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.

Me and my two best from summer painting 12. My goal was to paint faster so I spent a maximum of 3 hours drawing in and painting each of these.

I think this was my best painting of the spring 12 semester. 4ft. X 3ft. oil on masonite. I learned a lot with this one. It was done mostly with lots and lots of glazing and some detail work at the end. 

Painted this one in Fall 11 too...2 1/2 ft X 2 1/2 ft

Fall 11

Above self portrait 4ft X 4ft












Autum 2ft X 2ft

During the fall semester I started painting on a larger scale, I also tried to move away from the figure only to be lead back to it again...


Somewhat Damaged 4ft X 4ft