas I created before I knew where this painting was going, so I painted them over with white. Oh well... maybe next time I will finish the under painting. On a more positive note, when I was painting the blue I was using more detail... so there is a step in that direction!

(sorry for the weird picture angle... there was a glare from the flash)

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It's as easy as riding a bike

This is one of my favorite photos. I took in on the Rutgers Newark Campus during a "field trip" for my digital photography class senior year. I also had to write a fictional short story to accompany the photo It was about an old man who left the bike, and he died in his home and no one knew. It was a funny story because it started out happy, but twisted into this dark, depressing, lonely story. I remember reading it out loud and by the end I was laughing so hard, my teacher had tears in his eyes from laughing so hard.

I'll be the first to admit my writing skills aren't so great... some people know that more than others. My words sound good in my head, but get jumbled when they come out. Occasionally they do come out well... but that's because I slaved over them. Oh well, at least I can draw a picture of what I'm trying to say. Haha!

Writing is one career I can cross of my list....

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Boxes and slats

This is a really cool drawing I found in my attic recently. It was from a project freshman year of college, 2003. I can't remember it enough to explain it, but it involved boxes suspended in a 1x1 foot cube and slats encasing it like a prison. The pencil drawing was a view from inside my physical model made out of chipboard and plexi-glass.

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4 Score and 5 Years Ago

So it shouldn't be a surprise by now that I don't have the greatest attention span when it comes to big projects. I started this in 2004 during my sophomore year of college (back when I was an architecture student). I recently unearthed it during my move in March, and I am really going to finish it!! Soon....

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Colors of the wind

Yea so this isn't really wind, but I somehow got the Pocahontas "Colors of the Wind" song stuck in my head, so we are going to go with that.

I started this last summer (white and colored pencil on black paper), and never got around to finishing it... it says 2008 on it... I really need to learn not to sign a project before its done. haha.

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Progress

So I only blogged 12 times in May... that's not good! I need to step up my game!!! So here is my bedspread pattern I am working on. It's getting hard now... its not the concentric shapes anymore. It's more random, but I love a challenge! The challenge is to also blog over 20 times, and to go to the beach more this summer... but that's besides the point.

Happy Monday!!


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