Gastropoda

22.5"x32.5"

25 hours to draw

Completed at 11pm December 31st, 2011

Gastropoda process

Just a note - I'm taking these pictures with whatever is available at the time, be it camera, cell phone, webcam, et cetera, so the colors and quality will be distorted most of the time.  I'll have a nice, higher-quality picture for the final version.

The sketch I'll be working from.  There were a couple more pages to this tune but I didn't include them.

(obviously a very early WIP shot)

Finally beginning a new piece, now that the semester has finished!

 Simple collage this time, made entirely of pages torn out from a copy of The Enemy by Lee Child, which was falling apart after changing hands many times and which I fished out of the recycling bin. The ripples from the glue aren't quite as pronounced as they look in this admittedly bad photo.

 Misted with three different colors of spraypaint for that classic K Cross look.
Also distorted because I am not a photographer.

 Progress at 4 hours

 Progress at 12 hours

 Progress at 21 hours

Octopus

12"x12"

study

Different Version

Late September 2011

28"x22"

New piece 2 WIP

New piece, based on one of the creatures in the last one.

Working title "Different Version"

Monster Mash

September 2011

17"x17"

New Piece WIP 3

At nine hours

Brought up some brighter whites and added what I've been calling the snaggle-toothed quetzalcobratls

New Piece WIP 2

At about seven hours

New piece WIP 1

First new drawing in about a month.  Nothing special, just a monster mash to get the creative juices flowing.
This is at about four hours of work (not counting constructing the collage)

Detail from "Grotesque"

Details from "Percussion"

Percussion

July 2011
Drawn on four of my brother's discarded drum heads.
Based on but not specifically about the bombing of Dresden, inspired by Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
(fireplace not included)

Reptilian Brain

June 2011

Arthropoda

May 2011

Grotesque

March 2011

24"x48"

Inspired by Renaissance "grotesques"

Angelus in America

March 2011

Diptych, each 20"x36"

Based on the shapes in the Dalí painting "Archaeological Reminiscences," which was in turn based on the shapes in the Millet painting "The Angelus."  I was wanting to draw something distinctly American (and positive), so of course what immediately came to mind was Jazz, and then someone's interpretation of the Dalí painting as a man playing the saxophone when I was in college.

Abstract 1

February 2011

31"x23" (at the widest points)

Drawn on the inside of a shelf torn out from the corner my kitchen.

Cephalopoda

September 2010

24"x36"

First in a series tentatively titled "Old Gods"

Vulture's Eye

August 2010

Study for the vultures series

War Dance

July 2010

36"x24"

First in a series of surreal drawings of vultures.

Obiter Dictum

My final series at Ball State.  Each of these pieces was based on images that came to mind from the patterns in wood grain, floor tiles, and other textured objects.  "Obiter Dictum" is a Latin phrase roughly meaning "passing observation."
 

 1

January 2010

24"x24"

Lion vs. Hyena

Experimenting with color.  I wasn't very satisfied with it, but might try again some other time.

Based on a faux-granite floor tile in my old house

2

February 2010

36"x36"

Based on the grain in the plywood surface I was buying to draw the next piece on.

3

March 2010

24"x24"

Based on a floor tile in the Arts and Journalism building at Ball State

4

April 2010

24"x24"

Based on the floor tile right next to the last one.

5

May 2010

36"x36"

Based on scratches on a piece of furniture in my hotel in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum

My second series, in preparation for my senior show at Ball State, representing self-flagellation.The title comes from a faux-Latin  translation of the World War II era saying, "Don't let the bastards grind you down," as translated in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

 

"1: Carborundorum"

August 2009

32"x40" 

"2: Serpent"

September 2009

24"x48"

"3: Mandala"

January 2010

60"x60"

"4: Te Bastardes"

October 2009

24"x48"

Won Prism Art Supplies award, Ball State University Student Art Show 2010, and First Prize at the Art Works All Media Art Show for April 2011, shown as a diptych with 2: Serpent

"5: Nolite"

May 2010 (completed May 2011)

32"x40"

Beautiful Friends

The first series I drew, after developing my style.

 1

January 2009

18"x24"

2

Early 2009

24"x18"

3

Early 2009

13"x13"

4

Early 2009

24"x18"

5

April 2009

28"x15"

After Audubon

Early work

"YES!"

November 2008

36"x24"

Winner of the Merit Award at the Minnetrista Cultural Center Juried Art Show, Spring 2009

This was the first piece I created in what I consider my mature style, while still in college.

"Moai"

December 2008

20"x21"

First mature piece completely independent of class.

"Apprehension"

January 2009

12"x12"

Originally half of a diptych based on a prompt for drawing class, separated for effect.

"Shy Guy"

March 2009

13"x15"

Title borrowed from "Super Mario Bros. 2," though no connection was intended

"Q"

April 2009

Roughly 3"x2"

Drawn on a mirror from the cage of a pet cockatiel after she died.

(also absolutely impossible to photograph right!)