This blog is misbehaving….i haven’t been able to successfully upload any imagery and haven’t fixed the issue but will soon. I’m not neglecting my blog, and have new work to post, there are some technical difficulties right now…I’m working on a painting of people being attacked by spaceships at Lake merritt: cathartic chaos scenery…
These are several frames from some short graphic novels I did for a class at AAU.
Oil painting on wood panel
oil painting on wood panel
oil painting on wood panel
Oil painting on wood panel
Oil painting on wood panel
Oil Painting on wood panel
this painting is a commission to be used as a CD graphic. (Afternoon of the Soul by Fred Hamilton, yes there is a relation)
This is an acrylic painting on wood I recently finished illustrating the parallel between frog and human health specifically the fungus “chytridiomycosis”‘ threatening a third of the worlds frog species with extinction and “Staphylococcus Aureus” (staph); infecting people with increasingly more virulent, antibiotic resistant strains. It’s a play on the necessity and contribution of antibiotics as it is the thing that can cure the fungus in frogs and staph in people, but also breeds more fierce versions of what it “cures”.
(I’m such a goof, I checked like 3 times, but still spelled staph wrong in the painting; I just noticed it. ugh. ha ha. get out the brushes again)
These two watercolors are meant to illustrate parts of Oscar Wilde’s childrens’ story “The Selfish Giant”. One image shows the giant kicking the children out of his garden, then winter sets in for a few years in his garden until the children return, melting his icy heart and he learns that it’s nice to share and feel love. Awwww. It was an assignment for a watercolor class taught by an incredible painter and instructor Steven Player at the Academy of Art.
This is a detail of the Rembrandt Oil Study I did for a head drawing class at the Academy of Art; Rembrandt frequently chose or was commissioned to paint Mennonites for his subject matter (perhaps explaining this incredible outfit).
Oakland Museum Natural History Room sketches.
birds and ears
These are 3 of the better drawings I’ve done in class this semester. We spend about 5 1/2 hours in class drawing one pose. I feel sorry for the model and hope to one day be able to finish a really really really good drawing. These still feel like warm ups to maybe becoming a good artist someday.