South Park Grimm Witch

I HATE being sick

I've been constantly sick for about 4-5 months now and I'm going crazy. If it's not one thing it's another. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. The real downer is I don't get to do the cool things that put the cherry on the ice-cream of life. Jasper Jones, at the MET, closing today, can't go, sick. Damn it. I'm sure they will have other Jones shows in the future but it's the principle. Damn illness and damn students for making me ill. Meh

Ravel-what?

I am now posting on Ravelry, a knitter's forum. It's nice having a community of knitters to get ideas from, tips, and feedback on your own work.

For Sanity's Sake

Ok, I don't know what will become of this blog in the future but I am a realist and know that there is not one person reading this. That's good; I'm good with that. I think to keep my sanity and to have at least one place where I can post my art, I've got to start posting here again. Never know what could happen.
I've been having a difficult time figuring out what to do with my art. Until I get a place of my own, my art is in the basement of my parent's house which is not a space conducive to creating art. So, for now, I'm on the computer. Since I was stumped, I a voiced in my last blog, I decided to take something that I'm very interested in and make art focused on that. I've had an interest in serial killers and insane dictators for years, probably stemming from my pipe dream of working as a forensic scientist or something else in that field. I decided to start working on a series called "the brutality of humanity". Started with Idi Amin:


I wanted the viewer to first see a person of seemingly high standings, someone who is dignified. I wanted a human appearance pared with a ruthless quote. Here is one I did of Himmler, one of Hitler's right hand men:

I'm working on one now of Issei Sagawa, a "man" who lives free in Japan to this day despite the fact that he has admitted to eating his girlfriend while living in France.

My goal is to introduce them as human, strong, possibly friendly looking individuals and allow the quotes to smack the viewer across the face. I don't know if this work is good, not sure people are interested in it but it's where I'm at right now.

~Pepper

Art

I am so confused with what to do. I've been sketching random things, knitting, and longing to paint again. I only have so much time during the day between work and thesis homework. Just feeling very overwhelmed right now. And now for something completely different!

MONKEY!

The Box of X

We purchased an Xbox 360 in preparation for the Rock Band release in November. There are some other interesting games for it, but mostly got it for the one. We're really into music games (guitar hero, karaoke revolution) and this will be the most awesome one yet. Prepare yourself for this... you can sing, play guitar, and drums! Sooooo cool. We'll probably get rid of our playstation 2 as soon as my husband has beat the games we have for it so it evens out, right? I know, we're crazy :)

I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba

My sister requested my assistance in creating an image of Yoda for her classroom. I vector traced this from a variety of images of the little guy and did some free hand as well. 'Bout 2 hours of work. Enjoy!
Ta ta for now!