Summer study.

So semesters over and I'm looking for a job, which I'm not excited about but I've started an oil painting and I've checked out books from the library on Lichtenstein and De Kooning, which I am excited about. I'll have more on all that later, but I thought I should say something to let everyone know I'm still updating through the summer.

Doves and bandanas

Did this one over break, I used sketchbook paper so it didn't take the watercolor the way I wanted it to but I really like the things I'm working with in this one. The last couple pieces I've done and the things that are starting to fill my journals and sketchbooks are these kind of archaic symbols of the Holy Spirit and the words "a message". I'm also a big fan of bandanas and decided to incorporate some of the floral print from my favorite bandana in this. There's a lot I like about where I feel this is taking me. As for the composition with this one I wish I had made the proportion of the water color to the proportion of the dove pattern more dissimilar, I think it might be a little to balanced as is. Otherwise, I think it works and I'm going to keep doing some variations of these concepts.  

Paint, Comics, Easter.

Back on Campus, I went home this weekend which was good, very relaxing. I got a little work done too, I sent a piece of mail art out and did another painting, I've had some success with starting my comic collection too.

I finally went to the comic shop in my home town, it was going out of business and I was a little disappointing in their stock. It hardly had any trade paperbacks and I didn't want to buy disconnected issues. I ordered a trade paperback of the Uncanny X-Men Dark Phenix Saga offline however and a friend directed me to http://www.comicspriceguide.com/. The thing I'm most excited about however is an uncle of mine dropped off some old comics from the 60's and one of them was uncanny x-men #23! Which I probably would have had to drop about 50 or 60 buck if I wanted to buy it. 

Church was good on Easter morning too and it gave me some inspiration for a piece that's still floating around in my head. I don't know if anyone reading this has the same thing happened to them with their holy book, but I'll frequently hear or read scripture that I'm familiar with, can almost recite verbatim, but somewhere in the middle of this scripture that I've heard or read a thousand times there will be a line that I had no idea was there. That happened to me at church this Easter, the speaker was reciting from Revelation about the saints and living creatures surrounding the lamb who was slain and and the seal that could not be broken except for the lion of Judah, etc. etc. ... I was very familiar with all of this and nothing struck me as new or unexpected, until they read that the lamb had seven horns and seven eyes representing the seven spirits of the Lord sent out to the earth. I had never heard that before, well, I had, but for some reason it had never stuck. Anyway, I think that those lines could lend themselves to some really interesting visual imagery so I'm going to attempt a few paintings based upon it.

Line

Just started experimenting with lines, if you know anyone who draws like this I would like to know so I can study them. All the lines were with a .13 pen which was painstaking, I really need a .5

I also did a mail art piece today and I'm going home this weekend so I'll mail it to you then prof.

Winsor McCay Study

Heres a study I did of a few Little Nemo panels. I really enjoyed doing this and I'm going to look for some comic books when I go home next weekend. I'm trying to find trade paperback of the uncanny X-men, I've found out that I can get used TPB's of uncanny X-men online for pretty cheap, 1-6 dollars plus shipping, starting at issue 129, but if I want a book of compiled issues before 129 then their only available in hardcover and cost a lot more; 25 dollars upward plus shipping for about ten issues.