Drawings I've done (2009) + B&W paintings + Depths series & Under constant fire painting series

When I first started 3rd year, I had a lot of idea's running through my mind so I started with the easiest. Drawing was the cheapest thing that I could start with. I didn't really have enough money in the beginning of my 3rd year so I started out small.
(of course I eventually got a loan and got painting supplies and stuff)



Their are two drawings that I didn't finish because I moved on from what I was doing. The spider and the Bat. But when I showed these works for grading my professors were kinda assholes about it. Sometimes artist do things without any meaning, just because. but they always wanted an explanation for everything. I'm not one to make up shit about my work just to please people and I had small thoughts written down when I begin things.



I titled this work "The Birth of Memory" its actually quite a big drawing and at this moment its getting framed and will end up on my wall. I never really liked signing my work, I always thought that it took away from the piece. so I end up hiding my signature in the piece itself.

After my month of drawing in school, I started painting in black and white oil. They related back to my drawings and started to emerge from the canvas. What I mean is.. I started out with a completely black canvas and slowly etched my way through to what I wanted to emerge from it.



Doing this kind of painting perked my interest and I really started to enjoy it. Working with oils was a a lot easier than with acrylic. However I ended up getting bored with black and white and started drawing again, but in a different style then before. I stared using pointillism lots and lots of dots. I started drawing bees but I didn't really continue with it. I ended up adapting it to my painting style.



after these I showed my work in the studio for "Final Display" for the first semester. When we returned for second term I started painting fish and jelly fish.



This painting had a similar style to my black and white paintings, with the creature emerging from darkness. I stopped with the emerging creatures for a bit because of my grades. I got a C for this Angler painting and that really got to me. After I said FUCK IT! and I started painting jelly fish these paintings are in a series I called "Depths"



After this series I started another called " Under Constant Fire" in which I used war terminology for their names. Most of them are simple war terms but the pieces themselves turned out better than I could imagine. I had quite a few paintings in this series and the way that I painted these it allowed me to work on more than one at a time. ( I'm only going to post two pictures, the rest need to be re documented)



This Oil painting is 4 feet by 4 feet and is called Blitzkrieg. After this was taken I added dots to it to create more movement. it has about 5 layers of oil paint, each with its own drying time to show through to the final layer. Riot and Blitzkrieg were shown together along with Azmuth( similar to Riot but with blues and purple)



Riot was one of the best of this series, and won an award and was sold recently. Riot took over a month to finish, it has about 6 layers of oil paint, and each layer had a specific drying time. In order for the layers to show through and make the piece as vibrant as possible. I also entered this painting in the BMO 1st Art competition, but sadly didn't win( I was beat by a sculpture of bread.. how lame is that.)

I have more written about this piece somewhere. haha

As of this moment I've been working on writing up some things on some of my paintings, so sooner than later i'll have some of my work from college up and some gibber jabber to go along with it

dabbling with a surrealist twang

So far i've been working on this digital drawing for the past 5 hours.. and for some reason it still looks incomplete to me, Im still refining the edges and some of the darker and lighter tones

I thought I would share what i've been up to.

I don't know why I added the stapler... that was just a random thing that I was thinking about when I was playing with my photoshop. and I added extra legs for funnzies haha

I've been looking at a lot of surrealist art lately, mostly Dali. But I find it so visually stimulating. However when it comes to stuff like this, it falls more along the lines of illustration than anything else. I mean, i've done this kinda stuff before and especially when your in art college the professors tend to look down at stuff like this. Mainly because they don't consider illustration art. But isn't illustration just another form of a narrative? it tells a story, as does most of the art works i've seen and had the pleasure of reading about in my art history classes. So in a word... my professors are crazy for thinking that this kind of work isn't art.

one step forward, two steps back. Just can't win with some teachers. hahaha anyway back to work.



cheers

Back to the first

I don't know what it is about this one, but I keep on going back to it and adding stuff. Hair is probably the easiest this to do in photoshop, and using the different pressures with the wacom pad also adds a lot to it.

This digital drawing has a less noticeable gradient than my other gradient drawing.

I still don't know what to call this digital painting. It still needs a little more work



I find working with layers is a lot easier than drawing on paper, though I do love drawing in my sketch books and such its soo much easier to deal with mistakes when its digital and has layers that I can easily move through and change when I want.


I like sharing process photo's

at this moment, I'm experimenting with monochrome and Black and white and gradients.

Wacom Bamboo tablet

I got a drawing tablet for my birthday and I've never used a tablet to draw on the computer before.

this is the second drawing I did with my tablet, the first was a toad and well I just did that to get use to the tablet haaha

but this drawing isnt done yet tho.

I really like how using gradients and black and white