Yesterday was a rather typical day, but the fun part was arty party night with my bestie Jessica (aka: Messy Jessy). Some of you may be familiar with her, but for those of you who are not, there is a link to her blog in my linky list.
Jessica and I met in 2008 when we both enrolled our 5-year-old sons in the scouting program here in the town where we both live (she has since moved 30 minutes away).
Jess, my husband, and I were all "volun-told" that we would be the Den Leaders for our children's scouting den and this is how we really all got to know each other. From that point on we've been crafting and arting together every chance we get. From scrapbooking to sewing to project life-ing, to art journaling and even photography, we've pretty much been a cute little team of crafty mommas since we met and I'm more than happy to call her my bestie now; so much so that I asked her to be my matron of honor in my wedding.
Since she's moved away (but luckily she moved to the town where I work) we don't get to see each other as much as we used to, but when we can we get the boys together for play dates and art our little hearts out. My husband has recently been so kind as to give me one night a week off from wifey and motherly duties so I can go get my art on with Jessica, who now has her own little art studio.
Last night was a rather fun night of arting. It didn't take us long to decide what kind of project we were going to work on either. We decided that it was time to step outside of our norm and work on something that we had never done before...something along the lines of gothic/emo and/or morbid/melancholy. I have to admit that I am absolutely horrible with these kinds of things, but decided that it was definitely time to give it a try...something new!
We each broke out two canvases and got to work. Jess decided that she was going to work on a mermaid and I chose to do an angel. I started working on my background and then as that was finished and I started working on my angel, Jess pointed out to me that it wasn't very gothic at all. I tend to fall toward the cute and sweet look she says. I suppose she is right. I then decided that rather than try to make this cute and sweet looking little angel into a gothic angel of the night that I would just go ahead and continue it in my normal style. I decided this because I got the news that morning at work that one of my co-workers was out of state as her sister was in a terrible accident and is not expected to survive. I decided that it might a nice gesture to give this angel (when finished) to her, as she really likes paintings and angels as well.
With all of the above being said and since I have the day off today to swim in a Hydrocodone induced state of goofiness, this might be a good time for me to start working on some gothic/morbid sketches and see what I can come up with. Soooooo, I guess I'm going to get off of here and start drawing. I hope the rest of you have a wonderful day of blogging and arting and rest assured there will be more inspiring blogs to come in the near future on this site...and more artfully inspired. In the meantime, I will leave you with a photo (please forgive the shadows as I do NOT have good lighting in this house) of the angel I worked on at Jessy's last night. She's not nearly finished, but I'm hoping that when she is that she will be of some diving inspiration to dear Rachel (my co-worker).
Love and artful blessings!
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