You Know, 'The South' is OK Sometimes

Scenes like this are quite distracting while driving.

Color Studies

Do forgive me for the long pause between posts. These are all 12'x12' pine plywood. Multiple teachers have been coercing me to change up my palate. So I stepped timidly forward in these color studies (which, ummm, let's just say they're less successful in my opinion). I chose to work in a close value range in each of these. As the cream on cream study shows, the close values make the contrast between wood and paint more palpable. The viewer has to struggle to accept the illusion.

Segway: Wait, Wait, This One Too

Segway: A Little More

Here's a little more work on this one. The text was difficult to read on the previous. I think this is better.

Segway: Advertising Project

As a semester long project my advertising class has been split into groups and each group given a department within the School of Business to create an advertising campaign for. My group (if you hadn't noticed) is working on the Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management. We've done all of the boring stuff, the product identification, target market profiling, media outlet identification, and blah, blah, blah, but now we're moving on into the creative aspect of actually producing. This is one of our themes (we're also working on a mustache - based theme (seriously)). I was procrastinating this afternoon and decided to take a crack at it (by procrastinating I actually DID work, I'm such a nerd). Images from Corbis.

Photoshop Hero!

Progress: Painting #12

After another few hours of work.

Progress: Painting #12 Diptych

Here's an update on the diptych. Not feeling great about it. They aren't playing off of each other the way I'd like. I guess it's time to nab another easel from main studio to work on these in tandem, rather than keeping one on the floor next to the easel while working on the other.



On the way back from the library this morning, this rather large falcon was sitting on the sidewalk. He is holding a squirrel, a very much still alive squirrel. I couldn't get close enough for a good picture unfortunately.