Day of Art with Erin...

I have been running like crazy for the past month and decided to do something that I love and have not done for about a year: paint (Instead of grading papers and working on my lecture and, well, you get the point...)!!! Come, join me as a go through  my process for a piece I have been wanting to do for a while.  I just got a new comforter set and now I have a color palette to work with. Sweetness! 

First off, I started by taking a picture of a fake flower that is in my bedroom...

Then I drew it onto an overhead projector sheet (while listening to Mumford and Sons)...

Next I used the overhead projector to sketch the flower onto my canvas... 

Painted the background with acrylic paint and a floating medium to give it a more watercolory-texture and blotted with a paper towel...

With acrylic paint and floating medium, I heavily painted the flower and stem, causing it to drip...

To add a little more detail, I added some white circles using caps of some of my bottles...

After the paint dried, I used a brown (really wanted to use black, but couldn't find it) paint marker to outline the flower...

Tah-dah!!!  I think it may need a little something more, but this will do for now...

Bedroom before...

Bedroom after!!! Much better... I think I need some new throw pillows, though...

Also, yesterday, I chopped off about 7 inches of my hair and highlighted it for the first time (working on being more high maintenance :).  So here is my farewell to my hair:

Dearest Hair,

Let's be honest, we both knew this day was coming.  Don't get me wrong... we had good times and I cherish the time I spent with you... and I will probably be regretting this in the weeks to come, but I need to move on.  I think we should go our separate ways for now.  Maybe down the road, when I have had some time to grow, we could be together again.  But till then... Sincerely, Erin