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End of Semester part Duex

This semester went rather well for me, and I've managed to put up most of the stuff that I did after I did it. Here is a recent painting, and a long overdue one.

Guache and oil again


and an oil painting based on a masterwork. This is about 3 ft x 3 ft and is based on Gustav Klimt's Life and Death. It's the various versions of me, throughout my life, including when I sell out to become a yuppie, and when I turn into my dad.


I didn't bother to scan the whole thing, but here is the final version. I ended up using colored pencil over the cyanotype to get the blues right.


and a CMYK seperation, printed in Gum, of a slide my grandfather took proably fifty years ago. I didn't bother to stick with the process colors, instead just picked a red, a yellow, a blue and a black, and running with it. Out of the three gum prints I did from his slides, I think this turned out the best and most visually interesting.

I need to get a real website.

but in the meantime, here are some painting i did for my last pictorial foundation assignment ever.

guache, oil, and colored pencil on wood

I am now an exhibiting gallery artist.

http://www.copygallery.org/

Some new stuff, newest to oldest, for the most part...

Oil, silkscreen, acrylic, and mixed media on wood. Postage stamps. 8.5 x 20 somethingish






and here's how they would look as stamps:


and the sketches that inspired the idea, in montage format:


It's been gorgeous out, so I've been drawing in Rittenhouse Square. Here are a few sketches from those sessions. I've been reading a book on Egon Schiele and kinda soaking up a lot of his tendencies and trying to employ them to my own work. This might be a new direction for me to head in, not to sure yet... I need to develop the style more.



^are you freaking kidding me?



and finally some non-silver stuff

experimenting with mixing cyanoype and vandyke brown. I did a second layer of vandyke on this one, and kinda fucked it up. Where the two layers overlapped it got super dark, "ruining" an otherwise perfect print. No one else seems to really notice but me. The scan doesn't really show it. Live and learn, I guess. I think I'll reprint it anyway...


this was a "happy accident"


older gum print and cyanotype of meg being a bitch.

Birdz!!!

A few things from Non-Silver, beginning of the semester...

Vandyke Brown




acrylic life drawing


and I got a better scan, or actually bothered to scan, the last image.


more to come shortly...