bits

of my sketchbook.

old (think last summer):

new (think last week):

acrylic

pencil and gouache

bonus:

white acrylic paint on black illustration board, and then chalk pastel on top.

lately artmaking has become an extension of an impulse. i have little desire to make thought-out and deliberate pieces and find myself drawing and painting much more out of a feeling or an immaterial gesture. i am happy for this change. i think this is how i should have began as an art student: not studying and conquering concerns of technique but drawing and painting purely for play. i look at my portfolio now and it is so devoid of creativity, and i think about myself and am disturbed by my ingrained limitations and the constant rehashing of the same thoughts and ideas. in the past year i have been realizing all of this, and while i have been first working on overcoming fears and limits in thought, it is now time to move on to overcoming fears and limits in action.

ap paintings

last minute work woohoo!

oh boo all the colors look crap with blogspot's image quality...

consolation

mom: "why do you paint all these dark things?? i don't like dark things..."

acrylic paint on black illustration board, lol.

come back home

1.5 hours, acrylic on black illustration board
just playing around with alla prima painting. i really like not having to think when painting! so much more relaxing, so much more free.

RISD hometest

finally getting around to uploading these, found out i was accepted on friday! :)

1: the bike (drawn from life, for like three weeks i had my brother's bike just chillin' upside-down in my studio. i only worked after-dark so i could get the artificial light to give consistent shadows)

2: two sided drawing (the heart is cut out of the paper, a literal reassertion of my message: the lack of love)

monotype prints

painted with acrylic on either a plastic panel or a sheet of palette paper and then pressed onto paper. first attempt at printmaking :) so much fun!! i love the unexpectedness of the print. unfortunately i didn't have my own acrylics with me, and the art class at my school has pretty limited colors and terrible quality paint, so there's no depth of color in these. i think my favorite type of paper for prints is canvas paper (like the first), the texture makes for a really cool brushed effect.

old digital stuff

dug these up for a couple college portfolios. the first from the end of freshman year and the latter from the end of sophomore year i believe? hence why the style is still anime-ish and the shading so lacking in depth of color. just figured it might be good to throw in some proof of my experience in painting in photoshop, and i haven't really finished any digital work since. it's something i want to get back into though, when the time permits.