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. 

the wild child

In my digital imaging class this summer we had to compose an image made completely out of text. I took two country song (Wild One - Faith Hill and Wildflower - Janedeer Girls) and combined them in this picture.

This was the basic idea, but then I needed to get a little crazier, so I added a few things and changed the color more drastically.

And then I finished so fast that I only had to do some minor tweaking before it was sent to print. I'm pretty happy with it. Mostly because I am a wild child.