I am so sorry for the lack of art updates here to wheelhopcity! I’ve been quite busy with school and with my pet project (slash future side job) Addmyartjournal on livejournal. It’s a community all about promoting artists, which I love! I’ve been interviewing a TON of artists in the last couple of months which has been really exciting.
I’ve also been doing a lot of school work (BOR-ing! not really).
Other than that I’ve dyed my hair pink. New favorite hair color EVER. I absolutely love it.

I promise I will start working on some art again soon.

For now I leave you with some links to awesome artists:
Serpenthes
Katie West
Mae Jane
Brian Ewing
Rosemary Travale
Melissa Haslam
Leanna Wright

Addmyartjournal Interviews: I interview other artists, at least once a week, at the livejournal community addmyartjournal. I love doing it, it’s a fantastic opportunity, but it can be rather hard to track down so many artists, ask them for interviews, get the interviews and find pieces of their art to post. I have a long, fantastic, list of people for the next few weeks. I’m quite excited about them.

Dye My Hair Pink: I ordered the dye on Friday afternoon, it’s almost here and I can’t wait. I am very much looking forward to finally having pink hair.

Homework: Get together with my scene partner, memorize my lines/plan my costume, write Sociology paper, do more research for Sociology project, do my Sociology test and read the next chapter. I have a lot to do this week, luckily it’s spring break!

Work on Secret Project: My husband and I are working on some secret projects. I’m really excited and we need to get these things rolling.

File Taxes: Seriously.

Workout: I’ve been slacking in the last week. Not good.

Wear Pigtails More Often: I put my hair up in pigtails today and it makes me super excited. I was always a bit of a tomboy as a child and never really got the opportunity to do the whole pigtails or ribbon in my hair thing. Now that I’m an adult I am going to take care of that!

Drink More Water! Seriously, I need to do this. I have three bottles of Sobe left, but the rest of what I drink this week needs to be water. It will make me feel better, even if it does taste bland when you’re getting used to drinking it again.

Order Hair Dye: That’s right I am dyeing my hair, again, and this time I really am going to make it Atomic Pink (by Special Effects). I am really excited. I will post the results.

Paint, paint, draw, paint: Yes, now that the art show is over I need to keep myself busy by making new artwork. I have a few friends I need to make drawings for and I have post it notes with paintings ideas covering my inspiration wall. It’s getting out of hand.

Buy More Healthy Food:This weekend was the first time, in the three years that we have lived together, that we ever bought 100% healthy food while we were shopping. There wasn’t a single bit of candy, cookies, soda or anything of the sort. It’s fantastic and I want to repeat that this weekend.

Work on my homework: That one sounds pretty easy, but I really do need to schedule more time to do my homework, otherwise I feel rushed to do it and I keep putting it off.

Hello everyone!
So, I didn’t end up making it down to Southern California last night for the art show. I was really upset about that for a while, but it ended up being the best course of action with our financial and emotional situations right now.

We did, however, get a lot of really good food shopping done. I am attempting to take some inspiration from Gala Darling and incorporate more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and water into my life. Which is making me really happy. Though I must admit, when we ventured into the local health food store to buy more L-Theanine supplements to help level out our moods, the staff at the health food store was not very appreciative of my leather jacket. I apologize greatly, but I do love my leather jacket.
After the health food store we ventured over to Trader Joe’s a store that many of us know and love. We found all kinds of really amazing looking, healthy food there. I am quite excited to start making smoothies again (that was one of my first jobs, making smoothies in a place named after an African dance).

In other art news I will be posting pictures (and perhaps some video) from the Art Show as it is available to me. Also, I am working on a very bright, cheeky painting right now. I love the idea.

Have a fantastic day.

For the past month or so I have been posting interviews and features on other artists at the livejournal community Addmyartjournal (which is run by a friend of mine). The interviews have been a blast to do and the response has been quite positive.
I just posted an interview with myself there today along with pictures of my work. You can check that out here.

This weekend is the Greasers, Ghouls & Gals show at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, California. My husband and I will be making the 6+ hour drive down there for the show early Saturday morning. If you would like more information on the show check out Motor City Comic’s Official Blog.

I just added two new items to the Etsy Store. The first is an original watercolor painting Bug Lady Revisited, the other is a tote bag that I’ve spent the last few years trying to convince myself to part with The Little Black Sheep. You can see pictures of these pieces behind the cut.
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