Mad Men Noto Style

These made me happy this week:

From Noto's tumblr here.

YouTubesday - LaurenOC12

She's got one of those haunting voices.

YouTubesday - brazosdazos

YouTubesday - Guldies (bonus)

This morning's was too short.

YouTubesday - Guldies

Its short but sums up my mood this week.

TT - 3rd Class Review

Last night, teacher Sally's husband, Tom Sadler, came in and gave us an oil demo for underpainting (similar to what I'd posted last week, so you and I are already up on things.  you're welcome).  He spent the first hour going through that and also did an acrylics demo.

Show off.

You can see Cupiedoll lady over there on the left.  She only got on Tom's nerves once.  And I must say her painting looks pretty damn good.  She's SUPER impatient & likes to skip ahead.

Here's what my "October Barf" painting looks like after class #3.  I'm happy with how the sky turned out.  I added back some of my darker tones and fixed my greens.

In class, we added sky and went back over the greens and played with the mucky water and stuff.  Sally sounded pretty unhappy with how we left things after last week's class.  Everyone's wipeouts were a mess and she's just as frustrated with this demo painting as we are and a lot of us are ready to move on.  We'll spend another 30mins on this one to wrap shit up next week and then get started on a VanGogh.  I might finish this one off at home before class.

In other news, after last week's class, I started an underpainting for Snoop face.  Based on this photo:

It looks like this so far:

so sinister

I think I made his nose too long.  Eh, I can fix it in post.

Also, there was a LOT of cussing during this process.

A.  LOT.

In other OTHER news, we leave tomorrow for Boston, so I'm takin' the next few days off and will catch up with you turds on Sunday night or Monday.

Or whenever I feel like it.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND AND SHIT!!!

Suckit Saturday - Terribly Odd

This is our friend.
His website is here.

He's a damn fine fellow and is doing a show at this joint so we'll be hangin' out around Disney this weekend.
Maybe Matthew will take me to DisneyQuest.

Here's an Odd commission Matthew had done for us for my birthday a couple years ago.  Based on a photo we took in Costa Rica.

This is what I looked like when he gave it to me:

Media Monday - ArtOrgy

About a month or so ago, we hosted a creative minds gathering & everyone worked on a project.

This is what it looked like.

Thank you so much for putting this video together, Willie. You rule!

I Am A YouTube Nerd

I watch a lot of crap on youtube.

I also watch a lot of not crap on youtube.

We've all been aware of youtube and everyone's seen some retarded cat video or a baby doing something funny or a dude getting hit in the balls or a snippet of some Japanese game show.

But about 2 years ago (and I was late to the party), I stumbled across this video.

Which took me to one of this kid's videos.

Then I saw these guys doing their local commercials.

And then I found one of this fella's videos.

Then this kid popped up.

Which lead me to this girl and this girl (in a round about way).

Which took me to this guy.

And that's only a handful of my favorites.

I haven't even mentioned these guys or these folks or this guy or this guy or this girl.

And for my cousins - there's always this guy.

In a nutshell, it didn't take me long to discover a massive entertainment community all webbed together..... some really really talented people doing some really cool things with just a camera and editing software.

And right around the time I started paying attention, they were starting to make $ by doing this. By becoming youtube partners and getting paid by advertisers.

Now, a handful of these folks are making their living this way.

If you shop at Hot Topic, you're probably aware that they have a whole section dedicated to internet celebrities. Most are from youtube.

I watch more youtube than I do regular TV these days.

SO, now that I've outted myself and my love for these youtubers.....I also have to admit that I'm going to this on Saturday.

Do you see that friggin' line up!?!?

That's almost everyone I just mentioned as my favorites.

I'll be the oldest girl there wearing my wheezywaiter shirt and getting video of everything and buying more tshirts and saying hi to folks I've only watched on youtube for the past 2 or 3 yrs.

And I can't freakin' wait!!