Lizzy D's Art Blog|My art, projects, and life in general

It is now summer in Arizona and I’m already looking forward to winter. It’s just freakin’ hot down here! And let’s add a story to this hot weather complaint. It was the first week of June when I was taking a right turn at a light just a minute away from my home. All of a sudden WHAM; my car got hit! Lucky for me they had insurance, but unfortunately for us it was the car with AC. It’s been in for repairs it’s taking a while for that to get done. We have been driving our second car that is an old 1990 Toyota Corolla that has no AC. So we have the windows rolled down and hope that all the stop lights stay green- yeah it’s that hot.

What all have I been up too lately? I must apologize for the absence. Since my son got out of school for the summer it’s been hard focusing on my work, but once school starts again everything should settle back into place again. But it doesn’t mean I haven’t done any art, I actually been working on small projects.

These were done for a contest on deviantArt. I was supposed to come up with my own character designs for Fantasy Earth Zero. They were fun to do and were a small enough project I could take them with me when my son was at swim team practice.

Other artsy things I’ve been doing are teaching art classes from home. I’ve been teaching a couple of girl’s watercolors and a younger one arts and crafts. It’s been fun and educational for both me and the girls. I actually find it hard to teach others my techniques because I am so use to doing them myself and they just come naturally with no need for an explanation. Trying to tell someone else how to do it really makes me have to think about each step I go through when I paint!

Another project is something my husband and I are working on. We are making steampunk costumes! He is farther along on his than I am…it’s actually been pretty hard trying to come up with just the right outfit. But once things start picking in the costume making I’ll post the progress if I can.

What a week!  And this next one is going to be about the same! My sister came to visit from Idaho this past week.  It was wonderful seeing her again, but I also had to be a mom to a sick little boy. He got Pink eye and a cold at the same time. But we were still able to have fun and bless my husband’s heart he sacrificed his time to tend to Marius so I was able to hang out with my sister. I owe him big!

I finished this contest piece that I posted about earlier:

I call it Sisters, the three women are related and the main characters of a story written by a fellow artist.  The man who create these ladies has some really neat stuff if you are into martial arts you should check him out at commando massacres.  As for the contest, I got third place.

I am now preparing for the Art-A-Thon that is coming up on Saturday, March 20^th at Jerry’s Art-a-rama on Rural Rd in Tempe, AZ. I’ll be there at 11:00 so if any of you are in the area, stop on by!  Here is a sketch idea of what I’m planning on painting there.

Hello! I hope everyone is doing well this fine day!  Down here in the desert we have been getting lots of rain and it has been a nice 60 degrees.  Winters are wonderful down here but I do miss the snow.  I have been working on a piece the last couple of days for this contest.  Here is a photo of the work in progress:

To tell you the truth, I think I got a little excited when I started on this; it’s bigger than I had planned.  I can’t help it though – these characters were just so much fun to draw!  I am doing this in markers then adding in the details with color pencils.  I was going to post this blog yesterday but I had lost the ability to think straight and couldn’t remember how to get the photo from my camera to the computer.  After the obvious was pointed out to me by my husband I was already done coloring in most of it with markers, so here is the next part:

Now all I have left to do is the color pencil.  My goal is to get it done today but we’ll see how the day goes.  See ya!

-Lizzy D

I’ve been keeping my husband busy this past week with my galleries website’s re-design.  He is such an amazing guy you won’t believe how much work and time he has put into helping with not only my website but this blog and has been teaching me how to use everything along the way.  I’ve designed a new logo that I’m going to use on it and try to incorporate into other places like my business card and maybe on here as well eventually.

There are a few things that I’ve been working on as well. Today I’m starting on a piece for this contest it should prove fun.  I also am getting ready to redo this picture:

I call it “Stubborn” and it was originally from a contest that had a time limit of 24 hrs.  Yep, I was up working on it till 4 in the morning then didn’t win anything.  Oh well, it turned out pretty cool, though it’s not at its best. I’m going to redo it in acrylics with some slight changes and fix some of the things I don’t care for in it.

I’m planning on displaying some art in the LepreCon convention here in Mesa, May, 14-16. I have never done anything like this before so this should prove quite an experience.  I’m hoping I’ll have “Stubborn” done for this event as well as a few others, but I do have some finished ones I’m excited to show to the public. I may also be attending the Phoenix ComiCon this year, and helping out the Tiny Army with their booth. I’ll post more about that when I find out more information.