Art Days with the Kiddos

 Silly kids :)

 Since its called " green thumb" for gardeners, is it " blue thumb" for artists?

 He is so talented.

 I love their focus.

My big canvas was covered in plastic, so i let daniel take a dry erase marker to it, and look at what he came up with!?! That is a pretty awesome duck in my opinion.


A few times a month, the kids and I will have " Art Days" where I get out a few buckets of my art supplies, yes I said BUCKETS. I have an INSANE amount of art supplies, crayons, colored pencils, paints, pastels, charcoal, watercolors, etc. We get decked out in big T-shirts and aprons, cover the table with old newspapers,  and we create masterpieces. These kids are so talented.

The Blogging Experience

 This is that picture of the Afghan refugee from the National Geographic magazine, this was 5x7, with prisma colored pencils and it was drawn on matboard.

 This was drawn during an art exhibition at church, and its one of my favorites :)

 drawn my senior year of high school, i got first place in my school district art fair.

 colored pencil, 5x7, based on a painting by James Christensen I think its called Pandora.

 a commission for someone I go to church with, of her nephew.

me drawing at the art exhibition :P

Hello! This is the first in hopefully a long line of art blogs, so a little about me, I'm 19 years old and I am an artist (if you hadn't guessed that already), my favorite form of art is classic portraits, I don't really have a favorite medium, but I use graphite pencils the most. I've drawn my whole life, but decided I wanted to be an artist when I was 12 and lived down the street from 3 of my favorite artists, James C. Christensen, his daughter Cassandra Barney, and Chris Young. I am currently working and earning money so I can go to school to study art. I've won several awards for my art, and I am looking for more competitions to enter to get my art out there a little more. I am mostly self taught, though I've had some really great art teachers that have taught me a few tricks. There is soooo much more I would love to learn and I'm always looking for inspiration.