Newest Artwork

I know it's been a long time since I updated, but here are 5 of the most recent works that I've done, more to follow soon.

Final Poster

The final poster for Poster Design. The theme was to design what you think embodies you as an artist in a poster for your senior show. I really am lost as to where I want to go or who I want to be as an artist, so I thought a Wizard of Oz poster was appropriate. There's a long tirade behind this poster, but to make the sob story shorter, I was denied a final critique out of spite and pettiness. Anyways, it's done in acrylics and looks awesome up on my wall.

Another Poster

More artwork! I got a bunch of life drawing projects back that I will upload soon, but I need to take pictures of them because they are too big to scan. Anyways. Below we have the latest poster from Danawi's Poster Design class, done in the C.F. Payne technique, with acrylic, watercolor, and oil washes with colored pencil on top. I was inspired by Norman Rockwell's 'Gossip' poster, and I hope the message of this reads clearly. Thanks to Zac Orangio for his help with the font and text layout (I am a graphic design failure).

Been a long time- 2 new posters

Shamefully, even though there's only 4 weeks of class, I only have 2 new artworks to put up. I haven't recieved any of my drawings back from Life Drawing 2 yet, so I haven't had a chance to photograph anything there. Anyways, these two are both from my Poster Design class with Mohammed Danawi.


This is a movie poster for a french Filmumentary called Entre Les Murs (aka The Class, for us Americans) about a teacher and his unruly class in an inner city school in Paris. This is done in acrylics, with ink for the grafitti.




This was for the "event" poster project. I can't resist drawing a half naked lady for one of my projects each quarter. Text drawn by yours truly, everything else is watercolor.

Larger pages from Beauty and the Beak

So I took some time today and put together the spreads and text for my favorite pages in photoshop so that everyone can see them in all their full-sized glory (and see some of the story too).







Most of the other pages are either spot illustrations or not my favorites. Above are the 3 colored spreads, a black and white spread, and a single page. I'm hoping to find the time to paint all of the pages at some point, and then maybe get it published.

Beauty and the Beak- Finally Finished

As some or most of you know, one of my classes this past quarter was Book Illustration with Julie Lieberman. I wrote my own fairy tale, and illustrated all 32 pages of it myself.

The basic gist of the story is: An enchantress comes to a castle disguised as an old crone, and asks everyone in the castle for a material possession. No one obliges her except for the young princess. As punishment, the enchantress turns everyone who spurned her into a goose. In order to save them, the princess has to weave a blanket out of brambles and roses within a year's time, and she can't make a single noise while she's weaving. A handsome prince comes to visit one day and helps her finish the blanket in time. Yes, everyone lives happily ever after, and learns a lesson in the meantime, of course.

A lot of time, love, and frustration went into this book, and I learned a lot from it. It's hard to make an entire book in 9 weeks! I can finally say that I finished a story that I wrote as well haha. I've posted a slideshow of all the drawings and paintings below- check it out and let me know what you think. I know it's small, but the image quality doesn't carry into full screen mode.

Another Watercolor

Another watercolor that I did last quarter. I had been unable to upload it before because it is looonnnggg and I had to scan it in and fiddle with it and yeah. I redid the pink floyd poster I did last year that some have seen, because I really... disliked it haha. I knew I could draw it better, paint it better, get it to look like I saw it in my mind. This one is definitely a lot closer. This painting was also the first time that I successfully used salt on the watercolors (I am inept).

I'm trying to draw influence and inspiration from Alphonse Mucha, one of my favorite artists. This was the finished product for the aging/crackle project for Don Rogers. It is watercolor (obv) with salt, coffee, aging varnish and crackle varnish. Enjoy!