I am working on creating a cleaner division of where the wax starts and wall meet.

I have gone back to wax, and this is the newest piece that I have started. It is an instillation and is a row of melted crayon wax.

For me the piece above, was a huge step for myself in branching out beyond my own limitations. It is a 2x4 hung between two walls, very much invading the space. I was physically building a landscape. It is not yet done.

Later in the semester I wanted to go back to a more 2-dimensional way of working, and here is an experimental piece that I made with a collage of found elements in wax, latex, acrylic and resin. It has fallen apart but I think I have found something in working this way.

Steak anyone? No, I didnt think so. This is a close up of the texture the paint has on the hanging piece. Strange.
This is a work to go along with the poured acrylic piece. This is a wall hanging, again, a pure wax structure.

I started off the semester really struggling with how to expand my 2-dimensional work and I decided that the best way to start is to work with different materials and textures. here is a wax painting that I made. Its pure wax with poured acrylic paint on top.

Here are some pieces from my painting class. I really tried to push myself and go beyond my own expectations. I really grew this year, in terms of having a greater imagination and appreciation of materials, although I am not so happy with the art that I produced. I covered a lot of ground, but I have decided to take an independent study with Shaun Cassidy next semester as I need more time to explore alternative approaches in painting.

New work for New Year

This piece is a still life drawing that was assigned in the middle of the semester. I have reworked this drawing already but i do not think that I am quite done yet. The piece needs more blue violet I think.
This is the fourth drawing for that same series.

First piece I did of a 5 part series that is based on seeds. I took inspiration from the form, texture, color and size of different seeds to create each work.

Monotype Piece, working again with the camera. The top part is pure monotype, the bottom is dry pastel, transfer, and dry pastel.

Camera drawing that goes along in series with the polaroid piece.

This is a drawing from the first series of the semester, Finally I have started to loosen up.

This work above is based on physical imagery, i.e. cameras, polaroids, etc...

This work above me is a severely abstracted drawing using colored pencil and dry pastel, conceptually it deals with organic form and plant life. This is the most abstract I have gone so far in dry media.

Its been an entire semester but I now have a good pile of work to post.

This semester I really strayed from the stylistic approach I have had, meaning I went pretty abstract with my work. I was in a sculptural painting class this year, as well a drawing class which was very free in terms of how I could work. Here are some pieces from those classes. I'll post some more work from printmaking later.

Here are some paintings that I have as well, All from Painting 1 or Painting 2

I am currently working on some new stuff right now, that I can't wait to finish and share

The painting of the boy right above the fish is of my really good friend Mike, he was a good sport about the whole thing.

These pieces are from figure drawing, my first time ever attempting the human figure

The first drawing, of the seated woman, is not my favorite but I included it because of the line quality, seeing as that's the most honest example I have here

Okay, So i've been meaning to do this for some time. Today it is raining outside and I do not need to go into work later, so now seems to be the perfect opportunity to set things up. 

Let's start from near the very beginning.