sketched

I've been playing around with the idea of a graffiti landscape, and at first I had no idea what that could possibly entail. So I did what every young artist does these days and hopped on the interwebs to see what kinds of came up when I entered those words into the google machine. I was pleasantly surprised by what I found.

I also talked to my family to see if they could brainstorm any ideas, and let me tell you - some of the things that father of mine came up with where pure genius.

So here are two concepts I'm developing:

This is based off of the idea to merge the graffiti and landscape through a word. At first I was trying to put the landscape inside of the letters, but I wasn't really excited about what was flowing from my fingers. So instead I started drawing the landscape on top of the word, still incorporating plants and trees into the letters, but in a different way than originally anticipated. So far so good.

And here we have a slightly underdeveloped concept, placing graffiti font into a graffiti style landscape. So far I love this, but it still needs some work. I want to put a little Zacchaeus figure in the tree and move the letters around to a better spot. 

Eventually these will turn into paintings and not just sketches. Which will be incredibly exciting! At least for me.

remembrance

Here is the latest oil painting I've finished. I created it for a friend's mom in remembrance of her mom's father.

I'm a bit annoyed with a few things, but overall I think it turned out great. Sorry for the crappy cell phone pictures - the lens on my phone is scratched and it just doesn't do justice to the way things look.

some watercolors

I really like painting with watercolors. It's probably one of my very favorite things to do. Ever.

Some art supplies were donated to our school by a woman who's mother had been an artist. After she passed there were all these supplies that needed someone to love them, so she gave them to us. There were a lot of different types of supplies, among them a plethora of tubed watercolor paints. I died. They are the greatest. Today I played with them to create this mermaid: 

Lately...In Art World

Beginning Pottery

I have never taken a pottery class of any sort, in high school, college or otherwise. So imagine my somewhat dismay when I found out the my student teaching semester would be filled with not just one but three different pottery classes. I am learning so much about clay and ceramics these days, folks. I think it's my new favorite.

Although, if we're being honest, the gesture drawing in our advanced art has rekindled my love for all things charcoal and I just don't think pottery is cool enough to take the number one spot. But it is a dramatically close second place.

digital watercolor

modern jesse james robin hood

Iconic image: Jesse James
Storyline: misunderstood/wrong place wrong time kind of guy

the fake facebook profile took HOURS to complete. the magazine covers were easier. I'm not terribly happy with the tabloid cover, but it's serves it's purpose.

all images were found online.