Paintings - Soup and Soul
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
My parody of Andy Warhol's Cambell's soup can painting. I call it "My Dinner with Andy". My concept with taking a parody and making a parody of that. This was the piece that ended up in the BFA exhibition at UW-Milwaukee.

My tribute to Korean hip-hop group Epik High (check them out at map the soul ). I think they have some interesting perspectives on what the soul is, and some of their music is kind of deep so I wanted to do this in appreciation of their work.

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Twisp & Catsby
Thursday, April 30, 2009
I'm working on a series for my Painting final right now. It's sort of impromptu painting/unaware collaboration. I'm taking paintings that students have abandoned that my prof still has. Then I'm painting over them, but I'm leaving parts of the original paintings showing.

As for the impromptu part... one of my goals for the semester was not to think too hard. I get worked up/worried over how projects to turn out. It's more fun just to let things happen.

So for one I'm painting over using one of my favorite webcomics - Penny Arcade - as inspiration. Twisp and Catsby are two of the best non-sequitur characters ever. Here I'm using their first appearance (check out the comic) 



Still a bit to do, but I'm happy with it so far. I can't wait to finish it.


Twisp & Catsby are  © 1998-2009 Penny Arcade, Inc.

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Random
Friday, April 24, 2009
Geez I haven't posted in awhile.

This is from my last project. I wish I had ended it at this stage. It was the most successful figure I ended up doing. Maybe I'll redo it on a smaller canvas.

My current painting. Maybe I should call it a collaboration? The painting underneath was someone else's. Our first project this semester was to take a piece someone else had done, flip it upside down, and create a painting. It ended up being my best one so far, so I'm re-using the concept for my final project. I picked up about 5 or 6 abandoned paintings from my prof's office to use for a series.

I'm trying not to think too hard about this. I think that's one of my problems. I think too hard and worry too much. I guess I'm sort of doing impromtu painting. We'll see how the rest turn out.


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Progress (or something)
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Working on a painting for class right now. We're supposed to take an old master's painting and redo it using a contemporary artist's style. So I went with Seurat's "Sunday On The Island of La Grande Jatte" using Scott Anderson's style.



So not done yet *sigh* I guess I'm doing another abstract-ish painting which is a nice change. I think I could get into that genre with some practice. I can't do realism. I can do pseudo-realism I guess?

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Abstract = win
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Had fun with our first painting project of the year. Take an old painting and paint a new still-life over it, but leave some of the underpainting showing. So I took an abandoned painting from the painting storage room, then grabbed some dried gourds the prof had and went at it.

Day 1
Day 2

I really liked the end result. It's kinda goofy and "child-like", as the prof said. That's me all right :)




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The Bold Renegade
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
I don't know what triggered the idea for my final painting of the semester, but I ended up wanting to do something based on some work by Peter Poplaski. Peter is a talented artist who is a big fan of Zorro :) He's also a relative of mine. If there's one thing Peter enjoys it's dressing up as Zorro. He's even done self-portraits as the masked hero.  You can find some examples of his work here. So, Pete, this is for you. I'm sorry if I don't do proper justice to your hero.

I do love dressing up for projects. Thank goodness I had some of the clothes. Alas, I didn't have a mask, rapier, or cape.




Not sure I'm 100% done. I think it needs some touches here and there. I did the basic design based on "The Mask of Zorro", but I wanted the costume to be more like the TV show.

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Postmodern
Thursday, December 11, 2008
One of our finals was to create a Postmodern painting. I really enjoy Kehinde Wiley's work (check it out here) so I wanted to do something along those lines. I recreated the pose of an 18th century portrait of a lady who had a red shawl and was holding a book. Anyone who knows me knows I love books and I am a bit of a daydreamer, so it all seemed rather fitting.


I'm quite happy with the figure, though overall I need to change/touch-up things once the paint is dry (greater contrast, change some of the background colors, etc.).

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Last one
Last in-class painting of the semester. It was a 3 day painting with two models. Started with acrylic underpainting and added layers of oil, but left outline of acrylic poking through. Kind of a neat look. I'd like to experiment with it a little more.

Day 1 

Day 2

Day 3

Not too shabby. I like the background and the figure on the right. Other figure isn't too bad I suppose.

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Variations

Was supposed to be a move from realistic to abstract, but I came up a little short. Oh well, I still like 'em.






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Painting - abstraction
Friday, November 14, 2008


2 day in-class painting. Started with an acrylic underpainting using complimentary colors. 2nd layer is oil. The underpainting is supposed to poke though, but I need to work on that.

I think I did okay with the abstraction. I definitely like the first painting best.

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Self-portrait
Self-portrait. Meh.





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Painting - Redo a masterpiece
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Our assignment was to re-create a master's painting however we wanted. I was originally going to do Degas, but this Manet painting  - Bar at the Folies-Bergere - caught my eye.

I thought it'd be fun to modernize it a bit making the subject the kind of female bartender you'd see at a trendy nightspot. I made up the background, but I wish I had gone to a real bar and taken reference shots. Oh well!




(btw not all those alcohol bottles are mine :P some belong to my roomies.)

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Painting - Freud style
2 day in class study
I decided to use the Lucian Freud technique again. I feel less obsessive about "realism" and specifics when I do paintings this way.


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My first sale
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
This summer I took part in my first art competition - the Strawberry Festival Plein Air competition.

My mom contributed the use of her van for all my stuff. It was fairly comfortable, though the trunk door only covered part of me, so half my body got sunburned.


The subject - my middle school. It seems so much smaller now.


Work in process


The finished piece, minus a frame. Not too shabby seeing as I only had two afternoons free to get it done (artists get 1 week to finish). At the end all pieces are displayed and there is a silent auction. A friend of my mother bought it so at least I got back a little more than the entry fee.


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Painting - chiaroscuro

Day 1 - in class painting. Black, white, and grays glaze using oil paint and linseed oil.


Day 2 - color added. I like the background, but the figure needs work.

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Painting - Lucian Freud
In Figure Painting we practiced Lucian Freud's (Sigmund Freud's nephew) painting technique. It's specific and yet it isn't. I thought it was very different and freeing.



In class - 1 day
Not finished, but still successful.

Copy of Freud 
painting - in process

The finished piece. One of my most successful paintings.

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