Category: An Art Gallery

All works which appear in this category are hand drawn either on paper OR the app ‘MyBrushes’ by me. They may not be saved or reproduced without my written consent.

An Art Gallery

Tale as Old As Time

The Story Behind Why I Created It: I call this piece ‘Tale As Old As Time’ and it’s for obvious reasons. The rose within the glass, dropping petals is very reminiscent of a certain Disney princess and her beastly lover. I sketched and edited this on the app ‘mybrushes’ using a basic stylus for precision on a rainy day in April 2015, it was a few months before I got married so obviously I had romance on the brain with wedding planning and whatnot. The truth is, I love flowers, the first painting I did on canvas when I was thirteen were a garden of flowers. For me, reasons behind WHY I create various art pieces are spontaneous, a good 95% of the time I get an image in my head and I’ll spend hours perfecting and editing my sketches till it’s too my satisfaction. I wanted something both classic and unique, I feel like I achieved that here.

The Inspiration Factor: I feel like Disney unconsciously inspires so much of my artwork. I think because when I sit down and sketch, my mind is free almost child like if that makes any sense at all and when I think back on some of my fondest memories growing up it was enjoying Disney movies on rainy days with my Mom, Dad (if he was off and not working) and brother. This particular work was actually set to the screensaver on my phone for a number of years and I got a lot of compliments on it at various points in time.

For years, I was a closet artist, which meant nobody really knew that I could draw until my binder was accidentally found one day by my parents. For me, I was never really much of a show off and having the ability to sketch and create things was for years my method of escaping reality for a little while, in the comfort of my bedroom. This, along with writing has always been my safe haven and I’m so blessed to be able to get to a point where I can share my work with all of you.

A Heartfelt Thanks:

I have six followers (7 counting myself)! It took me like 3 minutes to process that as a slow Cheshire Cat grin spread over my face and I just want to say: thank you!!! It took me a few years to really get this blog off the ground the way I envisioned it, and I feel so blessed that six of you decided to follow me and I hope you continue to like and share my work so that I can share more of my thoughts, sketches, poems, short stories and more with all of you.

A big FYI, I will also be posting some DIY’s soon, science experiments for kids and more so please stay tuned and thank for journeying with me each and every Friday.

Love you. Mean it.

Brittany

Xoxo

An Art Gallery

A Doorway To A Different Dimension

The Story Behind Why I Created It:

I call this piece ‘Doorway to Another Dimension’, and I was inspired to create it based off a photograph an old friend took of my cousins and I exploring an abandoned house that sat on a lake in the neighborhood which I grew up.

The Inspiration Factor:

The idea for this piece came to me as I reflected on the memories I made with my cousins through the years. They grew up about 3 1/2 hours away from me so as a result we didn’t see each other a lot as kids but once we became teenagers (and were able to drive) we took one weekend out of the summer each year and visited each other. I got to know my cousins very well during that time (shouldn’t everyone?) they were the closest cousins I had in age (technically they were second cousins but cousins are cousins, right?).

I digress…anyway, I had been looking at photographs and sketching on my favorite drawing app, ‘MyBrushes’ after a particularly rough sophomore semester at college back in 2009. This was a pretty dark time, I sketched a lot to get me though all the statistics, college algebra 1 & 2, and I’m awful at math (in case that wasn’t clear). Originally the sketch was supposed to be in black and white however I decided to add a splash of color to allude to the fact that walking into this house felt like walking into another dimension. In fact, I always had such an odd, forbidding feeling something dark was watching me from one of the windows when I’d sit lakeside to reflect. My cousins coming with me, exploring this rather ominous house is (despite how freaked out we all ended up being) one of my favorite memories.

The colors I used were burgundy which symbolizes trail blazing and unconscious beauty (the house was stunning despite it’s dark, desolate air about it). The blue-black represents a calm (relief that my cousins are with me) sense of mystery which the house gives off.

The texture of the strokes, you may notice, is very dodgy and thick. This alludes to the uncertainty and excitement we felt by being somewhere we weren’t sure we were entirely welcome.

The people in the sketch are obviously, my cousins Kathleen and Shannon and I (the short blonde). It is based off of a photograph I have on a CD somewhere in my chaotic closet.

Overall this piece is one of my favorites to create because it symbolizes family, despite long distances sticking together and a haunted mystery.

It took me about eight whole hours to complete from draft to finished product and I plan on ordering a copy on canvas to hang in my guest room so that my cousins can see it whenever they stay over.

Love you. Mean it.

Brittany

Xoxo

An Art Gallery

The Samurai Knight

The Story Behind Why I Created It:
I call this piece ‘The Samurai Knight’, and I was inspired to create it for my friends Rob and Alice who wanted something Samurai themed to hang up in their new place.

The Inspiration Factor:
The idea of this piece came to me while I was watching Disney’s ‘Mulan’ and sketching on my favorite drawing app, ‘MyBrushes’. Originally the face of the samurai was very much like Shang Yu ( the villian Hun) however, I decided to make the warrior more mysterious and add more of a shadow to his face but if you look closely at the mouth and mustache you can see elements of Shang in this creation.

The horse was very hard to draw to my own impeccably perfectionist standards. I’m my harshest critic so after redoing the eyes several times I decide to just make them black. It ended up really suiting this piece perfectly.

The color red symbolizes the power and determination of the samurai warrior. The black, particularly around the face and the horse’s eye symbolize the mysteriousness of their identity; whereas the beige background as opposed to classic white is to represent the calm, levelheaded nature of the samurai and his horse during times of strife.

Overall this piece is one of my favorites to create because it symbolizes power and mystery. It took me about six hours to complete from draft to finished product and I plan on ordering a copy on canvas to hang in my living room as well.

Love you. Mean it.

Brittany

Xoxo