what? a painting?

Uh, yeah...I'm trying to get into painting a little more. I never use enough color in my drawings and painting has been a challenge for me. So why not? It started as a doodle of a mermaid in art TA class and, due to the paints that are just lying around, I decided to paint her. I'm still not finished, but I thought I'd do some-in progress scans...
I just bought a really great comic book called Flight, Volume 1. I've read through it already, and I just got it yesterday. There are so many good stories in there! Not to mention the art...so inspiring. If I were doing two Senior Projects, I think I'd choose to do a short story like one of those. But I'm still happy with my storyboard project. It's coming along, I'd say...though how much further it has to come I might avoid thinking about :)
And here is one of those things in life where you just snap your fingers and say, "Well, shoot!" :
We bought tickets to go see Randy Newman, singer/songwriter, for next February on the 25th. It's a Saturday. I was really excited because that's one of the days I go to the AAU for figure drawing classes. I thought, "Oh man! Figure drawing in San Francisco in the morning, Randy Newman at night! How could it possibly get any better?" Well I just found out that the next Cartoon Art Museum's Pixar event, "Twenty Years with Pixar" I think it's called, takes place on that very day. Yep. I went to the last Cartoon Art Museum / Pixar event; it was the Incredibles behind-the-scenes night last October. I've been waiting for the date of their next collaboration since then. Well, shoot!
Oh well. Hey, I'm lucky enough as it is, I say. Minus one trip to Pixar isn't so bad. Minus meeting John Lasseter, on the other hand... :(
Blah blah blah sorry I'm boring you. Ok. Here's one more drawing, then I'm out...must sleep soon...