Behind the Wheel

I for all intents and purposes am an absolute girly girl. My love of lace, ruffles, and glitter tends to lend itself to me having zero knowledge about cars. While I may not be able to tell you what type of engine a car has or for that matter how to even change a flat tire, I have a tremendous appreciation for the beauty of vintage cars. If I were a lucky owner of one of these cars I would view each time behind the wheel as an occasion to wear the most ladylike fashions or frilliest skirts I could find. I can also picture the trunk of my car often packed for a weekend roadtrip or a delicious picnic.

♥ Sunny

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Tickled Pink

I'm rather sure pink has been my favorite color since the day I was born and they wrapped me up in a little pink blanket. No matter what it is if it comes in pink, that's the one I'm choosing. If you google what your favorite color says about your personality, you'll find that if your favorite color is pink you tend to require affection, need to feel loved and secure, and are generally charming and gentle. Yummy pink food. I would love to receive a bouquet of these. Beetles are my favorite car. I would love to cruise around town in this car. Lovely old books with beautiful pink covers. And a prince waiting for a kiss. This computer would be nice to do work on and to do my blogging. When I build my dream house someone is going to have to restrain me from going overboard with the pink decorating. A wonderful thing to take home from a carnival. Doesn't this look like it came straight from a fairytale? A nice little hideaway to relax.

♥ Sunny

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Piece for "Six Legged Freaks" tonight!!

Here's my piece which will be on display tonight at Cactus Gallery. Come by and check it out!

"Six Legged Freaks"  

Saturday, April 10, 2010 -- 7p-10p  

Bug Themed Art Show 

Cactus Gallery

4534 Eagle Rock Blvd., Eagle Rock

For more info or pricing, please call Sandra Mastroianni at 323.256.6117 or semastroianni70 at yahoo.com

Evolution of a painting

Working on a piece for Cactus Gallery's upcoming Bug themed show: I'm doing a piece about egyptian scarabs...

Original concept:

First pass (end of first day) Her skin had a blue undertone- wish I had taken a pic of it then, since it looked cool. Tweaked composition to match square wood panel, and am adding in an egyptian styled background:

Second pass (end of second day): Still figuring out what to do with the border space (black? spray gold? papyrus paper?).

Stay tuned for tonight's progress!

Annnd... back to the Egyptians

Feather headed crown

This one's headdress is more modeled after Liz Taylor's headpiece from the Cleopatra movie than anything I found that was authentic, but man, isn't it awesome looking?

Another Egyptian

More Egyptian /scrarab beetle studies!

The scarab beetle was associated with Ra the sun god; they saw Ra rolling the sun across the sky like a dung beetle (scarab) rolls a ball of poo.

Also, small stone sculptures of scarabs were placed over the heart of mummies; they were weighed against the feather of life when the deceased was being judged in the afterlife.

Egyptian with Scarab beatle

While I was drawing this, I thought to myself how much I freakin' love this sketchbook from Florence. I mean, seriously, the paper has -such- a beautiful texture and tooth to it, and I love how I can work the markers into it. Anyway. It will be sad!