Mr. Compton and the Goose

Completed version of the previously posted black and white version. 

18"x14" oil on wood

Pulp Magazine Cover

Approx. 12"x16" oil on illustration board

The colors got a little warped from the photograph...I'll take a new one eventually

A few Sonjas

A couple pieces from Sonja's Visual Self Expression class.  The top is my piece for the "independent project" assignment, and the bottom is a drawing of Kat that I am quite happy with.  Luckily I got a photo of it before I dumped oil paint all over it.

A couple pieces from AAS

Never got around to uploading these!  I did these in the spring 2010 semester. You know, that semester that sucked so much it made me want to quit art altogether?  HA. But yeah moving on.  I guess these two pieces are all I have to show for that hell of a school year, so here they are.

The first is an ink portrait of Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible. The second is an acrylic of Dom Monaghan as a monkey on that island where a lot of crazy s**t seems to go down.

I'm not particularly fond of the Dom one...It is not nearly up to par for me, and I am positive I could do a better job on it knowing the things I have learned in this current semester. But hey, I have to show it respect seeing as how it represents the iota of pride I was able to maintain during that horrid semester.  

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

My favorite spread of my book illustration project! Oils on illustration board, somewhere around 25 or 30 inches long.

Oh and also, here is the black and white underpainting for a portrait project.  The color finish will be done this week, but I am kind of sad to have to go over the black and white version to get there :/

Actual progress!?

I am almost done with my book illustration paintings! Motivation/rationalization/excuse to finish it all by tomorrow: I am seeing my uncle tomorrow for Thanksgiving! He is a phenomenal mural artist and one of my biggest role models, and I am always pumped for the few times a year I get to see him and discuss art.  Most definitely a potential mentor for senior year.

Dracula!

My first real scratchboard piece! Done in Difate's awesome class.  This is the part where I say "oh wow, I'm totally going to use scratchboard all the time now!!" and then in about a year or so, realize I have done quite the opposite of that.

On Monday, he ate......

        I made a crude test version of a book page for the first painting I finished for my Book Illustration assignment.  This project is turning out to be much less tedious than I anticipated, and I am really having a lot of fun with it.

I lied.

Wow, its been 7 minutes and apparently that was enough time for me to get ashamed of an empty blog.  So for now, I'll leave you with Sonja's first two projects.  I am quite satisfied with the both of these, but more so the masks.  These projects were done far before I came to realize the um...."unorthodox" nature of the class and its supervision.  Hope I said that nice enough.
A few more projects need to be done for her class, but I have not yet decided whether or not they are worth putting my all into.  Depends on how much time I have...eek

Hey, I got a blog! This means I'm hip....right? RIGHT!?

Just one more technological craze I have given into, and surely not the last.  But I figure this would be a good way to easily post my school progress, and also the "other artwork I make in my free time." (HAHA doubtful.) whilst describing my ventures and opinions surrounding it.  Oh enough with the generalizations.....welcome to my blog, I guess. huzzah.

I was about to start my actual first post when I realized that, in this current moment, this blog in itself is just another means of procrastination to stop me from working on the piles and piles of artwork I have to create within the next 13 days or so. Specifically for tonight: book illustration work.  Oil paintings for my rendition of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  Fortunately I am almost done.  But I would be done-er if I stopped typing here and began working on that.  Soooo, peace out for now.  Artwork will be posted soon!