candyhair

Well, this is even more different than what I usually do but I really enjoyed making this piece and want to do a series of exaggerated big-hair girls.  I looked at a photo for this and just started going crazy with exaggerations and additions, that you wouldn't even think it was from the photo. This one is candyhair...which hair girl should I do next??

something new

Unlike most of my other pieces, this piece is pretty small (about 6 by 7 inches).  This painting only took around two hours and made me realize that working from good reference is very important.  If you take your own photos with composition and all of those different elements in mind when you take the photograph, it makes the painting process much easier because much of the work is already done.  From now on, I'm taking tons of pictures, even if I don't have an idea in mind for my next project.  Ideas start to form when you look back at the pictures and you find special elements that you like about them.  I'm also excited to take my photos and exaggerate certain things about them. Basically, it's taking one form of art(a photo) and turning it into another form of art(a painting).  There would be no point of making a painting of a photo that looks exactly alike.  In that case, why not just have the photo...sooooo..exaggerate to make things exciting!

Murphy the Mail Carrier

This was a project where I had to take pictures of objects I found that looked like a face. I chose this picture of a lock on a basket of a bicycle. Slowly, I developed it into my own character called Murphy the mail carrier. He delivers mail swinging from a whole network of cables in the sky (only rush deliveries). I made him out of clay and took some pictures. Here are just a few of Murphy in the big city!

THE WOODS

 These are two posters I created for a movie I made up called "The Woods."  The first one is the advertisement poster and the second is the movie poster.  These were a lot of fun, but when is drawing creepy stuff not fun?

finish

well I don't really like the finish, but I've moved on.  I learned a lot about color and realized that adding white to the color of the object your painting doesn't mean it's the highlight color.  It actually makes the painting more dull and lacks volume. I'm on to bigger and better things, trying to do more studies rather than full-blown pieces.