lemonsorbet

Tart and sweet.

My name is Kelsey. I'm twenty. I make art and go to art school because I think painting feels nice. I am orderly, a perfectionist, self-reliant, passive-aggressive, and secretly pretty competitive. I often think about roles, authenticity, and absurdity. I'm "in" love for the fifth year in a row.

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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

laughingsquid:

Bulldog Trying to Sit In a Box That Is Too Small

It’s Maru only better!

On school days my classes start at 8:30am or 12:30pm. I get up and start getting ready for the day at 10am at the latest. Every day I get home from school at about 7pm. After I get home I eat and usually work on homework and art or clean from 8pm until 9 or 10 sometimes later. If I have no work or resist cleaning that time is spent relaxing in bed. I usually let my work pile up for the weekends. Friday through Sunday I spend doing homework stopping only for food and to enjoy some time with Christopher. This weekend in my workload I already have a Master Study for Figure Drawing, 3 pieces of watercolor paper I need to stretch, a couple abstract paintings on panel, 7 sculptures of a Nutella jar made out of 7 different materials, and a still life to paint. I know people that have way more work than that.…I don’t think I’d prefer it any other way, but still… seeing “Mehhh, I have to write a paperrrr and study for testssss,” on my Facebook feed makes me want to comment, “That’s cute, poor you.” It really has me wondering why I call large state colleges “real.” 

On school days my classes start at 8:30am or 12:30pm. I get up and start getting ready for the day at 10am at the latest. Every day I get home from school at about 7pm. After I get home I eat and usually work on homework and art or clean from 8pm until 9 or 10 sometimes later. If I have no work or resist cleaning that time is spent relaxing in bed. I usually let my work pile up for the weekends. Friday through Sunday I spend doing homework stopping only for food and to enjoy some time with Christopher. This weekend in my workload I already have a Master Study for Figure Drawing, 3 pieces of watercolor paper I need to stretch, a couple abstract paintings on panel, 7 sculptures of a Nutella jar made out of 7 different materials, and a still life to paint. I know people that have way more work than that.

…I don’t think I’d prefer it any other way, but still… seeing “Mehhh, I have to write a paperrrr and study for testssss,” on my Facebook feed makes me want to comment, “That’s cute, poor you.” It really has me wondering why I call large state colleges “real.”
 

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perennial-taco:

staceythinx:

Greg Dunn’s stunning gold leaf paintings of cells, neurons and other natural wonders are fit for any wall.

I NEED THESE IN MY HOUSE

bookspaperscissors:

Klara Petra Szabo

perennial-taco: Wow I love how this doesn’t link to Emmy’s blog like it should

perennial-taco:

Wow I love how this doesn’t link to Emmy’s blog like it should

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lionskeleton:

A few awesome pieces by Andie Clay.

Go check out some more, here.

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An oldie from baking at Redolencia. (Taken with instagram)

An oldie from baking at Redolencia. (Taken with instagram)

Another weekend. Another ten abstract paintings.

did-you-kno: Source BAD. ASS.I have fantasies about writing on the toilets in the apartment in menses to try and prove a point to the boys that peeing on the toilet and not cleaning it up is gross.  

did-you-kno:

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BAD. ASS.
I have fantasies about writing on the toilets in the apartment in menses to try and prove a point to the boys that peeing on the toilet and not cleaning it up is gross.  

ryansdeathblog: sorry is my never ending beauty and overwhelming confidence giving you a seizure I think I like this person.

ryansdeathblog:

sorry is my never ending beauty and overwhelming confidence giving you a seizure

I think I like this person.

perennial-taco: lemonsorbet: thedailywhat: Pure Evil Prank of the Day: Redditor Halveraptor calls this one “How to piss off your intelligent significant other without even trying.” In related news, being able to use English properly means you’re “intelligent.” [reddit.] Oh dear. So tempting. Need to remember to torcher Max (my brother) with this. Game plan? Make his girlfriend’s name a shortcut to an insult. Let me know if you’ve got anything better. >:D You mean torture? Haha I’m sorry but the irony of that was fantastic What’s even funnier is I kept respelling it over and over again until “torcher” came up on my MacBook as a spell check option.

perennial-taco:

lemonsorbet:

thedailywhat:

Pure Evil Prank of the Day: Redditor Halveraptor calls this one “How to piss off your intelligent significant other without even trying.”

In related news, being able to use English properly means you’re “intelligent.”

[reddit.]

Oh dear. So tempting. Need to remember to torcher Max (my brother) with this. Game plan? Make his girlfriend’s name a shortcut to an insult. Let me know if you’ve got anything better. >:D

You mean torture? Haha I’m sorry but the irony of that was fantastic

What’s even funnier is I kept respelling it over and over again until “torcher” came up on my MacBook as a spell check option.

dublah: Today was my first figure drawing class in what feels like forever. I am so happy to be back in a life drawing class. :) We had the period to just draw however we wanted, so I did kind of an extended gesture thing, no sighting or anything. We also got to use whatever we wanted so I used the three prisma markers I had on my person and a little white charcoal. All in all, I like how it turned out! Proportions are off (this file is named bigheadmcgee) but there’s just something I like about it, so I uploaded it! Very nice! I like the blues.This model always stares me down in figure drawing. I ended up sitting straight in front of him today, he and his third eye were lookin’ me down.

dublah:

Today was my first figure drawing class in what feels like forever. I am so happy to be back in a life drawing class. :)
We had the period to just draw however we wanted, so I did kind of an extended gesture thing, no sighting or anything. We also got to use whatever we wanted so I used the three prisma markers I had on my person and a little white charcoal.
All in all, I like how it turned out! Proportions are off (this file is named bigheadmcgee) but there’s just something I like about it, so I uploaded it!

Very nice! I like the blues.

This model always stares me down in figure drawing. I ended up sitting straight in front of him today, he and his third eye were lookin’ me down.

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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.

CHUCK CLOSE
[quote lifted from: thepacegallery / jonathanwinstone] (via 7knotwind)