New Post, New Poster, Funny Comic

You may have noticed my last post was a while ago.

Yep.

Me too.

We'll my excuse for not posing is that I was busy getting married, buying a house and fixing it up.

(I think it's a pretty good excuse.)

You may have noticed I didn't say moving in my excuse. We are still working on the fixing it up bit, then we'll get to the moving bit. bleh.

But on an art note. Here is a poster I did recently for the Empress Theatre.

and if you want to read the funniest thing I've read all week you can check out some comics my 11 year old sister drew.

My favorite is "Kistafer Cumulas". The the "Three Musket-teers" is also great.

Letters Home

For this weeks  IF topic "Mail" here is what came out.  I just watched White Christmas so WWII was on the brain, my guess is the idea came from that some how.

Have you ever thought about how different movies are now compared to then? I love White Christmas but at the same time can't help but get a little annoyed at how much dancing they do. During those scenes I always think "Pretty cool dancing, but what does it have to do with anything?" I have the same problem with Singin' In the Rain when Gene Kelly is dancing in that one scene that really has nothing to do with the plot of the Movie. You know the one. I can't describe it really because let's be honest, the last couple of times I watched the movie I fast forwarded it. It seems like he knocks on some doors or something.
I love Singin' In the Rain and White Christmas but, yeah, movies are different now.
Manelle

P.S. If you haven't checked out my Blog A Story book called Accidentally The Greatest Wizard in the World you can catch the first page here. Merry Christmas!

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Here is the poster art I did for the Empress Theatre's Best Christmas Pageant Ever. I wanted to keep it fun and simple, hopefully it worked. I've heard good things about this production. Get over there to see it if you haven't yet. :)

What artists do when they are avoinding work...

Instead of working on the paintings I should have been working on my siblings and I had a little fun drawing on the kitchen floor.

This is my masterpiece.

My 12 yr old sister drew this awesome dragon.

And this was a collaboration between my brother (he wrote the note) and 10 yr old sister. She drew the drawing pigeon. Pretty great.

As you may have guessed that floor no longer exists. A new one is going in  at this very moment.

One other note. I have some fun planned for my blog coming in December. I hope fun for me and any possible readers, so look for it... if you want.

Some Paintings, Yeah!

I have been getting the itch lately to do some oil painting and so I did. I did these two pretty quick, last night and today. The first on is my sister Kezia, and the other is Kezia and Lariah (my other sister) in a field. It's been a blast I think I may go paint some more.

A Crazy Vacation! (this post complete with sketches for your viewing pleasure)

Picture this: One motor home containing two parents and seven of their children ranging from 26 (that's me) to seven years old, (don't forget the teenagers) driving from Salt Lake City, Utah to upstate New York in 12 days. Does that sound like fun to you? Well I didn't to me either, but I went anyway and it had it's pretty great moments...and I am so glad to be home.

Sorry I haven't posted for almost a month but here are some of the sketches I did on thsis crazy vacation. I had a great time with my little micron pen.









So now you've seen the sketches I think I better just tell you what they are pictures of.

Here is the story: we went to pick up my younger brother. He has been on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. This means that basically he has been hanging out in upstate New York telling people about the true gospel of Jesus Christ for two years. Pretty cool!

So any way, we went to get him and on the way home we stopped at many of the major sites in our churches history, and that is what a lot of the sketches are, excepting the Niagara Falls pictures.

Hopefully I'll have some new art to post for you soon. Have a great day!