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Hiiiii!
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Howdy, y'all!
You may have noticed that I'm not as active here as I used to be. I'm still kickin', but I'm much more active on my Tumblr.
I'll absolutely still post art here, but if you'd like to chat, I'm more likely to get back to you on Tumblr.
I also post pieces and drabbles there that I don't post here, if you're interested.
Much love! <3
You may have noticed that I'm not as active here as I used to be. I'm still kickin', but I'm much more active on my Tumblr.
I'll absolutely still post art here, but if you'd like to chat, I'm more likely to get back to you on Tumblr.
I also post pieces and drabbles there that I don't post here, if you're interested.Much love! <3
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Updates!
3 min read
Hot dang, it's been awhile. Since our last chat, I have:
*Completely switched careers from marketing to teaching. I couldn't take one more second of marketing. I'm now teaching English, social studies and a bit of theater at an after-school program for under-resourced youth. It is exhausting and I absolutely love it. Pretty sure I've found my purpose in life. The kids are brilliant despite their often difficult circumstances and I've finally put my innate goofiness to good use. For example, I taught them all how to talk like Fran Drescher. My boss was simultaneously delighted and concerned. It's great. Very hard emotionally and psychologically sometimes--a lot of these kids are living in extreme poverty and come from abuse, drugs, alcohol, instability galore--but it is so worth it. I love them to pieces.
*Had to have surgery for what the doctors believed was a nasty insect bite of some kind on my chest to remove the abscessed infection. It was so gross and it knocked me flat for a month. I've also had family members experience some pretty icky health scares, one after the other, so I am approximately 1,000% done with hospitals forever.
*Made a Loki cosplay for the local con! Pictures to come.
*Celebrated a year in March with my boyfriend, who is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Go follow him!
*Continued studying voice acting in my dwindling spare time and I'm in love. Hot dang. So much fun.
*Had barely any time for art in the upheaval, but I'm hoping to remedy this from now on. I miss it terribly!
Thank you guys so much for hanging with me. I know I occasionally drop off the face of the earth because life throws me too many curve balls, but I appreciate your support and encouraging comments more than I can express. You guys are fantastic.
Oh! Almost forgot! Erik now has an Instagram!
You can also pester him with your questions on his blog.
Peace, love and shattered chandeliers!
~Muirin
*Completely switched careers from marketing to teaching. I couldn't take one more second of marketing. I'm now teaching English, social studies and a bit of theater at an after-school program for under-resourced youth. It is exhausting and I absolutely love it. Pretty sure I've found my purpose in life. The kids are brilliant despite their often difficult circumstances and I've finally put my innate goofiness to good use. For example, I taught them all how to talk like Fran Drescher. My boss was simultaneously delighted and concerned. It's great. Very hard emotionally and psychologically sometimes--a lot of these kids are living in extreme poverty and come from abuse, drugs, alcohol, instability galore--but it is so worth it. I love them to pieces.
*Had to have surgery for what the doctors believed was a nasty insect bite of some kind on my chest to remove the abscessed infection. It was so gross and it knocked me flat for a month. I've also had family members experience some pretty icky health scares, one after the other, so I am approximately 1,000% done with hospitals forever.
*Made a Loki cosplay for the local con! Pictures to come.
*Celebrated a year in March with my boyfriend, who is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Go follow him!
*Continued studying voice acting in my dwindling spare time and I'm in love. Hot dang. So much fun.
*Had barely any time for art in the upheaval, but I'm hoping to remedy this from now on. I miss it terribly!
Thank you guys so much for hanging with me. I know I occasionally drop off the face of the earth because life throws me too many curve balls, but I appreciate your support and encouraging comments more than I can express. You guys are fantastic.
Oh! Almost forgot! Erik now has an Instagram!
You can also pester him with your questions on his blog.
Peace, love and shattered chandeliers!
~Muirin
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Long (ish) time, no see!
3 min read
Howdy, all! It's been quieter here than it normally is due to the usual suspects--school and work. This last semester is waaaaay busier than I thought it would be. I'm only taking two classes to finish up my English degree, but they're extremely involved. Great material but a ton of work. That plus working in PR on the days when I'm not in class and trying to manage a social life have left me strapped for some good old fashioned art time. I'm still drawing like crazy--I can't help it!--but I haven't had the time to really delve into a piece like I want to.
I've been feeling like I've reached a plateau with my work, so I've taken a step back to assess how I can push myself to improve. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm so ready for the next step. You ever get the feeling that your work is stagnant somehow? It's really frustrating. What I need to do is tackle subject matter and compositions that I don't generally deal with. Environment-building, lighting (especially mood-lighting), more dynamic compositions...I'm hoping the experimentation will help. I've hit a creative wall.
I'm also saving up for Photoshop and a tablet. Traditional artwork will always be my preferred method, but you can really loosen up and experiment with Photoshop. My boyfriend's a whiz with it, and he was showing me the ropes a few weeks ago--I think it's exactly what I need.
I also need a spacious, lake-side castle in Scotland and an unlimited costume budget and one of those tiny ponies. But you know. Can't be too choosy.
Hope all is well with everyone!
I've been feeling like I've reached a plateau with my work, so I've taken a step back to assess how I can push myself to improve. It's going to be a lot of work, but I'm so ready for the next step. You ever get the feeling that your work is stagnant somehow? It's really frustrating. What I need to do is tackle subject matter and compositions that I don't generally deal with. Environment-building, lighting (especially mood-lighting), more dynamic compositions...I'm hoping the experimentation will help. I've hit a creative wall.
I'm also saving up for Photoshop and a tablet. Traditional artwork will always be my preferred method, but you can really loosen up and experiment with Photoshop. My boyfriend's a whiz with it, and he was showing me the ropes a few weeks ago--I think it's exactly what I need.
I also need a spacious, lake-side castle in Scotland and an unlimited costume budget and one of those tiny ponies. But you know. Can't be too choosy.
Hope all is well with everyone!
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Artist Vincent Gray has started a fundraiser to raise money for a bronze sculpture of John Keats that will sit in Chichester, adjacent to the building where the he stayed while he was writing The Eve of Saint Agnes in 1820. Gray wants the sculpture–and Keats, in turn–to be accessible to the public so people can sit, take photos, and have a chat with the poet.
To clarify: In all likelihood, the sculpture will not talk back to you. I mean, it might. If it’s, like, possessed or something. If it does start talking back to you, that’s either really, really cool, or a sign that you need to get the heck out of there and contact your friendly neighborhood exorcist.
ANYway…Gray has started a fundraising page for the project and aims to raise £30,000 by September 2016 to cast the sculpture in bronze and install it. If you can spare a buck or two, send it his way via his Share A Gift account. Anything helps! We’ve got a year, so that’s plenty of time to raise the money for Keats to sit on his little bench and stare at people intensely and possibly make them uncomfortable doing so.
You can read about the effort behind the artwork and watch an interview with Gray here.
In case it wasn’t already blatantly, painfully, obnoxiously obvious, John Keats is my favorite poet and one of my favorite people in the history of ever, so I’m super stoked for this. Plus, it’s another victory for a guy who got a bum deal in life but still made the best of it with his spectacular ability to instill people with massive feels.
On a related note, I haven’t see anyone installing any new sculptures of Byron lately, so take THAT, Byron. YEAH. THAT’S RIGHT. WHERE’S YOUR CHICHESTER STATUE, YOU POMPOUS TALENTED OKAY YES I ADMIT IT PRICK?
………Behold. My feud with a 200-year-old dead guy continues
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Life Update
3 min read
Howdy, y'all! As usual, things have been incredibly hectic in my neck of the woods, more so than usual because I'm finishing up the capstone for my advertising/PR major, which means I'm at the university for 12+ hours a day, almost seven days a week. I am absolutely spent. It all ends at the beginning of April with a huge presentation and I'm one of the presenters and team leads, so I've been hard-pressed to find a moment's worth of drawing and writing time. Which is incredibly frustrating. I can't take this schedule anymore. Oy.
On the plus side, some wonderful things have been happening, as well. I have an interview with a local PR firm tomorrow--fingers crossed!--and only three classes left until I graduate in December. They're all English classes, too, which should be fun.
And I met a wonderful guy who's just as nerdy as I am. We've been talking since December and started dating at the beginning of March and now we're a thang. He's just an all-around fantastic human being--and an artist, to boot! (An out-of-this world artist. I'm not just saying that because I'm biased. He does contract work for Disney. It's insane.) We have so much in common and we can talk for hours and hours. It's so comfortable and it feels so darn NICE.
It's odd, because my life is so chaotic with school and job hunting right now. I never thought something this peaceful and lovely could drop in at such an inopportune moment. I think that must be God's way of telling me to relax and love a little more. I'm diggin' it.
....Also, he's a musician--a guitarist---and I'm going to force him to learn to play the metal version of Phantom because of reasons.
I don't have a problem. I don't.
Stay tuned, folks! Art will be back after I poop out from senioritis in April! Hope all is well with y'all!
On the plus side, some wonderful things have been happening, as well. I have an interview with a local PR firm tomorrow--fingers crossed!--and only three classes left until I graduate in December. They're all English classes, too, which should be fun.
And I met a wonderful guy who's just as nerdy as I am. We've been talking since December and started dating at the beginning of March and now we're a thang. He's just an all-around fantastic human being--and an artist, to boot! (An out-of-this world artist. I'm not just saying that because I'm biased. He does contract work for Disney. It's insane.) We have so much in common and we can talk for hours and hours. It's so comfortable and it feels so darn NICE.
It's odd, because my life is so chaotic with school and job hunting right now. I never thought something this peaceful and lovely could drop in at such an inopportune moment. I think that must be God's way of telling me to relax and love a little more. I'm diggin' it.
....Also, he's a musician--a guitarist---and I'm going to force him to learn to play the metal version of Phantom because of reasons.
I don't have a problem. I don't.
Stay tuned, folks! Art will be back after I poop out from senioritis in April! Hope all is well with y'all!
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Hiiiii! by Muirin007, journal
Hiiiii!
Howdy, y'all!
You may have noticed that I'm not as active here as I used to be. I'm still kickin', but I'm much more active on my Tumblr.
I'll absolutely still post art here, but if you'd like to chat, I'm more likely to get back to you on Tumblr. :) I also post pieces and drabbles there that I don't post here, if you're interested.
Much love! <3
Updates! by Muirin007, journal
Updates!
Hot dang, it's been awhile. Since our last chat, I have:
*Completely switched careers from marketing to teaching. I couldn't take one more second of marketing. I'm now teaching English, social studies and a bit of theater at an after-school program for under-resourced youth. It is exhausting and I absolutely love it. Pretty sure I've found my purpose in life. The kids are brilliant despite their often difficult circumstances and I've finally put my innate goofiness to good use. For example, I taught them all how to talk like Fran Drescher. My boss was simultaneously delighted and concerned. It's great. Very hard emotionally and psychological
Long (ish) time, no see! by Muirin007, journal
Long (ish) time, no see!
Howdy, all! It's been quieter here than it normally is due to the usual suspects--school and work. This last semester is waaaaay busier than I thought it would be. I'm only taking two classes to finish up my English degree, but they're extremely involved. Great material but a ton of work. That plus working in PR on the days when I'm not in class and trying to manage a social life have left me strapped for some good old fashioned art time. I'm still drawing like crazy--I can't help it!--but I haven't had the time to really delve into a piece like I want to.
I've been feeling like I've reached a plateau with my work, so I've taken a step back
Help bring a Keats sculpture to Chichester! by Muirin007, journal
Help bring a Keats sculpture to Chichester!
Artist Vincent Gray has started a fundraiser to raise money for a bronze sculpture of John Keats that will sit in Chichester, adjacent to the building where the he stayed while he was writing The Eve of Saint Agnes in 1820. Gray wants the sculpture–and Keats, in turn–to be accessible to the public so people can sit, take photos, and have a chat with the poet.
To clarify: In all likelihood, the sculpture will not talk back to you. I mean, it might. If it’s, like, possessed or something. If it does start talking back to you, that’s either really, really cool, or a sign that you need to get the heck out of there and cont
Life Update by Muirin007, journal
Life Update
Howdy, y'all! As usual, things have been incredibly hectic in my neck of the woods, more so than usual because I'm finishing up the capstone for my advertising/PR major, which means I'm at the university for 12+ hours a day, almost seven days a week. I am absolutely spent. It all ends at the beginning of April with a huge presentation and I'm one of the presenters and team leads, so I've been hard-pressed to find a moment's worth of drawing and writing time. Which is incredibly frustrating. I can't take this schedule anymore. Oy.
On the plus side, some wonderful things have been happening, as well. I have an interview with a local PR firm to