I missed enchantedfolk, but I've been really, really, REALLY busy lately. I've found out that I'm graduating in summer instead of the fall, which is good, but that means my last two semesters at my school are going to be unrelenting. With a good two weeks left until the end of this semester (ack!), I'm in the midst of trying to pull myself together to finish with a bang. Humor and Donald O'Connor are going to be what get me through my remaining weeks. I'm seeing a vast improvement in my work, so that's always a real confidence builder. I've also been introduced to the wonderful painting process that is glazing. Now I know why Maxfield Parrish chose to use the glazing process for his works. It's so liberating and in some cases, forgiving. I love it!

As of about a month and a half ago, I finally had a break through in how to do true gesture drawings, which has made my artistic process exceedingly easier. So, lots of good school/ art related things happening, but...this little green haired artist needs a break. Uncle!

In other news, I'm a vendor at the Denver Waldorf's Festival of Light on December 5th. Every chance I get to go back to any Waldorf school is a treat for me. When I was little I went to the one in Southern California, and most of my happy childhood/ school related memories came from my time spent there. I would have loved to have STAYED in the school for my whole career, but alternative schools scared my Dad and he made my Mom pull me out...even though both Mom and I were squarely against it. C'est la Vie, non?...I feel like Auntie Mame everytime I segway into french like that.

Other than that, I'm just keeping my head above water until I can burst out of the waves and into the tide pool for some well earned relaxation.

I hope all is well with y'all...y'all. Huh, I don't use that one very often.

When I first attended my school, I was in love with it, but as I get closer and closer to graduating...I find myself falling out of love with it mainly because of the office politics going on.

As it stands now, to graduate on time I have to take 15 credits per semester, which I'm okay with, but for multiple semesters, I have to take a prerequisite course concurrently with the course I need the prerequisite for. It sounds like a bad idea to me because I would think that you need a foundation to stand on before your take the next step, yes? Am I missing something here?

So my question for any illustrators reading this is...what has your experience been? Are there any alternative art colleges out there I should be looking at? Should I just bite the bullet and hope for the best? Any and all advice and insight would be extremely appreciated because I am very frustrated and confused by all of this.

So I was looking on the faerieworlds website two nights ago, when I remembered a conversation with someone on EF a while back, about creating a sign designating a spot for members of EF to meet and greet each other at the Faerieworlds festival. I ran the idea past Jen and since then, I've been having a blast designing signs and downloading new fonts to play with (squee!). I can't keep sending Jen e-mails with my new brainstorms, cause if I did that her inbox would fill up in about five minutes, so...I posted them here :)

I'm not sure which one is the final sign, or if I'm even done playing, but this is what I have thus far.

If you're going to the festival, keep your eyes peeled for a sign that says, " Merry Meet of Enchanted Folk." I, for one, would love to put some names with some faces :)

See some of you in two weeks!

Hello Enchanted folk! I'm back...for how long I'm not sure. Life keeps drafting me into its fast pace army, so my attention is hither and yonder. :)

At the moment, I'm working my tail off making as many dolls as humanly possible for the Faerie worlds festival this summer, because Jennifer (-FaerySpell Creations) and I are sharing a booth. I'm so excited! I've finally gotten back into my sculpting and I'm loving every minute of it. I'm going to be selling mostly pipe cleaner dolls, but I'll also have a few polymer dolls. Wee! My only issue is that I can't post pictures of everything I've been doing on my website because my camera is dead. D-E-A-D. It lets me take one crappy picture and then it shuts itself down. I do have a few shots though...well, a few shots of the polymer dolls because there are less of them than the pipecleaner dolls, but ya know.

  Here is Melissa.

She was supposed to be a faery, but like with all my dolls..they have the final say in the matter and she decided she wanted to be a nice goblin.

This little one is Mitzi.

She's the first in my "Goblin Girls" series. I was watching Anything Goes while making her outfit, so she is mitzi Gaynor inspired (dress wise), hence the name :)

This is Vera.

Another Goblin Girl. I was watching Call me Madame for this one, so her outfit is inspired by Vera-Ellen.

And last, but DEFINITELY not least...Nanna.

Oh, and I've been meaning to make mention of this for a while now, but even if I don't reply to any comments, I do read and really appreciate them. For some odd reason, whenever I go to reply back to someone, I don't feel like I should be :/

Thanks to a scene in The Rescuers Down Under...I have my art groove back at long last :)

There is this one part where Cody (the main character) jumps off a waterfall into a flock of birds in flight, and it was just such a powerful scene for me that I decided to re-create it in Art Nouveau style. I have yet to paint it (I'll be doing that when it isn't one o'clock in the morning), but as it stands at the moment...I really, really like what I have. Fly, Cody! Fly!

Nothing much else to say at the moment. I'm dancing around my apartment right now because of this and had to share my joy with SOMEONE.