Inspirations

Some one that I've noticed from the Portland area, as well has work i enjoy looking at is Deborah marble. Her work is simplistic and messy, and yet i can still tell what the image is depicting. With her awesome water coloring skills she is able to let the paint bleed to the to amount she wants it to and also can stroke a steady line. The subjects that she paints aren't anything too special, until she attacks it from an artistic stand point. The figures that she paints look a little too feminine to my taste (the legs), but her style overall is what i take notice on.

One out of state artist that has work I've really come to of fancied is Wayne Coyne of Oklahoma City, OK. Yes he's the lead singer of a band, but also he creates art on some of his spare time that i find visually exciting and neeto to look at. i admire how he tries to take things beyond their limit and create unusual subjects onto a canvas. He's not a famous artist that everyone knows, but atleast he's contributing to the movement that art follows.

blog update number 27

For my photography class i did a series of self-portrait photos that are instrumental and have isolated color. For my concentration I’m thinking of having a guy with an elephant nose, as there shlong, but I need to figure out the layout. Also for my photography class I’m doing an essay on Elliot ewritt. Say yay for art!

February Critique

My concentration is revolving around the human form and figure. I went with this idea, because i find the human race fasinating to create in the form of art and i wanted to have fun doing so. The work I've done for this round, i find, is much more different than my previous pieces. One of them is of a guy with his head is exploding. when i was working on this piece i felt a bit frustrated and tired of my concentration and i honestly felt that my creativity was trapped and i coundn't get the juices flowing. So i expressed that in my sketchbook with some chalk and oil pastels. the result was satisfinying that i felt like using it as piece for my set, but i wanted to enlarge it. so i did. Da other piece i worked on was of an arm moving through the different layers of the body (skin...muscle...bone). I feel like if i'm doing the human form/figure, i should incorporate the layers of the body into one of my pieces, i decided to do an arm because of all of the crossings in the muscles and bones, plus i had a canvas that i needed to use. when i was origanlly planing this out, i wanted to have some ink running down the side of the arm in the direction towards the fingers, but after i got to a spot where i was liking it, i wasn't so sure if i should go on. I let you, the critic, give your opinon on that. Also if i gave my self more time to work on this one, i think it would of looked kool if it was made with encaustics (just the arm). If yoiu read this, thank you.

i don't know what to call this

Brainville

AP Art ZOO Trip

i had a fun time with da AP art class at da zoo the other day. we were supposed to have at least ten pictures to possibly use for concentration work. that's going to be tuff for me, but I'll use some of them for my photo class and inspiration. Da snow was a fun, but at the same time an annoying element to da trip, cause it made the animals want to stay inside. here are some of da pics from da zoo.

more moments of life

more great photos from my trip this winter break to Belize.

this is a beach towel. click on the picture to read different interpretation
you know who this is







different signs at a little restaurant

Nuss bus

my uncle's on the far left

Crab!

Winter Break = Belize

winter break in belize with mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, uncle, and max. no snow for me

Mango '97-'08

Mango was born on Nov. 17, 1997. she's an English Bullmastiff and was super friendly to everyone, even our cats. When Mango was growing up, surrounded by cats, she too thought that she could jump up to high places and climb everywhere, like the couch. she turned eleven this past november and started to get old lady bumbs all over her body and her insides began to ache with pain. But she would always try and put a smile on, especially when she knew the block of cheese was taken out of the fridge. This past tuesday, december 16, we decided to end her suffering and send her to a better place. She will be missed by many. This is the last photo i took of Mango