Keeping busy...Our cake pop adventure!

So..over the weekend my cousin Marissa and I decided to try to make cake pops. Lets just say the first attempt was not very good. The took a really long time to make and I think we made our candy just a little to thin for dipping. They were a drippy mess and the candy took a really long time to harden. We ended up only decorating a few of them for Halloween and the rest ended up as just plain cake balls. One thing I can say though...they were delicious! I can see why people love them...I just don't see how they say they are so easy to make....they lied lol. Here are a couple photos of our decorated cake pops..the photos not very good because it came from my phone.

The mummy, the black cat and the pumpkin are the only ones that actually turned out OK. Next weekend we are going to work on making a professional cake using fondant. I think that adventure will be a little better than this one..at least I hope so!

Life's Changes....

      I haven't blogged for about two years! So...life has definitely changed...some good...and some bad. I graduated from college with a bachelors of Art. I am now a licensed art teacher. I do not have a teaching job yet but I am working as a paraprofessional for a boy with exceptionalities. I am working full time and no longer in school...which is weird to say the least. I have been in school my entire life....well that's all of the good change....
    About a year ago we found out my father had lung cancer...he had 2/3 of his left long removed and things were going well. Then in May of this year his scans came back positive once again for cancer...this time in his adrenal glands. Before even a month had passed we found out he cancer had spread to his brain. He kept his hopes up, prayed, and fought to live. He did 6 treatments of radiation, and then 3 treatments of chemo therapy. He was doing very well and had a very strong will to live..We got positive test results back on his cancer..it was shrinking.Then on September 3, 2012...Labor Day...my father passed away at 2:20 a.m. due to complications that only showed themselves in that last 24 hours, that involved his cancer. The doctors think the cancer had spread to either his liver or his stomach and that is what took him from us.
My father was a great man. He died on a day that definitely described him, he was a hard worker and took care of his family very well. He was surrounded by friends and family and passed away in his sleep. I miss him very much and it just doesn't seem real that he is gone. I love you my daddy! I will always be your little girl!

Rest In Peace Mark Anthony Hale Sr....I Love You!

Christmas Update

     Hey everyone, Happy Holidays! I had a wonderful Christmas and am enjoying ever minute of my break from classes.To bad they start right back up on January 10th, that's definitely not long enough for me. I finally have my grades back for this semester and I finished off with a 3.75 GPA...all A's and one b lol. I have 2 semesters left and I will finally be ready to teach. I can definitely see the finish line now. Over break I had planned on doing nothing but work for my senior seminar next semester, but it hasn't worked out so far. I have until the tenth and I think I am going to kick my but into gear. I want to finish at least three works before break is over and work on a 10 page paper that needs to be done.ok, enough of that...

    Right now I am working on a colored pencil drawing of some oriental lilies, a colored pencil of a scarecrow, and a watercolor of some pumpkins in the fall. I am quite the busy person and should probably get back to them if I want to finish them in time.

     I will definitely update again before break is over!

Plan for the day...

So...yesterday I finished my horse drawing...and I wasn't supposed to have it done until Monday. That gives me time to work on a few other things I have to do. Today I am going to work on my Stream Landscape and start a new drawing. It will probably be the oil pastel Hosta leaves. It will be something quick and fast I can get finished in about a week.....well i will update later if i have anything else to add...

Almost Finished with my Horse Drawing....

This is a pencil drawing of my neighbor's horse Dodge. I say I am almost done because I have no doubt I will try to rework a few things in it(probably the grass) lol I'm never happy with a drawing when I first finish it...I will probably give it another day or two and then spray it with fixative....

©Devan Hale

(do not use my work all work is copyrighted!!!)

Busy Weekend....

It's really weird how I don't have classes on Friday but it is busier than when I do have classes. Yesterday I took Keith to work, went to the allergy doctor for my allergy shot, then when to the studio to work on a few Ceramics projects...I got to the studio at 1pm and didn't leave until 4pm. Then on the way home I had to pick Keith back up from work, travel to his mothers house to pick up some money his brother owed him, visit my aunts to pick up some mail, go to the grocery store to pick up stuff for dinner then finally we went home. By the time all that was done it was already 7:30pm....It was a long freaking day and I didn't even have classes. Ok enough ranting about yesterday lol.....


Woke up this morning and took a shower...After I get off here I'm going to start working on the horse drawing I am supposed to have done by Monday. I also need to work a little on the watercolor landscape that I started last week....plus a little homework...It's going to be a busy weekend....

Artwork

I'm finally going to post some artwork on here...hopefully I get some comments.

Junior Year

 My Nephew's Portrait

 Flower done in colored pencil

 10 minute sketch in figure drawing

One of my first ever Acrylic paintings...wasn't very good at it lol

Late Spring/Summer 2010 artwork...

 My cousin Marissa's nursery(all free hand, no stencils or anything)

 Another wall of the nursery

 Another wall of the nursery

 My friend Klare's son (Easter Pictures)

 (Another Easter Picture)

 Portrait of my nephew

 my nephew and my dog Marley

 Senior pictures

 Senior pictures

Senior pictures

New Artwork Senior year (so far)

 Watercolor of fake flowers on my grandmothers porch

Colored Pencil of my Canna's that grew this year.

I will post new work as I get it finished..hopefully rather quickly lol

Please do not use my work. All work is copyrighted except for the Disney Characters