Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008

first acrylic painting in two years

needs some serious touching up, but i think it came out okay.
i'll keep practicing


art in haiku

there will be some work to prove this statement. Coming soon.

My area of concentration is smaller compositions focused more on the ideas that come with the picture than the technical skill of the piece. Valasaraptor

Monday, November 24, 2008

safe



it's been a bad month. I had been working on this super drawing (an exploding prism) but doing it was too stressful. to mellow out i did this one last week.

Friday, October 3, 2008

A Storm In Heaven



this a shot of where Verve's first LP, a storm in heaven, was drawn from. It's a photo.

(guys who do stuff I like) follow up

the works of those guys repectivley











Wednesday, October 1, 2008

some free time

To all diehard Blog fans, this one's for you.


(just cut paper on more paper; it was fun)



(na na na na na na na na na it's a bat, it's a bat, it's a bat)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

(GUYS WHO DO STUFF I LIKE)

TOP FIVE ART HEROES

5) Winslow Homer- I'm not a fan of his famous works but the really obscure and simple ones he did are really blue.
4) Thomas Moran- I like doing the occasional landscape. This guy is good but sort of repetitive. The landscape Warhol.
3) Franz Marc- The blue silky Fauvist. I'm all about Fauvism and he does it in a jazzy way. Good use of color and movement. Sweet.
2) Frederick Church- A more recent descovery; I don't really know anything about him. Also a landscaper but his work is a lot better than Moran's.
1) Henri Matisee- number one guy; inspirer of most of my stuff. Better than Darin. When he was going blind he started cutting paper and doing art that way. Excellent.

New Art Extranganza

Hey Blog Fans. It's been a pretty unfruitful summer. I have assembled some new work. Moe stuff coming soon.


















Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Clay Mug Shot

Here's my progress so far on the clay sculpture. Still needs work. And eyes.



Thursday, May 8, 2008

Nate Chew Err




The sky is awesome.The vivd colors work really well in this one; things get lighter and more yellow the closer they get to the sun; both the clouds and people. The sun's yellow is reflected on the water in the lower left, the coach's top, and the mountains on the right side. On the cattle, you don't quite see the sun's color, but the yellow mixes with their dark red making some kind of orange The painting's genre is classified as Romantiscm, but some people say his art style should be called Luminism.

This is one of my favorite paintings. I didn't know who painted it for a while. It was done by Albert Bierstadt, called "The Oregon Trail" and done in 1867. Oil on canvas, 31 X 49." Alby looks like a mix of Chester Allen Arthur and Santa Claus.

Attack of the Clay People

Clay is my natural enemy.







Finished this one in record time; 3 days. Last clay thing I did took me like 40 days (seriousy, and it was only a shoe).

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Ball Loons

I made the "sculpture" and then drew it.



Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Spirit Space




The ripples on the water are done incredibly well. They have texture and reflect the back mountains, the boat, and fisherman. Nice Homer, naice. You can't see the source of light at first and there are also no shadows that identify anything plus the sky is pretty gray. But, if you look at the water, you can see the reflection of the sun in the bottom right corner. What's weird is the sky about two thirds of the way up. it seems to mirror itself.

The Red Canoe by Winslow Homer, 1889. No website would give me the medium (apparently MET has better things do upload), presumably oil on canvas, 18 x 25
Here's Winnie:

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Powa' and Authoritay

This painting has two balanced focal points: the tree thing in the lower right and the mountain in the upper left. Purple skies and light blue clouds gives this painting a cool color scale. Plus the mountains are brown; my old art teacher at kenmore had a Thomas Moran poster that said MOUNTAINS ARE NOT BROWN. This is a landscape painting.
This one was done by thomas moran (Index Peak, Yellowstone National Park, 1914, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 1/4 inches). Tommy looks like this:

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Narrative Art: The Post


This painting is very "blue centred." Apart form the ocean, there is blue in the sand, blue in the shadows of the house and the sails. The focal point, the sails on the boat, is the centre of the drawing because it is the biggest thing that is the least blue. However, the dark blue and purple, used in the water to give depth, also direct you eye off the left side of the painting which may indicate that the boat is traveling around the island.


This painting is called The Long Leg by edward hopper. His usual media is oil on canvas. Here's a picture of ol' Ed:

Friday, March 28, 2008

Posted unposted SketchBook


This one was a warmup that became pumpkin pirates




Told you more stuff was coming

Barabababa (Art ) I'm loving it.

I like the ENHANCE COLOR button. More stuff coming.

Exit?

Man... I gotta start posting more. Sorry all Katurian Blog fans

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

A Minty Halloween


its been awhile since my last post. My bad.


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