Tag: Personal work

Artist at Simpli Unique

I’m excited to say I have made my first official business deal for my art career by being a part of an upcoming design company for cell phone cases with the focus on artist collections. The usual cell phone case designs are mass productions casually slapped onto surfaces for sale; Simpli Unique takes actual working… Continue reading Artist at Simpli Unique

Artist Journal #18

“Overlapping of Perceived Shape” Concealing, overlapping, skewed, misrepresented visual information. Cake. Caked desert. Harsh desert sand and heat. Red hot heat; not blood red. Tension, outlining. Lost imagery. Created boundaries. Depth by illusion and actuality. Continuous motion. Frustrated. Dirt, dirty, dust, dusty. Entangled. I saw the shapes. They came to me in my vision. They… Continue reading Artist Journal #18

Artist Journal #17

4/12/14 When I’m painting, I am at complete peace with my soul. A gritty, violent and ripping release of energy involving brushstroke upon brushstroke of anguish and yet meaningful visual coordination. I can’t stop painting. Even when I try going for several days without painting, I end up ferociously scribbling in my sketchbook or ruining… Continue reading Artist Journal #17

Excavation

These panels are a series informed heavily by the processes of excavation. The surface of each panel developed through layers of paint and collage over the period of nearly a year, with each new session bringing both new overlapping layers as well as scraping away of older layers. A history of creative problems solving lies… Continue reading Excavation

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.

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.

Artist Journal #15

1/20/14 It’s all about response; reaction; react. It’s about reacting to previous mark. It begins with the immediate mark, no matter what it’s based on, even if it’s based on pure instant automatic drawing; instant feeling; instant motion; instant hand gesture. It’s about action, most importantly. Action and reaction. Reaction to mark, to color, to… Continue reading Artist Journal #15

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!