Christmas 09
Christmas 2009. New Jersey. Looking forward to getting more drawings done in the next week and a half. Looking forward to finishing my last semester in Spring 2010. Looking forward to getting my BFA. Looking forward to spending time with my girlfriend again. Looking forward to applying to grad school. Looking forward to get started on a rather large painting in the next week. Looking forward to learning so much more. Looking forward to steak and wine. Looking forward to hearing more Buck 65. Looking forward to starting my Thesis paintings. Looking forward to sleep tonight/today. Looking forward to pushing myself even further.
street of crocodiles
Crazy past few days, Major lack of sleep- A bit out of it at this point…. so I figured it would be the perfect time to do my Film History poster illustration. I chose to do an image based off of Street Of Crocodiles by the Quay Brothers. If you haven’t seen it, check it out.
stream.
I dislike the weather this time of year. Sometimes I wish I didn’t feel so at home on the east coast so I could enjoy some much warmer weather on the west. Why do people who travel sometimes only talk about their travels? I still haven’t bought ink for my printer. Opeth is really underrated. Really. My figure drawings are lacking a lot of something. Homemade portfolios are the way to go, and they’re tons of fun to make. Who knew? Silverpoint IS amazing. I would stop drawing skulls if I had something else that was as fun to look at. I like photography, but there aren’t many photographers whose work I enjoy. I need people to model for me. Final projects mean I only eat once a day, at random times. Figures I find a great way of working at the end of the semester. I wish I had a painting class right now. “Flower Duet” is incredible. ‘Bronson’ is a good movie. Dave McKean needs to finish his website. Please. Indirect painting is the best painting. Looking forward to the 23rd, after all- it’s tradition. Did you know that 50,000 people died last year on the highway? I’m trying to get more strict with myself about carrying around my sketchbook, but I have the urge to draw everything and I just don’t have the time. The Blues need to come back, with that wonderful, gritty feel they used to have. ‘Man Bites Dog’ is another good movie, maybe you should watch with caution though? I would create a CD cover for Ana Vidovic for free if she’d let me. Why are older cars so much more comfortable that newer cars? Watching ‘Inked’ and ‘Tattoo Highway’ on Hulu makes me want to tattoo people again, but reminds me how much stupid drama tattoo artists have. I really want to watch ‘Red Dragon’ again, not just for Norton, but for the eating of the Blake’s artwork. Jersey for two weeks, in a week and a half. Strathmore Series 500 Charcoal paper is incredible. Art.
Quick Self.
Quick Self-portrait done with graphite and white oil paint on paper. 25 min.
some more sketchbook….
Mondays and Tuesdays are the best sketchbook days for me right now… Planning another painting in the sb as well.
This is a Jan Van Eyck master copy in red pencil. I could have pushed it further, but I think there is much more to be learned from painting a copy of his works rather than draw them. He is still one of the best ever. Few even come close to how amazing he was.
This is a mixed up page that includes the five minute quick sketch of a statue from the Cast Hall of the New York Academy of Art, some blurred out notes, and a new sketch I did today off of one of the “Children” sculptures of Antonio Lopez Garcia. He did this set of sculptures of heads of children and they’re amazing. I plan on doing another copy of one soon. (front view, with eyes wide open, so cool)
School is keeping me busy, lately the only art I get to do is in the sketchbook….
Rembrandt’s Mother
A quick master copy of Rembrandt’s painting of his mother, oil in the sketchbook. (I’ve never done oil paint in my sketchbook like this before- I hope it works out ok when it’s dry…)
My Digital Portfolio
I’m a senior illustrator at PCAD, and as one of the assignments for our professional practices class we must make a small digital portfolio that can be sent to clients online. I put in a few of my illustrations I’ve completed for school and myself, as well as some of my first oil paintings.
Feel free to download a copy of it:
Photos….
These are old. Really old. I was going through my computer and came across them, figured I might as well share some of them… All were done with a Digital Camera and altered to my liking. I really do want to get into a darkroom again at some point, there’s something about holding a real darkroom print that you make with your hands from nothing… there’s just something lacking with Digital photography… the human hand and all it’s flaws I suppose… which is funny, because I tried to add those in…
two new sketches
Two new Sketches from the sketchbook:
This is a mastercopy of a drawing by Stephen Brown. I’ve never seen this one in person, but I’ve seen images on the forum gallery website and in a little catalog from the gallery. I think it’s a very powerful image, and one of the best drawings I’ve ever seen. It was a lot of fun to look at this image for the hours I spent drawing it, and I learned more than I thought I would from it. If only my work had half of the visual power Stephen’s drawing has…. heh.
This is a study of my roommate sleeping on the couch- I plan on making a 12×24 silverpoint drawing of this, which makes this the first of two things in this current sketchbook: 1- This is my first double page spread image in a sketchbook (ever), and 2- this is the first drawing that was done to be a study for a final piece that I spent more than two hours on. Most major works of art have studies done beforehand to work out details or figure out the problem areas in the piece. This was my attempt to be more familiar with the subject before going on to silverpoint. Lots of fun, and very helpful.
I’m starting to rework an older, less successful painting and I have a new commission to work on. So I’m keeping busy with painting as well as drawing, which is new to me because usually i spent time doing one for a while, than the other- a bad habit. More images to come soon I hope.
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