Painted Sketch

For Christmas my Aunt gave us all a DVD of old family movies. I'm starting to paint film stills from this DVD. The colors/grain in the film are great. This is a gouache sketch of my Grandma and Great Aunt at my Grandma's wedding. Classic expressions.

My First Illustration Friday!

My lovely boyfriend and I will be making this for breakfast tomorrow! Not only am I overly excited to eat this delicious bacon... I am more excited to be starting what I hope will be a weekly Illustration Friday post!

Home Sweet Home

So I did this yesterday and I was GOING to submit it to an open call at a gallery in Brooklyn. Well, I must have been really tired because I painted on it when the submission was only for drawing mediums... oh well. Also, I think its time for a good scanner cleaning.

Website

So I have been working on my website this weekend and it just has further cemented the reality that I have a lot of work to do....which is fine.

What has really been interesting in making a collection of all my work, is that it has shown me what direction I have subconsciously been going in over the past couple years and where I want to continue going. I'm focusing on enjoying Rochester and getting ready to move on June 1, but once I am settled in I will be getting down to some serious work for sure.

kaylacarpitella.com

Today

This pretty much says it all. And the fact that I forgot to flip the image is an added testament to my confusion and decreasing motivation. Going to continue to draw and maybe see if I come up with anything decent. Blah.

Crafts

Crafts are now my life. I just made this circle scarf. Its VERY thick and wraps around my neck twice. I can pull it all around my head so all that is peeking out are my eyes, which is what I look for in a scarf to combat the Rochester weather. I'm really happy with it :) Hence me putting it on the internet, even if its just so one other person can see.

Cleaning.

Lately I have felt the urge to purge my room of all things that I do not need anymore in a desperate attempt to ease my anxiety about...everything.

Tonight, unable to sleep, I tackled a very interesting corner of my room. It is situated in a corner between a disorderly bin of my past art work and a refrigerator. This corner contained 3 boxes of memorabilia from my childhood. The makings of a scrap book... before the book. This was YEARS of untouched, accumulated junk that has been sitting in that corner since we moved to this house in 2006. Tonight I took upon the task of organizing it:

Here are some of the things that I found:

1. Concert tickets: from the Backstreet Boys to Nine Inch Nails (to name a select few)
2. Old riding ribbons from my first and only horse show. (I was good)
3. Diaries, which I wont go into detail about because they are like most young girl thoughts: ridiculously innocent and vapid.
4. Old cologne from my Dad. Not the greatest thing to remember. I also found some sad notes from him and my mom.
5. A cool Cheerios container (which I will now be using to carry my Cheerios)
6. Newspaper clippings from 9/11 (bizarre to look at now) I think I had some idea of doing a big collage piece with all the cut out articles, but very much like myself 8 years later, I never finished the project.
7. A portrait I drew of Blink 182 with the word "fuck" drawn in fire behind them.
8. An entire box full of magazines. Don't ask me why I thought they were worth saving.
9. Pocahontas trading cards.

Overall, I would say that looking back all those years was not so much fun as it was incredibly depressing. So much has changed that I never would have thought I would end up where I am today. Never the less, I will be scrap booking all that shit very soon, along with a whole crap load of photos that I still have to go through. (And when I say scrap booking, I really mean filing away all that paper into some folder. There will be no cut out graduation hats or stars anywhere.)