Tuesday, May 29, 2007

...in catching up.

While I had created this blog apparently back in early March, it has taken me over two months to actually find the time, or rather the will to sort through everything enough to decide what to post to catch anyone up in regards to any of my work.

I've taken the time today to do just that and rather than having any kind of portfolio to present, I've actually come to something closer to the opposite. I have very little to post. I've decided that the work that I had done in the past is just that, the past. While I recognize that no person would be anything without their past, it is what has made them, and what still holds them to be the person they are, philosophically, emotionally, executionally (like that word?)...While I recognize this, I see the need to veer off into the world of the new, and focus on developing my skills further, in an attempt to stray from any form of rut I've been in. In any case, someday I may post the steps that turned me into me, but honestly, my work at present isn't overly strong, you'd shudder to see how little it took for me to decide to take that leap from a career into the instability of art.

So, as far as the first post goes, I will give you only these recent works, hopefully the lack of posted work will spur me into working more, if only to have something to share.

I may not have mentioned, and I think very few people know that I actually have a double-first of Graphic Design and Metals. I'll be adding to a portfolio of metalworks as well.


"untitled #41" 2007 - Brass, silver & enamel.






A few recent pages from my sketchbook.


"Sorrow" 2007 - charcoal









"The Starbucks studies" 2007 - Graphite/Marker






a digital collage piece I did earlier this year.







"Winter" 2007 - digital scanned and drawn material





I dabble in Photography now and again, most of anything I do tends to be luck rather than skill. I have a decent eye but lack the knowhow or the method.
"Moss #4" 2007 Digital print

My friend Blake Dieters has a studio set up, thank you for letting me use it when I get bored.

"Studio Portrait study" 2006
Model: Courtney Kemp