Here is the latest painting I've been working on. Unfortunately, I have done almost next to nothing art wise this summer and I am not happy about that. However, rarely being home for most of July due to work hasn't helped.

Anyways, I started her back in June and I let her sit there and dry for quite some time. Then Like I said I got busy and I could no longer work on her. I knew that there were issues that needed to be addressed in her, but I was getting so stressed with other parts in my life I was totally unmotivated to create just about anything.

Not good.

Well, I'm off until Friday and I've made it a point this week to stop stressing over things I have no control over, so far it's working. Anyways, last night I was listening to music and I randomly started fixing her using my white oil stick. After I made my notes on her, I brought her back up to my room and started painting. Upon this I realized we had both changed and that her position was no longer working for me. So instead of keeping on fighting with her pose, I changed her.

This is really a rough basis for how I want Flora ( that's right she already has a name) to now look. I'm much happier with her.

Since my show

I have created fish. 

Why? Simple, I really want fish. 

A photo from a part inside the gallery 

Left to Right: Brittany, Jon, Tamara, Me, Hannah, Ama and Jack 

This is Tamara and I at our show. This gives you an idea of how big "Nest" is. 

This is my advisor, and my former boss of two years, Len. 

He's like a weird bizarre form of a dad essentially. 

This Matt Murphy who taught me how to paint in oils when I was a freshman, my 2-D and my advanced abstract drawing teacher. 

The painting behind us is one of Jon Bolles paintings. Matt and I were in the corner talking and my mom took a picture. 

Thanks mom. ahah 

Don't ask me why this photo is crooked.... 

Left to right: Jeff, kathy ( friend of the family whom I haven't seen in a good seven or eight years) Me, my baby brother Brendan and my mother. 

Behind us is Personification ( of Mother Nature) and II 

Outside of the Show 

"Six years and counting"

"II"

"III"

"IV"

"V"

Here are my ink drawing that I created during Spring break back in March for my show. 

I wanted to create pieces of artwork that involved fertility, however I didn't want to focus on the fact that it's male and female and that they are having some form of intimacy. 

So to draw away from that fact, and to keep thinking about anonymity, I created flowers ( still thought of being sexual objects) to cover the faces. 

The sixth one is still in process. 

These are created using india ink, watercolor and gold acrylic 

It's been while

I'm sorry it's been so long since I update this blog.
March 28th was my reception, and since then I've been busy with schoolwork and work.

I'm graduating this Friday.

Here are three more of the figurative floral series I am creating. 

It's done with indie ink, and gold acrylic using a tiny paint brush 

ALMOST DONE!!! I just need to add some highlights here and there and then I need to put a gold glaze over the yellow circle. 

Today I repainted the white, and back ground colors. 

I'm still fixing the gold circle. 

Basically, I thought lightening it up would be a good idea, but it wasn't... It desaturated everything and looked horrible, so I combined some of my micro gold with my Mayan Gold to create a glaze. 

Then I put some gold foil on it as well. 

Once this dried I'm creating another gold glaze over to darken it up just a tiny bit. 

Then I am going to work on the tangent, which is going on with some parts of her body. 

this is just a close up of the faces. 

This has been my latest.
It's involving the concept of intimacy along with yin and yang mixed with fertility.

The dimensions are around 14"x22" or so.

I also tea stained the paper using India Spice tea and well as Earl Grey.
Then I used india ink to create the figures.

Water color along with acrylic paint will be used on the flowers.

This painting started out as a sketch I did back in November while I was super bored listening to an artist talk.

This is entitled "Nest"

She is still in progress, and I totally messed it up last night... thinking an idea would be a good one.... it wasn't.

I'm fixing that later today. 

 (I'm sorry this image is so blurry. Also she will be stretched once I get enough money)

"Personification (of Mother Nature)" 

Mixed media ( Oil paint, charcoal, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic, cloth, thread, egg tempera, Mayan gold powder) 

2011-2012 

This painting is the first large painting I have done since I was sixteen years old, it's about 3'x3.5'. 

I got the beginning idea for this painting after one of my best friends, Ariell and I were on an adventure and three deer ran out in front of us. Something clicked in my brain. 

These images are to show the progression of the painting, I don't have all of them because in all honesty I was stupid and deleted a ton of them from my phone. 

 

"Wisdom"

October 2011 

Oil paint and Mayan gold powder

After my first review (which was like finding out that the milk you had just bought was sour and all of your eggs were cracked) I was stuck. One of my best friends Tamara recommended that I should watch/ listen to some of Joseph Campbell's teachings/ lectures on Netflix, because they are about spirituality and she found them to be helpful. 

This is what came of it. 

It has repeated in Sanskrit over and over again " Lead me from unreal to Real, Lead me from darkness to the  Light, Lead me from the fear of death, To the Knowledge of Immortality." 

"Me, Myself and I"  

Oil paint 

2011

This was created in September of 201l, I still wasn't quite sure what I was having as a thesis quite yet. I knew I wanted to do something with mythology. So I decided to play around with ideas that I enjoyed. 

This is based off of the ancient greek goddess Hekate, Goddess of cross roads, the moon ( during the reign of the Titans) and is represented as the maiden, mother and crone. Her feast night is on my birthday so she holds a special place in a heart. 

My artwork for Senior Seminar revolves all around what it means to be a female, in spirituality, reality and to myself.

This blog is to keep a record of my artwork and my struggles as an artist.