Finished Painting

I did it. I finished! My friend wanted a reproduction of a small painting I had made years ago....and I finished it last night. Check this out and let me know what you think!

Birch Tree Painting II

Bazzillion Degrees

Oh my gosh. my apartment is ridiculously hot. Maybe there is some sort of vortex of heat directly from the core of the Earth to my living room...whatever it is. I am totally not a fan.

My boyfriend is at a wedding rehursal for tomorrow and so I stayed home and wrapped a full size mixer. I normally wouldn't mind but with his trip to Selawik in three days then the living room is filled with, Xtratufs, sleeping bags, three rain coats, who knows how many socks and odd gear straps. So I got it wrapped with my limited space. The real issue behind all this is somewhere under the pink ribbon, the Ibuprofen, ski goggles, and backpacks is the remote for the cable sooooooo tv is a little slim pickin at the moment. Dont worry, the bully is indeed getting a beat down.

While checkin out my twitter....I came across this fine piece of video, and I would like to say, I am kinda thankful that there isn't an IKEA for three thousand miles because I dont think I want my parents to shop there. Enjoy.

Early Fall Stroll

Me and one of my most dearest friends went for a photo date/walk down to Creamers Field. I may not be crazy about the apartment that I am currently living in, however...I love being so close to one of my favorite spots in town.

Bird house

We are both learning how to use our DSLR's so it was nice. She is a Nikon girl and I have a Canon...but basic principles are still the same. Its very nice to share the learning curve with someone. I feel like with all the very young fabulous photographers online that I am behind the curve but spending time with a few of my friends is really helping me learn what the strange little buttons do and be a little less scared to try some things. I am hoping that by this winter I wont be such a camera idiot-face and be able to capture some real good shots. Feel free to comment on my flickr or here if you have any suggestions. I promise I wont take them personally and I really, really want to learn what I am doing.

Taking pictures

Here is one that I used Picnik to edit. I am working on a painting of birch tree trunks so I wanted to really bring out the contrast of the black and white to inspire my last few touches (a photo will be posted when thats done)

Birch Trees

Alright, thats all fine and dandy but not very exciting...I tried really hard to send the cranes or the geese a message so that they would get into a fight and I could get some sweet NatGeo shot...however, they were just standing there, eating or staring at eachother. Not exactly my G.I. Geese experience that I wanted.

Creamers field

Old Creamery

Revival.

So my Twitter friends have inspired me to do a real good job at this. I am going to go ahead and try round 2. (I am @ashleykaren)
I have done a much better job at getting projects started and heaven forbid, FINISHED. so I think I may actually have a product to show...which should make this round much better.

However, I am finishing teaching my last lab of the semester so I can't take a picture of any of my current works. I can however, share with you the most amusing website I have found in a long time, www.crappytaxidermy.com You have to understand, its really hard for me to pick a favorite....should I pick a "OH MY GOSH THAT IS TERRIFYING?" or a "OH MY GOSH THAT IS HILARIOUS" or a simple..."What the crud?!" So I went with this.

Have a lovely day!