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Daily Creativity: Fat Little Mermaid

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Fat Little Mermaid - Daily CreativityDaily Creativity: Fat Little Mermaid

Last night I drew a common character a bit more fitting to my personal body type. I drew a Fat Little Mermaid, and I think she looks cute, and warm. I didn’t take too many liberties other than her size, though I think in the future I might make her more in my own style. I’ve thought a while about redrawing popular characters to make them chubby, I’ve seen it done before and it always looks cute to me. I painted this with ArtRage on my iPad. I wasn’t able to upload it until after class today.

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Daily Creativity: Love Reading – Love Your Body

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Love Reading - Daily Creativity - Love Your BodyDaily Creativity: Love Reading – Love Your Body

I love reading, and the photo (by and I believe of PinUpRubyMoon on tumblr) that inspired this piece made me think that the composition was all about someone loving reading and being engrossed in a book. Taking that into account I though I’d paint this in the colors of books, leather and paper. So I limited my pallet to browns and slight yellows. The title could use some work, but I’m not the best at naming pieces. If you’ve been following my Daily Creativity project you already know this.  I’m putting this also in the Love Your Body series of paintings though it’s not a nude and it’s not focused primarily on a body. There is a body, but to me the main idea of the composition is reading.

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Daily Creativity: Gabourey Sidibe – Part of my Love Your Body Series

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Gabourey Sidibe - Love Your BodyDaily Creativity: Gabourey Sidibe – Part of my Love Your Body Series

I’m a huge fan of Gabourey Sidibe, ever since she came on the scene I have loved her. She’s amazingly talented, she has made me cry, cheer, and feel so many emotions through her acting. She seems to have an amazing attitude and personality and is a personal role model on how to deal with haters.  She’s also sexy as hell and so beautiful, I have a bit of a girl crush on her.  I’ve drawn her before, but I think this is the first time I painted her. This is also the first time I’ll be tweeting her my art, I’m really happy with this piece. I love the pose and composition so much, and hope I did the photo justice. (it’s from a magazine shoot, if you know which one let me know and I will credit it. I found the image around the net uncredited.)

4×6 Watercolor

Work in progress pictures below

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Daily Creativity: Pluto – Everyone’s favorite planetoid!

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Daily Creativity: Pluto - Everyone's favorite planetoid!Daily Creativity: Pluto

I love Pluto, and not in a hipster “It deserves to still be a planet way.” It’s a planetoid and that’s cool. It may not be a planet but it’s still part of the family. Thanks to New Horizons we have seen some amazing images of this planetoid, including the iconic heart shape on the surface. With that in mind suddenly Pluto became much more interesting to paint. I have already painted Mars (currently on display in Tek’s office at the school), Neptune, and Jupiter, this is just one more for the solar system series. I’m working my up to Saturn, the rings make me nervous, I want to do them justice.

4×6 Watercolor

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Daily Creativity: Embarking on Self Love! Love Your Body

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Embarking on Self Love - Love Your Body - Daily CreativityEmbarking on Self Love, another piece in the Love Your Body series. This was inspired by a conversation about some fat shaming art and I wanted to turn the title of that art into something positive and uplifting. I painted my figure in yellows and oranges because I wanted her to seem like she was glowing, glowing with love. I then used a heart to be perhaps a little too literal about the concept, but it also marches some oil paintings I’ve done for a show, but not shared online, yet. Looking in a mirror is one of the most evocative images I can think of when it comes to self image, so I think that fits too.  I painted this in watercolors much like many of my other recent paintings. I really like the control and color that I get from watercolor. Plus it lets me paint without spending multiple days on a project and having to wait over a week for it to dry.