It's Saturday already...

And I haven't posted since MONDAY!!!

So SORRY!!!

Well, my work has gone about as well as my blogging, sadly. More new work is on the way. I'm having trouble trying to get a lighter feeling in my work. Both of the pieces I posted last time rely heavily on photography and I like them. They are different from what I had in mind and the direction I was taking things in but I really like the colors and quality to them. So as I explore I'll see where this road takes me.

Will be posting pictures from an exhibit I had as well. More details to follow!

Thank You
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Latest Work

Here are two of my more recent works.

I've been trying to cut back on the brushes I use (not really going so well) and incorporate new colors than seen in my previous work. I'm still putting feelers out and its going slow but I enjoy trying to come up with new ways to express my ideas!

Latest Work

Here are a few pieces from earlier this year. These four images are a survey of my work, and represent the diverse collection of work so far.

I began to incorporate photography more into my work and and now trying to develop a sense of space, depth and light in the pieces. I'm looking forward to exploring different ways to include the human element in my work by using some more abstract things.

I now it's going to take more thought but I always have loved solving puzzles.

Examples of...

some of my not quite as successful work. For whatever reason, whether not finished or at a place where I felt it could or had to stop, these pieces are waiting for more inspiration and better techniques.

A few Peices...

I thought I'd up load a few of my older pieces from earlier this year. I really found my self gravitating towards these more than the others. I will post some of the not so successful work just to give a fair overview of my style and processes so far.

Please enjoy!!

Artist Statement

I will be exploring in greater depth the concepts that my earlier work has been based on.

The idea behind layers, I think of it much like an onion, peeling back layers revealing what is underneath, keeping other things hidden. I am interested in early medical drawings, to me they represent a search for truth and when using them in my work the basic anatomy of humans as well as the underlying layers of ourselves. My work is at its most basic about the process of gathering together different ‘layers’ and choosing what to show and what to hide. I’ve been exploring the way changing individual things in a piece can take an individual work in many different direction, such as changing nothing more than the color used in a piece of work can transform the feel entirely. Color can give a light ethereal quality or make it dark and foreboding.
The use of photography is something I’m very interested in and will be using more often in my work, the idea of ‘realistic’ images combined with the often decayed and ‘grunge’ effects that I use ads to the dichotomy of my work. In using the terms life and death, I feel that they are somewhat rhetorical, most art is about life and death and I fell that while in the eyes of many, that is how they interpret my work, it is for me about life. At times I interject things like humor or an idea, whether it leans towards the abstract or not, into my work. This is seen through the use of color, the composition or something as simple as a portrait sticking its tongue out at the viewer.
Intense use of color and shapes, add to an overall feel of coordinated chaos, combining the real and digital effects to create a piece that expresses the inner mind as well as the physical body.

I am also very interested in other forms of digital media and will endeavor to create an interactive flash project that will explore a more photo realistic environment. I want to pursue the ideas of secret, hidden layers behind the every day.

Beginnings

Well, its set up, now the fun parts begin!

The main reason for this blog is to set up a site for others to view my artwork, to help with my independent study class (ART199) for school and because It's about time I had my own cyberspace.

I will post my artist statement later and I hope to have new art work posted no later than Monday. For now, I will be posting a few old works and trying to get settled in the world of blogging!

Salutations!!!