Back to Doing What I Do Best...

... Riding

  I made this blog with the intention of putting mostly artwork that I draw or paint or whatever. But really, there is no possible way for me to have a blog and not post about riding. You see, although I love art, my truest passion is horseback riding, and it always has been sense I was 4 years old. I haven't ridden in almost 2 years, it feels so good to be back in the saddle. The horse I'm riding? His name is Red (obviously because he is red of course), the camera, although it is really good, new camera, does him no justice, he is gorgeous. His coat is redder in person and soft, he's really muscular, has to be at least 16 hands, maybe taller, he's a thoroughbred gelding, and is built like a perfect hunter horse (hunter is the style I ride). He kind of has a bouncy canter, but that's cool. He was kinda slow sometimes and he reminded me of Dandee (the horse I rode in Washington).

  I was expecting to be a bit rusty after the 2 years of equine sobriety, but I wasn't exactly anticipating just how out of shape I was, I was literally huffing after cantering, I mean, I had to catch my breath. Despite the common misunderstandings, riding gives you quite a work out.

And my little sister Julia rides aswell! She is riding an adorable little pony named Luke.

Mike is a really good trainer who actually knows what he's talking about. I'm excited to be starting riding lessons with him!

Musical Monday

This is the song that's been stuck in my head all week. :)

Happy Spring!

  It has been absolutely beautiful weather lately. Its great to just go outside all day and, you know, blow bubbles, read, draw, hula-hoop, go for a walk, basically just hang out outside while you blast music inside so you can hear it outside (and so can your neighbors). I wish everyday could be like today.
 The sketchbook I'm using is one my aunt Beth  gave to me last week for Christmas........
She just sent out her Christmas presents, which is fine with me because it's fun opening presents in March, in fact, we should have a lot more present-giving holidays, don't you think?  Anyway, here are some other things I drew in the sketchbook. (thanks Beth)

Just a doodle of a robot relaxing under a tree on his day off, and I am a strong believer that even robots should get days off.  :P

I was sitting in the Art room at school and I didn't know what to draw, I lacked inspiration and was just staring at the blank page. Then Gracia randomly took my pencil and drew glasses in the middle of the paper. So i drew the eyes and the head and hair and everything else: all inspired by the glasses, (she's a crazy artist lady) and Gracia named her Susi. It was a team effort.

   BTW: I'm going to start riding lessons again on Thursday!!! I'm soooo excited!!!!!

IF: Propagate

If you guessed Zombies, then you really know me!! However, zombie bunnies in a garden chasing rodents was not so far off. However, i was a little late, this was last weeks Illustration Friday topic, but that's because I procrastinated. Oh well. Anyway, the basic idea is that the Zombies spread because they infect other people and make them zombies too. BRAINNNNSSSS

Let there be Light!

I got the idea from and Art teacher when I went to this Electives fair at my school where we go to different classes to pick which ones we wanted to take next year. I already knew I wanted to take art 2 so I went to the art room, and Mr. Adams (said teacher) talking about what they do in art 2, told us about drawing with white pencil on black paper - so instead of drawing in the shading, your drawing the light. I thought this was a pretty cool idea, and I wanted to try it out. Unfortunately I didn't have the black paper and white pencil required for this, but I did have a black chalk board with white chalk (or, more like my sister did) so, I decided to go with something pretty simple, just an apple. It wasn't actually as hard as I thought it was going to be, but that could be because I just drew a simple little apple. I'm probably going to do more of these later on.

 

 

Btw, incase you were wondering, I am going to participate in Illustration Friday this week. The subject is propagate.  If you do not know the meaning of this word, let me enlighten you:

Propagate:

• To spread from person to person; 
• To cause to increase in number or amount. 
• To grow

What am I drawing for this? You guess:

Is it:

a) Bunnies

b) A garden

c) Zombies

d) Rodents

Musical Monday

This is a new band I discovered a couple weeks ago with Kevin and Natalie (brother and his girlfriend). I love them!!

Introducing Mumford and Sons.

Narnia! :P

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