I knew I'd be bad at this.

I called it. I was very sure i could keep up with posting a sketch everyday. 

Boy was i WRONG!

No worries though.

 I've got a week and a half worth of sketches here for you.

I'll just stop writing now and here we go

6-11-2013

Because... bullets are pretty cool you know 

6-12-2013

6-13-2013

so i love ducks... i really want a pet duck that i can name patito.

6-14-2013

6-15-2013

for some reason this reminds me of space... 

6-16-2013

 For my mother. Because she can ride a million miles

before i even think about completing one.

and because she recently completed the Ride Across Belize

330 miles/4 days/ from Corozal to Punta Gorda, Belize

raising funds for Hospice and The Red Cross

so for her and the 79 other riders who completed the RAB.

Ride on...

6-17-2013

6-18-2013

6-19-2013

6-20-2013

6-21-2013

Here we have it more than we week's worth of sketches. 

enjoy and i'll get back at ya'll after the weekend.

XO

Lesley

Tea time.

Day 5. Because you know who doesn't like a good cup of tea and a slice of cake. 

Because my mum reminded me to post.

Not that I forgot, she just decided to remind me about posting day 3 & 4 before I actually got around to doing it. But here it is some weekend sketches.

Day 3

Day 4

Here we have it... after pretty much sleeping all Saturday morning then going to a Flee market for a few hours in the afternoon then getting back home and passing out until like 10:30 I pulled the first sketch out. Then we have today, after i helped cooking and tried doing math... all i could think about was not doing those things anymore... and i really want a balloon. And that's how i got this =] SO HERE YOU GO MUM! I'M NOT LEAVING YOU HANGING! love you ;)

hope everyone enjoyed these sketches. Peace.

XO 

Lesley

Day 2

Here we go day two of my summer long sketch adventure! The past couple if days out here in Waukegan has been gloomy and a little rainy but today it's finally sunny! But this sketch is definitely meant for rainy weather. 

Enjoy

Xo

Lesley

Look fun summer sun! :) 

A sketch a day. (?)

So to occupy my time for the rest of the summer (because I don't want to lose my  sanity mostly.) I'm going to be doing a sketch a day and posting it here. So here we go day 1. 

What do you think? Do you think I can keep this up all summer long? I'm planning to. 

Xo 

Lesley 

Summer is here. Finally!

So it seems the last term for this was pretty crazy. But in all it's madness I've been very busy with new projects. When it comes down to it, though, it's been bloody great!

This term went by pretty fast and i'm officially done with my junior year! =] only a semester and a half to go now. Honestly i cannot wait to be done with school and be out doing what i do best.

Now that it's summer i have all the time in the world to post about my old art projects and possible projects I want to start. Or maybe just what ever crosses my mind.

So are you ready for the first summer post? I am. 

Advanced painting was hella fun. Mostly because for the first time there was not much guidelines for what I needed to do. Basically all i needed to do was have 8 paintings at the end of the term. Easy right, i thought so. I get to create anything thing i want, and i get to explore styles that i think are killer. So that's exactly what i think i did... I'll let you all decide on whether or not what i did is good or not. 

The Shoe. Oil on Masonite. 36"x 24".

This was project 2. I secretly love this way more than anything else i did this term, and it's mostly because i love shoes. Then again which girl doesn't?

This piece was very much influenced by Andy Warhol's early commercial work. This man made amazing magazine adverts and as soon as i saw a few of them i fell in love. 

 Andy Warhol, Giant Size

Andy Warhol, Giant Size

The few pages of shoes that I found in this book blew my mind! I instantly started to sketch after, getting the heel to look right, trying my best to make it easily noted as a shoe. (I am not sure if i did a good job at that, someone once asked me if it was a spaceship. I don't even know.) 

Inspiration. Sketch. Color.

Final Color Pallet?

So i tried working with this color pallet. Those green and golden browns just worked for me, and i would make it work for this painting.

 Look it's me working!

So this is my final product, and boy was I proud of this! It's no lie that even when painting I can't keep away from hard lines and bold colors. That's just my style and it works for me. There's something about it that reminds me of a poster and I'd totally just want to see it all over the place with some awesome shoe label on it. (If you can't tell which one shame on you. Just kidding! but no really, it's obvious) 

So that's all i have to show for today. Leave your comments let me know what you think of the piece. 

XO

Lesley