idea for logo contest

A good friend of mine sent me a logo contest saying that I should enter.  It's for the area Youth Ultimate Frisbee group in the greater triangle area.  A great group that is working to reach out to kids and have a positive impact on there lives.  Where as I love this idea don't know where it will fall within the pack, a big requirement was it needed to have something to do with North Carolina so they could use the same logo in different usage.  I chose to up the two players in front of a Raleigh skyline don't know if it reads that way easily.

I love both of these design, maybe even the smaller version a little more so.  Over all It was a exploration of using negative space as positive.  One thing I love about the larger logo is that it can be placed across the chest of the jersey or along the bottom on the front or back.  The smaller version I feel would be really cool placed right adjusted and run the entire side of the torso but could also be centered as well.

Tanner T.

One of the loves of my life.  Miss him so much.

01/03 - 10/10

Winged III

Sorry it's been awhile to my loyal following, the holiday schedule and all that has happened at the years has thrown me for a loop.  Actually had a weekend off to start the new full year, which was a nice change of passe.  Allowing me to catch up on life, a logo contest that I am hoping to enter and most importantly painting.  (Will share my logo entry once I get it a little more under control and the deadline passes.)

My latest and greatest butterfly winged project.  This one is a little different instead of being on a rectangle stretched canvas it's on a 12" by 12" square.   Though it is a beautiful brown butterfly wing.  It was taken from a completely different photo than the other brown winged work.  I love these there is something fun and mysteries about them, a new story told as a part of the whole. Something just keeps drawing me back to this idea, plus I am sure a break from tree-houses is a welcome change.  

Let me know what you think I welcome the feed back.

Happy Christmas

landscape

Funny thing when ever I am asked about where is home something like this is what comes to mind.  My folks moved when I was in college to what some days feels like the edge of the map.  They live outside of a nice little community.  In the middle of 27 acres mostly surrounded by cow-pastures and Christmas tree farms.  When they first bought the land and were setting to build Google maps showed forest on its best days.  My dad always kidded about living on the edge of the world, where dragons roam.  It makes me sad not to be able to travel home this year, where there is always great food, cooler climate, and loved ones.

dancer

I love it when I create a project thats something a little different from my more "typical" works and everyone immediately knows what it is.  I created this beautiful little wire dancer for a semi-home made gift exchange that I went to for the holidays.  It was a whole heap of fun especially since we have for the most part scared to the wind.

cola bottle

 

It's been raining cat's and dogs all day.  Makes it hard on people dropping off and picking up cars here at the auto shop.  Though we have been really lucky this year and have something going on all the time.  Have been sitting waiting on customers and in-between creating invoices and ordering parts drew a sketch of my Coca-Cola bottle.  With hopes that it will be sunny tomorrow so that my head will stop hurting and my mood vastly improved.

Tree House Village (re-post)

As promised I added some color to the original tree house village.  It certainly adds something not sure which version I like best.

Double fun

For this creation I decided to play with two trees and felt there need to be some connection between the two.  I know that my parents had a pulley system running from the back of our house to our tree house and it was the coolest thing to get lunch/snack sent over via pulley system.

Club House

For whatever reason this tree house demanded to have a slide and I feel like it is product of the 90's.  I can't even count how many movies from that period that have boys hanging out and having sleepovers in a neighborhood club house.  Though Sandlot still holds a special place in my heart.

Bird Like

For whatever reason, these turned out to look more bird house than tree house.  Love them all the same.  Lets just fly away into the sunset.

Open Air

Another tree house design.  This one is a lot more open with lots of look out platforms.   Making easier for tree houses to transform into a pirate ship with a little imagination.

Play

 

One day I'll have a yard, so that I can build a tree house for a study/studio and it will be glorious!  I feel like it would look something like this, with an elaborate pulley system to allow for me to move my crazy projects and proposals around.  Also allowing for lots of different projects to be undertaken in different settings without the hassle and mess of cleaning up each time I change train of thought. Who doesn't want to be creative, adventures and inventive in a place separate from the everyday?

Techincal details:  ink pen on white printer paper.

Tree House Village

I guess it's getting cooler in the great state of North Carolina.  With this comes a child like wonder as a new bare world is presented to us all.  To start, I have an overwhelming love for tree houses. Love the idea of play and creativity that comes with the imagination of playing in a tree house.  Being part of a secret club, that is separate  from the world.  I know my brothers and my childhood tree house still holds a dear place in my heart.  (The knowledge that it no longer stands brings a tear to my eye.)  The challenge of creating a perfect house with all the right dynamic parts for a child, and the idea that it is embodied in a specific perfect tree is wonderful.  Even better is the knowledge that it is home to inspiring imagination and love of the great outdoors.  I feel this is the starting point of why man wished to join the birds in the sky.  To live and thrive above all the rest and truly sore in the clouds.  

This is the first I am afraid of many tree house drawings to come. As well as the first version of the drawing above, I am hoping to add some green leaves to give a little more depth of field.  (Pictures to come later if successful.)  I had a great need to create a tree house village so that each home would look as different as any "normal neighborhood" that rest safely on the ground.  I had a lot of fun playing with different architectural styles, using some of my formal design training. 

Technical details:  ink pen on white printing paper.

View lost

Enjoy the messiness of this work on torn scrap paper, makes the entire work even more appealing.  The chaos and topsy-turvy is due mainly to the way in which I framed and organized the drawing.  Everything has been compressed into a much smaller space, without  my allowing a real sense of perspective and balance.  All the same it was a fun activity playing with the boundaries of the depth in the drawing.

Wall

Always finds that doodling when I am allowed time to let my mind wonder is always interesting.  As much fun as it is to people watch they don't always hold still long enough for my pen to find them.  Found this little detail while gazing out the window at the consignment shop.  Though we were very busy found this and it's sister work easy enough to come back to after attending customers lazy Saturday needs and whelms. 

Side table

Been spending a little more time in my apartment lately, at the more random hours.  Finding I would really like a couple side tables for my apartment.  Would love to build and tighten up my own designed would look something like this. 

Mountain-scape

Mountain-scape was an interesting commissioned undertaking, honestly haven't done a whole lot of landscape painting since I took art lessons from Ms. Maxine.  There is a whole lot of details to the work and was fun once I got into it.   Though I do feel a mix of emotions as it reminds me of my parents home outside of Asheville NC and being on my mothers families whole sale nursery.  Hope the image reads clearly for those interested parties.

Technical details:  acrylic on 18" by 14" stretched canvas

Abstraction

Was working on an abstraction of an ink well for my business cards.  This one is my far and away my favorite version and decided to create a larger version.  Even if what came to be is a lot my abstract.

Technical details:  acrylic on 12" by 12" stretched canvas

Under took a somewhat different commission project more recently.  This one was requested with specific interest in World War II motorcycles.  Haven't had much experience painting motorcycles but was super excited about stepping out side of my more typical projects.  Feel pretty good about how it turned out and learned a whole lot while creating this work.  Really struggled with the scale in which to create the bike.  Feel that this is a happy size for the bike and the background to live in harmony.


Question is:  should I rework the size or any of the shadow/highlights? Delivering the work end of the week or next week?  When ever I complete it's sister landscaping project.


Technical details:  acrylic on stretched 18" x 16" canvas.