Miniature Ariel Painting For Sale

Miniature Ariel portrait done and for sale! $50 and it comes with a tiny easel for display. This tiny portrait measures a mere 2" x 2". So cute!

Frozen progress!

Some progress on the Frozen piece I am doing. Follow me on Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook for daily updates! @thecheekywhale

Imagination takes over with The Little Mermaid

Finished! Onto the next, this time it's a Beauty and the Beast theme :)

For custom illustrations like this one please contact me at thecheekywhale@gmail.com

WIP

A commissioned piece I am working on that I'm super excited about! This is a crappy cellphone picture, but you get the general idea.

Female Nude

Female Nude Original on 18x24 board

Available for purchase $300
If interested contact me: thecheekywhale@gmail.com

10 Weeks

For the past 10 weeks (I missed a few classes) I have been attending an open studio for figure drawing. I've never before taken a figure drawing class, and although this was not an actual instructional class with a teacher, I feel like I learned a lot just by being there and drawing. I can definitely see a huge improvement throughout. Yay!
 Here is my work, first to last:

The entire time we only had female models. On our very last night, I was an hour and a half late, and of course, out of all the nights for me to be late we finally had a male model! It was very strange crosshatching a wiener. 

Anyways, it was awesome and I feel like I came a long way over the 10 weeks, and I'm looking for another class, hopefully this time with an instructor. 

Giveaway Winna!

And the giveaway winner is (according to random.org):

::AUBREY!::

congrats to my favorite older sister!

Thanks to everyone who left a comment about your favorite Christmas memory. It was so fun to read them! And an extra thank you to those who added my button.

(for those that weren't sure how, just right click on image and save to your computer, then add as a picture onto your blog. You MIGHT need to add the link yourself..not quite sure.)

+More giveaways coming, so stay tuned!+

Monday Show-n-Tell

For a long time in high school I was really into doing these pen and ink collages. The one to the right was a gift for my big brother. It was done on canvas with Acrylics. Everything in it has something to do with Aaron. I need to do these again...they were fun!

From this to that

This is my daily diddy. (That word is already getting annoying) The one below is a pen sketch I did while I was

bored. And then I thought, "that would make a pretty cool
oil painting." And it became the piece on the right. I have to say, that this is one of my favorite paintings I've done. After I was done painting it, I thought, "why the snail?" well...I like animals and little creatures. And I've been told that the girl looks like me. Its interesting, because most of my work has a meaning behind it, but I don't quite know what it is until I'm done and I have a chance to really look at it and analyze it. I believe that this painting is a representation of me, staring procrastination (snails=slow/lazy) in the face. which I felt I had been doing for a long time. I hadn't done anything artistic for awhile, and so this is me finally accepting that I was being a lazy bum and I needed to get to work. TA DA! I know...its so deep you can hardly wrap your brain around it.