Holly Does Art

For warmups, I have started doing a 100 piece Sketchbook Drawing Challenge. Feel free to do it with me! Day One: A Zombie Parade Day Two: A very bad fairy Day Three: Rejected Beanie Babies

Here is my Wednesday Addams inspired sketch as I schlep my way through my favorite Halloween movies!

Here is a Spongebob test I did recently! This is the super clean version. I'll probably put the messy drawings up, too.

Fall is my FAVORITE time of year. Sweaters are my favorite thing to wear, pumpkin is my favorite flavor, Halloween is my favorite holiday - I AM A FALL PERSON. I am going to do a series of fall paintings! Here is the first!

I like the idea of just using blacks, greys, and cherry red.

I think I like this Matilda better.

Playing with different drawing styles

For those of you who know me, you know that I have a *little* problem. I have a heart condition in which I randomly faint. It is not serious, it is just the way my heart works. It is incurable, unfixable, and most of all, really freaking inconvenient. It is one of those things that is more awkward than life-threatening, so feel free to laugh at the below stories without feeling like a horrible person. Let’s start from the beginning. It is called neurocardiogenic syncope. It is a condition in which your blood pressure drops and takes too long to come back up. I only faint while standing and I don’t have a specific trigger –meaning anything and everything could possibly make me faint. I am lucky enough to have several seconds notice to get myself onto the ground safely before I, you know, hit it, so it’s generally not a big deal and creates just really uncomfortable situations. I see my doctor once a year for him to say, “Yup, you're still broken, please pay your $30 co...

New business card designs!

This is an old post, but it was misplaced during the redesign so here it is again: I’m kind of one of those people that can’t sit still. I’m always doing something (or ten things) and probably fidgeting and thinking of 30 other things to do at the same time. And so, this brought me to yoga. I originally thought yoga was stretching for soccer moms and the elderly, but as someone who spent high school PE tanning on the football field while eating vending machine snacks, it thoroughly kicked my A-S-S. And as it turns out, I am sooooo stressed about being able to hold up my plank position for three more breaths that I don’t think about anything else. So it’s actually kind of relaxing (ish). I do, however, get a bit insulted when the 105-yr-old woman next to me holds her plank longer than I can. Anyway, so as someone who can never relax, yoga has been a nice release. Until a few weeks ago. So there I was, dying of hyperventilation/suffocation/asphyxiation (typical), whe...