Classwork

A few recent projets from some design classes.

 

Project for Typography. 

Pen and ink on paper, scanned and touched up in Ps. 

 

Project for Computer Graphics.

Self-portrait in the style of Renoir. 

Photomanipulation.

 

Just for fun: second self-portrait, mimicking Munch's The Scream. 

Photomanipulation.

dA muro.

Finally found something really fun to do during Computer Graphics class: deviantART's excellent feature, muro! The digital art creation includes several brushes, color pickers, layers, transparency, and now allows you to save your work and return to it later (if you have an account). The platform also supports Wacom tablets=awesome! Spent probably about 2 hours total on this.


Check it out at http://muro.deviantart.com/.

Progression - Children of Cambodia I

This painting is still not quite finished, but it's done in its essentials. I figured I should post something before school starts again... so soon, so soon...

Watercolor, something like 12x16 in, can't quite remember. 2010.

Progression - Banners of Siem Reap

Oil on canvas, 16x20 in. 

Here's another painting done with palette knife, completed for one of my classes this semester. I took the photo in Cambodia last May, and it was perfect for a series of paintings I've begun, centered around roads.

Expect a few more progression posts coming soon!  

Sneak Peek

Just a few work-in-progress shots taken with the good ole cell phone.

Cambodia: Impressions I

Angkor: Tree

Pencil, charcoal,

and colored pencil on acrylic paper

10x16 in, 2010

First piece of artwork inspired by my trip to Cambodia. I borrowed the tree design from a relief on the wall of a temple at Angkor, combined it with other motifs I saw there, and added my own flair.

Major Catch-Up.

It's been eons since I've seen you, blog. Sorry about the long absence. Catching up to the present would require several posts, which was daunting, and putting it off just increased the intimidation factor. But at last I've got up the courage to start. ;)

So. let's start with the end of school; two months ago now, it was.

Final project of the semester: self-portrait.

The sequential images were so popular with the fall painting, so I thought I'd try it again.

begin: light wash coat and sketch on the canvas.

another coat: wipe out the highlights while it's still wet.

darken the shadow areas.

darken again.

and again.

fine-tune.

adding in color, waiting for face to dry.

ultramarine blue coat for skin tone base.

more color.

yellow ochre over the blue for more base build-up.

at last, actual skin color! eesh it looks ghastly here.

phantom?

that's better.

darken those shadows!

add in the details.

final product. :)

Studio shots.

I seriously love this art studio. And the people in it. We have a great department.

Just some ramblin' shots of other artists' stuff. :)

it's time.

something old, something new.

The (slightly) old:

"Snow on Reds, Blues, Greens"

oil pastel

10 x 14 in, 2009.

This piece won a contest hosted by a the local Lake City Bank.

It was on the cover of their latest Christmas card. :)

The New:

"Sketch of Her World"

pen & ink, colored pencil

8.5 x 11 in, 2010.

Thanks to Andrew Jones for the inspiration.

You're going to write an epic someday, Tolkien.