Friday, June 17, 2016

Long time No Post

 I haven't posted on this blog in years. I've had twins, moved several times, and done so much. I think it's time I restart this thing. A few things I've made since I last updated in no particular order

First up is a drawing of Groot I did when I wanted to test if I had lost my ballpoint pen drawing skills. I did this and a picture of Christiano Rinaldo. 

This was a commission done of someone's child.

This is a painting of an alpaca in response to all the flooding of alpaca on Tumblr. 

This is a Totoro in the style of an anime artist I forget the name of. I feel like it's one of the brightest Totoro paintings I've done.

This was my updated response to Audrey Kawasaki's work. It's kind of a self portrait. Kind of not though. I feel like I could reach deeper. 

This is a response towards mixing fine art with Pokemon. I like it but I had originally intended on adding like 5 to 10 more pokemon. 

This is just a painting I did for my twins' nursery. There are several other artwork in their nursery but I will share it at another time. 

This is a Totoro painting done after seeing  work done by Leonid Afremov. My sister asked me to look into his work and it's pretty cool. 

I love doing paintings about Starry Night. I feel like that painting calls me. Anyway, this is a Howl's Moving Castle version that I feel makes a lot of sense. 









Thursday, November 18, 2010

Working on A couple things

Last night I painted my first yugioh card. I will continue to paint them. I actually had fun doing it. I also was working on my rain forest looking girl. I don't think she will be finished tonight since I need to do laundry but she should be finished tomorrow. I think I will post some of the sculptures I've been working on as examples for my students too. So more pictures to come soon.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Audrey Kawasaki Inspired girl


I painted this last night. I wanted to make a Kawasaki inspired girl. I've never seen one of her characters be black but I wanted mine to be. I also didn't use muted colors like she does but it still was inspired by the facial structure and the repeated simple elements.

Acrylic on Canvas 18" by 24"

Monday, November 15, 2010

Flowerhead Pt2

I couldn't sleep last night after watching Mushi-shi because it is so beautiful and keeps me thinking. I was practicing drawing the faces I saw on the screen and decided to make a painting based off of a sketch. I also wanted to practice using a bit more natural colors.

I am not sure why I love looking at flowers so much. But this painting makes me smile.
Thanks for reading.




This is Acrylic on Canvas. 18in by 24in.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Mep.


Learning how to use photoshop like I would use paint is tricky. I find I want my results to come out too fast rather than spending more than an hour on one drawing.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Teacher Examples.

I feel a little like I've abandoned this blog. I'm not sure if anyone even reads it.

Here are some teacher examples I've done for my students.
I think I need to up my level of work for the students. I see them inspired all the time. There are a few that have used the ninja in so many art projects that it's exciting to see what they come up with next. I try to leave the projects somewhat open ended so they have some freedom in making decisions.