Jury

T his new cavas gave me some problems in terms of inspiration.
The project outlines were "an unfinished painting, but to look finished," which I don't think should be too difficult. This isn't actually complete yet, despite the guidelines, and will be completely incomplete in a week or two, I expect.

Snip & Paste

T hese were a part of a drawing project, to create several collages to use as reference for one drawing. I felt fungi would be fun.

"L ook, look! a white spot of him like a single floating feather comes up from the dead hemlock and grows larger and rises, and come close at last, and goes by the landmark pine with a steady sweep of wings and outstretched slender neck and crested head. And wait! wait! Do not move a foot or a finger, little girl, do not send an arrow of light and consciousness from your two eager eyes, for the heron has perched on a pine bough not far beyond yours, and cries back to his mate on the nest and plumes his feathers for the new day!"

- Jewett, A White Heron

These Frames are Tanks

A small series of some undersea friends of mine.

D earest, nearest to my heart. You are so bold.

Finally (!) done. Basically so. I can hang my deerest finally.

Clay cities

W ork in progress.

Italian city (that I've never visited.)

Acrylic on canvas

Nothing nicer

N othing nicer than flowers.

Thanks for the spraypaint tutorial Dom.

paper flowers

D oodling with pen and paper.

(this was also a christmas gift)

Opera

P ainted this as a gift for my uncle, a lover of opera. It is my first acrylic in about 5 months.

The Bath House... Updated

S ecret Narrative? A touch up or two left to do... Perhaps more to come in this series.

The Living Room Set

A couple sits down for dinner. And stays there forever.

My End-of-Term Drawing Project. Pen, Ink, Thread, Coffeem Watercolour.

Womanlamp

T he lovely, lively wife.

Crits Crits

C RIT TIME, WORKING WORKING!

Grandaddy Chair

D rawing project, work in progress....

Kind of a 'spirit of old furniture'/'ageing vanitas'.... Figuring it out.

Bather Luring Updated

U pdated version of this painting. BAD QUALITY IMAGE. I must get my hands on a

tripod.

The Bath House

C anvas number third of the bathers series.

The angle that I'm working from in this piece is particularly tricky, and I'm pleased that so far it's going fairly well. Working strickly from my own head is more difficult in a very technically challenging image.

I'm excited for this one, though. I'm hoping for it to have a slightly haunting effect, and to change the dynamic of my other images.

Here is the drawing that I was working from to give you an idea of what else I'm doing with the painting.

The Bathing one

H ere we see the second instalment of my bathers series.

So far, so good in my opinion. These women are kind of a silly/fun subject matter from my brain. I'm trying my best to paint in an element of unrest, however, or discomfort in this moist little land.

Although featured earlier on, I've included the innitial drawing for this piece because it's kind of neat to see what I was working off of.

The Bathers Cont.

I forge forward in the first instalment of the trio: my portrait of these lovely ladies, these beautiful bathers.

The bathers begin

Trifecta

M y painting prof. has assigned our next project to be a triptic series - three paintings that make up one whole. Essentially this is so broad because you can do three of anything and make a whole.

So I just sat down and watched some good online TV while fiddling with some watercolour drawings for ideas. These three are my product. (Unfortunately the images are a little muddy here..)

I tri-ed.

Waves of change

A h.
What can we say about work and time? To change for the worst like bread and milk? Or for the better, like cheese and wine?

I don't know, whatever.

This painting came from a photograph. But I didn't want it to look like a photograph. So I did lotsa stuff to it. Now I don't know.

The progression is neat to look at, though.

Watch your fingers

W rite the test.

But don't let it bite you back

Keep your fingers curled into a ball

To keep your knuckles intact.

W hen you were young you were the king of carrot flowers

and how you built a tower tumbling through the trees

In holy rattlesnakes that all fell around your feet

And this is the room

One afternoon I knew I could love you

And from above you how I sank into your soul

Into that secret place where no one dares to go

Life Drawing Session 2

A few more life drawings from today's session. This delightfully hefty model was kind of fun to do...

Elegant pondering

J ust playing around....

Isn't this light in your eyes just lovely?

My house is full of birds and pretty things

B ecause I'm so so attentive in all my classes, I sketched this little guy during... ok, I don't even remember.
It's just in my sketchbook and the picture is a little blurry unfortunately, but I like it. Perhaps it shall become a painting or something in the future.

Life Drawing Session 1

F or my drawing class we've had a few model sessions, and this is a 20 minute conte drawing from a few weeks ago.

Wavy painting

T his is a painting I just started for class last week. Definitely a work in progress.

It's based on a photograph taken by my uncle.

It's going to change drastically after this. Wooohoo

Contouristy

A contour drawing was required for home-doing this week. (This is where you draw outlines, mostly looking at the subject and not the paper. Potentially disasterous).

I walked on down to Ye Olde Port for mine. Lots of contours resembling lots of tourists. I wish they would have stood more still.