New stuff, 11/18/10

"The First Dream Catcher"; acrylic on 12"x16" canvas. 

Will be in a local show in December.

"Firefly Swamp"; acrylics on 5"x8" canvas.

Colored pencil and ink. My character, Spencer, enjoying some warmth from one of my candles. <3 

I'm going to try to keep Spen off of here since she's for a project.

Colored pencil and ink. My favorite panel of a comic page I did between me and a friend. Featuring Red being snarky.

A small spiderweb styled dream catcher. Found the stick and feather outside, The little spider lady is a character of mine named Astel, and I painted her with acrylics on bristol board.

That's all for now ! <3
~Melissa Benzinger

The Last Flood... for now!

This time we've got the commissions and trades I've done for others :3 All characters are property of their owners!

A commission for Flea of my friends and my characters having fun. All colored pencil.

An acrylic painting for a good friend of her two canine characters.

Screech owl and fishing cat on the hunt. Watercolors, ink, and colored pencil.

Colored pencil.

Ink

Colored pencil

Colored pencil.

Colored pencil and watercolors.

A huuuuge acrylic painting <3

Colored pencil. Still bummed about how much the scanner washed out the background! I assure you this is horribly blinding in real life.

Colored pencil and watercolors.

My first ever painting commission. Another huge one!

Well we're all caught up on the backlog now! Everything from this point on is fresh stuff.

~Melissa Benzinger

Even MORE arts! Have some paintings~!

All of my paintings are done in acrylic or watercolors.

Twitch's birthday present. "The Highwayman's a-Wanderin'"

"Celebrate!"

"Lonely Winter" Painted on a small fungus.

"Autumn Sunset" Painted on wood.

"Eye in the Mind's Wasteland" 

"A Portrait of Summer" Painted on wood

"Grass is Greener"

"Gone Fishin'" on a table

"Luna Moth" on wood

"In Spring" painted on a rock

"Snake Woods"

"River Night" on a fungus

"The Void"

"Under the Surface"

"Up Through the Canopy" on wood

"Winter Woods" on wood

"Woolly Bears"

"At the River" on a sawblade

That's all for now! Next round: Art that I've done for others :3

~Melissa Benzinger

More arts! A catching-up sort of game.

This post will mostly be silliness and flat inked stuff. Enjoy!

"Bakery Village Spencer"

A comic I drew to cheer up a buddy.

The fiancée eats like a snake. Not much else can be said here!

Remember kids, manners are important when asking for gifts !

More awkward fiancée happenings.

I have a horrible nerd crush on Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo.

And now for something old, but I'm still pretty proud of !

Welp, that's all for this post~! Next post will be paintings :3

First Upload!

Hello! This is going to be where I keep my art, I guess for now. That is, until I actually start getting somewhere with my stuff and want to actually make myself a site. This way I have something to link people to, since facebook is out of the question since it's private for me.
Well, let's start uploading some art shall we? I think I'll kick off this post with some ink, colored pencil, and a little watercolors.

"Woe is Me!"

"Bullfrog's Swamp"

This is just silliness. Wiggly otter~!

"Caught"

"DIY Jack-o-Lantern" 

"Let Go"

"Red Returns Home"

More silliness. I do love me some tea!

Well that's gonna be all for this first upload. More to come ! <3

~Melissa Benzinger