I've been avoiding drawing as much as i could this semester because I haven't done it in so long and felt really out of touch with it. One of my professors pushed me to pick up some charcoal again and thank god I listened. Didn't realize how much I've actually missed drawing.

Now in color!

Still not done, admittedly. But it's close! So close!

My camera went missing a few days ago and has finally been recovered. In the midst of much rejoicing, I figured an update was due. Obviously this is a work in progress; I've been meaning to start keeping records of my process, but mostly I just really liked the under painting and wanted an image of it in case I end up accidentally killing it when I start adding color.

WIP

School has resumed and I am taking junior independent for six credits this semester. Basically, I am going to be living in my studio from now until December. I started this piece the other day and it is still very much in the rough stages, but I haven't posted anything in a while, so here you go. This photo is atrocious, I am so sorry. I left my tripod back in NY, I forgot to clean the lense, this is at a terrible angle in bad lighting, etc. Lament lament lament.

Anyway, I am hoping to keep better records of my work in a more timely manner. In theory this would mean more regular updates, but I'm sure you can sense a trend in these posts already.

End of semester dump

Didn't get around to painting today like I had hoped and decided to photograph some stuff from this past semester. Most of these are studies done for Nature Drawing, plus a page of minute gestures from either Figure and Ground or Life drawing from the semester before and a litho.

Well, so much for more consistent posting. I swear, I am still working though! Admittedly it took the better part of a month BUT! there is a painting in progress. Will get around to posting some images of that later. Maybe. I do have a bunch of drawings from the end of this past semester. Those will probably go up in the mean time.

In other news, I have this painting and the four from the previous post in a show! If you happen to be in the Poughkeepsie area, check it out at the Twisted Soul restaurant. Very good food, plus my glorious work in person. Also the work of some other people who aren't too shabby but really mine are the main highlight :) Oh god I hope people buy something, I really need to get more paint D:

recent paintings

Some recent pieces from a series. I don't think I've really talked about the independent work I've been doing in my two painting classes yet. The two paintings in the last post were some of the first in this series. They started out being based on images I found of plant stem and cell structure, though they have since become these more automatic biomorphic forms. I am really excited about this project and the results so far, which generally never happens. It scares me a little in a way. Still, it's been pretty exhilarating. Let's hope I can keep it up through finals

Spring Break!

Figured I'd post some things while I finally have some time to myself. The top two are current works in process for my Figure and Ground class, the other two are some quick studies from Life Drawing last semester

Figure and Ground Studies

Nature Drawing

and another

Final piece for Color Abstraction that I reworked over winter break and now looks completely different from when I handed it in.

From last semester....

Collage paintings from last semester's Color Abstraction class. These two are actually a diptych, but I cannot for the life of me find the image I had of them side by side as they're meant to be presented. I am convinced that my computer secretly likes to eat my files to spite me for dropping it last year. Anyway, there were pretty much the only paintings that I actually liked, while the rest will be stashed away in the basement so that I may pretend that they do not exist. These were painted on stretched mens' button down shirts, which seemed like an awesome idea at first, but quickly became a hellish nightmare that proved that PVA sizing is total crap to work with.