Great news- I have been accepted into the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts MFA painting program!!! I'll be moving to Philadelphia in about 2 months, and I seriously can't explain just how excited I am to have an opportunity like this. I really fell head over heals for PAFA after my visit, and it became my #1 choice for a grad school. Bring it on east coast!

A few other things to update on that I decided to combine it into one big post: I finally managed to upgrade my over-a-year old website from the "I-just-learned-flash" design to a "I-just-barely-remember-flash-now" aesthetic. Someday, I promise, I will make my sites in html because I am aware that flash has it's downsides. Special thanks to my website professor Chris Koehler for taking some time off last weekend to help me launch my new site.

I wanted a site that was extremely simple and clean and had none of the tempting/distracting bells and whistles that flash has to offer. Besides the headaches, it was pretty fun to create, I wouldn't mind doing a few more. My gallery/illustration work is unsegregated and will stay that way until the stork brings me new art. I also took down my sketchbook and comic section and they will be updated here on my ohger account for a while. One new finished painting hasn't been photographed yet, but will be posted in a few days, and another new painting is posted below.  Check out my new website and let me know what you think, I'd love to get some feedback on what's working/not working and how to make it better.

A week ago I started moving my artwork down from Oakland. As I was looking through the last 5 years of art I discovered this weird tradition where I paint myself every 6 months or so. Sometimes the portrait never gets finished, and other times they were for school assignments. Usually they happen because I don't know what else to paint at the time. I thought it would be fun to post some of the old pieces to go along with my new portrait:

 "I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."

-Frida Kahlo

Time to go celebrate and pack!  :)