Her face and...an explanation

Here's a detail of her face and hair for you all.

 Jana suggested last night putting in more detail in her hair...individual strands in her highlights and stuff. So...I did. Just like two minutes ago. :)

I know I've posted like 50 times...I apologize. But...whatever. 

So her hair--you like?

My explanation is that of the symbol. It's the African symbol meaning Unity. 

It'd made up of to alligators-one with the head at the top, tail at the bottom and

the other with its head at the left, tail at the right. It's a really cool symbol actually when you

can see then entire thing. 

So between her and the symbol you can make it what you like...

St. Patty's Day....but more Importantly, my HUSBAND's birthday! :)

So Bryce's birthday is TODAY!!! He's turning the BIG 23!!! Not that 23 is really a particularly important birthday but it's still BIG! Especially because it's the first birthday he's had since we've been married. And of course EVERY first is special once you get married!!!
So I gave him his main present last week before I left to go to Jen's. (Background: for Christmas I got him subscriptions to several car magazines and used my e-mail to order them so I get promotional e-mails ALL THE TIME) so one of them was to personalize your own magazine cover. It was for ... a hot rod magazine I think...I'm bad I don't actually remember. Anyway, I used one of Bryce's MANY pics of his BELOVED truck and put it centered on the cover and put headlines like "Get in Gear with Bryce Davies" and "Fast and Furious" or something....lol I'm awful! I really can't remember. Anyway, it was fabulous looking. So I ordered it, got it and put in in a FANCY frame with a triple mat and everything. ;) The funny part about it all is that I managed to put his FORD truck on a GM magazine. Laugh if you want. Apparently that's practically TABOO! His dad wants to send it into the magazine because it's "so funny". They're convinced they'd put a pic of it in there.....whatever. It was cool anyway. It's already hung up in our LIVING ROOM right next to our wedding pics.
Then today I'll bring him out shopping at like Car Quest or Home Depot or something and let hem spend a little Moolah. :) Our WONDERFUL friends, Darcy and Justin brought him a cake last night that was so awesome and YUMMY! It was a hat shape with a clover on top and was GREEN. :) we put one candle on top and sang to him a day early. It was fabulous. Plus just before that we got to hang out with our other WONDERFUL friends, Shanda and Ashton and their little girl Aspen ( she's our surrogate daughter...that's how much we love her!) because it was Aspen's birthday! And that was so fun! WE LOVE FRIENDS!!!!
Anyway, so I was told that Lori always hides those chocolate coins all over for Bryce on his birthday so, keeping with tradition, I did that and left a card for him before I left for school. We even had a fun sleepover in our front room! haha. It was great.
So (by the way-he never reads my blog, plus he's at work...) I have decorations and TONS of balloons to put up when I get home at noon today. and I'm going to go get him a CHEESECAKE since we got to have two cake-cakes last night.
Dinner is what I'm trying to figure out now.... I want to do all green for St. Patty's day. Maybe green mashed potatoes? and I have chicken....I don't really want to dye the chicken...that sounds gross. Hm. anyway, I'll be figuring that out when I get home. OH and I even bought a St. Patrick's day apron to wear while I cook! ha! Awesome.
What else, what else? OH I got two cards for him. The first one said that I wanted to give him money for his birthday...but that the mall security pulled me out of the fountain before I could scrape up a respectable amount. hehe.
The second one Says that I was planning on having a Sexy woman jump out of his cake...but that I didn't want to get frosting in my hair. Heck yes. I'm so sexy. I can't help it.
Anyway, I've been sitting here reading blogs for the last hour but I STILL have another hour to kill before my next class. Lame. I hate breaks between classes! Maybe I'll look up ideas for dinner...
(If you have any ideas for me, leave me a comment!!! I'll check them later!... I know it's last min but that's ok. I'll figure something out!)

painting

Thanks for the ideas! (but) I need to do something less literal. That's been my apparent downfall for the last....forever. Pretty much I get bad critiques EVERY time and I'm sick of it. So I need to get away from painting things that are so literal.... that probably doesn't help.

OK-Christine said more direction would be good...

I want to do something that is not directly from observation or directly from a photo. I could use a photo or whatever but I want to add an abstract concept or idea or something to it so it's more "original" and not just copying....I don't really know how to explain it. I just know if I do what I have been doing I'll get another bad crit.

I just need something different

Help rectify my horrible state of uncreative-ness

I need IDEAS for my next painting! I can do whatever I want so...give me some ideas! I have a creative blockage in my brain lately.... so leave me a comment with any ideas! :)

ok. I had an hour between classes...

is this any better?  (I only worked on feet)

Last Night

haha, sorry about the pic. I'll get a better one on here soon. I thought I'd be able to photoshop myself out of it but I don't know how to get the pic into iphoto... blah blah. 

ANYWAY here's the painting I did last night...after much much much deliberation and stress over What to paint and How to paint it while following the parameters of the assignment. 

The feet on the far right are my fav. and the middle ones I just can't get right...maybe i'll get them figured out one of these days. and the foot on the left, I don't mind. 

Tell me what you think (honestly) of 

1. the floor

2. the skirts

3. the feet

4. anything else...

The critique is tomorrow at One so I might have a little bit of time tomorrow to work on it...