Ok, so maybe "coming soon" was a bit of an exaggeration... at least I finally got something posted! It's not much, but school's starting soon and I'm hoping to take some more art classes, so maybe I'll get off my butt long enough to post whatever I do there ~smiles~

Jewelry

These are some pieces that I recently designed and made up... yet another thing I've been meaning to do for over a year, and only just now got around to doing (can you say "procrastination"?) ~laughs~

Gypsy Bells

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Twilight Rain

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Bridal Chain (necklace)

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Bridal Chain (bracelet)

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Irish Lace

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Silver Lace

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As usual, it's taken me waaaaay longer to post new stuff than I was hoping... but hey, at least it's actually getting done (which is more than I can say for most of the projects I have going ~laughs~)

So anywho, here they are, a bit of work from various art classes... hope you like it more than my teachers did ~grins~

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This is a handpainted b&w photo of my niece
(photo originally shot by me with 35mm, and colored in Photoshop)

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Another Photoshop project, playing around with layers

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Here's a handpainted project from color and design
(This one just about drove me bonkers... by the time I was done with it I wanted to carve my eyeballs out of my head with a broken lightbulb... by the way, painting with acrylics, at night, in a room with only one lousy lamp that keeps tyring to flicker out? NOT FUN!)

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One of my favorites from Color and Design
This one is a single sheet of black construction paper, the white spaces are actually cut out with an exacto knife... yes, I did say this was one of my favorites... yes, I did actually enjoy doing this... yes, I understand I'm crazy ~smiles~

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Another Photoshop assignment
This was my original "collage" project, which apparently wasn't "collagy" enough for my teacher ~fumes~ (To be fair, he really wanted something that was generated by "my own hands"... apparently, my using bits of found art wasn't "fair", since he wanted everyone to come from "even ground"... which is so completely bogus! How fair is it if a quarter of the class is super artistically talented,and the rest of us are drawing stick figures?! Um... sorry about the rant... it's the whole crazy thing, don't mind me...)

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So fine, he want's something generated by my own hands?! Here!
I hope this makes him happy, 'cause I'm about to burst from the stress of it all, and if I have to create one more freakin' collage...

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This one was actually kinda fun... if you click the link, you'll see it's actually an animation (how cool is that?)

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