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

Like the title says its obvious I have some catching up to do!  So lets start with TusCon.   This was my first time having a dealers table.  And it was a blast!  I met so many neat people.  And a lot of them were so nice to let me take a picture of them!

This guy was my dealer neighbor.  He makes props and various models.  He was selling some of his bust (Luke and Terminator) and collector items for really good prices.

Before I took this picture this guy told me he had to get into his “Teddy Roosevelt pose”.    He had such a light hearted personality.

This guy was awesome! Not only was he an awesome look alike but he had a strong Scottish accent.  He was hilarious to talk to to boot!

This gentleman played some beautiful celtic music while in the dealers room.

This was an interesting bellydancing performance.  Their costumes were really neat but the dance started out slow.  I was starting to lose interest until they…

starting balancing swords on their heads!  For some reason that got them dancing and moving their hips!

I wish I had more pics of people I met and even us!  My husband and I dressed up steampunk and then totally forgot to take pics of ourselves!  I even met some great artist like : Jessica Feinberg,  Artlair , and Emily Smith, nightengale .  You should definitely check out their stuff.

Hopefully my next post will be sooner than later but now I have some projects that need to get done before Christmas.   I’ll chat with ya later!

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 wonderful weekend! Hiya and welcome to my blog! I had so much fun working the Tiny Army Booth during the Phoenix Comicon. There were so many people to talk to and so many different costumes! To tell the truth, I never been to a convention before (at Leprecon I just put art in the art show and didn’t participate in anything else – that was a mistake) so everything was new to me. I did sell some of prints I brought, but it was the experience that I was there for. I learned so much from my fellow artists and had tons of fun! Here are some pictures that I took:

I was blown away at how awesome these costumes were. I wonder how much time it took to put on the makeup?

This is the booth of the founder of Tiny Army, Daniel Davis. He’s a pretty awesome guy and has a fashionable mustache.

I was actually a little late in taking this picture. What I wanted was what happened before that. The Power ranger guy was walking by a group of kids when one of them stopped him and asked if he was a power ranger. He was immediately surrounded with children that were looking up at him in awe. That was the shot I wanted, but I was a little slow in getting my camera.

There were tons of bounty hunters in fact there was a whole booth for Star Wars, no surprise really.

Speaking of Star wars, my son and husband came in near the end of my shift and we walked around together. Marius (our son wearing the white w/ black lines shorts) thought R2 was so awesome. This R2 moved and beeped like the real thing, it was pretty impressive!

A quick shot of the Penguin.

This guy was pretty awesome. As he was looking at my art I pulled out my camera. He then pointed out that I had one of those “soul stealing machines”. I should have asked him if I could have a piece of his soul but I just asked to take his picture. After that he gave me a flier for the TusCon, a sci-fi/fantasy convention that be in Tucson, AZ in November. After looking it up I’m planning on getting my own booth there this year!

On Saturday my son got to meet Mario!

I wasn’t there when this picture was taken but from what my husband told me Marius mustered up the guts to tug on the Storm Troopers arm to ask him for a picture, then afterwards the Trooper gave him a high five!

This was a must have picture. This guy did an awesome job with this costume!

I asked the blue lady for a picture and got Lando in the background!

Like I said there were some amazing costumes here!

I’m not sure what these costumes are from but I thought they were pretty cool!

Again not sure what they’re from but great costumes.:D

And this one was just plain cute!

Though I spent most of my time in the dealers area there was one place I wanted to go for a couple minutes. Three actors; Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, and Wil Wheaton, from Star Trek The Next Generation were there and I just had to take pictures of them. Yes I’m a Trekkie and proud of it!

Sadly I pulled a stupid and didn’t take pictures of the booth I was at, or any of artists that were at the booth with me, but the least I can do is link you up to their websites.

Fabein: http://fabienbadilla.com/

Fabein was a lot of fun to hang out with and he was selling some awesome stickers about having a emegency Zombie plan.  Do you have a plan in case there are Zombies?

Wesley: http://www.nearbeyond.com/

Wesley is a 6’7″ nice guy whom even though he gets a lot of tall jokes just smiles and laughs with everyone.  And I always love looking at his art.

Ken Jacobson: http://www.penart.com/

A quiet guy with amazing art (make sure you look in his latest stuff for his picutre of King Kong and Godzilla shaking hands)!  Ken is so nice, I forgot to bring something to eat with me and about when I resalize that he came in a chicken wrap and offered half of it to me without knowing my shortage of food.

Gilead

He is just great to hang out with.  He has wise things to say and funny things also.  You just can’t help but like him!:D

We made it to the annual Arizona Renaissance Festival on opening day this year. A much better experience for us than when we attended 2 years ago during its final weekend. The crowds were a lot smaller, the people were full of energy, and my son let us enjoy most of it.    One of the things I missed was enjoying the musical performances, my son, sadly, doesn’t show much interest in that sort of thing and feels he must express it verbally during the performance.  The sacrifices of a mother *sigh* oh well.  But with that aside everything else was great!  We saw some great juggling and tightrope walking and of course the JOUSTING!  We were rooting for the blood thirsty knight – it was pretty awesome!

The villagers were great too, if not a little weird.  A man was trying to sell his niece and nephew to us for 2 pence each, I had to turn down his offer as my son is like having 3 children in one, I don’t need more.  Not long after that I found myself playing match maker for a young man’s mother…who was a potato.  I advised a radish for I thought the potato might find it rather hot!  Then there was a fairy, I must admit there was something other worldly  about her presence.  The children around her (including my son) were just captivated by her mute, innocent gestures and by the music of her two-pipe flute.

The shops were fun to walk through, they gave my husband and I ideas for some costumes that we would like to make and some great ideas for my art.  I tried on some feathered hats and a corset that I thought would go well with a costume idea I had. Too bad the prices for those things are outrageously high at the faire’s.