update on forever drawing

still not finished though much changed

began in March - suffered a break and restructure, then have just been adding

who knows where we will end up...

"Pia"

Another goop painting. I call it Pia bc it somehow reminds me of my aunt

House Portrait

began in May, completed in November - a first plein air experiment, now a gift

oil on canvas

process - Stravinsky Ideation

this frightening piece emerges as a pre-Halloween, Stravinsky- induced hallucination ("The Rite of Spring", for all you musical folks) and actually had the privilege of spending two weeks in October in a haunted art gallery (DeFoor Centre, Howell Mill Rd, Atlanta GA). I found that appropriate.

pictures of process are interesting, and something I strive to keep up most of the time

two for eyedrum benefit

sort of an interesting backstory to these 2 (and other 2) works that I may or may not go into here

can i just say that EnviroTex is the best stuff ever? Makes tempera on gypsum look like a million bucks (or at least tons better than without it)'

a fairly typical nightscape

something interesting might come of this

mao

this is very old - 2004. Food coloring on bristol board. Colours have actually held up OK

rose

Advent of Spring and newest work

after graduating, I took a sabbatical from creating any sort of art. i guess I just needed to decompress for a while.

I've been working on the following drawing for a week or so, and am planning on working it to the point of utter saturation, an idea I got from a very helpful and talented instructor at GSU, who taught a class on what I would call 'the forever drawing', which I did not get to take.

very old - conclusion of earlier figure studies project

death by junk food indeed...

last stuff

venus commemorative

as I insist on a cell phone camera and silly blog as constituting a viable art portfolio, I take the time to upload a recent work in progress, commemorating the current weird and wonderful world of

sculpture

for this project we were to make a self portrait bust which was not only anatomically/proportionally correct but which also spoke something about ourselves.

I am undertaking to make my head out of cake. I baked them, stuck them together with icing, and carved the essentials with an eleectric knife

the rest of it will include fixing proportions with more icing and poss attempt skin tone

drawing

nothing more to relate

Iraq Project

Treesus Jimbo

last sculpture project of last semester

folks in class said the fist looked like The Flying Nun, someone else said it reminds them of a weird graphic rendition of a mix of 'all the world's a stage' & 'Waiting for Godot', and someone else (my favorite) said "OMG! It's like Jesus, but Jesus is like growing out of a TREE! Therefore it is.. TREESUS!!'

since the face is Jim's, I have called it Treesus Jimbo.

this sounds way fun!

and poss, I suppose, remunerative:


maybe I'll have a chance to thnk of sthg to submit and then build...

anyone see what's structurally wrong with this picture?

...and how it lead inevitably to a rather, um, 'Goyaesque'?

head

a sculpture project

plaster with wire and metal skeleton