Tag: painting

Organ Collage

The saturated colors of magazine clippings in paring with the brilliancy of alizarin crimson, make for potent imagery that appears almost microscopic in nature. Examples shown are small experiments indicative of an idea for future larger works.

Salton Sea Art Trip 2014

These sketchbook drawings were completed while on a four day art trip to the desert, with a group of photographers, performance artists and adventurers. On this trip, I was particularly interested in the industrial factories and the surrounding desolate landscape.

Advanced Painting Sketchbook (2013-2014)

This is a sketchbook I hand-bound and began using in my advanced painting class of winter 2013. I still work in this sketchbook today, and it still proves to be vitally important to my current studio work.

Large Scale Painting Completed: “A Breath of Fresh Air”

After going through many compositional changes throughout the past few months, and having began its existence in early 2013, this large scale painting has just now been stretched and completed this March 2014! What used to be a double canvas, un-stretched, hanging-free piece has now been divided into two separate works. With its re-orientation and… Continue reading Large Scale Painting Completed: “A Breath of Fresh Air”

Artist Jounral #16

1/30/14 This journal entry consists of linguistic brainstorming for titles of my new drawings. Typically, when I am titling my work I will sit down with it and write out almost small stories about my feelings and reactions to the finished piece. Sometimes this journaling will involve memory of the experience of making it, or… Continue reading Artist Jounral #16

Artist Journal #14

12/20/13 Angry Drawing (Lg scale 2) It began with an unfinished and unsuccessful crumpling of primed canvas. It needed an element of collage; a physicality of deeper layers. I felt as if I was digging- masking and scraping the colors like soil and gold. The pearl white was like a shimmering of frost/snow/ice – beneath… Continue reading Artist Journal #14

The Sketchbook Project: Brooklyn Art Library

It’s done, scanned and sent off to Brooklyn! So glad I participated in this great global project. Look for my sketchbook in the Brooklyn Art Library in NY or online on their digital database. Or if you are in the area when the traveling bus comes to California, look me up!

Artist Journal #13

11/24/13 The work is about uncovering and recovering. It’s a struggle we deal with everyday. The switch between friends and public transit; work and family; home and car. We constantly have to go in and out between realities, personalities, projections, behaviors, truths, lies. Sometimes you can find those secret moments of revealing of the flaws… Continue reading Artist Journal #13