05 August 2013

nowhere series

Born from my occasional boredom with abstraction--these paintings aren't finished by any means; they are currently just underpaintings. I suppose I will continue to work on them (practice glazing or something) when I feel the need to do something different.

A northwestern Ohio landscape is plainly beautiful - simply land and sky. 
4 x 8.5 in
oil on gessoed paper

7 x 7.25 in
oil on gessoed paper

 5.75 x 7 in
oil on gessoed paper

6.5 x 6.5 in
oil on gessoed paper

6.5 x 4 in
oil on gessoed paper

3.25 x 4 in, 3.25 x 4 in
oil on gessoed paper

i'm bad at this

I've put this off for a while so here are several from the past few months...


untitled
8 x 10 in
mixed media on paper

Orpiment
5.5 x 6.5 in
mixed media on paper


Corundum
8.25 x 5
mixed media on paper

Calcite
3.25 x 6.75 in
mixed media on paper

untitled
6 x 6 in
mixed media on paper

Graphite
5.5 x 4 in
mixed media on paper

Stephanite
5.5 x 5 in
mixed media on paper

[9]
8.75 x 5 in
mixed media on paper

By the Bay
6.75 x 6.75 in
mixed media on paper

[8]
3.75 x 9.75
mixed media on paper

Tourmaline
2.75 x 5.25 in
mixed media on paper

30 January 2013

eureka!

Earlier I had an urge to paint the remaining glaze I was using onto canvas paper to use for "fraction" pieces at a later date.  Afterward, I realized that making these little paintings is also a good use for the leftover (wasted) paint that I have around the studio (though, I am getting better at portioning).  Moments like these are awesome.

yet again...

[5]
4.5 x 6 in
mixed media on paper


[6]
7.25 x 6 in
mixed media on paper


In other news...
I have been working on two new paintings and I have finished Plateau [Plagioclase Feldspar]...finally, considering I started the underpainting before I moved in 2011, hah.  I will post images when I have access to a camera that isn't my mobile phone ;)  These days, however, I am picking up the pace, spending the majority of my free time working/thinking/planning, and preparing for Downtown Bowling Green's apARTment in March and Toledo's Automatic 419! in April.

30 October 2012

fractions continued...

Citrine
7 x 4.25 in
mixed media on paper

Rhodochrosite
6.5 x 4.5 in
mixed media on paper

Cerussite
4 x 6 in
mixed media on paper

25 August 2012

more colored etchings...again.

copic marker and ink on rives bfk
4.5 x 4.5 in

prismacolor marker on rives bfk
etching
4.5" x 4.5" in

prismacolor marker and ink on rives bfk
etching
4.5" x 9" in


prismacolor marker and ink on rives bfk
etching
4.5" x 9" in

24 August 2012

21 August 2012

fractions

Here is a new series of cutout dudes that I've been working on...

Topaz
4.5 x 4 in
mixed media on paper

[1]
3 x 4.25 in
mixed media on paper

[2]
3.75 x 3.75 in
mixed media on paper

[3]
1.75 x 3 in
mixed media on paper

Oligoclase
8.25 x 2.5 in
mixed media on paper

[4]
8.25 x 2.5 in
mixed media on paper


More to come...

21 April 2012

antsy pants

I'm (currently) drawing up a new cutout painting. More about that later...

20 November 2011

hi

I've moved and I don't have any of my supplies except some markers and a little sketchbook. No excuses! (I'm an awful artist right now.) I have been working on some small sketches, though. I'm going home for tofu-turkey day week and so I plan to grab what I can from my storage unit a.k.a. my old bedroom at papa's. This apartment is very small so I have plans to work on drawings and new collages. Someday when I meet somebody with a scanner I will post images.

C-ya.

11 September 2011

hmmm


untitled, 2011
hand colored etching on Rives BFK - copic marker, ink.


i have a million of these artist proofs on which i can color how ever i may please.

28 May 2011

hiatus


After about a month long (too long) hiatus I have started working again. First I had to fix the easel that my landlords/amazing artists Mike Neary and Amy Maclennan gave to me. I replaced the hinges, nuts, bolts, key screws, and even fixed the crank (sort of). The crank didn't work before, and actually doesn't work incedibly well now, however, it raises up and down with a little elbow grease. Now I'm back in business and working on this painting.

17 March 2011

watercolor


fleshy/valley
watercolor on Reeves BFK
5" x 7.5" in

I think this is pretty much complete.

more colored etchings

MN A/P
I realize now that the scanned version doesn't say "A/P".

"Floating City at Stratos" A/P (yes, that's a Star Trek reference, haha)
Doesn't say that on this scanned version either.

I think the coloring needs to be simpler.