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Tiny-ChiKn

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Hello Everyone! How it do?

Mid semester here, and I'm finished with my 3rd painting of the semester. Critique is this week, and plans for the next work are in progress. I'll have a nice batch of things to post at the end of the semester.

Things have been going great this semester. Great job, great people, great studio progress, a piece in a college show in Roanoake and another college show coming up, a phenomenal boyfriend who has been an absolute darling to me for the last 6 months, and I also received some great news!

One of my co-workers at the museum also does some curatorial work for one of our local coffee shops. They exhibit local artists, and I have a show there in June or July! I'll have my own opening night and everything. The whole shop will be full of my work. I'm super excited about it. I know it's nothing big, but it's the first solo show I've had. I'm hoping that I can sell a few pieces. I suppose we shall see!

Things are going very well this year. It's a welcome reprieve from last year. I has it's ups and downs, and I'm not saying that there aren't still hard days, but at least the positives are outnumbering the negatives this time around.

I hope all is well with the other artists out there. Keep up the good work!



Thanks for stopping by,

Tiny-ChiKn
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Hello all!

So, I finally managed to post up some of the semester's work! I was excited about it. That was all of it from just painting class too. I plan on scanning some of my prints from printmaking and posting those. I'll probably post up some of my work from figure drawing as well. Don't worry, there are no naked people... We managed to avoid that portion of it for lack of finding a model to hire. Yay for small conservative areas who don't believe in things like that!

Anyways, I got onto a dark and apocalyptic theme this semester. I think that I may come back to this at a later point in time, or atleast continue the story behind the scenes in my sketchbook. Next semester, I begin work on my senior show. I got a fantastic spark of inspiration from the last paint that I did, the self portrait, I so plan on going along with the theme of having the portrait with the background covered in words. It should be interesting.

Anyways, I am thrilled to have posted up something actually half-decent, and I will post more later on. For now, I leave you with an incomplete story and a lot of fire.

Thanks to any who read this, and visit my page. You guys are awesome! I'm up to over 2,500 pageviews, and that means a lot! *bows

Ciao

Tiny-ChiKn
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New school year is underway, and nearly half gone. Well, look at that. It hasn't exactly been all I was hoping for so far. It's far from it actually, and right now, all I want to do is to go home and forget that college exists for a little while and hug the shit out of my dog. Between the work and the people and the feels and the people and the work and the work and the people, I'm basically losing my mind this year. I can't wait for it to just be over already. The sooner I can get away from some of these people, the better. College used to be my escape from everything else. It just feels like a prison right now. That's the problem with being at a small school. You can't escape from anyone or anything. No matter where you are, you're close at hand to everything. It's... annoying.

That's my dissatisfied rant for the next few months anyways. I've got a bunch of new art I need to photograph and post. I don't have the time to do it right now. My professors are running me ragged. I will post it soon though.

Later Days,

Tiny-ChiKn
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Back Again

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Moved back on campus today. It was... bittersweet. It's nearly time to start the college grind again, and I had no time to enjoy myself this summer. One disaster after another, stress upon stress, and then boom, back to school before I can catch my breath. Things are starting to look up though. Got a new job at a local art museum, so that is a big plus. My car is also out of the shop and running good as new again, another major plus. Things on the professional and work related side of my life are looking up. My personal life, we have yet to see about for now.

There's likely to be a lot of tension between different groups of people that I used to hang out with, so there's no telling what will happen now. It will either all be fine, or it will all go to hell. Which it will be yet, I don't know. We'll see. I just plan on being in the art studio staying the hell away from everything. I'm not getting tangled up in some other mess this year.

It's my year, and my last year with most of my close friends who are graduating. I need to enjoy it and get as much art made as possible. We'll just see how it goes.

Bye for now,

Tiny-ChiKn
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Summer Bugs Me

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Been another good while since I've written a journal. I'm staying up on a mountain for the summer where the internet is rather sketchy, and my family members whose internet I am borrowing has deviantART blocked, so what can you do. Well, I guess I can rant for a while here. Not like people read it much anyways. To put it short and sweet, I'm so over this summer. I want August and I want it NOW. Pretty sad when I'm begging for school to be back again.

I'm stuck on top of a mountain where it takes 30 mins to get anywhere, and I really have no money to spare on gas to go do anything, so I just watch cartoons all day instead. That, and my car broke down a couple of weeks ago. Major fixings needed, so I'm borrowing a gas guzzling SUV to get to work in the mean time. Needless to say, the darn thing is eating a hole in my wallet for gas money. Eesh. Hopefully, I'll have my trusty Taurus back soon. Hopefully.

I also was in a bit of a panic because my job place didn't have the hours to keep me on for the rest of the summer, so I had to find a new volunteer/work place, and thank goodness that has been resolved now.

This and a few other sucker punches from life have really been working to make this summer unbearable. I wanna go back to school. And get my car fixed.

That aside, art is still happening! Kind of. I've got two canvases in the works right now, and a fun melted crayon art/painting that I did yesterday. I'll have to get good pictures of them and post them on here when I can. Also have a commission I'm going to be working on this week. That should help out with the grocery and gas money problem.

As much as I'd like to come back to school, I can't help but to be afraid of how this year is going to go. Classes, art coming out of my ears (not necessarily a bad thing), an 8 am math class (probably the bane of my existence), perhaps a part-time job during the week as well, high tensions between people and friends and stuff, being around people again in general (mainly the ignorant ones, ugh. Maybe I'm better off staying up on the mountain.

Anyways, I'll update when I can, but it may be a while.


Later Days


Tiny-ChiKn
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