cardboard cutouts

i made this self portrait in too short an amount of time as a final for drawing 3. there are some definite juicy spots in it that i dig but in other areas of the drawing i wish it was more sensitively rendered. also, i had some difficulties with the materials i was using in this peice which is likely evident to the audience as well on some level.

this here drawing deals with the self/community dynamic. from strangers to life long friends, the people we interact with in our lives often confront us with a degree of disconnect which can be off putting, even jarring. i dont consider myself to be greatly isolated from others but in those instances where we just cant make the connection with the rest of the universe a statement is being made; it imprints itself on us psychologically posing the question of origin, and possibily prompting resolution if it is that we can skrew our heads back on straight. the bottom third of the drawing is a powerdered graphite/wax mixture just so you know.

mmm bod.

alright. this summer i took drawing iii. these are a few figure studies i did of the lovely miss lily. alright.

development of yogi piece

in contemplating my practice on the mat (and off the mat) i have found myself coming back time and again to the concept of honoring my teachers. there really aren't words to accurately discribe what i want to say about this. mostly it's, well hmm...simply and humbly, i give thanks for the people in my life who have directly impacted me allowing thier life's experiences to wash over me. i want to say that this is the material which binds the separate parts of me into one semi-wholeness. in this drawing, i have explored this concept, attempting to address even the teachers whose impact has been passed on, aging and growing more sacred as it contributes to the greater wealth of knowledge.
so, i drew 8 or so of these faces, some yogi's and some not. they were darling little things each drawn in blue ball point pen on tracing paper. the materials used in this drawing are important as they are meant to reinforce this sense of humility in the face of the greater source.. and, one night at late o'clock i got playing with materials in the first production of this piece and at the time it represented my feelings towards all this, but the next morning i got a look at it and it was something so different to me. so we struggled together. how do i illustrate a relationship i have with something that i dont even fullly understand? something that i was reminded of with this drawing was that much like the relationships in our lives, sometimes the dynamic we have with our work is effortless and sometimes it takes a great deal of attention and purposeful care. i rode that line with this drawing. anyhow. after that night i sat with it and played with different options and all i could do was sort of tear it up break it into managable portions, there's not a picture of it here but i needed it to be more quiet and lighter. so i made this little tactile juicy drawing below to clear my head and then i started over from a new angle. multiples. multiples. then i came to an understanding and i knew where it needed to go. check it out.

materials- watercolor, oil pastel, chalk pastel, xeroxes, grafite, wax, wood
size wise its about 2 ' by 4'
the inclass critique- didn't get a whole lot of feed back on this piece although we all sort of agreed that there needs to be another layer of information behind the back drawing maybe another layer of wood.

final for drawing...these are my father.

this drawing was the final for my drawing 2 class with tim ford. we were supposed to do a redo of another project we had done from earlier in the semester. contrary to the previous drawing i had done of my father, i wanted to really develop the image purely as apart from any sort of loaded meaning. i wanted it to be playful and yet i wanted it to still seem related to the other peices i have made this semester in this class. unfortunately what you can't tell form this image is that there is some bee's wax which coats the central image, sort of setting it apart from the rest of the piece. i am really satisfied with how it came out; its dreamy, just the way i like.

...this is my father.

after the human condition project, which i worked on earlier this semester my professor assigned us to do a contrast peice. the most logical contrast to me, since the previous project was regarding my relationship with my step dad, was to do one focusing on my relationship with my father. in this image i have me in the bottom poriton of the page represented as the same sparrow as in the human condition peice, and in the upper portion of the peice is my father (cute pic of him from grade school, looking pretty awesome i might add) the basic concept here is that dad can be highly analytical and is a very linear thinker, where as i am not. the marks are meant to convey and contrast of these mindsets and yet there he is on this sort of pedistle. i think of him in the highest regards for reasons which are both logical as well as purely instinctual and nonlinear.

Figure Studies

so i want you to know my process of developing an image. first i start with a gesture, which is meant to capture the movement of a pose. then i move on to develop these initial gestures building flesh to the frame work of the pose. i start mapping out points which relate to one another trying to maintain a critical eye because this is the point at which i am adjusting the the shapes which collectively make up the greater form as well as attempt to most accurately display each of the parts of the body to one another so that they seem to relate and work together to create a sense of unity and realistic weight on the page.

i've been trying to play with color lately to help ground the figure. this will be something i explore more, as well as color as value once i begin painting II in the fall; it's another figure study class.

this final peice is one that i completed in my painting class for the final. i used a figure study from my drawing class to reference for the pose. i am happy with how it turned out though i wish it still felt as gestural as the original.

been makin these little bites of cute.

so i've been making a lot of these the passed couple of days, pretty excited about them. 

just put 7th track from the playall books album and it spits these out of my head