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.

Saturday

Saturday Highlights:
1) My sister got some hair from a beauty supply store to make a wig or something. No, she doesn't have cancer--she just got a haircut a while back and misses long hair. Anyway, it was real human hair from a chick in India, and it really creeped me out. Especially when she touched me with it and did this:

I dunno. It just reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer gets a hair transplant, but he doesn't know that it's hair from Snake, who has been executed after Bart rats him out to the cops after he robs Apu or something. Anyway, the hair possesses Homer, who murders all the people involved in Snake's capture/execution.

2)That's me making sushi, which explains why I don't look freaked out. And which also brings me to my next highlight. I made California Rolls! This is how they turned out:

JUST KIDDING!!! haha...Those are the end pieces. This is the real picture:

I'm in the middle of writing a personal statement right now, so I had to make this quick and I left out a lot of crap. Why is it so much easier to post here than to write this verdammt thing? Ugh.