Hello my name is Emily Walus, and I have a mild obssession with N.C. Wyeth

We had a slide presentation in my painting class the other day, and much to my surprise, a certain painting caught my eye. Once my professor started talking about it, I realized why my heartstrings were being melodiously plucked: It was an N.C. Wyeth. Of course.

After browsing through all the paintings and sketches on the Brandywine River School website, I finally found it, naturally, over 2000 images files later, on the last page.



Officially my favorite painting ever? Yeah. Pretty much.

Only you, Wyeth, can paint in super saturation, with every color of the rainbow (especially that green...gosh, I think they don't even make that color anymore it's so toxic, both figuratively and literally) and pull it off with abounding success. Then you add pirates? And amazing light sensitivity? Seriously, this has gotta stop or else my heart might skip one beat too many.

Also: super excited to visit the Brandywine Museum next month. So much wonderful-ness, so little time.

Not sure if I should post this Friday night doodle, because it looks pretty meager with that hunk of glory earlier in this post.



Now back to doing painting homework.Which may or may not involve pirates.

Self-Indulgent Nerdiness.

So, spring break: totally nerdy. Totally fabulous.

Since all my applications/resumes/portfolios had been sent out in the past few ridiculous/insane/intense weeks, I had all of spring break to indulge my non-work-related nerdiness!

First I did a little sewing:



This was...a challenge. I had sewn little, silly things before, but then, as if out of nowhere, I found myself absolutely enamored by a dress I had seen online. But alas...poor college student.

Fortunately for duct tape dress forms (many youtube video tutorials, 2 rolls of duct tape, 3 old pillows, and some motherly assistance later...) sewing something suddenly seemed possible. Then add a few more yards of fabric, a mountainload of ripping seams and resewing, lack of patterns, frustration, and heavens knows what else...aaaand ta da!

I learned so, so, SO much from this little endeavor; I'm excited to start something new in between school work. (Note to self: Collars are fun to make, while sleeves, on the other hand, are not. Lots of seam ripping, re-cutting,re-sewing, re-ripping...oh gosh.)

Second, I tapped into my awkward middle/high school subconscious and watched absurd amounts of cartoons on Hulu and read too many comic chapters to count. Which, ultimately, brought me to this:




...I made fanart and I am not ashamed! If your favorite character had SUPER COOL FIRE POWERS, you would draw fanart of them. Maybe you would even want to color them as soon as you found your tablet pen, too.

The nerdiness ends here. For now.