Art!

Hi everybody...
I realize that I haven't posted in FOREVER, but I have been quite busy with school and whatnot.  However, I'll be out of school after this week, so I'll try to do more posting over the summer.

Anyway, I took a year of art class this past school year, and I think I might have made some pretty cool stuff.  So, here are some photos of various projects I think I did a decent job on.  There are a few projects I left out of this post, which I might post later.  Also, please forgive the poor picture quality-- I had a tricky time getting the angle right on some of them.

1. This is a random collage I made with a guest teacher one day.  I've always had a thing for making these completely ridiculous and random collages... and this one is no exception.

2.  My art class also did linoleum block printmaking, and I think that mine turned out pretty well, though I kind of went insane trying to carve out all of those tiny spirals.  (By the way, I had to make the print based off the art of a specific country that I picked out of a hat... mine is Greece.)

3.  This is a scratchboard drawing I did for a Day of the Dead art show.  I actually think the frame turned out better than the actually piece on this one, but I still had fun making it.

4. This an abstract line drawing that turned out to be not so abstract because I decided to put a duck in it.  From a distance, I think it looks pretty neat, just don't look at it too closely.

  5.  This is a project where I had to cut shapes out of a piece of black paper and then flip and transfer them to the opposite side of the paper.  I did Batman, obviously.

6.  In between projects, I had some free time, so I made this random steampunky sketch thing, which I think ended up looking pretty cool.

7.  Finally, I did a project where I took a square and transferred  it over and over again until it covered the entire canvas.  Most of my class did flowers and stuff like that, but, ya know... chickens.

These are just the best ones I think I did, but you could feel differently.  Leave a comment and tell me what you think!  If I get a lot of positive feedback, I might post some more art from this year.

 Band update:  I'm still looking for one.  Anyone need a mandolinist or violinist?  I've been thinking about trying the guitar lately, too but if there are any bassists, drummers, singers, guitarists, or keyboards out there, or if you have a preexisting band I could join, please leave me a comment or email me at thetoothpickchick@gmail.com.  Thanks, ya'll!

The Batman Countdown

Since The Dark Knight Rises comes out this summer, I made a cute little GIF animation in Photoshop that's a Batman-themed countdown.  Use it the day before the midnight showing of the movie to count down till the Dark Knight Rises premiers.  (If you want.  You don't have to.)  Anyway, here it is.

Coupler?

I think I might've found a way to connect two USBs together for my Kindle Fire and keyboard... It's called an audio/video coupler or adapter.  I don't quite understand the subtleties of USB; would this work?  It looks like it would, because all I need to do is connect them.  They also have the same thing on Amazon, but I don't know much about electronics.  Is $15.67 a fair price for this sort of thing?  One concern is that they might not work together because they would be trying to draw power from one another.  And OH YEAH, what's a USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)?  That's what the Kindle Fire is, but I can't tell if that is a regular-sized USB port or something that would require a cable with a standard USB connector on one end and a smaller connector on the other or something of that nature (you know, like a phone charger cable or something).   This is SO CONFUSING... someone help me please!

Also, I found a picture on my computer of the Batman family tree, which I'm posting above.  Random, I know, but pretty intense, especially because it was drawn by Bob Kane.  BOB KANE!!!  The big daddy of Batman!!
Another random thought:  Do any of you followers watch ASDF movie?  I have been watching them a lot lately (and, needless to say, annoying the heck out of my family by constantly quoting it at them.)  Which one is your favorite?
Yet ANOTHER random thought:  I discovered a new, awesome website known as the Discovernator, crazy amazing facts, that has quite a lot of random info.  It's pretty awesome.