Sume Bloem 200050

On the top is Princess, shes the eldest (6human years), on the bottom right is Mozart (Mozzie or Ugly) he is 5 human years old and then there is my baby, Luna, she is 3 years old and the daughter of yhe other two. She has a sister that my uncle adopted and named Cloe. Her brother was first adopted by my sister's friend but was taken in by my sister and her children when her friend moved to Dubai for work related reasons, his name is Astro.

The reason I decided that I want to paint them is because i have a painting of my boxer, Muska, that we had to give away because we moved into a house with a smaller yard, the painting sits next to my bedside table and I look at it every day, remembering her, wondering how she is. Its a reminder of all our walks, all our playtimes and all our naps. My sister did this painting 4 years ago. We wouldve had Muska for 5 years now. I miss her everyday. We gave her to a lady in her late 50s who's husband had recently passed away and wanted a companion. I regularly get photos and videos of her. She seems very happy and spoiled whitch makes me very happy. But i painted these 3 because i want the same effect for each of them one day. I was there with Lunas birth, I was there when we got Princess and I was there the day my mom got Mozzie. His story is different though, I came home from school and saw a white fluff on the couch staring at me wagging its little stubby tail. At that moment i didnt know what his would be in the future.

Fell behind because I decided to redo one of my other subjects projects even though I was almost done with it so yeah. gonna work on CD this week. but I think I want to do something else. I found these small box shaped shelves that i bought at a thrift store close to Nelspruit a few years back. I started painting them grey but i ran out of paint so  I went to buy more and found beautiful slabs of wood. i ended up buy 3 in different sizes and when I got home i realized they fit perfectly in the shelves. I'm going to paint images of our 3 dogs on each, the smallest in the smallest and biggest on biggest. I did the first one of my Luna. she is the child of my mom and dads dog, Mozart the Pekinese and Princes, the Yorkie.  

Started working on the first page :) It’s about the bear on Christmas. I finished the first 3 panels. Got caught up and worked quite a bit. It’s a fun project but it takes time and I did expect it to take that long i thought i would work faster but anyway I’m going to plan my next story. kind of wanna bring ruby into one, I'm not sure how I'm going to do that yet. 

Decided to make a series of about 4 or 5 videos/gifs of short stories with a comic book like layout. Each little block will move at its own time. like those videos you see online where the character moves from one screen to the other but instead of screens it will be comic pages and blocks.

The first story will be about a little bear who just moved out of the house and his parents are going to come visit for Christmas. the first two frames will show how he goes about getting is house ready for the Holiday, then his parents will show up in the third frame while in the fourth and fifth frame it will show them exchanging gifts and having a Christmas dinner. 

The second story will be about what our dogs do when we aren’t home. how they wait for us, how they keep themselves entertained, what happens to that one sock out of the pair that goes missing. why are they so excited when you get home?

Out of all my choices deciding on one is really hard but I think I want to do something digitally Like a comic strip, a short animated video or a big digital drawing, something mystical, cute and sweet. Maybe of a cute baby animal maybe of a person. i have about 9 characters I spent most of high school developing, I could use one of them. its Ruby, her 3 brothers, Brandon, Troy and Nathan. its her dad Toni, its Markus and Alexander. I could use any one of them for this drawing. there was also Betsie the miniature cow, she hated Ruby but when the two of them were alone they seemed like best friends. It was a cow Brandon grew attached to and then refused to get her slaughtered, Ruby and Brandon grew up on a farm in Texas with their mother while Troy and Nathan grew up with their father in New York. the siblings did not know the others existed until Troy found some documents of them while looking for something in his dad’s office, he immediately went to find them. 

Was first thinking of doing some form of sculpting but leaning more toward lino or some epic painting. Maybe make a dress or something, I wanted to make a Victorian style dress for a while now, I already have planning sketches and i know what fabric and colours I want to use. There is a nice fabric store nearby that we’ve been going to for years whenever we need something. 

On the other hand I have made sculptures and paintings before, during high school, I loved it but it got a bit messy. I also did extra art classes after school for three years, so I can paint...if I still remember how :D.