Digital Illustration

Within my style.. I believe it would be very easy to go to doing digital work because I paint in flat colors. For anyone who doesn't know me, my work is all painted with acrylic paint and I do it because I LOVE the process of mixing colors and the work that goes into doing a physical painting. For my one assignment I decided to do a full spread book cover for a field guide on birds, and it was my first digital piece. As you can see there is not much difference between the digital work and my other painted work but I think I'll stick to painting!

    

Pattern Design

I have been having difficult posting this particular image perhaps because the computers at school are very slow and special. But anyway this is a gridded pattern of an image that I put together by combining two paintings. 

     

Self Portrait

In the past self portraits have always been annoying for me to do because I would always get hung up on getting an exact likeness and wondering how I should render the figure. I think though that it's gotten to the point where I've been able to get past that and simply have fun with it. I tried to treat the face in a less stylized way then i've been doing recently, but still keep the work in relation to my current pieces. Below is the finished painting, done for John Twingley's class.

    

Recent Works

Here's a piece I did over the summer. It was supposed to be for the Illustration Friday topic fierce but I never completed it on time because it got a bit complicated. Also here's two pieces I've done this semester so far. Any feedback?

The above piece was inspired by an old house on 15th and Castle in South Philly. The color palette is one of my favorites out of ones i've used in the past.

This was an illustration I did for the 2008 Fringe Festival (for an assignment) it wasn't actually used for the event.

Millie

I found out that my friend Millie did a spot illustration of a portrait of myself.. which she did not tell me about, and I find it to be awesome!!

This quote is from Millie's blog describing the piece:

 "it's not quite as close of a resemblance ad i've been going for- but it's got that snarky, cheeky grin that she's so good at which, i think, redeems it at least a litttle."

What could she possibly be talking about?

  

Catch Up

  So I haven't posted anything in awhile, which I apologize for but the end of this summer was hectic and I did not have ready access to a scanner. I ended up participating in another hump day show at Rare Breed, and then a black light show August 29th at Pedestrian on 3rd near South street. 

above:  Over the summer.. some of my friends and I developed this combination of images with 3D chalk on a wall in one of their households, unfortunately the image was erased, but it was 

awesome to see the result.

 

This is me at the black light show at Pedestrian. The glowing pieces I did last minute and they turned out very nicely.

For the second Hump Day show at Rarebreed I put a Munny doll in that I painted my junior year at Uarts in Jude Buffun's design class.. along with the other pieces on the right had side.

Hump Day Show!!

Starting last night until next Thursday July 17th.. a week from today I have some pieces in the gallery at 15th and South (530 S. 15th Street) at Rarebreed, along with some other artists and friends of mine such as Nose G., Dan Hughes, James T. Arnold and more. If you're around the philly, check it out!