Tuesday, April 28, 2009


I did this elephant with oil pastel on illustration board. I had fun making him and it gave me a break from oil painting, don't get me wrong I do love painting but this is fast and easy. Oil painting on the other hand can be a bit tedious.
Monday, April 27, 2009

Weekend in Charlotte

I had a great weekend in Charlotte which followed a great week teaching, I only went in two days then had a day and a half off(but I only work half a day normally so I guess I had a day and a fourth off) then I took Friday so I could be rested for the weekend.

Truthfully I was a little lax in my photo taking I missed tons of great photo ops at the Mall but I was had squirrel brain brought on my stores that I had never seen in person. I felt like I was in New York or something. They had stores for all the popular high end designers, like Coach and others that I won't even embarrass myself by trying to spell. I didn't dare go into these stores because I didn't want the Pretty Woman treatment. I simply looked from a distance at all the wonder things I can't afford.

Other than the rich people mall, the concert was pretty ok too. It was surprisingly short for all the bands that played. The best part was when 50 cent sang a song from his new CD and attempted to get audience participation. Well he finally just gave up because no one new his new songs and he just went back to singing the old shit, "you can find me in da club" everyone knows the classics, but come on fiddy I'm sure that only a handfull of FOB fans would even know you you were still making new music.



Cobra Starship



"they added 50 cents to what?"



Fall Out Boy



And here is when they went supernova




After show carnage: I bet someone was missing that inhaler, also found were many many flip flops, not really a good shoe for a mosh pit.







Monday, April 20, 2009

Wraslin'

So one of my sisters came to stay with me this past week because it her spring break and we had a good week even though I still had to work all week. We drove to Roanoke for some mall time and hit several Goodwills and Salvation Armys. Which included a Goodwill so awesome we actually experienced muscle soreness from digging and still only made it halfway through. That was all good enough to be considered a successful week but we didn't stop there.

Raven came up with the brilliant idea to check and see if we could catch some local wrestling, an idea that we all approved of instantly. As luck would have it there was in fact a title matching happening on her last night just minutes away from the house. Oh no they didn't disappoint.




Yes, the gym of an abandoned high/jr. high school, pretty much always the venue.





Raven working on his Mountain Dew Mouth





The winner of the loser weight, yeah the loser gets the loser belt. Later for some reason this guy was going through the trash can until his partner hit him on the head with the lid to stop him. I got the feeling it wasn't part of the act, I think he was just going through the trash.





A little tag team action




DIABLO! and...well we just called him muffin top




Yeah that's why




The audience. The robust lady in lavender was part of the show and constantly yelled out to the wrestlers to "do whatchu gotta do to win Ricky" and my personal favorite that she said no less than 50 times, "shut up you pompous jerk" Dictionary.com defines pompous as characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity. Oh no there was no dignity here my dainty friend.





The Stro - greeting fans




OOOH LA LA!




I really have nothing bad to say about the sto, come on he's awesome



























Monday, April 13, 2009

This chicken has for some reason taken residence in front of this restaurant