OCAC thing

Last year, Pacers and I attended the OCAC thing and i had a crappy time doing radical journaling. It sounded interesting at first, but it was crap. I ended up giving the finish review nothing but 1's and 2's (out of 5 system). No wonder its not there anymore. you might say i ruined a class for others. Wrong. I saved lives and peoples time by taking that class out.
This year, made me completely forget about last year's class, also i actually learned something. I did Pinhole photography, which was my second choice, but i don't regret getting it over carving a wood instrument. we made cameras out of cigar boxes and used the dark room to develop images (which I've been wanting to do for a long time). I gave straight 5's for the class.

Top: negative; Bottom: positive

artist hunting

I've finally decided to surf the web and look for an artist that has work i enjoy looking at. I found this guy, James Jean, who i can't remember if I've seen his work or not before. His work is interesting to me because its diverse in a way i like it. He has some figure paintings that captures the volume, forms, and tones of the people. And he also has some surreal pieces as well which makes me believe that anything can be possible through the form of art. his subject matter tends to be people, which is what i find most interesting to draw, and it can be humorous, in sort of a dark way. Like his 2010 piece "shoemakers". I enjoyed looking for new artist to be inspired by and am not so down on it as much. Also his sketchbook is really cool too.

James Jean Shoemakers

http://natebloch.com/

if you don't have any form of humor, especially male humor, than don't watch the videos this guy made.

Can't say i didn't warn ya.

except the second video, which is a music video, is cool and artsy and appropriate for all audiences.

New Pieces

The first one is of my brother petting a Croc and the second one is my grandma holding some red wine. My concentration is of exaggerated family photos and i feel like I'm on the right track with that. I wanted to focus on a certain kind of mark making and stick with the black ink with very little color. For my next few pieces I'm going to do a larger size of the third one above that's of my cousin being held captive by fake guards in London. I've done a little thumbnail size of the ones I've done already, so I'll continue to do that so i don't go into the final piece with a blank slate. some other photo's i might do are of me on my first birthday, a famous Christmas family photo, and other awkward images that will be embarrassing.