fishes and water animals

fishes and water animals always seem to be on my mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9GA4WnPedo&list=UUti_np5YBHFtqi3mIh2t5lA&index=1&feature=plcp

Free Birds of a feather

for children of the birds; hand drawn sharpie images on cotton tees

landscapes

Maybe there are too many landscape pieces out there, and each one is pretty much the same usually: the artist is impressed by the beauty and majesty of a scene and so they represent it in an art piece, often showing as little human disturbance as possible. I guess the idea is often the allure of the primitive in nature- going back to the roots of humanity, when humans supposedly lived in harmony with the world. For a long time I have tried to show the exact opposite: how humans have impacted and changed the earth, this is a major focus of mine within landscape archaeology as well. However, here is a small pen-ink landscape that pretty much is just inspired by the amazing landscape of the strange sandstone hoodoos and slot canyons surrounding Dixon, NM.

wayyy too long in coming....

The commissioned batik I started back in May...wow my practice really got interrupted when I left the big apple...but it seems to be for the better anyways. It seems that I can't make things unless I'm in the right mood, inspired in the right ways. A very intuitive matter.

This version of it is the entire bed sheet sized. I think it's the final version...next step is crayons.

New art/New Mexico

just doodling on some paper bags- recycle stuff!

possible luminaria? thank you D. Martin for the inspiration!

new paintings!

I am working on getting photographs of my senior visual art thesis project installation up here, but, for now, here are a few shots of my painting projects:
The last two were finished today, but I have yet to photograph the finished works. Soon! The first painting is small, 16x20", but the second two are large by my standards: 51x40". All oil paint on canvass.

Painting

Oil painting was a new medium for me this semester. I had never worked in it before taking the class here at CU. It still frustrates me a lot, as I am not used to using paint at all, especially oil. But the work from class today was exciting (live model!) and I had spent Sunday in the Prentis wood shop building my own stretcher bars. Luckily Tracy and Brie were there to help rip down the 2x4 on the table saw, I could never have done it without their help! Anyway, besides being excited to have a canvass I built all myself, I liked the beveled edges and the large size (57x42) which was liberating to work on with the addition of large hardware store brushes. Far from finished, I am still proud of this painting!