Recent Ink Spill

I haven't been able to think of a title for this. A friend of mine and I were talking about it and I was mentioning how I see all these monsters in these ink spills. He went farther in saying how he saw some very bourgeois monsters. Everyone has something different to say about these ink spill/illustrations.... I find these different ideas interesting.

Mistakes in Art

Mistakes are what a person could potentially predict one or many in action. Not to be confused by accidents, something that cannot be foreseen, mistakes are what make us learn by our own and/or observing other's actions. One generally discards the endless work and passion spent on a project or situation when a mistake 'ruins' everything. When the first impulse is to throw away and start fresh can be good and refreshing, it's best to take what you have and make do. In most situations that's all one can do and when successful gives the most satisfying feeling of conquering the evil, awful, terrible mistake. After pushing past many of my own mistakes it can be possible to embrace mistakes for what they are, challenges.

A series of spilled ink. Of course, I intentionally spilled this ink, to make this series plausible to my claims I added a resistant to ink with water to create uncontrollable effects to each print of the spilled ink. Each print was unique and beautiful as it was, to manipulate the effect and 'mistakes' to something more than abstract I filled in the creatures and illustrations I find in each.

Summer Printing

This Means War!

Melvin

I was given a great opportunity to utilize the printmaking room for 3 weeks at the college I just graduated from. A few of my works are still in progress, the top four images are editions I was able to finish called "This Means War!" and "Melvin"..

I also have a few pieces in progress...

Flight of Emotion

       Pride and Victory (Oil and Acrylic)
    

     Flight of Emotion. A series of birds conveying human emotion outside of animal instinct. Pride and Victory (an acrylic diptych on masonite).

These pieces are hanging in my home in Ohio, I don't think I can part with them. They have a telling story of my growth as an artist and person through my last years in college. 

Liberation, as you can see below, is the piece I decided recently that I would donate to the school I graduated from, Carthage College.  It is so large that it demands a large area to be viewed.  Holding it at home or giving it to another person to hold in any home wouldn't quench the space it needs. I also feel that it belongs at Carthage, my experience and growth through out this piece was because of the place it was created. I think of donating it as a gift to those who instructed, lead and advised me to where I am and I feel it was the best donation I could give.

                          

                
  Liberation (Acrylic)

     The piece that was most emotional to me as an artist was 'Liberation'.  There are several layers creating the background which display an emotion that could be understood differently to each viewer. From serenity to depression, the downfall is contrasted by it's foreground subject, the white egret. This piece is 6.7' x 5.5', a very large piece which was a challenge my professor gave me near the end of my college career.  I could not be any more grateful for my instructors faith that I could complete such a monster of a canvas. After completing this I had a new sense of spirit toward myself as a person and an artist.

Hunger (Acrylic & Acrylic Medium)

Wounded (Acrylic)

          Wounded was my first piece in this series.  I had no references in mind or subject matter to work with.  I decided to open my mind to push forward with an idea for a series. I wasn't surprised with the concept of birds, I've always had a strange passion and love for birds.

Chariot Designs