Out with the Old....

Slowly in the process of updating all of my website/social sites.  Just tying to make them all a bit more cohesive.  Goodbye old template...with you weird brown color and creepy Marc header!  Hello mint green! 

Michael's 4 Dollar Junk Bag Haul/Upcycle

Though I hate to admit that I am totally broke, I needed to go buy some watercolor brushes at the local Michael's Craft Store after I had lunch with mom and sisters.  Well, after an hour browsing through with my family, not only did I come away with two brushes, but with a pair of SALE AS IS mystery bag filled with random junk.  I don't know what urged me to buy it, but I did (well, mom paid :)

So this is what I ended up getting.  A bunch of random Sports related Greeting Cards, Summer Seasonal Stamps, and a Quilting Kit thing. 

According to the instructions, it was supposed to be an Angel.  I think I ended up with something better...a Mer-Pug!

After a couple of days of just sitting in a box at the corner of my room, I decided to do something with the Random Sports Cards and their matching envelopes...This is what I ended up coming up with.  I thought that I would just put together recycled construction paper and the Random Sports Cards with a little help from a pair of scissors and some glue...hmmm?  I think I stumbled onto something :)

AAU Spring Show 2013 Part Deux!

Okay, putting aside my feelings about the Spring Show (as seen on a previous post), This year's show was amazing.  I went to see it with Raphy and Akwoung the day after my graduation, and everyone's stuff was so AWESOME!!! I won't forget to mention that the venue was the amazing as well, it being held at the Planetarium next to the Palace of Fine Arts structure.

Graduating, Baby Sister's trip to the ICU and Store Opening...OH MY!!!!

I am so sorry for the lack of updates everyone,  just lots of stuff happening all at once.  As of two weeks ago on May 24, I officially graduated from the Academy of Art University :) Finally after five years, I am free from college and free from school after being in it for almost 23 years straight.

Another thing that happened was that my baby sister was up into the ICU and had surgery to remove an infection that was not being cured due to her diabetes making it hard for the medications to take effect.  We almost lost her there...probably the worst thing that I have ever gone through since my dad died in 94'.  When my dad died, I haven't really grasp the idea of really losing someone really close to me.  This was a big one.  I was a wreck, my family was devastated.  But as I know she could, my sis is fighting it and is on her way to recovery.........

One thing that kind of pales in comparison to the events in the last paragraph is that I am officially starting my Etsy store.  I have been thinking and not doing anything about this for almost two years now, and now that I am finally out of school, I can devote my time and more importantly artwork time in trying to make this a success.........I HOPE I CAN MAKE IT eeeeeeeeeeeek!

Spring Show 2013

SPRING SHOW!!!!!!

I've applied every year and every year I've been rejected.....except this year.  Finally I got a couple of things in, but the pomp and circumstance that I thought I'd hear in my head upon hearing the news kind of wasn't there.  I see everyone celebrating the good news, but why wasn't I?  It feels like....okay....is this it?...now what?

Since the initial hooray from seeing the acceptance letters yesterday I kind of found time to just sit down and give this a thought.  Five years of rejection and FINALLY someone wanted to show my work in the school's biggest event of the year.  I'm humbled and I'm extremely grateful that I was among the ones chosen, but why do I have this annoying feeling of blah-ness?

I know that it has been an eventful year.  It has been a year in which I've lost a loved one, a year where such a tight knit family like mine started to kind of "detach", and of course it is my final year in the school.  Graduation is two weeks away, and even with all the things that happened, there isn't a reason why I shouldn't pat myself in the back.  I've worked goddamn hard in all of my classes (LA classes doesn't count :)  I literarily almost did cartwheels down Powell when I, along with another person, got the only A's in Joko's Adv. Perspective class.  I managed to turn a couple of Midterm C into Final A's just by working my ass off...HEll!  I learned FLASH!  Those there, among many other moments during my time here at AAU, are some of the proudest I've been.  I know grades don't really matter in the end.  It is more about improving your own skills while learning some new things along the way. But those grades also meant that you were doing something right. When it came to the show, what was I doing wrong in the last five years?

It sucks,but getting a spot in this year's Spring Show feels like a severance package just to give me a bit of boost while on my way out the door. I also know that not everyone can make the show.  It's a friendly competition.  Spots are limited.  The amount of talented, hardworking people with amazing pieces weren't able to make it in. For those who still have time, I do hope that you make it in next year.  And for the ones who didn't make it in on their final year, WE could certainly still do something about it...

Anyway, there's my lengthy morning rant.  I am extremely happy and lucky to have a spot in the show....I just had to let it it out there ya' know... A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS for everyone who produced amazing works this year regardless of making it in or not.  Hard work is hard work....