...in absentmindedness

It's been a considerable amount of time since I last bothered to post. Those of you who know me know I have been in a relatively rough stretch lately, emotionally, physically...metaphysically...In any case, I haven't really done much of anything. I have a few metals pieces I need to photograph to include, and a few paintings, but for the most part, my creative side died along side my broken heart.



I brought my pen tablet to a coffee house one night, here is the result: yeah, I drew a couch.














These were scribble drawings that Leah and I did...( you know the game, turn a scribble into the first thing you see)

...in distraction.

"Courtney Graffiti 1" July 07

My lack of productivity of late is at the fault of nothing in particular. Finding inspiration as always, proves to be an obstacle with the weight of dark matter. *something so small weighs as much as a thousand suns...yeah.
I've been sketching a bit. Trying to let the pencil do the thinking, unfortunately it seems the pencil is as freshly out of ideas as I am. Even as such I will post a few pages from my sketchbook though none of it is spectacular.


I had been having problems with my computer feeling the need to turn off unexpectedly at the most inopportune moments. It did not just blink off, it shut down all of the applications *though if i saved my work when it did this, the file would turn up corrupt. FANTASTIC. I disassembled my computer and dusted everything out with compressed air and it seems to have done the trick. It looks like there was so much dust in the heat sync that it was causing the processor to heat up and shut down before it damaged itself.

The newfound *or rather REfound ability to finish work on my computer has resulted in...nothing. I can work again, but i've been so far from motivated to paint anything i have hardly touched andthing adobe or corel. HOWEVER, facebook has a graffiti application now and i've done a few odd things on that for kicks.

A randomly filled page from my sketchbook. I've been told that working in silhouettes can help come up with ideas so i gave it a try. it is not easy.

I had a themed night of drawing yesterday evening. A few pages of odd creatures with a page of a story idea. (see "the narrow man")

A sketch for a partial concept idea. Headdress/rigid

A nymph of some sort. I recently ordered an in depth lesson for being able to draw human anatomy from memory. It hasn't arrived yet, but i was seeing what i could pull out as it is so i can mark any form of improvement.

Miscellaneous portraits and hands. I believe the two were from a book i use as a reference source . Fresh Fruits

Another graffiti drawing. Back onto the creatures, hands and muscles.

...in disappointment.

I feel the need to apologize to the millions of people who aren't reading this anyway.

I've found myself in the type of situation where a person would find themselves saying, "Well that figures..." more often than they may otherwise. In this instance, the full sentence sans ellipsis would be something along the line of, "Now that I have started an artist's blog class and sleep deprivation are going to keep me from doing anything worthwhile...etc"

Class finishes tomorrow with our formal portfolio review. All of the work in the class has definitely been in the category of design...I may further describe all works held within the semester's portfolio are utter garbage. Nothing illustrative, even though I am getting credited for the class entitled: Advanced Illustration...Well that figures.

Soon. I will have something for you SOON. I have paint. I have canvas, the WILL, the DRIVE...just not the time or the attention span.

...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