A Great Finish

Hello all,

Oil paintings on canvas completed August-December 2011:

Adjectives Escape Me



Images/symbols that "represent" ourselves, 16"x20"

Patterns

The idea behind this is how everyone's all about "breaking the mold," yet people are ultimately creatures of habit and we panic when things fall apart.  This piece is 30"x38"

Nightmares

Detail:

This was a collaborative piece between me and two other students in my class, Kate and Claire.  I have always wanted to paint something with another person, so I enjoyed doing this.  We settled on doing one painting, splitting up the canvas into three sections and working into each other's areas (Mine is the left section, Kate did the middle, and Claire did the right side).  The piece is about nightmares that we've had, and how they can tie into our worst fears.  I feel that it was overall successful, but I will probably work into it again in the future.  This painting is 36"x60" and a combination of oil and acrylic.

Drain



This painting is a metaphor for that moment when things are at their worst, then something happens that turns everything around and you know everything will be okay.  I will probably work on this more in the future.  This piece is 38"x30"

SNAP

Detail views:

This is my favorite out of the bunch.  I used a lot of texture, including scraps of linen, threads, and paper that was glued down prior to painting. This piece has to do with how I view my future, how even though there are many things that are uncertain for me at this point, I am excited to see where life leads me.  This is 36"x36" oil on canvas, with linen and newsprint paper underneath (with oil-based ink on the prints).

Metamorphosis

This is the last painting of the class; we were supposed to take one piece from the semester and paint a smaller version in 3 hours, and then add a new twist to it.  The goal here was to illustrate uncertainty.  It is 16"x16"

Smoker's Aid

This was a final piece for one of my art classes.  We were assigned to come up with an idea or small little story that could be shown in three pieces.  They are done on drawing paper with colored pencil, charcoal and conte crayon.



Blast from the Past

Here are a few pieces that I have done over the past few years.

Riding Coach

Oil on canvas

20"x24"

Sketches of nude models done in charcoal on newsprint paper

24"x36"

Vein Exploding

Watercolor on coldpress paper

11"x30"

(Kind of gruesome, I know, but it was fun to paint)

These three were done in the same class; they are various sizes and all are done with charcoal and conte crayon on paper.

La Belle et la Bete

Acrylic on canvas

20"x24"

Live to Ride

This is a commissioned painting completed for a previous co-worker.

Live to Ride

Oil on canvas

26"x18"

VROOM

In the Spring of 2011, I took Advanced Watercolor and had to come up with a proposal for the class. This proposal was what we were going to work on for the entire semester. I wanted to challenge myself and decided to focus on reflections. I wanted to study how objects are distorted in reflections and decided on using reflections in vehicles. Thus my proposal grew into showing how a person and their vehicle "go" together. To make each piece conceptually successful, I used reflections on the vehicle itself, background, certain color choices, and how the vehicle was oriented in space to show how the certain person and car/truck "matched." I completed 6 pieces, and here they are with the name of each owner:

 Lisa

 Brad

 Javi

 Dennis

 Becky

Cerese

They are in order from which I completed first to last. All are painted with watercolor, 22"x30" on coldpress paper