Fifty.

Forty-Seven.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist. 

-Oscar Wilde

One day I'll make the jump from starving artist, to comfortably living artist.  That would be super rad.  True story.

In other news I think my contact and my right eye had a fight--my eye lost.  I'm about ready to take a spoon and fish the damn thing out.

My cat is being a brat.  I'm going back to bed.

 

Forty-Six.

Today's piece was inspired by my dear friend Aesop and his wonderful fables.  This one by a tale titled The Scorpion and the Frog.  It goes like this: [*takes out book of Aesop's Fables**Flips through pages**Finds aforementioned story**Copies From Book*]

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

What is true about the scorpion in this story is true about the nature of most people, some behaviors are simply irrepressible despite how you are treated and no matter the consequence.  You see this almost daily.

This tale and it's relevance pertaining to certain aspects of my life was on my mind this morning and I just felt like it needed to be illustrated, and then blogged about.  I've been slipping on my blogging but I've been rather proud of my self this year; I've blogged almost every month!  ^_^

Side Note:  I'm extremely arachnophobic, so while I was looking up references for the scorpion tale, etc, I found myself squirming and twitching in my seat on more than one occasion.  Just thought I'd share.

Side Note 2:  I've also been listening to the following song a lot lately.  It reminds me of my Dad, because he and my mom used to play this CD a lot when I was a kid.  True story, apparently this is one of the first songs my cute adorable infant self used to dance to.  I still can't help but shake my butt when I hear it.  & you're welcome. ;)

Forty-Four.

To all of you who watched this piece take like and thought that I was going to be keeping it innocently sweet; don't you know me at all?

Here’s my finished Bloody Beauty and Beast.  I think it game out rather good, actually.  I messed it a bit sure, but hey; I’m not a Disney animator nor do I claim to be.  This piece is done in marker and inks, for more information visit my deviantART.

I was feeling a bit nostalgic the other day, and I started this piece while watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? and I was like hey, let's draw Belle and Beast.  Why?  I'm not really sure.  I had been wanted to do something with them for a while for no reason at all really.  So I started drawing and since it's October I thought it fitting to bloody them up a bit.  I think they're cuter this way.

Speaking of Are You Afraid of the Dark? iTunes currently has some of the seasons that they are offering on sale for around $6; which is less than a dollar an episode.  Each package has 7 of them.  So I was sure to swipe them all.  This was my favorite Nickelodeon show when I was a kid.  They need to have more shows like it back on the air, or re-run them since it is Halloween season and the perfect time for it to be in re-syndication.

I miss Salute Your Shorts (which is also on iTunes currently), Legends of the Hidden Temple, Rugrats, AHHHH! Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy, Clarissa Explains it All; kids today really have no idea what good TV is.

Since this is somewhat and art blog and since there's an episode of Are You Afraid of The Dark? revolving around an unfinished painting; I found hunted the episode down on youtube for your viewing pleasure.  Enjoy, because after all you never know when inspiration is going to come. ;]

Forty-Two.

So let us take a minuet to story tell for a moment.  Saturday, some dickhead snuck into the backroom at my store and stole my phone and all of $4 that I had in my wallet, and my co-workers phone as well.  Apparently there is a phone stealing ring operating at the mall that I work at, because when I went to the AT&T booth in the food court to turn off my phone after I realized that it was gone they had told me that just the week before two girls had gotten their phones stollen as well.  Another mall employee came into the store later that day and told us that her phone was stolen too.

So apparently when I got my phone they fucked up my whole insurance thing.  Instead of giving me the Apple care and the regular insurance like I wanted they just gave me the Apple Care.  So after I was on the phone with customer service for like ever I finally got them to push my upgrade, but my phone won't even be shipping out for another 2 weeks.  They told me to get get a cheap burner phone and they'd put my number on a sim card and I could just use that until my phone comes in, that they would have it sent to them because basically I live at the mall and it would just make my life a bit easier.  So long story short the freaking simjawn isn't working and I've been too upset/fustrated to go and fix it.  I don't like not having a phone, it's just I'm too depressed over everything that's happened and just unmotivated to get this crap phone set up.

So:  I DO NOT HAVE A PHONE RIGHT NOW.  I AM NOT IGNORING YOU.  I DO NOT HATE YOU I JUST DO NOT HAVE A WAY OF COMMUNICATING WITH YOU.

So if you need to contact me, social media is the way to go.  I promise to let you know when I have my phone back.

I just feel so violated.  I need to get out of the mall.  Anyone know anyplace looking for a cute pink haired bartender?  I'm a great bartender and I'm TIPS certified.  True story.

I started this piece awhile back and I had been staring at it's unfinished form for a few weeks. Today was the day I decided that I was going to finish this gem. I figured focusing on art would help to keep my mind off of the other things that are plaguing me at the moment.

I have a bad boy complex, and I have always loved Loki. I always tend to route for the bad guy. Someone has to, right? #teamvoldemort

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