Just a little update

Hey everyone,

  Life is going okay. I'm loving my classes at uni at the moment, and am almost halfway done with the stone carving project.

 

On a more frustrating note, I'm currently having to see a counselor once a week and a psychiatrist on the first. Having some physiological issues that need to be addressed. Joy. ^^; The counselor is really nice though and loves her job, which makes the little sessions fairly comfortable so far. On an awesome note, my plan for my degree is being formed. I'm doing an art history sub-plan, under the Studio Arts section for the BFA. It's as close to double majoring as they would let me do.

Dean completed... though not as expected

That last W.i.P I put on here? Yeah... didn't go as planned. I'm considering it a dead drawing until I figure out what I want to do to it. On the other hand, I started and completed a different version of Dean Winchester... and it actually turned out fairly decent, if I may say so myself. Here's the completed version and work-in-progress shots.

Completed version. Took a few hours; done with HB, 2B, 4B and 6B lead.

Sketches from the past week

Playing catch-up on the blog. Next post will be a completed charcoal project and its W.i.P.s.

Attempting something different. Most of my hand drawings are usually cleaner looking.

Completed version and some quick sketches

Hello everyone!

I'm doing two posts today. This one will have the finished version of my last painting, Serene, and some sketches I've been working on the last few days. The next post will just be on some interesting links. Anyways, on to the artwork!

End product, titled Serene.

Then, working at Art Walk, I was able to knock out two quick sketches while there was a lull.

Sketch of photographer Irene Quiroga's "Little Dancer"

Palm tree over water. No reference, though it was inspired by my boss' collage/mixed media paintings.

And finally, just a random practice page.

New work in progress

Trying different techniques. This one is going to be done in just black ink. It's kind of acting like a quick sketch/gesture drawing- it's actually rather fun to do. At this point, there's only about 10 minutes of work put into this. Two pictures at different stages.

Completed version of Painting

    Worked on the last painting a bit more after some great constructive crit.

First big summer drawing

Apologies for not getting on here recently. I can be a tad bit forgetful at times. Anyways, just finished a drawing today and I thought I would put up the WiP photos and the final result.

Midway point on the drawing.

The almost complete version... watercolor, gesso and black ink.

Watercolor and recent doodles

I still have quite a ways to go, to get this all up to speed... but I decided to go ahead and upload two recent drawings- one a quick sketch and the other a watercolor and pen drawing that I'm satisfied with. As I mentioned before, I think, I'll probably upload most of what I draw on here. That being said, I have "good days" and "UGH" days, so not all drawings will be equal in overall quality. That's life, though. ^^;

Synthesized face that started off as a quick pen drawing.

And for the not so pretty, though still useful, drawing.

An... attempt at Drawing Dean Winchester, from the box set cover for S1 of Supernatural.

   Yeah, the Dean sketch didn't work out so well... Good practice for speed drawing and being more loose with my pens though. And for something that only took me ten minutes, I feel it turned out decent.

Some Doodles and an M. Interpretation

  I have managed to get a few doodles down this past week and one attempt at a Master Interpretation done.

My very quick interpretation of Edvard Munch's Madonna

  Below is his version:

  I actually drew mine by using Robert Hughes' book The Shock of the New. One idea he mentioned in the section pertaining to Munch and his fellows, was that many Norwegian writers/painters seemed to view women as "a Belle Dame Sans Merci, bringer of anguish and emotional ruin.... [Munch's] women oscillated between fantasies of rape... and visions of woman as devourer." (Hughes 281) Apparently, the Madonna painting showcasing Lilith would be an example of the devouring aspect. The original border and text that was meant to accompany the painting delved into that a tad bit further, from the sounds of it.

  Other than that and me slowly finishing The Shock of the New, I managed a few doodles when distracted from other things.                                                                                                                          

Watercolor 3

Today's drawing/painting... took about an hour? Really need a better picture- my camera phone and artificial light are not conducive to decent photo taking, when trying to get images of my artwork. -.-' I will try to post sharper images tomorrow.

I freaking love watercolor!

  Ahem, well... you get the point. Anyways, today I was re-inspired to play around with watercolors. There's this artist on deviantART called agnes-cecile, who does some pretty amazing stuff. I even glanced at her speedpainting videos... and I was fairly blown away. Intimidated? Yes. Wanting to yank out my watercolors? Definitely. :D

  Well, my first attempt didn't go too well. (Read: Too embarrassed to put an image of it up, until it goes under extreme re-hauling.) I had stepped away from watercolors, for the most part, in the last couple of weeks. So, my first attempt was admittedly- well- yeah... it showed that I was intimidated and over-complicating it. -.-' My second attempt though went a lot more smoothly. I rather liked how it turned out. :D

    In other news, I get to hang out with Lizz from Ketch a Wave from Friday afternoon till sometime Saturday. Should be awesome! Dragging my Vivitar SLR and some art supplies with me as well, so it'll be interesting to see what pops up on here next. I'm definitely going to be messing around with watercolors there as well, so we shall see. Might be a few days before the pics go up, though. My SLR is non-digital.

Testing, testing 1-2-3

   I figured today would be a good day to actually upload some of my more recent artwork. These are just a few of a watercolor series I completed last week. I tend to use graphite or ink more often, so these are a bit... different from what I normally do. I actually did about eight of these, but I'm only posting the three most recent ones. (Everything else will be from this past weekend and on, when I start uploading more.)

A self-portrait based on a photograph.

The smallest of the series, and the one that seems most like a gestalt.

A bit of an eye study. Used a dip pen and burnt umber ink to go over the watercolor.

    If anyone would like to see more of the series, just left me know. :) Later, everyone!