Thesis!!!!

Ahhhh I made it through thesis, there were actually a few days I was about to quit. I painted more than I ever have in a 4 month period. I ended up with 13 total 3 were edited out and these ^^^^ are the 10 that made it in the show. It was intense and crazy and I'm glad I had friends to help me through it and friends to help through it too. I am now enjoying the summer hanging out with friends in hammocks and soaking at the hot springs. I painted a little today for the first time in weeks but I will get back into it soon. Tonight catching up on dorky syfy shows with the kid  :)

Some paintings from this semester, only 3 have made it through to thesis soooooo I should go paint :D

First Painting Towards Thesis :)

This one took me a while and I still did more work to it after this picture was taken. I can't wait for thesis to start :)

Anemone and the beginning of my thesis

2 plate reduction linoleum print. Each color required carving out lino and a run through the press. I love the process of printmaking so far, maybe even better than painting. The best part is that I have 12 of these, most all are spoken for but it was nice to mass produce. This is also the first piece towards my thesis idea which is basically painting ocean creatures on a large scale with close up crops to give the viewers a different perspective and raise curiosity. I stressed for months trying to figure out what to paint for thesis when the answer was staring me in the face all along :)

I'm having a blast in printmaking this semester. It must be the most unforgiving 2d media there is, no painting over, no erasing. This is my second attempt at it. The first was a wood cut disaster. 

Silverware, silverware, silverware, and a blender

    Spooning
    15" X 22"

These are from last year, I totally forgot to post them. Our instructor had us drawing silverware for most of the semester. This is my best one from all of the silverware drawings and a self portrait phrasist style before I even knew what phrasisim was lol.  I did a ton of work that semester.

                           
                                      Magic Silver
                                        30" X 22"

Summer photo

I still love photo and will continue to play around with it. Summer photo was awesome the crits were quick and blunt and I learned a ton.