Paintings of my Past Part I

I used to be an art work junkie, as in I loved to paint, draw, sculpt, write, anything and everything. I loved it all, it was a fun and good therapeutic thing for me now that I look back on it. In many ways this part of me has faded off, maybe out of insecurity, maybe out of busy life, I am not really sure why- but I should get back into it a little more, just maybe I will, and then you will probably hear about here- if I end up squeezing it into my life again.

Let me tell you, it was quite the adventure going through our storage in the basement to find these ancient jewels, awe...such memories. I forgot how much I made, how much I used to paint. On that note, on this "We-Flecting Wednesday" I will share with you some paintings (or drawings) I have made in the past years. Most of the following I did while I was in high school and very few were ones I did in college. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as me (although I am sure they will mean more to me :) And a heads up apology- I found a lot, so be prepared for a lot of pictures (actually I found so much, I am gonna break this up into two posts and will share more next week), enjoy the show!

I believe this one is from grade school- yeah for happy giraffes :)

In the good old high school art class. This one was a fun one- if I remember right, I made a stencil out of wax paper and then painted the different colors through the stencil

Yeah for more butterflies, I believe this one is colored pencil

HS again, I think this one was water color (I really learned to love water color), the waves I got by marking with white crayon before painting on

Hello Moose! This was chalk, or pastel I think

This was probably one of my favs, we had some kind of soft board type thing and we scraped out this design so that it could be a form of a stamp, I know there is a name for this, but it has totally slipped my mind.

This was one of many of how the stamped thing turned out, it looks cooler in person :)

Another fav from the stamp moon guy, again in HS

A happy little turtle, this was one of those cool scratch boards that has all silver underneath with black painted on top and then you scratch away to create a picture- I should make one of these again :)

Again, another one of my favorites, sorry it is so blurry, this painting now belongs to my sister so I couldn't capture the whole piece, but the caption above the elephants is "Take a Happy Break" and don't forget the last elephant is on roller skates :)

Yeah for feet, I think this was acrylic

This one didn't exactly turn out how I wanted, but this is also water color- yeah for kayaking!

Again a continuation of HS, this i believe was a form of pastel, but a more oily like one, but I can't remember the name of it, hmmm...I'll get back to you on this one if I remember

This one we were supposed draw a copy of a picture, and the originals name and artist now escapes my mind (I am having a brain farty night). This was done is charcoal 

Some random happy shapes, yeah for shapes!

If I remember right, the teacher hung a sheet on the wall and we had to "capture" it- how did I do?

Another one of my favorite assignments- we were to pick a picture out of a magazine and then cut out random areas and paint them in- can you tell where I painted and what was the original painting? (I know, the glare kinda gives it away)

Same idea as the picture above- can tell what was me and what was the original drawing?

My art teacher put these random items on the table and we had to draw them. Before that we ripped random scrap papers and glued them on- wherever there was scrap paper we had to make it in color- besides the creepy skull I liked doing this one alot! :)

This was probably my all time favorite project. We got random scraps and things and glued them on a paper in whatever shapes and design we wanted. Then we covered it with tin foil. We used this as a stamp sort of thing like the moon from earlier. I love how it looks after all the stamping I did with it!

This is a product of the stamping- so much fun!

This is probably one of my most "proud" pieces, I really like how it turned out :)

I think I painted this at a church activity, it is based off of Greg Olsen's painting

This one I painted for my husband, but we weren't married or even dating at the time I painted it for him. I sent it to him while he was on his mission preaching the gospel to others for two years.

This one was a college art class drawing, my self portrait, kinda :)

Our teacher challenged us to be more abstract with the self portrait

And a little crazy with the self portrait!

Another pencil drawing- some random things in the room- I rather like the purse in front :)

Charcoal, I am not sure what this one was about

Thumbs up!

"Come unto Christ" Another I painted in HS (sorry it got placed down below) Another one of my "proud" paintings, I really liked how it turned out!

And last but not least- this is actually not a painting, but I thought it would be fun to share- it is a "sculpture" I made, can you tell what the person is doing?

So that's all for now, I will have more fun art work for you next week. I hope you had a fun gander at my art work, it was a fun trip down memory lane for me :)

Anyway, until next time- hope you had a fun "we flecting Wednesday"!