So here is the next little update, right on time. I painted this a few days after coming home from college for the summer. Feeling exhausted from all the neat, planned out artwork I'd been doing at school, I decided to do a painting with a little more freedom, even though my mood was anything but free. I mixed and matched most of the colors I have in my pathetic acrylic paint collection, and on some parts I watered down the paint a lot and layered it. After using oil paints all semester, acrylics seem.. not as good. But I know there are more things that can be done with acrylics than what I've done in the past, so I will continue to use them.
Sometime before I did that painting, I did this drawing using soft vine charcoal, a regular charcoal stick, graphite pencils and red crayola paint. What made this one fun is that I did it all by candlelight. I wasn't feeling as morbid as it might look.I've been doing a lot of cooking lately, which I consider also a form of art. Here is a recipe for vegan peanut butter cookies. I chose to make vegan ones because butter is plain fatness (and margarine is overprocessed crap, from what I've read). Enough of my negativity, here we go:
1 1/2 c. flour
1 c. peanut butter
1/4 c. oil
3/4 c. honey
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. of walnuts (other nuts, or chocolate chips, whatever you're into)
Mix it all in a bowl, roll into 2" balls and flatten a little, bake at 400 F for about 12 minutes. Mmm.
