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Rebekka Gudleifs
Matt Showed me this photographer yesterday and I love her photos, I just wanted to share them with you so check her out!

Also here is the link to her photos on flickr

This January I started to take water color lessons again while I was home in NY. I looks them at the place where I first started painting, but I had a different teacher. The first painting is of Sandy Pond, wich is in upstate NY. It was done from a photgraph. I think this was a bit overworked and forced looking but it was good to paint again!



Ok ant this was my second attempt just to get the free flow of watercolor without holding back and a one time pass. I was more successful in letting the paint flow but when it dried there wasn't enough contrast, that is the nature of watercolor, but I was feeling like I was done with the water and wanted to move on.



After abandoning the view of sandy pond I decided I wanted to learn how to paint a portrait. So i went through a lot of magazines trying to find good portrait painters and i cam across a woman named Debbie Cason Rankin. It was in the Winter 07 issue of American Artist. This is a copy of her piece, the reason I chose to do a copy was so that I could learn how to handle a portrait as opposed to a landscape. It was great to learn from her because she showed the photo that she worked from so that I could see the choices that she was making.



Well this art is all from January through the end of February, now that I found these I am hoping to do a few more!

So this is a Drawing that was done by Cesar one of my coworkers. Everyone here at work thinks that I love Australia and "Happy Feet". I do love Australia but the only reason i love "Happy Feet" so much is to annoy Anthony.

Ok so here is a new animation test that I have started. Any feedback would be greatly appriciated.

So now this blog is official back to my art blog. If you want to see any of my travel photos you will have to visit My trave Blog

I promise that there will be some art on this page soon.

This is it, I finally finished (or so I think) If you have any comments please dont hesitate.

if you cant watch it, here is a link to download it:


Animation test

San Gabriel Mission
06/11/2006
Landscape and Perspective Drawing for Layout and Storyboard Class

New Figure Drawings
These are 3 min poses from 6/1/2006
Karl Gnass Class
American Animation Institute

Short Film!!!
here is my short film from last year.
hope you enjoy it

KORN Vidoe!!

So this is the music video I worked on. I did match move on the lead singer and the guitar along with other random stuff. I am going to be working on another one for Outkast in a few days, so look for that in the future.

New Set!!!

here is the New framing and set for my new animation. do you know where they are?

I am finally starting my Blog. I have been working on some new animation and need feedback. This is the framing for the scene. I feel like it is a little boring. any suggestions?

here is a link to 2 different versions of my animation:

www.sarahlapenna.com/images/Scene_01_005.mp4

www.sarahlapenna.com/images/Scene_01_006.mp4

Please let me know what you think of what I have so far. I really need feedback on how to animate 2 characters in a scene. How do I make it so that they arnt compeating with eachother, but still keep it interesting?

I will try to post some thumbnails tomorrow for the rest of the scene