Lyrical History of a Girl and Her Acrylics

I've decided my Comic-Con review would be boring so maybe I'll get to it one day, but instead, how about another history lesson in why I do what I do? This is right on the heels of a day when I sold three completely different works of art so I have a temporarily inflated ego. Enjoy :P




Once upon a time, there was a very broke girl who belonged to a 2nd Amendment forum for quite awhile (7 years *cough*). She had always wanted to donate to the bored like the rest of the members, but she was quite literally broke. Brokedy broke broke broooooke. But she had an idea (ding!), why not paint something for the owner of the forum that was like... oh, I dunno... the logo of the board? 

And now you know I'm very weird and frequent a gaming forum turned 2nd amendment board...

What she really wanted to make, was the little yellow and black minuteman flag the forum members had created for the game. 

Simple, splattery, acrylic on canvas board.

She sent one gratis to the god of the board (brass) and asked the rest of the members if they would want one? $20 to her, $10 to the forum as a donation in her name and they would get their very own, one of a kind minuteman painting.

She sold five and felt pretty good about herself. That was quite a bit of money for a brokedy broke girl! But something else happened... something unexpected. The board members started asking her if she could make them custom paintings. Flattered but entirely inexperienced at that sort of things, she took them on, one at a time. 

The first was a watercolor of a members avatar:

The next was a whale from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

And the weird requests came rolling in:

So she realized, "Hmm, maybe I could sell nerdy art to people that AREN'T my friends?" By this time she had made quite a few of those watercolors mentioned in the other story... and she talked to a fellow artist about opening an Etsy store.

But first! More geeky things:

Half life lambda

HHG2G

TARDIS and the Time Vortex

 Star Wars - Jedi

Harry Potter. Etc. 

So she made a bunch, and sold mostly all of them! Then she got distracted by her watercolors for about 6 months, but she fully intend to paint some more geeky things very soon! In the mean time, she has a bunch of architectural salvage pieces she's working on... and the nerdy watercolors. But she was happy that she found a vibrant way to express her fandoms. The acrylic pieces took a fraction of the time to make, but were far more expensive to paint as well. 

Acrylics were her first love in art, and she always knew she'd come back to them some day...

The end.

So ya, I tend to paint very simple acrylic pieces in various geeky fandoms. I started an etsy store: SamjenArts. Some of these pieces are still for sale there. My next lyrical history will be about my architectural salvage pieces that I did a how-to about in my other blog. Right now I'm doing some digital manipulations of my watercolors to actually make them LOOK more acrylic... cuz, you know, why not.

Until later, internet.