Sublimating.

Every once in a while I fall into an artistic mode and I paint/sketch for a few days. It's kinda like El Nino because it happens once every few years, but it's a lot less destructive. Actually, I guess it's more like when your mom starts using the bread machine.

Anyway, these are two things that I did over the past few days:



I didn't sketch the Parisian scene, but I did purchase it for like 2 euros in France. I think I mentioned that in my Europe blogs. Here's how it looks after I watercolored it. I dunno if I like it yet because it's a little too colorful and happy. Ideally, it would be cool if I could do the "night version" of it, but I don't have the skillage.



The next one was inspired by the decor of a Japanese Restaurant I ate at over the weekend. After David took the GREs this Saturday, a bunch of the bros and I took him to Yojimbo, a small Japanese restaurant in Alameda. It was a pretty cool place, with good music and nice paintings using black acryllic on whitewashed particle board sheets:





This is a bit of a tangent, but I'd recommend the place. The food was tasty (I'd go for the chirashi or ramen when I go back), and the service was good. Our food came a little late, which was understandable because we were a party of eight in a pretty small hole-in-the-wall place, and when the check came they gave us a 10% discount because of it. Pretty solid.

Anyway, on my way home I stopped by Home Depot and got cheap sheets of wood from the scrap pile along with some white paint. Then I went to Michaels and got red, blue, yellow, black, and white acryllic paint. I like mixing colors.

This is the first thing I came up with:



Cats like fish, right? I was going to paint a fish eating sushi before I realized how wrong that would be. I'm not going to paint the cat.

That's all for now. BUT I do have two more sheets of wood that I painted white. I'll post whatever I come up with when I come up with it.