My art, My life
Title: Untitled
Year: 1999
Medium: Conte Crayon
Format: 18″ x 24″, unframed
Art Class: ART 003b at California State University, Chico
Details: This was an in-class assignment focusing on light and texture. The tree depicted lives on the back lawn of Ayres Hall.
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Categories: 1995 to 1999, Conté Crayon, Drawings.
Year: 1999
Medium: Graphite (6h to 6b)
Format: 11″ x 14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: When I was 20, I took human anatomy as my science class for GE. I purposely chose this class because I wanted to be able to be able to draw bones and muscles and be able to understand anatomy when figure drawing. It was an extremely hard class but completely worth it.
Categories: 1995 to 1999, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
I found this on someone’s Vox page a few months back. I can’t remember whose though. If I find it again, I’ll post their name here.
How to Feel Miserable as an Artist
How true… except number 2 in my case. I am blessed to have a very supportive family. Of course, I also don’t try to make a living with my art. I’ve always wondered what my life might be like had I stuck with the art degree as opposed to going the business route. Living life as a full-time artist might be fun ;)
Categories: Thoughts on the Subject.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2003
Medium: Graphite (8h to 9b)
Format: 14″ x 17″, unframed
Details: For the life of me, I can’t remember exactly when I drew this. And it’s unfinished so I never dated it so I’m guessing as to the year. Oh well.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Works-in-Progress.
Title: Study for ‘The Light’
Year: 1996
Medium: Graphite
Format: 5″ x 11″, Sketch Journal #1
Details: When I was a senior at Champion Christian School in Chico, California, I was chosen to draw the yearbook cover that year. Our yearbook’s title was ‘The Light’. The final drawing that was printed on the yearbook is still kept at the school. The original drawing that I got this from was actually a sketch from the movie Sleeping Beauty by Disney.
Categories: 1995 to 1999, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages, Studies.
Title: ‘Dreaming in Red’
Year: 2005
Medium: Acrylic, Pen & Ink, Ink Wash
Format: 14″ x 17″, unframed
Other Versions: Study
Details: This is a painting I did for my niece, Jes. It was painted with acrylic for the red sky and brown ink wash for the base color of the tree. I then detailed it with brown pen & ink to add a little depth and give it a bit of a dream/fantasy quality. Some of the blades of grass behind the left side of the tree are unfinished. Also, the bugs in the background were sort of an accident. I accidentally smeared a drop of ink and had to improvise.
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Categories: 2005 to 2009, Acrylic, Ink, Paintings.
Title: Untitled
Year: 1998
Medium: Charcoal on white paper
Format: 18″ x 24″, unframed
Art Class: ART 003a at California State University, Chico
Source: Still life
Details: For this assignment we covered an entire sheet of paper with charcoal. Then we had to erase the charcoal in places to reveal the appropriate amount of gray or white in order for the still life to take shape.
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Categories: 1995 to 1999, Art Class, Charcoal, Drawings.
Title: Untitled
Year: 1998
Medium: Charcoal on white paper
Format: 18″ x 24″, unframed
Art Class: ART 003a at California State University, Chico
Source: Still life
Details: I started taking art classes in the fall of 1998 because I was having a hard time with the idea of keeping my accounting degree. The professor of this particular course had us use a slightly different technique for this assignment which involved us covering an entire sheet of paper with charcoal. Then we had to erase the charcoal in places to reveal the appropriate amount of gray or white in order for the still life to take shape. We were only to use the charcoal pieces again if we were adding depth to specific areas (i.e. in the folds).
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Categories: 1995 to 1999, Art Class, Charcoal, Drawings.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my first assignment for this class. I don’t remember which speed it was (probably 150), but it was printed digitally. It has been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: This is a photograph I took as part of my first assignment for this class. This is not the original orientation of the photograph. I’ve cropped it for a better composition. It has also been slightly edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: Study for ‘Perfect Peace’
Year: 1995
Medium: Acrylic, Pen & Ink, Ink Wash
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Other Versions: Final
Details: This is one of the few recent pieces I have where the entire idea came from my imagination. I have a tendency to draw and paint from photographs, or at least pieces of photographs that I make into my own composition. The final of this study is the last complete piece I’ve done to date, and I created it in December 2005. I blame this lack of recent art on my master’s degree.
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Categories: 2005 to 2009, Acrylic, Ink, Ink Wash, Paintings, Studies.
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite (6h to 4b)
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: Starting 2002, I began to have a more concentrated interest in human anatomy. I love drawing faces, hands, and especially eyes. This is around the time where I started to deviate from drawing wild cats all of the time.
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
Year: 1994 and 2000
Medium: Graphite (6h to 6b)
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: The sunflower I drew back in high school (probably 1994). The tiger eye was drawn with oil pastels, but I don’t remember when I did it. The eye with the carnation has a story behind it too detailed to describe here, but I drew it when I was around 21 years old.
Categories: 1990 to 1994, 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
Year: 2002
Medium: Graphite (6h to 4b)
Format: 11″x14″, Sketch Journal #2
Details: This journal page has a few clippings of lions from my Adventure magazine, by National Geographic. The drawing in the bottom left corner was a little doodle of mine I did when I was bored in class one day. Hence the reason its on lined paper, and it was drawn with a mechanical pencil.
Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Journal Pages.
Title: Untitled
Year: Unknown
Medium: Graphite (2h to 6b)
Format: Approx. 11″ x 8″, Sketch Journal #3
Details: I’m actually not sure when I drew this piece, but I’m pretty sure it was prior to 2000. It is one of many unfinished drawings of mine. The shading of the part of the tree to the right of the boar has been added with Photoshop (by my brother Vince) so only the digital version is “complete”. Gotta love computers! I also think that in the photograph I drew this from had the bottom half of the boar hanging off the other side of the tree because I’m pretty sure the leopard didn’t just drag the head of the boar up there. That would be slightly pointless. So… apparently I failed to draw that part in as well… Oh well, it’s still a cool drawing. Around this time period I had this weird obsession with drawing large cats… in case you hadn’t noticed already.
Categories: 1995 to 1999, Drawings, Graphite, Works-in-Progress.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2002
Camera: Nikon N80 on Ilford 150 professional black & white film
Format: 8.5″ x 11″, unframed
Art Class: CDES 206 (Digital Photography) at California State University, Chico
Details: Photography is one form of art I’ve always loved, but probably the one I’m leasted talented at. Nonetheless I enjoy it immensly. This particular photograph has been edited with Photoshop to enhance depth and contrast.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, B&W Photography, Photographs, Photography Class.
Title: ‘Perfect Peace’
Year: 1995
Medium: Graphite (6h to 6b)
Format: appr. 17″ x 14″, framed with a double matte, colors meduim brown and tan with white interiors, followed by a wooden frame dyed medium grey to match the graphite.
Other Versions: Study
Details: This is a graphite rendition of the Bible story, Daniel and the Lion’s Den. I drew this when I was 15 years old for a high school competition. It placed 1st at State and 9th at Internationals that year. I drew this image from a pen & ink image I found in my high school art teacher’s library. I can’t remember the name of the book now, but I know where I wrote it down so I’ll update this post later with that information.
One of the things I like best about this piece is that I somehow managed to draw lions in the rocks also. The craziest thing is that I didn’t mean to draw them in. Someone just pointed out to me one day that she thought it was great that even the rocks were lions too. Sure enough, I looked and there they were! In the very top right of the drawing there is a profile of a lion with a large mane looking down upon Daniel. It almost looks as if Daniel is looking up at him as well. Another lion, or lioness, that was found is in along the middle right side of the drawing, crawling down towards the lioness that’s crouching on the rock.
The school I went to at the time I drew this had a very strict dress code and the boys had to keep their hair cut off their collars and ears. When I first submitted this piece at State, I was told that if I was going to submit it at Internationals I should consider changing Daniel’s hair to be off the collar. What? I couldn’t believe it! Change my drawing? No way. So I left it as it was… I mean seriously, I highly doubt Daniel had a clean crew cut back in the days of the Old Testament, but I guess there’s no way for us to know.
Categories: 1995 to 1999, Competition Pieces, Drawings, Graphite.
Title: Untitled
Year: 2000
Medium: Pen & Ink, Ink Wash, Graphite
Format: 11″ x 14″, Framed with a single matte of black with a white interior, followed by a 1/4 inch thick black metallic frame.
Details: I drew this for my big brother Vince in my early college years in trade for a piece of his wire art. I’m not sure of the original size since he still has this drawing, so I made a guess.
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Categories: 2000 to 2004, Drawings, Graphite, Ink, Ink Wash.