Don't drink tea and paint a the same time

At least not when you're already tired at 9 am :) If you do, you'll first get used to taking short stops to take a drink of your tea. from a mug. and then when it's finished and you remove the mug you will later try to take a drink of your paint brush water (which today happens to look like strawberry milk) even though the paint-covered texture of the mug feels weird on your lips and there is a paintbrush and pallet knife hitting you in the face... you'll get one sip into your mouth before you realize it and spit it out onto your newspaper. Gross. Icky! and then spit into your sweatshirt and get a glass of water because your mouth feels defiled.

at least I'm not an oil painter.

Also, I'm sure you all hate me to death because I've never shown you ANYthing that I've completed this semester. I'm a terrible person and I know it. but I promise that one day... you'll see finished products! maybe you should just come to the senior show at Bethel College (North Newton, KS) between May 7 and May 22 :) good plan and then you can see them in person. (you all, meaning the one person that reads this blog)

Painting progress also happening...

I just don't have photos. I currently have 4 (2 of which you've seen) paintings for my show and 2 that will be done by the 19th. :) I'll take pictures eventually.

Continuing to Progress with Photos

This past week was had another critique and my photos were received much better than the first batch. They were, however, more frustrating to take and I took less. The first time was Sunday night (right after sunset/dusk) (critique was on Tuesday). It had been cloudy and I wanted sun but I gave up and just went at night. The next day (Monday) it rained... and I took my camera in it (wrapped in plastic) and took more pictures. A lot of them look like my camera had a migraine :) Here are the 6 I turned in for critique.

And there they are. All photos are copyright by me, Kelsie Miller, so don't use them without my permission. Thanks. Any suggestions for improvements are welcome.