[link] First coat of paint is down. It's due next Thursday.

I should have photos/scans of everything in the next two weeks.

So in Printmaking I am two colors away from finishing the kitsune reduction woodcut. My final project will consist of another triptych, this time all yokai. A futakuchi-onna (woman with two mouths, one in the back of her head,) a Kuchisake-onna (woman with a Glasgow smile,) and an Ohaguro-bettari (bride with no eyes/nose, and a blackened mouth.) The lineart for the futakuchi-onna can be viewed here- [link]

In Sequential I'm doing a music video for Clone Your Lover by Zeromancer. I came up with the idea last year and had started storyboarding one prior to my hardrive dying. The same computer contained all my reference photos for a painting I'd been working on to illustrate the song. The illustration was never finished, but I'm finally getting to do the music video. I only need 30 seconds for class, but I'll at least draw up thumbnails for the rest of it to be finished later.

In Alma Prima I am halfway done with the first coat on my sphinx painting. I need to find some photos of caves and Athens to put in the background this weekend so I can work on it during the week. In class we'll be doing painting from life for the next couple weeks.

In Sci-Fi/Fantasy painting, I have the robo-girls' faces and clothes in pretty well and will have the two figures fnished in the next couple weeks.

No personal projects right now, though I intend to make up for it in December.

I have spent the month in Printmaking doing monster girl pictures and have two others started for the next couple of projects. I intend to get these all scanned in the next couple of days. They didn't get uploaded sooner because they had to dry or were busy being acid-etched. I finished them last Monday and have been overwhelmed with other homework.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan is hosting the world's largest art competition (or at least, the prize is the biggest.) It starts this Wednesday and goes to the 2nd of October.

I have entered my Vampire in Winter piece at Grand Lan and it's already hanging up.

Voting is online, which means even if you don't live around here, you can vote.

Registration started a few days ago, and can also be done online. You can vote multiple times.

Sign up at Artprize.org

1st place is $250,000 dollars.

I'll be spending the winning money on paying off my college bills and quitting my low-paying job to spend more time on my actual artwork and to move after I graduate in the next year. Also to pay my parents back for 21 years of wonderfully taking care of me.

Please vote for me, and get any of your friends involved too.

~Meghann Pardee