dutch girl in white study yayayayaya

 went to the met!!! WOOHOO

this is a quick study of Dutch Girl in White by Robert Henri. it was the most alluring painting i saw there and i dont know why... but its really hard to capture her essence like the original and i kind of gave her a disproportionate face...

the og^^^ dated 1907. like HOW does he do this
 

color theory is freaking hard. but i feel like i get a little better the more i think while i make art. who knew u had to think to be good at things lol 

but i feel like the colors werent what i got wrong here. its definitely the proportions that are off and i think its cause i focused on color so much. u gotta find a healthy balance which i can be kinda bad at when i get focused

ok bye ☾☁︎ 

Puzzle #2 - "Make Believe"

 Hello!!!! This is my second blog post/puzzle. 

This one I made for my birthday !!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 (It was actually yesterday). I am a bit late in posting this and only finished this in like 2 days-ish, hence the mediocre fill.

Once again, you can download the .puz here.

I knew I wanted to do a puzzle at least every month, and especially on my birthday in July. I wanted a simple theme to commemorate it, and this is what I came up with. While it isn't super tight, you are basically making a WISH with each start of the theme entries

HIGHLIGHTS:

Spoilers ahead if you don't wanna be spoiled about the puzzle. 

18-Across: I loveeee hidden picture puzzles, esp Where's Waldo. I used to have the Highlights magazines with the hidden pictures, and I loved them

20-Across: Obviously, my blog partner and real-life partner. Very glad to have them with me, and not just playtest the puzzles for the blog, but everything else
49-Across: I would say I am more street smart than book smart, as I've realized that I feel I have done worse in school over the years, but maybe that's just because I haven't been trying as much

56-Across: While I am not a Chaeyoung bias, I am a very heavy TWICE stan (Dahyun-biased) and really wanna go to a concert of theirs, yet they literally JUST ended their 5th world tour yesterday. 😭

61-Across: I really only like this one because it has my name in it (self promo). But I will eventually be one in the coming years
66-Across: I went to Universal's Epic Universe recently and ate at the Mead Hall. Food was alright, but I fear that it was a bit too niche of an angle to clue this entry as that
2-Down: I could've done a clue about the streaming box company, yet I felt 67 was funny and related to the youngens better

5-Down: Luna and I both like F1, and I would really like to go to a race weekend with her sometime soon, hopefully not tooooooo soon
34-Down: While MetroCards were useless, I miss them, even though I never really used one and only used OMNY
59-Down: Peep the OREO cluing project

Ok, enough chit-chat, I will be back next month (hopefully) with another puzzle!!!1!!1!11