Little out of balance

A very wise professor once told me "never erase, what you deem a mistake.  Don't work in pencil because you'll be more tempted to do so."  Those 'happy accidents' become part of the work.  Probably part of the reason I love this work so much, it's a little out of balance like the rest of me.

It's a very loved pumpkin spice candle that lives and rest in my kitchen and has seen some better days.  Partly my fault forgetting it sitting on my toaster-oven while in use.

Technical details: Ink pen on printer paper.

Up Up and Away

 

Drawn from a phone picture taken of the back of the building in the garden at the consignment shop.  The shop is located on ground level, in an older multiple use building downtown.

Old Nike Sneaker

I loved this work thought in truth was struggling developing an idea for another painting.  There is just something playful about how they developed and informed the page as a work.

Technical details:  Cheap ink pen on printer paper.

Let's Spin and Dance

Sorry guys haven't forgotten about you all.  Picked up another job to pay the bills.  I have also been working creating just having more trouble lately getting my work in a digital format.  Was at the consignment store on first Friday (downtown Greensboro) talking to my boss about possibly entering some works in an up coming show.  

I Have played with creating mobiles before while in school and thought I would give it another shot.  Need some honest critics and feed back on what you all think and if its a project that should be further explored in the future.   

This work is about three feet long and two and half feet at deepest point.  Has lots of movement.  Made of silver twisted industrial wire, white sewing thread and aquarium marbles.

Der Wagen Haus

Today was a slow day at the Haus, where I work most afternoons.  Doodled a bit in-between task, luckily for me I do have two walls of windows facing a busy street.  It's amazing what you can do with an ink pen and some highlighters.

My Lovely Geranium

When my dad retired from the school, he gave me his pet geranium.  That has been living in his office at the biology department for the past 8 or so years.  Its absolutely Mammoth in size.  I took photo from below one of the stalks and the image above is a drawing that I've been dieing to create. 

Friend of birds

Sharing the other part of my blue bird series.  He's a touch lonely but was trying to get balanced within the work with tree limbs.

Blue birds

Have been working on an assortment of freelance projects lately.  Very excited I finshed one;  part of a set of paintings that I created for a friend.  She was interested in having some art work in her apartment that was like nothing found in stores.  Drawn to the color of the blue birds, I worked/played with some different approaches.  If a mother can chose a favorite child this is mine, sorry the first photo is dark.

boxcar logo

 

Super excited about my ultimate mixed club teams jersey design.  I have loved watching projects come to life;  even thought the whole process has been a little catatonic and still not complete.  If it all works out these are going to rock!  The boxcar is going to wrap around the left side of the body under the sleeve, more of the boxcar in the back than the front.

word pant

Mixed media/cut and past painting.  Trying to work outside of my more typical approach to painting.  Found lots of words and phrases that I liked but they were in very different fonts, sizes and a whole host of colors.  Decided to undertake the tedious task of painting over all the letters to make them more congruent.  Pasted it all together and started painting.  Had to rework and mold from my original attempt to allow the piece to work as a sold whole not two separate works.  This took a lot more thought than I would like to admit but am happy with the end result.  Hadn't planned on sharing this work but feel that it is different/same enough to my other works displayed.

Technical details:  Neyon magazine, glue, acrylic, 18" by 20" stretched canvas

Lone Shoe

Who doesn't love there old tennis shoes?  Found this image on line and reminded me of the days.  Where you just couldn't be cool if your not wearing a pair of NIKE'S.  Took some artistic licenses with the color of the famous Nike check. 

Technical details:  acrylic on 8" by 10" canvas board. 

boxcar

 

 

Some working drawings that I have been working on for a t shirt/jersey.  There's been lots of ideas bouncing around.  These are my favorites by far at this point in the process.

Happy Little Suprise

This was an interesting experience, while working on this work for one did it in three parts.  The back coloring, trying really hard to get the gradation smooth/easy to read.  Then created the cone on the flower which looked nothing like what I thought it was going to but turned out better than I could have imagined.  Lastly the petals while working on those I was working way to close and sitting there brooding about how they looked really wrong, that I was going to have to go back and redo the entire painting.  Luckily was forced to take a step back and what a happy little surprise some how my work came together without my realizing.

Should have known all along, being forced to take a step back in other aspects of my life and evaluate.
Technical details:  acrylic on 16" by 20" stretched canvas

A London Double

 

Hand a lot of fun with this one.  Found an photo from a trip long long ago with a taxi and Double Decker bus in it.  Inspired me to hunt down a better image for a work.  Really liked this one was interesting in different sort of way.  Got a chance to play with color and work on making the bus look worn out and tired.

Technical details:  acrylic on stretched canvas.

Singer in the Park

Sorry guys haven't been very good about keeping my blog up dated as of late.  Been a little busy and pushed this summer season.  Should have more time on my hands soon.  This work is inspired from going to see a friend of mine who's the lead singer in a band.  Though I pulled the image from a completely different source, sorry, need to get on that. It does seem like everyone is hosing outdoor gigs lately.

Technical details:  acrylic on 16" by 20" stretched canvas.

Just Batty

Bear of a Tale

 

Was presented with a proposal for a new project yesterday evening.  Went a head and got started while I had some spare time.  This is one of three preliminary drawings and my favorite of the three.  He looks like he looks like one of the children I use to babysit just before he got caught doing something he's knows he's not suppose to be doing.  Technical details;  cheap paper-mate ink pen on 8.5" by 11" typing paper.  Sorry can't figure out why its bumping the last line of my text funny, no matter what I do.

Self portrait

Headphones

 

Super simple arrangement of headphones, playing with color.  Attempting to get the headphones to really stand out.  Technical details: 12" by 16" acrylic paint.  Sorry image is a little fuzzy.

Winged II

 
Zoomed in butterfly wing, funny this was the first painting of this sort, just happened to be posted secondly.  The color and flow is a bit chopper than I'd hope.  For what ever reason really enjoy working with mixing and creating different shades of brown and trying to work in high and low lights.  The splashes of blue seem to liven up and balance the work though.  Technical details this work is as well acrylic