Praxis

10" x 15", acrylic on board

I don't know if its seeing Yuta's pieces come together, Sunday painting party or everyones kind words, but lately i've been so jacked to produce work! Like for the most part, i can't contain myself during the day, because i can't wait to come home and try and finish pieces. This feeling could be best be described as "Bananas". Here's a little practice painting i did one night, while waiting for zee laundry. Hope you diggs it.

PS i should be posting another piece from the Dark Passenger series before the end of the week, so stay tuned Bat-fans!

Recipe for Bee-ing Queen

11" x 13", mixed media on paper

Sooo....who likes bad puns? Really?! that many of you...i bet you wanna know where you can find more....well, look no further. This was our first illustration assignment since coming back, it was something that made us reflect on our own work, and sort of assess our methods and filters for visual problem solving. The idea was that we had to come up with a recipe for just about anything, in this case i chose a Recipe for 'bee-ing Queen', (another idea i threw around was How to make a Bloody Mary.... involving a vampire and a girl named Mary). Overall, i'm moderately satisfied with the execution of the painting, and drawing---but i'm pretty much unsatisfied with the direction it ended up going, i felt like a lot of passion was lost from when i was working on the rough to the final. It took on a much more narrative direction, something i consider a bit of a crutch of mine, an i've been fighting to change. But after a lengthy, and very insightful conversation with Marco, we came up with a tentative solution that i think should help me break some of my nasty nasty habits.

Lions and Tigers and Beards?

The first pencil is for a perfectionist project we had earlier this year, that sort of bombed! Like the concept worked and so did the pencil, but when i put it into colour it became un peu perdu. Oh well, i still liked the pencil. The second sketch is of another personal piece I'm working on. The concept/ idea came easily to me, and the drawing was so fluid and natural for some reason. so I'm pretty excited to get crackin' on it. And finally, sometimes in life you have teachers that just bring something extra to the table, just that little bit extra that makes learning an experience...in this case Mikal brought the heat--He had one of the most gloriously tame beards i've probably ever seen in person. He was also a wicked philosophy teacher, Greg and Jesse can back me on this one.

Guardian

Since about the beginning of break I've been working on a lot of personal work, trying to put together a series of 5 pieces. The theme through out the 5 pieces is the idea of the "Dark Passenger", the burden of ones desires vs. their own sense of self and about the exploration of the shadow self, as well my own personal archetypes. Its a concept that was semi inspired by the show Dexter (fantastic series by the way). This is the first piece that I've finished for the series, this piece was alot of fun to work on, i had to do a lot of back and forth with this one, but by no means was it.... unBEAR-able!...i know, im the worst. The title for this piece is "Guardian", hope everyone diggs it.

10" x 13", mixed media on paper