Alphabet soup

Found one more letter that I liked "x"

Too Tired To Get Up

This is one of my favorite charcoal drawings I did in my figure drawing class. There was not enough time in class to finish it, but I think that is what give the drawing some interest. I love the dark background in contrast to the light color of his skin.

Alphabet Soup

"e"

"Q"

"F"

"W"

"M"

"T"

"i"

"V"

Hands...again

So as stated in a previous post...I am fascinated with hands. I found this American artist named Josh Keyes who uses urban and environmental elements in his art. In each of his pieces he is trying convey environmental awareness...

"and the common space we share with different cultures and organisms, is the backbone that supports the different themes and ideas I explore in my work. It is in places in the world where the human touch encroaches on the natural environment are of great interest to me. Areas where rain forests collide with the logging industry or the fracture in our own back yards where a sidewalk or street ends and an ecosystem or biome emerges. Areas where cement meets rugged soil and grass, or a displaced bear roams far from their natural habitat. It is in the ever-growing human fingerprint that calls into question the value and importance or lack thereof that we assign to the natural surroundings."

I believe this one is called Guardian 1

Childhood play

There are many times in my life that I want to go back to my childhood days. Days that were full of imagination and play. My second collage deals with the wonderment of childhood imagination. When I started it, there was a lot of color and I wanted to simplify it to black and white. To me, black and white represent the past and the blast of color in the magnifying glass is me remembering. As a child, I had an amazing imagination and as I grew up I lost some of that wonderment. It helps me to remember that child in me and use it as often as I can.

Hands...

I have a strange fascination with hands. I find that they can be very expressive. I found an image online a year ago and did this drawing with a ballpoint pen. Hands can be aggressive, loving or comforting without any words. I am a fan of this style of drawing (squiggly, I would say). There is a lot of emotion in every stroke which brings up the emotion of the picture as a whole. This is an up close view.

Strength in Image

I am currently writing a short paper on the issue of political artwork. This is a piece that my art history class has been studying by Jacques-Louis David called the Oath of the Horatii. This is considered political in content and style. The man in the middle is the father holding three swords up to his three sons as they take an oath to fight for family honor as well as for their country. This painting I consider to be strong not only in content but of placement of the images on the picture plane. If you notice, three is a reoccurring statement. There are three swords, three brothers, three arches, three distinct triangle and so on. Three is a strong element, for example if you have a bicycle (which is two wheels) it can easily be pushed over, but if you have a tricycle (as you know has three wheels) it cannot be done as easily. The triangle, in it's self, is a strong image because there is a good foundation to it. So in the painting it could be referring to the foundation of their family.
This summer, I saw this piece in Paris at the Louvre and I didn't know what it was about. I am anxious to get back and see it again.