I love colors.
Have about 300+ Illustration Art Markers. And the collection continues. Been at this for 11 years.
Prismacolor, Copic, Tombow.

Colors in full effect.
[Insert cool Montage Music]
           Or
[Final Boss Music Round 1]
And then
[Mid boss music Organs included]


Aieee Got Work to Do...! as the Isley Brothers say.

And defintely more sleep in my life.
I'm so tired. My jokes aren't even near remotely funny anymore.

The funny crazy thing. Like paint on a palette looks random but  when I place a marker down and keep it in a certain place on my desk I remember where it is and will continue to place it at that same spot once I put it down someplace. Looks disastrous but its organized chaos of my homemade jigsaw puzzle.

Before Carnage was let lose.
It was a peaceful day until the markers were assembled....





Somehow sometime this week we hit the views of 5,555+!!!
Time for another overdue kiriban!

Thank you so much. Words cannot express how happy I am to share my love of art and hobby of  dabbling in writing on Musings & Quips of An Artist. I am truly grateful.

Thank you I will continue to grow and expand with all of the loving support!

-K

Finished cropped thumbnail\sketch 

Next month is the Fall Arts Festival. I am preparing my entry for the art show. The secret series I am working isn't ready to be revealed yet, so I decided to work on and submit something else. A bear portrait. There is a story behind it, which I'll share along with the final product on opening night.

Even when I work with traditional mediums at some point of the process I incorporate digital elements. Hence mixed media artist. Some people get all finicky that digital artists aren't "real artists" it depends. With anything there are skilled people in their craft and not so skilled. I pride myself in my digital manipulation does not look "photoshopped" but looks natural and un-tweaked with. ;]

 There are a lot of cool things happening for the Taos Fall Art Ferstival Paseo. It's pretty neat and when the time gets closer I'll post event times and such.

Everyone has a different way of doing things and one of these days I'll be more detailed in my process. Even how I print large format with one of my home printers.

I draw relatively small. Thanks to modern technology and my photo manipulation skills I can adjust a sketch to whatever size I want without losing quality. 

I wasn't sure how long I was going to take but the sketch took less than 20 minutes.

Was watching tv Game of Thrones S7, generally the episodes are like an 1hr long. Totally preparing 

and gearing up for  this to take longer. Wasn't sure if it was going to be one of those episodes where

I could't take my eyes off the screen or the fact I haven't drawn animals in awhile. 

Turned out the episode was a slow paced talking one and the sketch was done pretty quick.  

Although I drew the whole bear's body, I knew I wanted to focus on the Bear's face. It would be wonderful to paint the entire
bear, at this moment I don't have time to do all that. In photoshop I played with the composition of the image . 

Illustration board cut to custom size and taped to a board. 

Got an early birthday present! from Blick. This past week. 

My mom let me get what I wanted!

She's so awesome.

 One of the things I choose was a marker airbrush system. Haven't used it yet

because some assembly is required and *sigh I'm no good with

cords and building stuff. 

The battery did not come included. It's like half the price of the machine itself.

For now its all plug in action. 

Fun fact:

If I was born a day later I would of been a Virgo. 

But my astrological sign is a Leo. 

I don't believe in horoscopes 100% Sometimes they are quite spot

on with compatibility with the types I get myself in 

trouble with and interesting things happen

 and other times its all made up mumble-jumbo.

For example with friendships I gravitate towards Geminis, and two of my best friends are. With compatibility I have to watch myself with Aries and Sagittarius men. One thing that isn't true is that it says I have to be the center of attention and tend to be loud and outspoken. Once in awhile I'll be loud if I'm on a roll with a bunch of jokes but other than that, I don't care.

Hello! August is here now.
What is up world?!
I've been sick with a bad cold for the last few weeks.
Pretty much asleep for most of that time.
People are like why are you wearing a scarf in the middle of the summer?
Yes I was terribly cold then hot then cold then hot hot cold.
Finally starting to feel better.
Yay!
No more feeling like its Antarctica. Goodbye chills and fevers.
Fatigue, and grumpyness.

One of these days I'll have to share why I have this weird
 unconventional superstition of why I don't like to go to the doctor.
 It's pretty much my creative active imagination ran rampant.
It won't come true but I have this strange belief it is totally true.

Now Now I'm getting back to drawing and painting!
And writing of course sometime this week for sure.