Little Deer Painting in Progress

Last night I finished the background for the little deer painting. As you know, I started with a “stencil” that I had expanded and printed out from a digital illustration of mine, then colored it in with pink.

I filled in the brown background last night. I know I must be pretty rusty when it comes to good old-fashioned painting since I sort of did things in reverse. Half-way through outlining the pink deer silhouette in brown, I thought to myself, “Something about this process seems rather difficult to me…” Ah, life would have been so much easier if I had planned better and done the background first.

But hey, at the time I was just kind of coasting on the rush of making stuff with my hands again. This painting isn’t quite done; I plan on adding some pink polka dots or some other weird embellishment.

Today is my very last weekday off–I start the new job on Monday–and I plan to spend it on a bit of painting and video game playing.

Fun with paper masks

Many thanks to the fabulous Matt Cipov for providing this (and several other) super-cool printable paper masks! I found Matt on Etsy and was so taken in by his unique illustrations that I had to run over to his website and check out the rest of his work. He has a very fun “free stuff”-type section with some really cool desktops as well as these sweet animal masks.

Check out some very cool art here–and don’t forget to make your free animal mask! They’re perfect for sneaking up on your loved ones and scaring the crap out of them.