ewwie, ashes. Glad everyone is doing well though and that all is back to the way it should be. I miss our Kealani's lunch breaks too =(. I miss good/cheap food also, i totally took it for granted.
I'm getting close to being done with the white one. The image posted is a detail picture and only a small portion of the canvas. The first deer painting does have hands in the painting. the photo is just bad and cut off there because i wasn't finished yet. sorry about that. And actually she has hooves (hooves? hoofs?). Thanks for the tips on the drawings I'll try that in my next one. By the way, my last drawing from that class totally sucked. Mainly because my teacher won't let me draw on newsprint any more and had me draw on this fancy paper that was really rough. know of any good paper to try? Oh I also wanted to ask about an artist book you showed me a while back. artist from the seventies I believe really large paintings of rather morbid/political subject matter. I can't remember his name maybe you can help me out?
in one of my classes the other day we a had a discussion involving Andrew Wyeth, that made me happy. Oh! and during a critique where i was showing my progression from the last painting of the deer women to the current white one, a girl told me I should look up Odd Nerdrum. She asked if I had heard of him and I was like YES! very exciting ^-^ hhhuuugggeee compliment that my work could somehow even somewhat relate to him.
I love the cornucopia head, it is totally awesome. Zoe's brother sounds like a crack up. But seriously, that painting is incredible. I love the way the girl exists in the environment and lighting you created, its really beautiful, i like the feeling I get from it =). it's a real jaw dropper. Our buddy Odd would be stoked i think =P. I'm assuming this will be in your show in LA, if so I can't wait to see it in person. I bet that's a whole other story. My mother saw the painting on the blog before me and called me and said "are you near your computer? because you have to see Vanessa's new painting!" pretty epic.
I will think more about the arrow, thanks for your thoughts on it, can't wait to hear more.
P.S. entered the deer lady into a student work group art show. i was one of the only ones rejected from it. haha =P oh wellz