paint like a feeling

i wanna i wanna paint!

harrrumpf. inspiration strikes at an untimely time.

just to make this post non-useless... here's some stuff from an uninstructed costumed figure drawing workshop i went to on thursday. 5-10 minute poses. last one was a 20 minute one. i hate my style. it's so childish and ignorant.

glide

hand study from late january of 2010. each hand took between 10-15 minutes.
composition could be stronger but i like it enough; the objective was to learn the gesture of the human hand (in particular where the hand curves outwardly and where it curves inwardly, etc) and this study definitely helped loads.

i'd like to revisit this sometime and do a more complete study (with shading and on a larger scale).

on a slightly unrelated note, i think i need to get away from pop culture for a bit. immerse myself in art or literature, or just something besides songs about ass and getting crunk. it's affecting my cognition and in turn my work, and that disturbs me immensely.

tangled

assignment from csssa 2008: divide the paper into four rectangles. each rectangle must contain at least three ribbons and three of the four rectangles must have a blue background.
finally got around to getting a photo of it. at the time, i hated painting these ribbons. not only that, but i hated my finished work. in retrospect, i kinda like it. it's funny that i actually grew to like this, as opposed to the other way around where i grow from liking a painting to wanting to burn it. hm.

acrylic on canvas paper 18"x24"