Completion

My portfolio has been fully submitted to Wichita State University! It feels like an incredible relief, but I am still plagued with a need to make more work. It is one of the best feelings I have felt in a long time! Here are some other images that were sent, I know that some have been on the blog before, but non-the-less....

"Appropriate Interaction" 10"x22" Acrylic and Ink on Canvas

"We Found It" 10"x22" Acrylic and Ink on Canvas

"It Is Time" 20"x30" Acrylic on Illustration Board

"Navigation" 11"x14" Acrylic and Ink on Canvas I am quite sure I will either go back into some of these or I will ignore them and never look back. Either way, it is done and I am pretty pleased!

The Birth of a New Painting

So I just finished another painting. I actually took some process shots on this one, although I skipped a few major steps. But here is a bit of the process below.


So you may remember the "Rainbow Puke" start, well this is the base for the rest of the painting. Generally it took me a while to figure out how to fix it. The fix was as follows: a thin coat of white gesso. All that remained was some pink permeating through the gesso. (Sorry no process shot)


After the gesso dried I drizzled some yellow on it. Yellow is one of my go to colors, especially in the beginning, as it is rather neutral in its own loud way. I then started to take some new colors in, discovering shapes and forms.


Here I am simply letting the painting and the medium speak. I am discovering shapes and forms and space intuitively.


"Integration" - Ink and Acrylic on Canvas 11" x 14"
And here is the final image. I spend quite a while letting the painting dictate what needs to be discovered. I also try to let the colors do the discovery. It was in this work that I really seemed to discover a method for working. I seem to reference nature and landscape more than I realized, balanced by an intuitive discovery of the the work through its development and my medium.

Paintings in Progress

Nothing much, just some paintings in progress. One is very mono colored, and the other is like rainbow puke.

Worlds in Small

I am thinking about creating small spaces that are real and intricate. I guess I am thinking about how a person reacts to scale and imagery within smaller scale. These are some process shots. The piece is about 4" high 8" long and about 3" deep. It is on Bristol and later foam core. These are painted in watercolor and drawn in ink.

Paintings in Progress

The following are two pieces I recently started. I was simply trying to get myself to paint again. I am really pleased for the most part with these pieces, even though I feel they are not quite finished. As always forgive the poor quality images. You have no idea how crippled an artist is without photoshop and poor lighting... pity.


"Blooms of Midnight (Temp name)" Ink and Acrylic on Canvas 10"x24"


"Sunrise (Temp name)" Ink and Acrylic on Canvas 10"x24" (The names of these pieces have changed and their sizes updated on a later post.)