Landscape_1
Way back in the wonder-year of 2010, I was charged with drawing a landscape by hand. Let I remind you that I live in Dallas, TX and this was a summer assignment. Someone as pale as me from anywhere else would have been set on fire at that point. I swear I could see my skin starting to sparkle. This is a landscape of a building across from my workplace at the time, Studio Arts. Don't ask me what the building in question was. I don't know and I don't care.
Media: Graphite Pencil, Ebony Pencil
Media: Graphite Pencil, Ebony Pencil
Landscape_2 - DART Rail
Being an old fashioned down to earth sort of person, I never had a fancy to cars. So I use the DART train system as a means to get around. It especially helps when one of the train stations is only a 2-3 minute walk away from your house.
This served as the second "summer-of-2010" assignment I was given for the sake of being kept busy. I never liked doing realistic works. That and the pencil smears like hell. Please note that I am willing to make more, but until people actually care enough to ask, I won't either.
Media: Graphite Pencil, Ebony Pencil
This served as the second "summer-of-2010" assignment I was given for the sake of being kept busy. I never liked doing realistic works. That and the pencil smears like hell. Please note that I am willing to make more, but until people actually care enough to ask, I won't either.
Media: Graphite Pencil, Ebony Pencil
Society's Deathtraps
When I was told that I had to do a still life of chairs stacked onto each other, I thought that I was doing the same as everyone else. Though not my best piece (or even THE best piece in comparison to the others) I apparently was the only one who thought of using fold up chairs. Kutscheid pointed this out and humorously refered to them as "society's deathtraps." Now that I look at it, yeah. They do look dangerous. You could break you neck trying to sit in one of those.
Media: Graphite Pencil, Ebony Pencil
Media: Graphite Pencil, Ebony Pencil
Across The Border
It's summer in 2011. The days are drying out and its a saturday morning right before school starts back up. I always was a terrible procrastinator. But like always, I try and make a piece with a "warped" sort of tactic as self-motivation. In short, I was told to "experiment", so that's exactly what I did.
I waisted a lot of used DART tickets and worksheets I kept since the previous year, and I did what I could to recreate the entrance into the dining room, the dining room, and the kitchen in collage form. I made three 15X15 pieces of paper and glued them together to add a stronger sense of three dimensions. Sure I had to omit a few things, but you know what they say: "shortcuts are great for confetti!"
Media: Collage, Pen and Ink
I waisted a lot of used DART tickets and worksheets I kept since the previous year, and I did what I could to recreate the entrance into the dining room, the dining room, and the kitchen in collage form. I made three 15X15 pieces of paper and glued them together to add a stronger sense of three dimensions. Sure I had to omit a few things, but you know what they say: "shortcuts are great for confetti!"
Media: Collage, Pen and Ink
Industry... And... Stuff
A quick rendition of the Belo Mansion just a few minute walk away from my school in downtown Dallas, Industry... And... Stuff was made as part of my third summer assignment employed. I drew the basic architecture of the building (and the surrounding environment) and was told to "experiment", and that's exactly what I did. I looked online and got the idea of the basic colors and stylized estetic off of the award winning piece Industrial Cathedral Mortlake by Jane Bennet. And that was when someone pointed out to me that i really like the color orange. Not sure why I didn't notice before, but there you go.
Media: Ink, Acrylic and Watercolors
Media: Ink, Acrylic and Watercolors
Magic Mirror
A new six weeks was employed and Mr. H told me that I would either have to start on another still-life or do a close-up of my face in a weird way. The later was better, seeing as how I already did the former five times already. I'm not one who likes looking at myself (how many photos of me are o this website? None? there you go) but I was aloud a few "creative liberties" and I could adopt a style or esthetic of some sort. I was originally going to make it so that parts of my face were all gangrenous and rotted and gross, but midway through the process, my face began to take on the likeness of the Magic Mirror from that Disney movie. You know the one. Given my taste for magic, I decided to go along with it and my teacher of the hour wanted me to include it into my breadth portfolio.
Media: Acrylic Paint
Media: Acrylic Paint
Alone In The Dark
Ah, know here's a classic. Made back in the same era as the piece Magic Mirror, this assignment was that I had to do a self portrait with my hands doing something. Everything else (the clothes, the background, etc.) was free game. Then I made myself this fancy little Tim Burton hood to complete the look. And it is only know do I see how crooked the nose is. They told me 'no, it's fine', but it isn't fine, is it?!
Anyway, I was hoping to spread acrylic latex over it and make a new piece from it, but they told me I should keep it. Beside, the way the paint was laid down on it had this scratchy ink illustration look and I thought it was kind of cool...
Media: Acrylic Paint
Anyway, I was hoping to spread acrylic latex over it and make a new piece from it, but they told me I should keep it. Beside, the way the paint was laid down on it had this scratchy ink illustration look and I thought it was kind of cool...
Media: Acrylic Paint
Skeleton Tears And Conversation
An experiment employed by my junior-year AP drawing teacher Mrs. Eva Kutscheid, we were to use the same skeleton at different angles using nothing but a bottle of ink and a series of instruments used to imply that ink. For most of us, it was out first time handeling ink straight out of a bottle. My first piece was Dolls, Dames and Electric Trains, but I digress.
Media: ink
Media: ink
Where the Hell Am I?
Yeah that was the best name I could come up with. Shut up.
Drawing #2 in our little class projects assignment. This was back when arms were the most troublesome for me to operate. The human anatomy has always given me a hard time when it came down to it, so I often like to cheat and use psuedo-figures to be weird for me. Why do you think I like using my dolls so much?
I don't have that problem as much as I do know, but back in the day, I did what I could to make it work. I look at the finish piece know and I finally see what I was apparently going for. It has a very druggy feel to it, where the deranged and deprave swim through the deepest recesses of the brain and congregate like germs beneath the skin. That and it does look a bit druggy, don't you think? I don't know. It was halloween and we were watching The Munsters on the overheard. That was a fun day.
Media: Ink
Drawing #2 in our little class projects assignment. This was back when arms were the most troublesome for me to operate. The human anatomy has always given me a hard time when it came down to it, so I often like to cheat and use psuedo-figures to be weird for me. Why do you think I like using my dolls so much?
I don't have that problem as much as I do know, but back in the day, I did what I could to make it work. I look at the finish piece know and I finally see what I was apparently going for. It has a very druggy feel to it, where the deranged and deprave swim through the deepest recesses of the brain and congregate like germs beneath the skin. That and it does look a bit druggy, don't you think? I don't know. It was halloween and we were watching The Munsters on the overheard. That was a fun day.
Media: Ink
Varla Kill Kill
A throwaway piece from my portfolio. Psychopomp isn't making his quota so Prina Domma has to make ends meet. i was running out of ideas and decided to go for this throwaway "example piece" I decided to try. The concept I got from the opening to Planet Terror (one of my favorite movies), right down the the color design.
This I find operates as the perfect summarization of how I operate. I draw everywhich way, try and be as observational as my patience allows, and that's when I employ my signature. I make sure to include every color on there. Not just the object's natural colors. E.VER.Y color. Does this have green? No? I'm putting green on. If there enough blue? No? I'm putting blue on. It's that kind of "Uncanny Valley" effect that entertainers like myself employ into their visual medium. Too little colors (usually real life ones) and it's boring. Too much colors and utter chaos. Or not in my case. Put those "too-much colors" in the correct positions and you have them by the gonads.
Media: Ink, Watercolors and Colored Pencils
This I find operates as the perfect summarization of how I operate. I draw everywhich way, try and be as observational as my patience allows, and that's when I employ my signature. I make sure to include every color on there. Not just the object's natural colors. E.VER.Y color. Does this have green? No? I'm putting green on. If there enough blue? No? I'm putting blue on. It's that kind of "Uncanny Valley" effect that entertainers like myself employ into their visual medium. Too little colors (usually real life ones) and it's boring. Too much colors and utter chaos. Or not in my case. Put those "too-much colors" in the correct positions and you have them by the gonads.
Media: Ink, Watercolors and Colored Pencils
Pain And Suffering
First you get a piece with a poorly picked name, then a piece with no thought behind it, so I have one with both. :D
Yes gentle viewers, a 10X10 slab of paper where one doll is strapped to a reclining surgical table compiled of books and is tortured with scissors. This was meant to be a sort of homage to the color and contextual designs of my idol Tim Burton with the idea of Eli Roth's Hostel in mind. However, due to heavy time constraints and a lack of sleep, this was the best I could make out of it. In the background and in some parts of the dolls themselves I imply crosshatching made up of swirls and other curved lines. The book used as the table was in fact a retrospective book in the making of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, while the books that keep it raised comprise of many Carlton Mellick III books like I Knocked up Satan's Daughter, Cannibals in Candyland, FIshy-Fleshed, War Slut, and so on.
Media: Colored Pencils, Watercolors and Pen
Yes gentle viewers, a 10X10 slab of paper where one doll is strapped to a reclining surgical table compiled of books and is tortured with scissors. This was meant to be a sort of homage to the color and contextual designs of my idol Tim Burton with the idea of Eli Roth's Hostel in mind. However, due to heavy time constraints and a lack of sleep, this was the best I could make out of it. In the background and in some parts of the dolls themselves I imply crosshatching made up of swirls and other curved lines. The book used as the table was in fact a retrospective book in the making of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, while the books that keep it raised comprise of many Carlton Mellick III books like I Knocked up Satan's Daughter, Cannibals in Candyland, FIshy-Fleshed, War Slut, and so on.
Media: Colored Pencils, Watercolors and Pen
Be My Valentine
I make a Thanksgiving special on Valentines Day. What's the next logical step? A Valentine Special on April Fools day. Not much happened during production. Except for Psychopomp's proposal to Prinna Domma. That was sweet. I had to get a new secretary shortly after, and a new janitor to clean up the mess, so nothing of real importance was lost.
Media: Ink, Watercolors and Colored Pencils
Media: Ink, Watercolors and Colored Pencils
Fourth Reich - Dollhouse Division
A whimsical little mockumentary of the crude, crazy and delusional. I was told to make something that used as little color as possible and to make sure that it took the key styles of sketch artists Laurie Lipton and Interesni Kazki. Already you can see the problem. How can someone so careless and delirious with colors and paints like myself going to complete such a task? Good Question.
...what? You expect me to go further into detail than that? I'm not your grandmother.
Anyway, the class loved the first draft and Mrs. Kutscheid allowed me to progress with the red paint shortly after, adding more blood effects on the body and broaden the range via white ink. Notice that I didn't make a period joke? I would have, but I'm too classy for that.
Media: Ink, Graphite Pencil and Watercolors
...what? You expect me to go further into detail than that? I'm not your grandmother.
Anyway, the class loved the first draft and Mrs. Kutscheid allowed me to progress with the red paint shortly after, adding more blood effects on the body and broaden the range via white ink. Notice that I didn't make a period joke? I would have, but I'm too classy for that.
Media: Ink, Graphite Pencil and Watercolors
Inside 3D
Ah yes, those good old days when you just, stood there on orders so they can ostrisize you for something they failed to mention. Good times. Good Times. Back in my first year of high school, veteran teacher Nancy Miller gave us the challenge of overlapping work just as 2D design was ment to do. I wanted to add an emphasis on dimensions, with the paper questioning whether it comes at you or you come to it. I think that later works better, but that's just a preference.
Media: Construction paper
Media: Construction paper
Yah Man!
I find it boring. Others find it astonishing. I went through a lot of trouble making something interesting, and the only thing the teacher found that worked was one single shape again and again and again fascinating and just went with it. I'll never understand people. Or construction paper. Incase it wasn't obvious by my other works, I like to go at an incoherent pace with an uncompromising mess and insane subject matter for the sake of entertaining my audience. And that is why I hate construction paper.
Media: Construction paper
Media: Construction paper
Westin Mall
It is summer 2012. I have three pieces to make and only about a week to do them all before they are due. What else is new...
Anyway, I take three pieces of paper and sketch three different perspectives in the mall found in the Westin Hotel, take my scissors and horribly scar all of them, painting each section with hot burning colors like red, orange and yellow. What else is new...
Media: Ink, Watercolors, Acrylic and Charcoal
Anyway, I take three pieces of paper and sketch three different perspectives in the mall found in the Westin Hotel, take my scissors and horribly scar all of them, painting each section with hot burning colors like red, orange and yellow. What else is new...
Media: Ink, Watercolors, Acrylic and Charcoal
Slender-House
A "clone" of Industry... And... Stuff..., Slender-House was me potraying Dallas at some point in the future and how I envisioned it. I took the high road and left it a wasteland, with the Slender-man on the prowel. At the time the Slender-man was increasing in popularity with the release of the hotest new online game Slender. Trust me, I don't usually follow into fads. Really. DON'T JUDGE ME!!!
Media: Ink, Watercolor and Acrylic
Media: Ink, Watercolor and Acrylic
Psychopomp
That's right. I'm back on the dolls. Yippie...
I really need to find a new hobby. This is an equally divided 9-part still-life detailing the methods and tragedy of one of my favorite dolls Psychopomp. I was told that I would have to go into extensive detail over the physical detail of the guy, so I knew immediatly that is would warrant the use of my trusty pen and pencils.
Media: Ink, Watercolor and Colored Pencils
A Day in the Life of Someone Without One
When one does nothing during their summer break (unlike everyone else on the planet who actually has friend), what is one to do when they have to make a piece that explains what they did that summer? A pan-shot, what else? I faped around on my macbook, did a little drawing, did a bit of Zumba and went walking in the blaring 101 degree Texas sun for window shopping. And this routine went on for three months. I'm such an enigma, aren't I?
Media: Ink
Media: Ink
The Horned God
Did I ever mention how much I hate construction paper? Yes? Well I'll say it again: I hate construction paper. Know that that's out of the way, on with the commentary.
We were meant to make a circular design... thing (I know there's a name for it, but I don't care), and a recurring thing everyone was doing with it was mythological figures, mainly gods. I'm not one for giving in to conventions, but I'm a huge sucker for mythology. However, like I just said, I'm not one for giving into conventions, so i went with a less obvious approach, mainly dealing with a more obscure character. I've been going through an interest in paganism and neo-paganism, so I went with a modern figure in paganism; the Horned God.
A symbol of the hunt, fauna and all masculine aspects of nature, the Horned God felt appropriate as I'm pretty much the only male in the classroom. Seriously. There's 14 girls, Ms. Edmonson and myself. For the same reason, I had to tone down the phallic symbols, something the Horned God is also highly associated with.
Media: Construction Paper
We were meant to make a circular design... thing (I know there's a name for it, but I don't care), and a recurring thing everyone was doing with it was mythological figures, mainly gods. I'm not one for giving in to conventions, but I'm a huge sucker for mythology. However, like I just said, I'm not one for giving into conventions, so i went with a less obvious approach, mainly dealing with a more obscure character. I've been going through an interest in paganism and neo-paganism, so I went with a modern figure in paganism; the Horned God.
A symbol of the hunt, fauna and all masculine aspects of nature, the Horned God felt appropriate as I'm pretty much the only male in the classroom. Seriously. There's 14 girls, Ms. Edmonson and myself. For the same reason, I had to tone down the phallic symbols, something the Horned God is also highly associated with.
Media: Construction Paper
Proof and Terror for Lovely Taylor
Makes your skin itch, doesn't it? I had the free time and I decided to do something off the wall to fill in my Breadth Portfolio. I had a fellow student of mine - Taylor Park - to pose for me. After sketching, I decided to go with whatever I wanted to do. Here I decided to go with the concept of disease and infection, based around the zombies from Planet Terror (one of my all time favorite movies). I even named the piece after Planet Terror, as well as its more boring sister-flick Death Proof...
I've administered pustules along the right side of her face, bits of gangrene on the left side, sores and dead skin on her skin, her shirt yellow from natural body-oils, scabs and blood implied behind the shirt, a bad wound implied in the front of her torso. I tried to make the background (which is really just the classroom I drew it in) just as infected and diseased as she was, administering red ink and green watercolors everywhere do give it that dried-blood sort of environment you would usually find the old hospitals you'd see in forgettable modern horror flicks.
Media: Ink and Watercolors
I've administered pustules along the right side of her face, bits of gangrene on the left side, sores and dead skin on her skin, her shirt yellow from natural body-oils, scabs and blood implied behind the shirt, a bad wound implied in the front of her torso. I tried to make the background (which is really just the classroom I drew it in) just as infected and diseased as she was, administering red ink and green watercolors everywhere do give it that dried-blood sort of environment you would usually find the old hospitals you'd see in forgettable modern horror flicks.
Media: Ink and Watercolors
The Incredible Uncanny-Man
Uncanny he is. Based on the literary work-turned-feature film Coraline, the uncanny man was meant to employ the same feeling in the Uncanny Valley. He looks human, but your mind keeps telling you otherwise, whether it's the button eyes, zipper mouth, the way the hair is cropped or the fact that he has two left hands. Some might have two left hands, but I don't and there for, I must judge anybody that does have two left hands for that very reason. Because I'm an American. From the South.
Media: Ink, Colored Pencils, Watercolor and Acrylic
Media: Ink, Colored Pencils, Watercolor and Acrylic
The Cook
Who is "The Cook" you may ask? Why, he's an all powerful God of Insanity dwelling in the darkest pits of the world were hallucinations and delusions hail from. Think of him as a cross between Cthulhu and the Caterpillar from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a bit of Tim Burton thrown in (not his Alice in Wonderland movie. I'm a big enough fan of him to admit that movie was bad and still hold high admiration for him). Even his name is meant to be a reference. "The Cook" and his creation "White Pepper" is a reference to the Duchess' cook which used lots of black pepper, causing the both emotional stress. Even his minions, all of which are either people from this World of Madness (like the Näkke and the Slattenpatte both being references to the Mock Turtle) or people corrupted by his direct influence.
Media: Acrylic Paint
Media: Acrylic Paint
Krampus/Grinch
The very first oil painting I've ever made! Not too bad if you ask me.
This was made back in December and I wanted to do an obscure something-or-other that fit well that I could enlighten people on. And then I found out about the Krampus. This thing is meant to be Saint Nicholas' polar opposite. Nick gives gifts to good kids, the Krampus on the other hand kidnaps bad kids and brings them to his cave for his own christmas dinner. Seriously, this was actually a thing.
However, as I was making it, it eventually devolved into the Grinch. No worries though. I mean, who doesn't like the Grinch?
Media: Oil Paint
This was made back in December and I wanted to do an obscure something-or-other that fit well that I could enlighten people on. And then I found out about the Krampus. This thing is meant to be Saint Nicholas' polar opposite. Nick gives gifts to good kids, the Krampus on the other hand kidnaps bad kids and brings them to his cave for his own christmas dinner. Seriously, this was actually a thing.
However, as I was making it, it eventually devolved into the Grinch. No worries though. I mean, who doesn't like the Grinch?
Media: Oil Paint
Broken Eggs with a Side of Glass-Eyes
Behold the reason why I started oil painting. I originally made this from Acrylics with the intention of making a surrealist painting. Ever seen a surrealist painting? Anyway, I was enlightened that the smooth blend of colors were employed with oil paint and the rest is history. I'd explain what your looking at, but it's best you figure it out.
Media: Acrylic and Oil Paint
Media: Acrylic and Oil Paint
Chimera
I haven't really been employing much observation in Painting class lately, so I employed a small overtone of observation into this. What am I talking about? Well, I have two cats. One is a slightly-pudgy-but-in-an-adorable-way Odessa. She's had 2 litters of kittens and we kept one of those kittens for ourselves. We named him Chimera because 1) He looks like a lion, and 2) Leo was too cliché. So, being the oh so original person that I am, I made him into an actual Chimera. Clever right?!
Though this isn't my first oil painting, this one is one of my favorites. With that said, I'm beginning to think that I make a better oil painter than I am a watercolor...er...
meh...
Media: Oil Paint
Though this isn't my first oil painting, this one is one of my favorites. With that said, I'm beginning to think that I make a better oil painter than I am a watercolor...er...
meh...
Media: Oil Paint
Death God
Look what can be accomplished when you just sit around sketching during class!
I'm sure all of you have heard of the term Shinigami, right? It has become common knowledge to us yankees about these "Gods of Death" and how much of an impact they have on us. And by impact, I mean Manga and Anime (especially one of my favorite Anime's, Soul Eater). They're kind of like Japan's answer to "The Grim Reaper". Sometimes.
Here I decided to employ a more western feel to it, mainly with operatives like Egypt and other African cultures thrown in, with a strange background and a cigarette to add that extra contemporary style.
Media: Oil Paint
I'm sure all of you have heard of the term Shinigami, right? It has become common knowledge to us yankees about these "Gods of Death" and how much of an impact they have on us. And by impact, I mean Manga and Anime (especially one of my favorite Anime's, Soul Eater). They're kind of like Japan's answer to "The Grim Reaper". Sometimes.
Here I decided to employ a more western feel to it, mainly with operatives like Egypt and other African cultures thrown in, with a strange background and a cigarette to add that extra contemporary style.
Media: Oil Paint
Roses are Red...
Happy Mothers Day Mom!
Yeah I know, it's a bit corny but I honestly wasn't entirely sure what to get her so I decided to make her something instead, putting weeks in advance to work on a painting that takes forever to dry. That's the thing about oil paint. Yah gotta plan. I'm not sure is she likes it all that much though. She seems to find it dull, and she's the kind of person that worries for my sociopathic tendencies and interests...
Media: Oil Paint
GIVEN AS A GIFT TO PAULINE HUDEL-SMITH
Yeah I know, it's a bit corny but I honestly wasn't entirely sure what to get her so I decided to make her something instead, putting weeks in advance to work on a painting that takes forever to dry. That's the thing about oil paint. Yah gotta plan. I'm not sure is she likes it all that much though. She seems to find it dull, and she's the kind of person that worries for my sociopathic tendencies and interests...
Media: Oil Paint
GIVEN AS A GIFT TO PAULINE HUDEL-SMITH
...Violets Are Blue...
Happy Fathers Day Dad! I'm beginning to think that my mother isn't the best personI should go to when needing a second opinion. I intended to give more intricacies to this just like the rose piece, but she thought that this was better. Dad liked the intricacies of Roses Are Red..., and it wasn't even for him. The nerve...
Media: Oil Paint
GIVEN AS A GIFT TO JOHN WESLEY SMITH
Media: Oil Paint
GIVEN AS A GIFT TO JOHN WESLEY SMITH
The Wasp and The Logical Fallacy
I like to scare people. I would sometimes deposit creative death threats, or give my infamous evil laugh, but usually my work does that for me. However, I'm not immune to this basic emotion. Wasps are one of my triggers. They just freak me out. At least bees have a clear agenda, but wasps are nasty fuckers. So for this contest a gallery in California is holding, I wanted to employ a little personal commentary on my part, even using one of my nicknames as a joke. What's that? You don't get it? Well screw you, I thought it was funny!
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
Theraphosidae
A continuation of the point The Wasp and The Logical Fallacy was made. I was going to make three pieces, a red piece involving a mosquito, but as I was making it, I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't work. Where as I find wasps scary, I actually find spiders kinda cute, so I was trying to make the spider more approachable by giving it big sparkling eyes like a stuffed animal. Did it work?...did it? ...hello?
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
St. Mary
Happy Birthday Mom!
She is Methodist. My Dad is Baptist. I am neither. So you may be wondering why I gave her a painting of a Catholic figure of Faith. Yeah I know she's in Christianity in general, but anyways...
1, I was low on cash at the time and I wasn't able to get a copy of "House M.D. Season 2" on DVD, and 2, she collects Virgin Mary's. How that happened, I have no idea. It was in the middle of summer and I had nothing to do and I wanted to paint just to add to my "emergency" portfolio. I painted it on a wooden board with dark-grey acrylic latex, using one of my mother's own Virgin Mary figures as a model and a flurry of hot colors. Her entire room it done in a color scheme of Red, Orange and Pinks, so I felt inclined to assist the balance of the room.
Impressed? No? Fuck you!
Media: Oil Paint
GIVEN AS A GIFT TO PAULINE HUDEL-SMITH
She is Methodist. My Dad is Baptist. I am neither. So you may be wondering why I gave her a painting of a Catholic figure of Faith. Yeah I know she's in Christianity in general, but anyways...
1, I was low on cash at the time and I wasn't able to get a copy of "House M.D. Season 2" on DVD, and 2, she collects Virgin Mary's. How that happened, I have no idea. It was in the middle of summer and I had nothing to do and I wanted to paint just to add to my "emergency" portfolio. I painted it on a wooden board with dark-grey acrylic latex, using one of my mother's own Virgin Mary figures as a model and a flurry of hot colors. Her entire room it done in a color scheme of Red, Orange and Pinks, so I felt inclined to assist the balance of the room.
Impressed? No? Fuck you!
Media: Oil Paint
GIVEN AS A GIFT TO PAULINE HUDEL-SMITH
The Plug
Digging through old things I came across a few pieces from a few years back. This was from a drawing class that everyone was obligated to make. A disembodied plug. No one was electrocuted, but people did go home emasculated.
Media: Ebony
Media: Ebony
The Fan
Another old one. We brought together a still life and we had to make a piece entirely out of ebony pencil. As you could tell, I was a little apprehensive in doing so. Poor use of the back, middle and foreground. Too late to fix it, and honestly, I don't care enough to fix it. Ebony smears and it drives me over the ledge.
Media: Ebony
Media: Ebony
Flying Fox
An old throwaway assignment where we had to pick an animal and apply our own face onto it. I'm not one who enjoys looking at myself, so I kept it simple. I chose the Flying Fox Bat. There was always something wrong with this piece and eventually I had to cut my loses.
Media: Ink
Media: Ink
Shakespearean Fallacy
Love is a cruel creature. Then again, Desire is a creature of the moment, so Love wasn't love at the time. Super-Troll of the Stuffing Clan and Makeup-Maudie of the ever-rich Kendoll estate have grown closer together, much to the protests of their parents. One thing Super-Troll did not count on was that all Barbies are pure evil, leading to his downfall.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
For Whom the Scarborough (Oil Paint)
Another day in Painting I at El Centro College, and our coordinator Carlos Donjuan (and no, that isn't a pseudonym) tells us that next week, we would be bringing random objects for a collaborative still life. I brought a multitude of oddities from my room via a small suitcase and handbag. Here I brought a Japanese-parasol, an Arabian oil lamp, some books, my wand, some Easter eggs that I painted myself, a small wooden caricature of Jack Skellington and my ever ceremonial Plague Doctor costume that I dress up in every Halloween (comprised of a black cloak, Venetian mask, steam-punk goggles and a black preacher's hat). What did the others bring? NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I was literally the only one who brought anything for the still-life.The skeleton, fake-Greek column, mannequin and everything else was already there in the room. As much as I like the attention, I get the feeling that I was the only one who wants to be there.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
For Whom the Scarborough (Watercolor Paint)
Because of my experience from High School, it has dawned on me that the rest of my classmates are a bit behind my league. I'm not a narcissist or anything, I'm just better than everybody else is all. The still-life we put together was still there and everyone was supposed to take two class sessions to do the piece. Less than halfway through the class did I finish my piece in spades, so it was lucky that I thought ahead and brought some paper and my watercolors. I forgot the white ink, but who's complaining?
Media: Watercolor |
Landscape Thumbnail - Red Opera House
In case your wondering, yes, it is THAT Opera-house. Back in high-school, I was there when the Opera-house was first there. It is gorgeous. Anyway, our assignment was for us to make a landscape/cityscape painting. But first, we were to present three thumbnail paintings of the same criteria. So I made this. Your welcome.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
Landscape Thumbnail - Blue Railway
Number two of the thumbnails. All I really did for this one was turn to the left and did the walking railway. Not much to it really. As you could tell, the thumbnails are meant to represent the three primary colors. The first is red, this one is blue.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
Landscape Thumbnail - Yellow Road to Heaven
Turn left again and you get the only good look at any downtown city anywhere. Back in high school, I used to walk all-around this area for ten-straight minutes from school to the DART and back again. It got old, really fast.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
West End Station
Here at last, we come the the final corse of this four course project. Most courses go on for ten, but I could only afford the dinner and the three appetizers. Says a few things about my priorities. Maybe. Here I made a landscape of West End Station on the DART Rail. This is where I get off and get on in the case of El Centro College. Really. It's, like, a two minute walk away. And yes, there is a Chipotle there. No, I've never eaten there, nor do I want to.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
Exterminate All Rational-Thought
Being a fan of William S. Burroughs, what do you do when your assigned to do a portrait of a famous person? That's right, you make a painting of Thornton Burgess.
On an episode of Brows Held High, Kyle Kalgreen, A.K.A. Oancitizen did a review of the film Naked Lunch, ecstatic that it was the first film he ever did that was on the Criterion Collection. I became hooked ever since. The assignment was to do a portrait of a famous person. I chose Burroughs. being creative, I wanted to put him in a scenario that I found in the original book where a boy is hung by the neck and raped by a Mugwump, the boy relieving himself, the Mugwump cleaning him up and then continuing with the molestation, all of which performed on a stage in a night-club.
...did I mention that Burroughs did drugs? Lots and lots of drugs?
Media: Oil Paint
On an episode of Brows Held High, Kyle Kalgreen, A.K.A. Oancitizen did a review of the film Naked Lunch, ecstatic that it was the first film he ever did that was on the Criterion Collection. I became hooked ever since. The assignment was to do a portrait of a famous person. I chose Burroughs. being creative, I wanted to put him in a scenario that I found in the original book where a boy is hung by the neck and raped by a Mugwump, the boy relieving himself, the Mugwump cleaning him up and then continuing with the molestation, all of which performed on a stage in a night-club.
...did I mention that Burroughs did drugs? Lots and lots of drugs?
Media: Oil Paint
His Sinister Self
Wrath of the Iron Age
A time of fire and ice has returned to invade the present. Instructed to construct a collage to transfer into a painting, I came across a National Geographic Magazine on my walk through Half-Price Books and came across the magazine section. There are so many of them that each of them costs less than a dollar.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
To Hell and Beyond
The last of Painting I. Keeping a Buzz Lightyear action figure for this long, I have had the idea of a Cenobite Buzz Lightyear for a while now, hoping to use it in some manner. And here is that "some manner". :D
Media: Oil Painting
Media: Oil Painting
The Anxiety Room
The room your soul goes to when your mind is under a lapse of madness. Despite the colorful interior, The Anxiety Room is actually very boring. No books, no video games and all you get to watch on TV is KERA. Even worse, the boredom does not drive you insane because you had to leave that at the door.
Media: Oil Paint
The Logical Fallacy
The Tear. The Fracture. The Scratch in the CD. Logic is flawed and he is living proof. The Logical Fallacy was born when a group of scientists tried to punch a hole in the universe and visit realities beyond us. What they did not expect was for the artificial anomaly to destroy the entire facility like a black hole, only for this strange human-like being to crawl from the rubble. Now on the run, The Logical Fallacy is ever evasive of this Organization. He is like a loose thread on a T-Shirt, the very laws of nature unraveling as he tours the coast. A giant nest of Amazonian Wasp-Nymphs in the marshes of Scotland. Anthropomorphic Mushroom people living in the depths of the earth. The Tea Party Campaign. All of these absurd things appearing in our world is all because of him.
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
I Spit On Your Grave
Cannibal Holocaust
The May Queen - Envoy of Spring
The Maiden, the Nubile and the budding Seed. Incarnation of Spring to end the Season of Silence and waken from the Season of Sleep. I wanted to break out of my excess modesty and relax a little, hense her lack of "civil modesty", and the basic design was based around Rapunzel from Tangled and her relations in the Big Four. To those who don't know, the Big Four consist of Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup and Jack Frost, with each of them often representing the four Seasons. How all of this came about I have no clue. The May Queen herself however does not actually have a name, and I'm NOT naming her Rapunzel. That would be shallow. Or obvious. Or whatever. If anyone out there has any ideas for a name, let me know. It could be Flora, or Fauna, or RapunNO! (Disclaimer: I'm calling her May)
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
The Phantom Queen - Envoy of Summer
The Empress, the Priestess and the Warrior Woman. Incarnation of Summer and the Season of Adventure till the Season of Sleep. The Phantom Queen - or Mórrígan, as her friends call her - loves to party. Problem is that her pet crows have a tendency to invite Death and Violence to the party, so the party usually ends with quite the bang (and all too quickly from it too).
As you could tell, where as I based The May Queen off of Rapunzel from Tangled, I based the Phantom Queen off of Merida from Brave. I know she looks a little like Starfire, but I swear to god that was an accident! Also, Merida is Scottish, but the Phantom Queen is of Irish folklore. Well... Celts are Celts I guess, and "The Phantom Queen" was just too juicy to pass up.
Media: Oil Paint
As you could tell, where as I based The May Queen off of Rapunzel from Tangled, I based the Phantom Queen off of Merida from Brave. I know she looks a little like Starfire, but I swear to god that was an accident! Also, Merida is Scottish, but the Phantom Queen is of Irish folklore. Well... Celts are Celts I guess, and "The Phantom Queen" was just too juicy to pass up.
Media: Oil Paint
The Sandman - Envoy of Autumn
The Dreamer, the Contemplator and the Evening owl. Incarnation of Autumn and the Season of Sleep. The Sandman - also called Sandy - is a bashful but peaceful individual prone to small bursts of sarcasm and cynicism. His main duty to the world is to bring Autumn. He brings the sun and dyes the leaves in its color. Autumn is the "Season of Sleep" for a reason. It is a time for the plants and the animals to collectively fluff their pillows and set their alarm clocks, to sleep through the soil and protect themselves from the Season of Silence. People often make the mistake of believing that he paints the leaves their color, but that would take far too long. As a hobby, he often grabs a leaf from every tree when the leaves are at their driest. He then crumbles the leaves to powder and keep the crumbled remains in his trusty bag, hence the name "Sandman".
Media: Oil Paint
Media: Oil Paint
Oz the Great and Terrible
Hoping to find another dime in the crook of his couch cushions, Master Conman and Con Carne Oz slipped through a lapse in a cosmic seizure. Landing in the Cradle of Worlds, the heart of the realms-mortal, Oz thought he saw something shiny in one of the trees, Oz dug through the foliage and wound up bound to one of the trees. The tree dug its roots into the miser and fed off of his very soul. His blood contaminating the waters of the cradle, Oz has since infected the realms with his greed, plunging the universe (and parts beyond) into a great fog of avarice.
Media: Ink and Watercolors |
Key to the Door
Laos and Cho have known each other for the entirety of their careers, as one would expect. The lock and the key, the cheese and the wine, the Mary and the Kate.
Media: Ink and Watercolors |
Team Miasma
Team Miasma. Former mercenary group on behalf of The Government-turned renegade crime group. Known on the news for "The Fox Tower Heist " and "The Club 33 Scandal", Team Miasma has since been one step ahead of all law enforcement. Rumors have surfaced amongst the Government's Oligarchy that The Government is constructing an army of mechanized super-cops to take them down, keeping it within the general public because they might be a little peeved and there are not that many citizens left for cops to shoot at.
Media: Oil Paint |
The Miasmic Presence
The Presence. The construct of vengeance and thieves-bane. In an effort to steal from Passionpomp's treasure room, Team Miasma got a'hold of the the Zafiro de las Lágrimas, a gem of great power. What they did not expect was that by touching the gem, their very essence would be copied and incarnated into a single being. This being has since then hunted the group down, using their own skills against them and has haunted them ever since, sabotaging all of their exploits and reducing their foundation to rubble.
Media: Oil Paint |