JenniferOcious79

I recently did a batch of art pieces with a theme.  I depicted animals in silhouette fire breathing in old frames. I've seen those old cardboard frames, now weathered, with a silhouette of a person, oft a lady, on a textured, now yellowed, white paper. The cardboard frame would have a gold leaf detail around the oval. I wanted to do something unexpected in a silhouette form. I thought about how I love fire breathing and animals that are recognizable by shape doing the fire breathing, I thought, would lead to an awesome piece of art. I originally wanted even the fire to be in silhouette, but upon talking with my Mom she suggested that there be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hb9LVyMOc So my family and I made a video for Voltaire's song "When You're Evil" and we made our dog Roscoe into Volterrier. Mom made Roscoe the same outfit Voltaire wears in concerts and it was soooo adorable.  We had SO much fun making this video. It features a lot of home movie clips and some new footage specifically filmed or animated for the video. We also had many many mishaps which broke things and required expensive replacements but at the end of the week, it was evident to all of us it was completely worth it.  So here's the link to it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3hb9LVyMOc AND this is wh

I've been working a lot on art lately. I have so many pieces that it's gonna take a while to get them up. While here on DA I see some amazing work that's achieved by using some fantastic and expensive art program. I sometimes feel stifled by the constraints of my low quality programs. Yes, I like to do work by hand. Yes I like to use the computer to do some of my work. But there are things I want to do that I can't and it makes me sad. People tell me I shouldn't pine for expensive programs and be happy with what I have and that I'm only limited by my imagination. Snot true. True to a degree, but not completely.