Revampage.

So instead of writing my spanish paper, i'm going to go through this and delete all the stuff i hate. which is a lot.

procrastination is key. sleep is the ENEMY.

Trusted

14X11in

Watercolor on hot press paper

New Skin

14X11in

Watercolor

(if you wondering what happened to the bottom one, it's okay. i am too. i still don't know what to feel about it...)

Simple and Calm

14X11in

Watercolor

After a long art famine...

I'm painting again. And this is my favorite watercolor to date. Well it is exponentially better than my past ones. I guess it makes sense.

Found

14X11in

Watercolor

Alabama, Arkansa...

Friends

so this one time, one of my best friends got in a dangerous accident. Thankfully she walked away with only minor injuries. I made her a card with this little drawing on it.

London

omgsh. Just found out that the Study Abroad to England is open to apply for. gahhh! the whole thing sounds fantastic...well, i'm guessing that most study abroads sound fantastic, but seeing as I've never been on one, this one sounds particularly wonderful to me. :)

anyway that wouldn't be until Fall '11, so I have to see how a few things pan out before i get too excited. ohhh the agony of waiting for the future to FREAKING GET HERE!

on another note. i finally finished a painting. this is the first one i've finished since i've come home. and that's a really sad story. especially since it's kind of pathetic. (you all be enlightened soon enough on this matter when I post a scan.) and the worst part is that its a present to my brother for his birthday (july 7th...i'm late...) He always gets me nice gifts and since i'm broke broke broke i never get him anything. so i wanted to do this nice thing...and this is what happens.

hopefully the rest of the summer will be more productive.

abstract compositions

so this guy, Goncalo Ivo, makes the greatest watercolors. he seriously inspired me, and these are the paintings that i made after doing a little artistic research on him.

Purple and Blue Composition

11X14in

Watercolor

Green and Orange Composition

11X7in

Watercolor

Purple and Yellow Composition

11X7in

Watercolor

This last one is my personal favorite. I think it has a pretty strong composition and there are some really nice colors in there as well...

Green Composition

11X7in

Watercolor

Intuitive Paintings

More watercolors.

Just A Game - I

7X5.5in

Watercolor

Just A Game - II

7X5.5in

Watercolor

You Don't Speak for Me

11X7in

watercolor & ink

Water Color Still Lifes

So over spring term I took a watercolor class, and these are some of the first things I did. I haven't done any water colors since my junior year in high school...and that was only one painting. So I'm pretty inexperienced. I think in these four still life paintings it's pretty obvious that was trying to make the medium something that it wasn't. In my more recent paintings I feel like I've succeeded in using the medium for it's watery strengths. I'll post those soon.

Until then...

Still life with Jar

11X7in

Watercolor

Still Life with Vase and Candle

11X7

Watercolor

In-class Still Life in Black and White

11X7

Watercolor

In-class Still Life in Neutral Colors

11X7

Watercolors

Few words could open me...

...you knew them all

Going Home

Intaglio Print

11X9 in

Winter '09 (and '10)

Intaglio Print

(bigger than the last one, I can't remember the exact dimensions, and I don't feel like measuring.)

These were done for my intaglio class. Both were very much influenced by Radical Face songs, and the horrible time I was having at school.

Final for Ceramics

This is about a foot tall...it was supposed to be 20 inches but I wasn't paying that much attention...oooops.

Oh and it's supposed to be an 'abstracted' strawberry.

Fired twice. Glazes used: Chun green, moss green, red iron oxide. Fired at cone 6.

Organics

Ceramic strawberry. Fired at a cone 6. Glazes used: Red iron oxide, chun green.

Fired twice.

Ceramic Pod thing

Fired at cone 6. This glaze I sprayed on as opposed to brushing it on, which I prefer. Glaze was called Bark Brown...I think.

Fired twice.

Bronze

This is my bronze sculpture. He weighs about 4lbs. We made wax figures and then used them to make molds for pouring molten bronze into. The process was definitely an experience.

The first of many 3D adventures...

This piece went through a raku firing process.

It's a little weird. The color isn't quite what I was hoping for.

So apparently this is a little hard to understand. Failure on my part...I apologize.

But basically it's about building something together...you know, in the spirit of belated v-day and all. So hopefully that helps. :)

And for some reason scanning this made the red look washed out. It's a little brighter than in this image.

But most of all, most of all

...it's built to last.

So I realize it's kind of lame that I put all this energy into these drawings that won't go anywhere, but what can I say? I enjoy making them, and it's the closest I'll ever get to sketch booking.

Anyway, I was actually working on this for valentines day, but I got caught up in other things, so I didn't get any ink on it till now. So, happy belated v-day!

The Sun and the Moon...Finished?

- "wasted time. I cannot say that I was ready for this..."

Here it is:

The Sun and the Moon

24X24

Mixed Media on Panel

This is what I turned in. It is kind of a weak painting as of now. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with it still. Maybe I'll never finish it.

BUT! One super exciting thing about this painting that I forgot to mention before is that I made the panel myself. And when I say I made it, I mean I built the cradle...that you can't see in this photo. haha.

Color Matching

This is the monster structure... we drew it out, painted it...did our best to match the colors EXACTLY as they were seen. and then we had to make it, a not sucky painting. I like it okay. The pink and white thing in the front bothers me...I should go back and fix that.

30X30

Oil on Canvas

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on

- Robert Frost

So this is my final painting, inspired by the quote above and a song called "The Sun and the Moon" by Mae. Which if you know the song...maybe it doesn't seem like they go together all that well. I guess I've been thinking a lot about how we linger on the little things...but then again, sometimes the little things do become big things.

I've actually finished the painting, but I don't have a decent picture of it yet, and currently its waiting to be graded. It's actually not that different from this...it just has blue paint behind it now...

Monster Structure Paintings

So we had to paint this thing...I'd try to explain it better, but it's kind of impossible. It was just difficult. But anyway, we had to do one realistic big one (which I'll post later), and then a few experimental type paintings. These would be the latter. Nothing super, but I just don't have much else to post yet. So here they are:

Monster Structure as City

12X12

Oil on Paper

Monster Structure in Red, Yellow, and Blue

12X12

Oil on Paper

...More to come. :)

Waterfalls and bottles

- These are a couple pieces I've done for my painting classes. Both are in oil which is a new medium for me, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Broken tertiary assignment:
15X15
Oil on Paper


This is a still life we did a value study on. We're still going to work on them....just adding a touch of color here and there.
24X24
Oil on Canvas


anyway, here in a few weeks I should have plenty more to post.

The VA Core Art Show

Okay, so I don't know if that's really what it's called... I have no idea what it's called. It's up in the HFAC right now. I got a couple pieces put in it and they are currently displayed on the fourth floor...
Sadly, my name was spelled wrong on one (lecia) , and credit was given to someone else entirely on another (a kid named drew from my drawing class).

But on the brighter side I won $33 for getting a jurors award. :D

So it wasn't a total bust, haha.