Sing what You Can't Say, Forget What You Can't Play

Is one of my favorite quotes ever :) It's from the song 'Dead Boy's Poem' by Nightwish, which is the song I always listen to before I get off the bus for winterguard and marching band contests. It's my luck song!

See, if I wore my black dress today, it would have been a bit surreal. I knew exactly what would happen, and hot dog, I was right. So yay for not dressing up :P Today was such a lazy day, really...

OH MY GOSH. Mrs. K looked at my painting and said "Oh, you need to throw in another hat up there in the corner." Reluctantly, I painted in an imaginary hat in the white space up in the corner of the board, just like she told me to. I liked it just fine before... oh well. So then I take it up to her and she starts ranting about how my skills are in observation and my stuff looks so much better when I paint real things versus things out of my mind. But... the things in my mind are the things I want to paint. I want to paint Marko, Innocence, Cadence, Ara Grey, and all the other characters in my mind. I'll paint Davin and Janet dancing and Lauri IN THE SHADOWS (Ha ha, I just made a Rasmus reference about the singer of the band!) and more. I'll paint the heartless angel and all the other byproducts of my emotions. Not still lifes :|

So I spent the last few hours ripping audio off of YouTube videos. I took tracks of Anette singing Tarja songs and random people's piano covers of The Rasmus and Nightwish. Then, because I'm anal, I made album art for each one. They're all really crappy, but I had to do something fast. I quite like the Nightwish one... the background was tough to make (YES, I HAND MADE THAT STONE! It's hard...), but the gradient looks fab :) I'm such a beast.

xx Bring Me Home Or Leave Me Be, My Love In The Dark Cry Of The Night Marz