Art

skinny

this painting is in the VERY early stages of its life. this particular piece is hopefully going to be used for a product, if everything goes well. the project is on the hush-hush for now, but i'll keep ya posted.

branches

when i work on watercolors like this one in class, i have students come up to me all the time asking, "what is it?". my response is usually i dunno. why does art have 'to be' something? why can't they see the forms, the colors, the composition, etc. for what it is? i understand the viewers need to be able to connect with something in a piece of art, but that doesn't necessarily mean a true real object - does it? i hope not...

bracket

just a little watercolor i did in my sketchbook this morning...

give me spring

i obsessed over this drawing all day...and boy did it feel good! it was an assignment (use only line) for one of the classes i'm teaching, i decided to join them in their drawing today. this one was a surprise to me, i never would have thought of drawing something like this and i never would have thought that it would have turned out the way it did!

chirp~chirp

full moon

i stumbled upon this image yesterday while i was looking through all my bookmarks. it reminds me of a silkscreen i did in undergrad. it comes from 'my little underground' - a website that has a ton of digital prints. the irony of it all was that it was a full moon last night....weird....

a little experiement?

i recently started messing around with unprimed canvas and i had this one laying around the house. i was hoping to cover a big area by just pouring paint onto the canvas. i have to admit i was pretty scared because i had no idea what was going to happen, i envisioned all the paint just seeping into the canvas and getting all over the table and floor. but, look how wrong i was... the paint just sat there on that canvas - it wasn't going any where! i let it sit for a couple hours and still nothing.

after a while i couldn't take it any more and i started to blow the paint around, some how thinking i could control it...ha! this is of course the starting point for this painting...

you never know what will happen next!

measure key

i this as an example for one of my classes that i did over the weekend. most of the students hadn't ever used conte crayons before, so i thought i would do a drawing using conte. it had been quite a while since i used the drawing medium, so it was fun to revisit it. i think i like it better than charcoal!

hallways

i used the photoshop image to bust this one out the other day. i get so mesmerized by the overlapped images...
i want to keep that 'push and pull' between the both of them going on another painting.

flowers and tiles

this was one of the those days....
i wanted to paint a little somethin' somethin' and nothing was popping in my head. then i realized that i'm always staring at these tiles outside room 128, so i threw them on the paper. then i came up with the funky flower/plant. i know, it's pretty boring...but at least the colors are springy! all i want to use now is green, i'm tired of the browns of winter.

wax print

this is my last posting from the encaustic workshop last weekend. i really like this piece and how easy it was. this is a photocopy of one of my prints that i glued down to a piece of wood and encased in wax. after the encasing i started carving out areas and going back in with color. i could have worked on this for another two or three hours.

arms

yet, another encaustic piece. i like the simplicity of this one and most of all - the texture. i was pokin' and proddin' at this poor tile of wax, i just wanted to see what i could come up with.

orange pencil

this was a cool new trick i learned at the encaustic workshop this past weekend at the lux. it's a drawing transfer, the gray/brown area is the drawing part and then i waxed around it. i thought it was a pretty cool technique, and really easy to do!

carving x

yeeeeeeeehaw! the encaustics are in!! 'twas a good workshop over the weekend at the lux center with margaret berry. i got to hang out with my mom (the coolest in the world) and do some new art techniques. it was a good refresher from last fall and the addiction/urge to do more is still there. this was my refresher piece, i just kept adding and adding...
more to come!

gotta love photoshop

i thought these two photographs looked great together. i was messin' around with the pics in preperation for the encaustic workshop that started today at lincolns lux center. one photo is of the vatican museum and the other is a hyatt in san francisco. hopefully i'll have some great photos from the workshop this weekend!

stealing freedom

i titled this 'stealing freedom' because it looks like the eagle is taking the stars...or is he dropping them?