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2008-02-04T06:11:04Z

A lot has happened since I last posted. I don't have time to write about most of it at the moment but there is good news on the blog front.

I finally found an excuse to put some time into working on a wordpress setup. So I guess this lj account will probably only be used to keep track of the friends I've added over the past years.

I'll be in London for the next couple of weeks and will be posting about it here:

blog.samhendricks.com

Hit up the rss!

Pomeranian

2007-12-04T03:33:22Z

quickie. nice excuse to get out 'ye olde brush and ink.

samhendricks @ 2007-11-19T22:50:00

2007-11-20T04:52:17Z

wanted to wait til i had my site redone before I showed anymore art, but I figure it's a little ways off still and I've already got a lot of work saved up. So here's a life drawing I was particularly proud of from my last session. 45 min. charcoal, pastel on 18x24 newsprint.

my halloween.

2007-11-02T05:11:00Z

I've been so busy I've basically forgotten I even had a LJ. I have tons of drawings, a couple of paintings and a new website and blog on the way, but before i post any of that, a slightly disconcerting story from this week:

(apologies for my wordiness)

Tuesday I wake up noticing a pain under the right side of my ribs but I dismiss it as a bad gas pocket or something. I do my regular routine, go to work, and the pain is still there, in fact, even worse. I note this to my copywriter cube-mate friend and another, older friend but they don't think much of it so I let it go. I'm busy the rest of the day but after I get home I go running and the pain is still there. I decide it's probably still just gas or something since I've been eating a lot of spicy food lately so I tough it out. I get home, do some crunches and the discomfort seems to still be there. After I eat dinner I feel the best option is to lie down because I can't even sit at my computer to surf the web and draw.

The next day (Halloween) I wake up, no pain, but after my morning routine I realize the pain is still there and worse. I get to work, and ask a couple people whether they've had their appendix out, so I could gauge the pain I'm having against first-hand experience of appendicitis. Of course, nobody I ask has had the experience, but they all emphasize the gravity and potentially fatal consequences of not going to the doctor to have it checked out. So I called the doctor and explain my symptoms. They wanted me to come in to get it checked out, so I go (Let me preface the rest of the story by telling you I'm a bit of a hypochondriac so the experience to this point is freaking me out quite a bit). The doc prods my appendix region, asks me a lot of questions and concludes that I don't look as bad as one might expect someone with appendicitis to look but thinks I should get a ct scan anyway. They take my blood and give me 2 containers of Barium something-or-other to drink before the scan. So during the time I'm drinking the barium and waiting to get my scan the pain subsides a bit. I'm relieved. I do the scan. (being Halloween you can imagine the whole staff is dressed up. Charlie brown gives me the ct scan. He even has the hair squiggle drawn on his bald head in sharpie. Somehow it adds a little levity to the situation). They inject me with some iodine (reacts with the barium stuff I guess) so they can see what's going on in my guts—turns out I don't have appendicitis!

I was quite relieved, but then I got a phone call this morning from the doctor saying my liver and kidneys are fine but they did see some abnormal fluid in my pelvic region on the scan but will get back to me when they get the full report. Needless to say, I was pretty preoccupied the rest of the day thinking about what might be wrong with me. So If the doctor can't tell me on Friday, I might have to go see a specialist. wtf, mate!

So here's hoping my insurance covered that and any specialist visits in the future and that I DONT have any disease.

samhendricks @ 2007-10-02T00:24:00

2007-10-02T05:25:57Z

gotta update the internets with sketches

samhendricks @ 2007-09-08T00:36:00

2007-09-08T05:38:36Z

I think I'm going to write/draw up a sequential narative in my spare time for fun. something I did tonight:

Definately had fun with it.

productivity flows

2007-08-27T04:43:29Z

So here's what I've been up to. I also took some photography at an air show that came out looking pretty good. I may post some of that later.

and accompanying video of the making of:

Being my first painting in a while I had trouble getting comfortable but I picked it back up after a while

samhendricks @ 2007-08-13T23:25:00

2007-08-14T04:37:40Z

Some sketches. I've been drawing from photo reference but this time making sure to really vary the variety. I get stuck into drawing the same things over and over again and I think it's because I'm not familiar with drawing different things. thumbs for painting ideas sprinkled throughout.

Hope I get paid for freelance soon because I think I am going to use some of the money to pay for open life drawing sessions this fall. :D

adding new data to brain:

(proud to have not looked for reference for that tiger—came out pretty decent looking.)

samhendricks @ 2007-08-07T23:27:00

2007-08-08T04:28:45Z

I have no idea what's good anymore. Should I finish this?

samhendricks @ 2007-07-31T21:47:00

2007-08-01T02:53:27Z

I haven't been slacking, I'm just more conscious now of how much I suck at art and I'm reluctant to post every little shit-thing I do in my sketchbook. I may post a few of the better ones later on. Until then though I've been working towards a new art blog (goodbye lj soon enough) Anyhow, here are a few things. This I just finished tonight:

Mortal Enemies
oil on canvas
19.5 x 23"

If I don't sell it at the show (probably unlikely since the paint will still be wet) I will take a better photo with proper lighting.

Other than that, I was trying to come up with a pattern for the background of my new site and the more and more I worked on it the more elaborate it became. I don't know what I'm going to do with this now. It's a little too detailed for a pattern. Ah well, I'll keep it around and maybe i'll find a use for it someday.

samhendricks @ 2007-07-13T00:32:00

2007-07-13T05:33:38Z

I know none of you LJ-ers can come, but I'm getting excited....

some prints so far (13x19 Heavy matte weight epson paper on my Epson 1280 photo inkjet):

samhendricks @ 2007-07-09T23:58:00

2007-07-10T04:58:41Z

I'm back!

I've caught the art bug again, wooo!

samhendricks @ 2007-07-08T23:54:00

2007-07-09T04:54:41Z

my hand feels so stiff... i remember when i used to draw everyday. My hand was loose and my lines concentrated. here's a few things, some studies to get me back in the game

samhendricks @ 2007-06-18T23:28:00

2007-06-19T04:30:55Z

I put my dead moths to use.

I've got a gallery show in August so I'm frantically getting back into the art-thing so I can have enough work ready to fill the space. Other than that life has been on and off suck for a while. I guess I can't complain too much

art

2007-06-03T03:19:29Z

i did some art.

here's some.

the regular 'ol sketchbook stylez:

tried to fix this one a little bit:

samhendricks @ 2007-05-29T19:28:00

2007-05-30T00:33:04Z

me completely off my face at my house warming party.

as for art this week, i have absolutely nothing to show. I'm bad now. I need to kick my ass into shape.

samhendricks @ 2007-05-21T18:35:00

2007-05-21T23:40:47Z

getting back into the swing of things. hopefully going to start a painting or two again this week

...the spring/summer bug has bitten me.

plus i've been hearing tons of new music lately. you should check out The Republic Tigers. They're local but ever since I saw them this weekend I can't get the music out of my head. so catchy. link : http://www.myspace.com/therepublictigers

samhendricks @ 2007-05-13T15:11:00

2007-05-13T20:17:09Z

First stuff i've really sat down and drawn in about a month now excluding some doodling here and there. I forgot that I like to draw! haha

Life's great. A beautiful girl has me smitten. Work loves me. Got freelance coming in (albeit design. illustration someday hopefully...) And the weather is gorgeous.

I hope to keep drawing more—although now that i type that I realize what usually happens when I say stuff like that. I usually don't stick to it and I stop drawing for a month. So strike that. I'm just going to go with the flow.

samhendricks @ 2007-05-01T19:51:00

2007-05-02T00:54:26Z

I found so much kid art at my parents' house last weekend... so funny. Swat-bot raise the roof!

Since everyone seems to be posting artwork I feel left out. Yeah, I haven't drawn in a couple weeks but here's something I didn't scan from a couple weeks ago. first page of my new book (which I made out of the laser disc jacket for "Cobra" and had kinkos spiral bind. Paper is canson pastel paper. I'll take some photos of the book itself sometime soon)

moved in

2007-04-16T03:35:43Z

I'm all moved into my new abode. ¡Bienvenido a casa Samúel!

Living room. Fireplace is woodburning—all right!

Living room looking into the studio. I've had that plant for 3 years now. It survived quite a beating in college.

view from the balcony at night

view during the day. The cemetary is an old union civil war cemetary. on halloween I'm going to need an old priest and a young priest—that or people should come over and play quiji with me.

studio. room for my computer, drawing table, easel and art supplies -wawaweewa

Bedroom. I need a real bed. Currently still sleeping on a futon. I got the Michael Richards poster before he became "controversial."

huge walk in closet for storage, clothes, and washer/dryer. great success!

bathroom.

from the "dining" area looking in on the bathroom. I just got the bookcase. I thought I had more books... oh well. room to grow.

kitchen and my lonely vacant dining room.

Other than all that I got some new running shoes for my birthday. For about two weeks I couldn't think of what I wanted for my birthday most. Then I realized I'd been running in my previous running shoes for just over 4 years now. I then thought about how many miles I'd put on those shoes in that amount of time. Considering I run an average of 15 miles a week, that's something like 3,120 miles. I always thought those things looked beat up and now I know why! haha.

So I've been on a search for Stephen Colbert's Americon Dream ice cream. Basically when I see a new grocery store I would stop in and take a look if I had 5 minutes. I've checked a lot of stores the past couple of weeks and not until today, just by chance I checked one I had already been to before and I found it! There were only a couple left too. I now have 2 pints of Americone dream sitting in my freezer. Can't wait to try those...

samhendricks @ 2007-04-06T17:55:00

2007-04-06T22:56:31Z

more pics to come. :D

samhendricks @ 2007-04-01T15:37:00

2007-04-01T20:39:14Z

I got an apartment! I can start moving in by next weekend

The actual balcony isn't that big. it's only about a foot, but it's got a great view. I have a fireplace too.

samhendricks @ 2007-03-22T16:31:00

2007-03-22T21:31:29Z

something I noodled today while waiting on account managers...

samhendricks @ 2007-03-21T00:23:00

2007-03-21T05:24:14Z

I realized I've never really done a painting with a lot of architecture and i regret it! so this was good practice.. I want to do more now just to really solidify my vocabulary. it was actually fun painting those buildings. and things

samhendricks @ 2007-03-18T21:26:00

2007-03-19T02:28:35Z

I needed to practice drawing/painting again so today I started doing studies from film stills (of City of God)