SCARE Donation

Quicksilver
Medium: colored pencil

This is a donation for the South Carolina Awareness and Rescue for Equines (SCARE). It will be sold at one of their silent auctions to help raise money to care for the horses that they've rescued.

Wolverine

Wolverine
Medium: Photoshop paint

My original plan was to take the character from the films and draw him in the comic-book Marvel style, but with my unsteady hands and no pen tool there was no way to make a decent outline on the claws. Even as it is their edges aren't even. But that's life!

Candy Cane Zebra

Peppermint
Photoshop paint

Lioness

Huntress
Medium: Photoshop paint

Watercolor Paintings

These are not as gray and mono-valued as my scanner would like you to believe.



Swirls
Medium: watercolor paint and pen

Mommy
Medium: watercolor paint and pen

Snowy Wolf

Snowy Wolf
Medium: colored pencil

As with most traditional pieces, this did not scan very well.

Pencil Drawings

Medium: Graphite and pencil



Extemporaneous drawing for an art contest. Contestants are given a limited amount of time to draw a random object, hence the rushed look. Unfortunately one of the criteria was to draw the entire object, although I only heard "make a nice composition." Oh well. That's life.
Medium: Graphite pencil

 

Prints

Linocut is a printing technique where a block of linoleum is cut away to create a picture. The parts cut away will appear white (or will allow an already-existent color to show through). To get multiple colors with one piece of linoleum, you have to first cut away your whites, print, then cut away whatever you don't want to be your next color, print, and so on.

Camel - Single-color (black)
Medium: Linocut print

Camel - Multi-colored
Medium: Linocut print

Monoprinting is a printing technique where ink is applied to a flat surface such as a piece of glass and then brushed and/or scratched away to create lighter areas. It gives one or maybe two prints.

Monoprint horse

Lazy Lion
Unknown printing technique

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Medium: Photoshop photo collage

A Little Bit Fishy

Title: Comet Goldfish
Media: Acrylic paint on black

Lady and the Tramp

Title: He's a Tramp
Media: Photoshop paint

A scene from Disney's "Lady and the Tramp!" This is from the song "He's a Tramp," where Peg (gray dog) tells Lady (cocker spaniel) about Lady's new boyfriend's Achilles' Heel. Perhaps the sketchiest song in Disney cartoon history. LOL



Song lyrics (performed by Peggy Lee):

"He's a Tramp, but they love him.
Breaks a new heart every day.
He's a Tramp, they adore him.
And I only hope he'll stay that way.

He's a tramp, he's a scoundrel, he's a rounder, he's a cad.
He's a tramp, but I love him!
Yes, even I have got it pretty bad.

You never know when he'll show up.
He gives you plenty of trouble.
I guess he's just a no 'count pup.
But, I wish that he were double.

He's a tramp. He's a rover!
And there's nothin' more to say.
If he's a tramp, he's a good one,
And I wish that I could travel his way,
Wish that I could travel his way,
Wish that I could travel his way."

Lion King

Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
Media: Photoshop paint

There's a recent trend on the internet where you color kids' coloring pages. I think it's kind of silly, really, but I do love The Lion King! The story is actually quite good and from an artistic standpoint, the music and animation are outstanding.

Horse linocut print

Wild Horse Print
Linocut

This is a linocut print that I've made. Linocuts are made by taking linocut board and carving out all of the areas of your print that you want to stay white. Then, ink is rolled over the carved piece, the piece is pressed onto your media, and your print is made!

It's a Lion. Enough said.

Lion Portrait
Pen and ink

Horses in... space?

Horsehead Nebula
Photoshop

If you're a Howrse.com mod or admin investigating a plagiarism report, have not fear! I am *LipizzanerKgirl and I drew this.

Photo Collages

Wolf Collage
Photoshop

Hunting song of the Seeonee wolf pack by Rudyard Kipling (from The Jungle Book)

Arabian Horse Collage poster
Photoshop

 

Tyger, Tyger

Title: Tyger
Media: Photoshop collage
Images from 21stcenturytiger and lostandtaken.

Here's a Photoshop collage that I made at camp this summer! 

PowerPoint!

Okay, so I like to collect Schleich animals, especially the horses. Apparently that's a crime for someone my age? LOL Come on, everyone has their pointless hobbies!


Title: Schleich Collector
Media: Microsoft PowerPoint photo and graphics manipulation

Horse and logo from Schleich (no way)

Title: Note to Self
Media: Miscrosoft PowerPoint text manipulation

 

Desktop Wallpaper

I just finished one of my first desktop/wallpaper designs. It's free to use, but seeing as I made it, my signature must be left on it. Just click on the image to view it larger, then save it onto your computer to use as a background.


Title: Fantasy Friesian
Media: Photoshop and Microsoft PowerPoint photo manipulation

Next to Normal

Kristen Hall's Next to Normal poster concept

I was entered in a poster contest for Center Stage of South Carolina's new musical, Next to Normal. Naturally I did not win, but that's just the story of my life. LOL

 The winning poster was very cute (although cuteness has nothing to do with the plot and overall emotion of Next to Normal). The emotional impact of the winning poster was one of endearing childlike innocence and it was crafted so that it looked like it was made out of a small child's building blocks and cartoon sketches. Very cute! I will post it here once the finished version is available. :)




Plot of Next to Normal: (SPOILER ALERT) Next to Normal revolves around a distraught and broken family. The main character is the mother, who is a manic-depressive, Schizophrenic, fractured woman who hallucinates about her dead infant son who was born out of wedlock. She believes that the son has grown up and is a young man. Her daughter feels rejected and "invisible" and therefore turns to drugs. The husband, who is trying to hold the house together, begins to feel the strain of holding together a family that is pulling apart. He hallucinates and has emotional, confused breakdowns as well. Although the wife firmly believes that her son is still alive, the husband knows he is dead and refuses to say the son's name. The story ends with the mother leaving the family and the father recognizing his hallucination.  The story does not have a happy ending although it is poignant and does have some resolution. Center Stage has “cleaned up” the script, although they still aim it at a PG-13 audience.

BJU Art Festival 2012

These are my three entries into the Bob Jones University Art Festival in 2012.

Title: The Doctor
Media: charcoal and graphite

 

 

 

Title: Dragon
Media: watercolor paint
Won third place in its catagory

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Genesis
Media: pen and tea
Won first place in its catagory

This is the first contest I have ever placed in in my entire life.  :O

Landscapes

Title: Pridelands
Media: Photoshop paint

Title: The Silver Stag
Media: Photoshop paint

Title: Where Wolves Dance
Media: Photoshop paint

Yes, I am *LipizzanerKgirl on Howrse.com, so I did draw these and submit them as Helios Ray landscapes. If you're a moderator or an admin investigating a plagiarism report, have no fear, everything's okay! I am their original artist and I submitted them.

Toffee

Title: Toffee

Media: Photoshop paint

This is another portrait of one of my friend's horses.