Pray For Rain

The clock's ticking louder than ever as all these deadlines start to close in. There's three places I want to display some work coming right around the corner; Illest of Ill, Tata and ZigZag's 'zine. I've never been a fan of recycling old artwork made a year or more ago in student shows like these. It just seems like a better idea to take the gallery theme into consideration and create something fresh and new for it. In the end though, I suppose it doesn't matter though because the audience probably won't realize that your best work was from an assignment you did a year ago and hell, you may even sell something. I guess what I'm getting at is.. my stubbornness has been keeping me busy. =)

Over the past week, George Pratt ( http://www.georgepratt.com/ ), my illustration teacher this year and a beast of an illustrator himself has given us a demo in both ink and oils. I realize that I tend to take in more whenever I get the opportunity to watch an artist demo which is why I wish that there were more in the area to see.

George Pratt's Demo Pieces




Finally, some paintings I did last week!





Looking back, I tend to go back and redo a ton of parts, either muddying things up or just making it not look like normal skin (especially in that second piece- which I must say, I did while working with the worst model I've painted). I'm going to make an effort in the future to nail the values and color I want to use from the beginning and stick with 2-3 mixtures until the end when I could come back with highlight, reflective light, the works. We'll see where things go from here!

Rise Slowly, Prevent Communal DCS

Hello world! I'm going to skip all the "It's been a while" and 'Sorry's, and just jump back into this. My art blog needs a revival (and art), so since I have received my first camera (Canon Powershot!), it should be easier to post pictures of my paintings, work, general-interesting-sights and writing! I've always been worried about 'quality' when it came to showing things but this year I figured I'd focus more on quantity and just make a lot and share them. So like introducing yourself to someone you just met, I can't think of much more to say so here's some one session paintings I did and a few things from over the summer!

The 2nd figure and the portraiture at the end were one class paintings in my Figure painting class. I already have two more paintings I'm getting ready to post soon so expect to see a lot coming out of that class =] I'm really hoping to improve on my painting skills this semester since its been holding me back on my illustrations for a while.
Oh, and the third landscape painting was done in a hotel at St. Augustine, looking out a window. I didn't get to pour as much time as I wanted since sitting down and painting "wasn't much of a vacation" to the family, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Well its late, I'll fill this thing up with more of what I've been up to, shortly.