Stolen From Kris, Thanks for filling in some of my sick time

What Your Cute Monster Says About You

You're the type of person who stands out in a crowd, even when you're trying to blend in. You are honest in your character and appearance. You don't pretend to be someone else. Your inner demon is sorrow. You tend to get depressed easily. People think you're cute because you're rebellious. Your uniqueness is charming.

You Are Candy Corn

Your Halloween personality is whimsical, colorful, and creative. You see Halloween as a time to get your creative juices flowing. Each year, Halloween can't start soon enough for you. You tend to go all out for Halloween. You decorate like crazy and always dress up.

I still haven't carved our pumpkin yet, I was going to do something elaborate since I have mad carving skills...I have special tools I won't even let Johnnie use..Yeah it is a long story lets just say once upon a time I knew/dated the king of halloween, I did 8 years in his pumpkin service. Johnnie may have to do it, I seem to get worse every day :( I hope to be well tomorrow for Halloween, I am going to be SO bummed if I miss it.

Hi Everyone,

I am sorry I didn't do a video blog last night. I got in from Harvest Fest after a long day and simply didn't have the energy for it. Harvest Fest went very well and we came home with a lot less stuff in the van so that is always nice. Don't worry we still have plenty for Faerie Con though!



I did manage to finish Witching Hour Saturday night!! I got to take it to harvest festival and of course prints are coming with me to Faerie Con as well!!




Witching Hour was done in Photoshop from scratch on my Cintiq. Prints are available at www.ashevans.com

Also goodies are up for grabs on Zazzle.com as well, I will have other merchandise soon but I just finished it and things are so busy for the con right now.

http://www.zazzle.com/phoenixxfire24

Also speaking of Faeriecon I will be at booth 1816

I am steadily working on my Halloween piece called the Witching Hour. I am hoping to have it finished by this evening so that I can have prints ready to take to Harvest Festival tomorrow!!

I will be in Greenbelt Maryland Tomorrow for the Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival, October 5th from 10 am to 5 pm on the Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Johnnie, Cezar and I will be there with my latest fantasy paintings, new products AND you get first crack at everything I am taking to Faeriecon, including our Framed Prints AND Matted Archival prints a lot of which we only have ONE of each type. I have some beautiful new matted archival prints of my Striped Socks painting as well as Sea Spray, Phoenix Moon and a ton of others. I have very limited quantities of my retiring figurines which will be there too. Whisper and Mephe are GONE!! We only have a few left of Jay the Vulture, and Dante and Fluffy the dragons. Hope to see you there!!!

I am sure tomorrow evening I will tell you guys all about the show and hopefully have enough energy for a video blog!

Now to work, Have a great day everyone

Yay!! I am happy with the final outcome of this piece. I could have worked on it forever and ever but it got to a place where I liked it so I said cool it is done. This piece was done in Photoshop from scratch with my Cintiq. I draw directly on my tablet because I think tons of sketching wastes paper. What is the point I am just going to have to scan it in anyway? I paint in Photoshop with no fancy filters or mystical lighting tricks with the basic brushes. I do have Mystical lighting which is awesome, I did add the little twinkles to Sea Spray with it but I am not sure how heavy I will ever get into it.

Prints are printed, Striped Socks is posted on Zazzle and up for sale. I will be adding it to the website shortly. I have been pretty productive today. I have laundry going and Cezar just got a bath, he is lounging in his bathrobe now. Yeah he has one, my aunt bought it for him. Its pink and he actually really likes it.

6 new pieces for Faeriecon, I am pretty OK with that. If I do more great, if I don't that is good too.

Have a great day everyone.

Hi Everyone,

I have been struggling with an acrylic piece for days before I said oh hang it and drew it out on my tablet. So I have been working away on it since yesterday when I started it. I have a LONG way to go if I want it done for Sunday. We will see what happens. I don't know why I have been having problems but for right now traditional mediums aren't agreeing with me. Oh well.

So here is a work in progress I am hoping to finish and have available for Sunday's harvest festival
Its called Striped socks for lack of a better title.




So far the only thing done on it is the moon and clouds.

**EDIT** Another update




**EDIT*** UPDATE



**EDIT done for the day***