Animal Room Artwork

I've been drawing on shoes for a while now and I've come up with some patterns that I really like




The most common things people ask me when they see them is "How can you do that without going crazy?" or "Doesn't that get boring?" and "These are hand drawn?" People are usually very surprised to find out that all the patterns are hand drawn, despite how small and intricate and insane they look.

The truth is, for a contantly moving, processing, and overworked head like mine I find working on patterns like this incredibly relaxing and soothing. It sounds completely ridiculous, I know, but it's true. It's like therapy for my brain. All my obsessive compulsive tendancies just get sucked up into this pattern and my brain is given a rest. I love it.

I've wondered for a while how these patterns would look off of shoes and onto a canvas. And the animal room needs some artwork on the wall across from the window so I thought what better opportunity than this to paint some fun, colorful, brain pleasing artwork.

I am NO WHERE near done with these as they are taking a lot longer than I thought (the progress on each canvas has taken me about 2-4 hours each), but I thought I'd give you a sneak peak of the 4 canvases I've been working on

Canvas 1


Canvas 2 (I can't take ONE PIC without it being blurry, so excuse the disgusting picture, and as you can see I restarted the painting)


Canvas 3


And canvas 4 (everything is so damn blurry)


I LOVE LOVE LOVE the way they're turning out (despite all of my horrendous pictures, but it is pitch black already and I'm too lazy to wait till tomorrow morning to take these photos again and post them).

They make my brain so happy when I look at them. I love the patterns, the colors, the size, the new medium and method, and I can't WAIT for them to be finished and up in the room. Only another 50+ hours of painting to go! :)