Anderson Cooper + new stuff + old stuff

Anderson Cooper has the girliest giddy little laugh I've ever heard. Watching him lol on national tv totally made my night. I always thought he was cute being all serious-news-anchor-like but girl, he is adorable when he giggles.

Also, here is some work I did last week:

This dead fishie is based off of one of David's awesome pictures. I think I'll do at least two or three more because I just like so many of them!!

And another virile self-portrait, which I assure you this entry is full of.

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Okay, so I was out of town until last night so I don't have anything new besides the above to show, but here is some old junk I found while cleaning my old junk closet. Everyone loves looking at other people's awful old artwork, so here you go. Happy New Year:

These two I made while I was at a pre-college program at CCA in Oakland during the summer of '08. I wanted to take the illustration class, but that was full, so I got stuck taking painting and sculpture. I think most of the people in that class had the same issue. Anyway, I hated painting and we only used acrylic paint and we had too much work assigned every night and our teachers were kind of insane. But the weather was great and I got my 3 college credits for taking the class. And San Francisco was only a Bart ride away. I had a lot of fun.

And now the good stuff. I took AP art my senior year in high school, which I deeply regret. No one should ever take that class. It's a total joke. It actually made me change my mind about art and that's why I wasted a whole semester at the U of A.

We spent a long time on self-portraits, which I didn't actually do myself because I hated watercolors and I hated self-portraits.

This is the only self-portrait I've done where I actually intended to give myself a mustache. I have kind of a hunky Captain Hook sort of look going on in this one. I'd wear at least two gold rings on each finger and a diamond-studded grill on the weekends; mandatory red leather boots and massive amounts of Axe cologne. Also, this would be my theme song.

These last ones I made for my AP Art final. I used water-based oil paints for the bottom painting. I don't know what that means, but the paint was terrible. However, I do like the painting itself. I was really excited about the concept behind it, which I won't explain. It's a pretty cool concept, though.

I think I'll go look at Anderson Cooper laugh some more on Youtube now. You should too.