Rives BFK Tan, Rives BFK Gray, & India Ink

These images are from spring semester, mostly for Critical Studies. Portraits, fashiony things, my mom, and of course acne. These are some of the first ones:


I hate the one on the left, (below) but Natalie liked it better then the ones I actually thought were good, so I will post it.

Here is the one I like by itself.

Here's some of my fave faces on warmer paper.

The rest of these images are from one huge piece of Rives BFK tan that I folded into 18 rectangles. I don't have an image of the whole thing, but here are most of them broken up into singles, doubles, triples, or quads.









That's all the art for now. As far as my personal life goes: School starts soon and I'm excited to see everyone who's been away. I cut Whit's hair really short, and it makes me want to cut mine, Abby's moving back in and that is good news.

A long time comin'

It's been a while since I've posted, but now I have a lot of stuff to show. This first set of drawings is from this summer, it's two drawings side by side, ball point pen on this weird glossy paper and yellow marker. I didn't know what I was doing when I started the first one, but the theme came out very naturally, (sexy stuff, girls, flowers, hands) and I continued it on to the second page. I picture it as a centerfold for a zine or something with more portraits of girls with the name of a flower, like Rose or Daisy.


This painting is on a glossy fabric sample, and it's not necessarily totally finished, but it was what got me started on all those nude women paintings on wood I posted earlier.

I'm going to move on to a new post to split up the artwork.

Small Paintings on Wood

These are paintings I was selling at the design fiesta a while ago. While making them I was tyring not to think about selling them, (and I did not sell very many), and I like a lot of them, so I am glad to still have them. Although they will probably change hands at some point. I am particularly into the series of female nudes with the chartreuse green. Here they are just scanned in batches, you can see them in person on top of my window ledges in my bedroom.

Nan After Being Battered, 1984

I've seen this photo before when I first looked at Nan Goldin's work and liked it. I found it again the other day during Studio Kids when we were collaging from old Art Forum magazines and I tore it out and took it home. I think this was the inspiration for my driver's licence picture, but I didn't consciously realize it till after.

Studio Kids

I drew ONLY the face in the bottom left hand corner, while TA'ing and later one of the kids asked me who the portrait was of, and I said "oh it's just a doodle!"
While cleaning up at the end of the day I found the piece of paper transformed into this!

Into the Wild

Owen, I wish you would post more about your adventures in the wild, but you are probably too busy hiking in your namesake Teva shoes!

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