ArtSquirrel

The snow has finally decided to fall here in Ohio, and shockingly I'm missing December with it's unusually warm 60 degree weekends. This month marks the 1 year anniversary of my diagnosis with a meningioma in the frontal lobe of my brain, and all the joyful fun that comes along with it - which is why I've backed out of a lot of my art and OCTs unfortunately. Hopefully, they will figure out what to do and I can get back to normal at some point this year.

So what's planned aside from dealing with health issues this year?

In March we'll of course be hitting up Wizard World ComicCon in Cleveland again - You can always follow those exploits on my Instagram and Facebook pages.
A quick trip down to the snake mounds with my son might be in the works too and possibly Great Wolf lodge with my youngest daughter.
The big one - a trip to Japan is up and coming in the fall. My daughter is turning 18 so as a graduation/18th birthday present I let her choose anywhere in the world for 1 week to go. And Japan it is. We will be ending our backpacking trip from Tokyo to Hiroshima on her birthday at the Island of the Bunnies then taking the bullet train back to Tokyo for our flight home.

Aside from traveling - I'm hoping above hopes that I can buckle down and get a few of my artistic things done but between work and health we'll have to see. The urge to do things is just not in me all that much of late.

So here's to a new year! I hope all goes well for the rest of you!

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It's hard to believe that another year has gone by. While I'm happy that it means the snow will be going away , I'm kind of sad how fast it all seems to be going. My oldest daughter will be graduating next year already! There is no way 17 years has gone by that fast!
My Youngest will be graduating in 5 years and driving in 3... dear God. My 40th birthday present is my son being able to drive... Yea, that trip to South Africa to swim with Great Whites for my 40th is looking better and better. Speaking of trips, I'll beheading out to Paris on April 11th! WOOT! I can't wait. A week off work. A week away from the kids. A week to myself to recharge and reset. I'm hoping to have a whole load of new photos for my gallery as well.

So as I grow a year older, I want to wish all my friends and watchers the best for the rest of this year.

So it's finally finished. This piece has taken me 3 months of weekends to finally finish and it didn't come out exactly how I wanted it but I'm kind of happy with the few little surprises I did get. All of the trees in the background were actually hidden under what I hope to see enough layers of missed where they wouldn't show through, unfortunately it seems that they wanted to be there. And I actually like them it gives it more death to the picture.
The horse was supposed to be black like well dark grey at least and it ended up looking more like colored pencil or chalk or oil pastels. Yet another little surprised that I actually enjoyed and that texture ended up looking really nice on the Soldiers uniform.
How some of the buttons spread out a little too much from where I put the paint made it a little too thick. There could be a little more shading and difference on the axe blade. And overall I think it could have been a bit darker but I'm happy with it. This is actually really weird for me cuz normally I'd be disappointed but I'm actually really happy with this.

Now on to the next project is a massive set of coasters that's based around the My Little Pony franchise. Feel free to offer up a couple of options so far I'm working on a Queen Chrysalis, Lord Sombra Fluttershy, Discord and Princess Luna. I am planning on doing all of the Mane 6, Zecora, Princess Celestia and then of course the evil versions of both of the head princesses as well as Princess Cadence and maybe a few more if anyone drops me line.

So yea, did this today just to procrastinate cleaning up the house.... I'm either horrible at procrastinating or really good at. Don't know. Anyway, this was a Goodwill find that is a gift for my son. So much scrubbing and sanding and spray paint!
You can see the progress pictures at my Facebook page or Instagram because DevArt only let's me post 1 picture when doing a journal on my phone.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/art.squrriel…

Facebook: www.facebook.com/lyn.morrigan

Preparing for ComicCon, of course! Wizard World Cleveland is here again and myself and the kids are itching to cosplay again, so I'm creating. My son is going as Jared Leto's, Joker... Because why not? Nothing like a 5 am wake up call for body paint. My daughter (Creative Chipmunk here on DA) will be going as humanized Judy Hopps... And I... I will be going as the Witch of the Waste from Howl's Moving Castle.

Gotta cosplay to the weight class. I wish DA mobile app would let me attach more then one picture at a time so you only get one little peek for now. You'll find more on my Instagram and Facebook accounts. I've even started reworking my website. I'll keep you posted and add more photos later!