In an artistic slump? Draw your best friend.
Necessary evils; there are more productive beverages I could be drinking and more productive art I could be making but if I look at more computer screens today my eyes might melt. 🍷🎨
In February I had the amazing privilege of being part of a transdisciplinary global art event on The Moon, Eat Your Heart Out My Bloody Valentine.
My involvement in this show was rather unexpected (at least from my perspective) but I couldn’t be happier that I got to work with these stellar artists on such an enchanting endeavor. Perhaps a story for a different time! For now, simply enjoy.
(I make an appearance at ~42 seconds. ;))
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In 2007 when I was a freshman in high school, as my first real attempt at using watercolors, I painted my dog Lilly (left; disregard the low-quality documentation). I never liked the piece, but I never hated it either, it was just practice. My mom always really loved it, as Lilly was her best friend. When Lilly passed away in late 2014, my mom asked me if she could have the painting. I said yes but never got around to giving it to her. For Christmas this past year, I reworked the original painting (right; note the high-quality documentation) and had it framed to make it into a much better gift. Eight years after this was originally done, it turned out so much more beautiful than I expected, and it may now be one of my favorite traditional pieces to date.
Long ago I titled it “Majesty,” which was a bit of a joke. Though she looks it in this picture, Lilly was far from majestic.
Watercolor 2007, revised 2015
I thought this was one of those paintings that you see next to people in royal ball gowns- congrats on all the talent you possess!!!!
Seemingly majestic indeed!
Thanks for the compliment (though I am a firm believer that there is no such thing as talent-- a story for a different day).
A few old oil paintings I was able to finally document while visiting Ohio two weeks ago.
2010-2012
The beginnings of a symbolic-sketch-turned-mural-concept.
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Good letter choices. ;)
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In 2007 when I was a freshman in high school, as my first real attempt at using watercolors, I painted my dog Lilly (left; disregard the low-quality documentation). I never liked the piece, but I never hated it either, it was just practice. My mom always really loved it, as Lilly was her best friend. When Lilly passed away in late 2014, my mom asked me if she could have the painting. I said yes but never got around to giving it to her. For Christmas this past year, I reworked the original painting (right; note the high-quality documentation) and had it framed to make it into a much better gift. Eight years after this was originally done, it turned out so much more beautiful than I expected, and it may now be one of my favorite traditional pieces to date.
Long ago I titled it “Majesty,” which was a bit of a joke. Though she looks it in this picture, Lilly was far from majestic.
Watercolor 2007, revised 2015
In 2007 when I was a freshman in high school, as my first real attempt at using watercolors, I painted my dog Lilly (left; disregard the low-quality documentation). I never liked the piece, but I never hated it either, it was just practice. My mom always really loved it, as Lilly was her best friend. When Lilly passed away in late 2014, my mom asked me if she could have the painting. I said yes but never got around to giving it to her. For Christmas this past year, I reworked the original painting (right; note the high-quality documentation) and had it framed to make it into a much better gift. Eight years after this was originally done, it turned out so much more beautiful than I expected, and it may now be one of my favorite traditional pieces to date.
Long ago I titled it “Majesty,” which was a bit of a joke. Though she looks it in this picture, Lilly was far from majestic.
Watercolor 2007, revised 2015
Happy Throwback Thursday! Acrylic paint on canvas, August 2011.
This may be one of my favorite pieces that I’ve ever created, and it is oft taken for granted because it has exclusively lived in (or on the doors of) bathrooms. I see it every day while I go about my morning business but I don’t acknowledge its presence, because it has always just been there, much like a lifelong friend. I only sincerely noticed it today because I was packing it into a box, and it will soon find a new home in yet another lavatory, to be basically ignored once again. As a piece of art it straddles that perfectly balanced paper-thin line of irony; it is pretentious yet unassuming, sophisticated yet childish, nuanced yet clumsy.
But really it is literally just a toilet, painted in about five minutes, so that guests attending a housewarming party at my first apartment would know where to potentially vomit.
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im honestly so sick of ppl showing me actors and successful people who had stutters but overcame theirs and became famous like that’s really cool and good for them but like i wanna know about famous ppl who stutter in their work because telling me “oh they overcame it so you can too” translates to me as “you will not make it unless you overcome it”
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Found while perusing college hard drives. Editorial cover based on the journal article Update on contraceptive options: A case-based discussion. Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, 2013.
My illustration style has changed greatly in the past three years. I don’t hate this, but it’s heavy-handed (ha ha ha) and rather frantic, and I never liked it enough to show it off. The less is more/limited color palette approach that I tend to favor nowadays came to me some months after the class for which this project was done, during my summer internship at the Cleveland Clinic.
The concept of this project is especially intriguing to me now as I’m working to re-brand and get my site back up and (hopefully) start freelancing more. Perhaps I’ll revisit some of these old projects once I settle into my new house.
On Wednesday I had the wonderful pleasure of exploring the cosmos, demonstrating the inner workings of the planetarium, and discussing art and science with a group of Kendall students. Thank you for coming and watching me play and for asking me all the best questions!