Last Post Before Junior Year!

So I return to college at Pratt in about three days, and I'm really excited about it! I'm going back really early since I'm going to be an RA for one of the freshman dorms there. I'm hoping it'll be a good experience for me, that'll help me gain some more confidence and meet new people. I think networking is an important part of anyone's life, but artists in particular; for getting ideas from other people, collaborating on projects, just having people around to encourage you, and a million different other ways. Confidence and the ability to connect with other people are both things I'd like to improve in myself and use to help further my future career, so it seemed like a pretty great idea to me. And it should be a lot of fun.

But anyway, here are some drawings I've been doing over the summer on location at Coney Island and in my figure drawing class. I'm using a lot of color in many of these, which as I mentioned in my last post, is something I've been avoiding for a while. Something else I'm trying to do is to avoid "drawing with paint", and use shape instead of line when I'm painting. That's still something I need to work on - I'm using line more than shape in quite a few of these, so I suppose I've still got a lot of work ahead of me. But that doesn't mean there aren't interesting things happening in all of these! I wouldn't post them if I didn't think so.

All of these images were made with acrylic paint. (Maybe one of them has ink in it, too.) I have every intention in working back into several of these, especially the painting of the concession stand covered in signs. As always, if you like the images, click on them to see a bigger version.





















I really can't wait to get back to Pratt where I can finally use the scanners instead of taking terrible photographs with my digital camera.

Location '09, Day 1

It is officially June, which means Jeff Fisher's location class has finally started! This is my third summer taking this class, we go on field trips to various places every Sunday and draw there. It's pretty much the highlight of my summers. Traditionally our first trip is always to the Bronx Zoo, and that's where we went this time, too. Here are all of the drawings I did there, from the good to the mediocre. I'll try to post them in the order that I did them, as well, but it might not be completely accurate. Don't forget to click on the images if you want to see a bigger picture. Again, the picture quality isn't terrific because I had to resort to using a regular digital camera and cropping them in photoshop, but I like to think that the images are strong enough that it doesn't make toooo much of a difference. I usually have a rough time on the first trip, but I got a lot of good drawings done this time around.