jenna newton
julie morstad
hello there. yes….
…it has been too long. i hope that this post is the beginning of many. i have so much to catch you all up on. unfortunately i am not at my own computer and am unable to post images from my lovely summer. but in hopes of reconnecting, i will share some inspiration with you.
It’s been a while I know…not posting on my blog does not mean that I have stopped producing art though. I have a sketch in the current issue of underground art school‘s magazine! I was pretty excited to be a part of this magazine! To preview or purchase, just click the image above!
our trees can only dream of looking like this again….[someday]
im thinking of turning this into a linoleum cut. i will let you know if i do. regardless….a lino print will be developed soon.
i think im in a blue phase. it just seems to pop in a way that no other color can do for me right now.
this is a small studio with stairs you should be careful walking up.
the best form of this is face to face
an ecclectic gathering of faces and personalities
again….this derives from my strange obsession with random objects placed in an organic situation. so, here we have an ironing board in the forest.
this was nearly climbing out of my chest tonight…
{this sort of looks like a strawberry…its definitly supposed to be a heart, as strawberries dont usually feel like theyre going to climb out of my chest!}
well some of you might actually be wondering why i havent posted in nearly a week, and i dont really have a good excuse. i could blame it on the fact that i am sick, or that i have 2 kids and a husband, or that i am back in school. but i wont.
this illustration pretty much sums up how i feel today: crazy hair, no body (because it hurts so bad from being sick), freckles, and an overall unappeal.
no worries though, i am progressively feeling better, tomorrow should be amazing!
as my my husband usually sits in the evenings and reads, i try to take some time to draw after the girls have gone off to bed. One particular evening he was reading the brothers karamazov (for the second time), by dostoyevsky.
I asked him to tell me the last line that he read in hopes of some sort of inspiration. So he read: “how can you talk of joy…coughing as though you would tear yourself to pieces.”
For some reason, that i cant remember why, i drew a depressed-looking, weak man with his shirt torn to shreads…
lady in a wooden skirt…
this weeks topic is “contained” so the first thing that [strangely] came to mind was a tree stump in a jar…so i drew just that…
she finally resolved to leave her hair as it was and to stop worrying about it.
a planted head in a ‘handsome pedestal container’.
this is a drawing that i gave to suzanne for christmas and realized that it wasnt on my site yet…
ill be honest…when i read this weeks topic, i had no idea what it meant. so after looking it up, i learned that it means in secrecy, or held in secret. so the first thing that came to mind was something scandalous. that then led to a drawing of innocent footsie between two eccentric lovers…
jonathan had the ever-so-brilliant idea to wrap our gifts in newspaper this year!
but wait…we arent just wrapping them in newspaper…but beautiful newspaper.
the new york times newspaper to be exact. have you ever seen their images? usually stunning.
but wait….we arent just wrapping them in beautiful paper. we are wrapping them in beautiful images that give you a hint as to what’s inside of them!
this is so much fun, and not to mention eco-friendly. well, as eco-friendly as newsprint can be. atleast we arent wasting money on rolls of christmas paper when we had an abundance of beautiful newspaper in the art studio just waiting to be used.
merry christmas to you all!
drawing of a home that i did a few weeks ago. sorry that my posting has slowed down. im going to blame the time of year, things will pick back up again soon! hope youre all enjoying your holidays!
by the way…the title is a bob dylan quote…
another new paper that i recently finished. i have a book from 1968 titled something like americana encyclopedia (i think). its the root of much of my inspiration.
i have been patiently waiting to put this piece online.
the paper was larger than my new scanner (from beautiful suzanne), therefore it needed to be “stitched” together in order to blend the two scans into one. so here she is….i mean, here they are.
its hard to say whether these “women” are pursuing this man, or perhaps hes pursuing them. maybe no ones pursuing anyone and they are merely standing next to one another. its all open to interpretation….but i definitly feel something is happening here more than what meets the eye.
shes wrapped in a towel.
standing on a log.
seemingly wet and sad.
two empty chairs.
and a window.
alone.
in the woods again.
{drawings}
here is the first drawing that came from my previous post “inspiration in the forest…”. im hoping more come from this inspiration. this isnt exactly the direction i thought i was going to take with this, but it turned out rather interesting. hopefully more should follow.
another new paper sketch. im loving doing simple line drawings lately. seems very gratifying.
what we all need on occasion.
this is my new paper pad that i have been sketching in at work. i love it.
my intention: a woman with eccentric hair and features
my result: an awkward thing
the interpretation: a man on vacation wearing something that he’d never wear back home
{paper}