In this piece i was just fooling around with designs and space. I wanted to have this dark goddess like figure unveiling her world to us. This painting is done in acrylic and for the background I used washes of different variations of reds and yellows.

In this piece I was experimenting with collage. It is acrylic paint with magazine cutouts. I took swatches of color from magazines that I found interesting and I used them to create organic shapes. I wanted to create a surreal image. I enjoy fantasy and this piece is just a snippet of how my mind interprets what fantasy looks like.

This was done through the free associative drawing method thing, then I cleaned it up and made it this! I might take it further and color it.

Punch holes are Holes.

Do you ever color in the punch holes on your notepad while sitting in a lecture??? Well, I DO! It’s a habit, along with drawing all over my notes…
The idea illustrated occurred to me while I was trying to come up with something for a project… I was thinking of holes, and then the idea evolved into zooming in on a punch hole where a world of ideas swims beneath… the point I imagined? Stop hiding your thoughts, get out of the hole and start a new chapter!

Technique: Paper cutout

Spring Renewal

digital drawing

peacock

digital drawing

baby bird

Well, better late than never! This piece is sort of still in progress. Over the past summer I kinda developed a fixation with 18th century miniature paintings, and putting bird heads on everything, so I started doing a series of small oil paintings. With bird heads.

Notebook Treasure

This was a fun little project. I have been doing these small wacky figure drawings. They are inspired by tribal art and have been covering my notebooks for months. So I put them into a simple composition inked them and finished it in photoshop. Hope you enjoy!

Watercolor on Emily Dickinson

I was reading Emily Dickinson's poem "Experiment to Me"

Experiment to me
Is every one I meet
If it contain a Kernel?
The Figure of a Nut

Presents upon a Tree
Equally plausibly,
But Meat within, is requisite
To Squirrels, and to Me.

So I did this experimental watercolor piece based on that.
There are some areas where the colors I used to make the
brown are dissolving into their own which I liked a lot.
It was probably because it's bad quality watercolor paint
but I think it worked well for this case.

Barbie necklace

Since all I ever do is paint, I've been trying to come up with more 3D stuff to post on here. Here's a necklace I just made using old wire, a barbie, an old necklace and an earring. I picked up the barbie the last time I went to AIDS Thrift and cut her up in fun different ways. I always planned to make jewelry with her, but it's taken me a while to be inspired. The chains hanging from her face are actually taken from an earring that an old friend left here a long time ago. The necklace she's attached to was something I picked up at the punk rock flea market for a dollar. Basically, this entire necklace cost only two dollars to make... WOOHOO! I painted up the face here and there and made her eyebrow hella awesome. In case you can't see it too well, it's a scorpion.

The Huntress

She always gets her prey.

Meeting the Devil

First impressions can be hard.

BANG

And They Called it.....

Poor lady Jezel is 102 years old. She has lost almost everything in life. Her husband died 30 years ago, her kids left home and forgot about her years ago, she lives in a house miles away from any human contact. However, she could care less, cause in her life all she needs is her 50 year old half stupid dog, Zuzu. Because if you are going to be a crazy old lady just remember, dogs are better then cats.

Karrin

This is a portrait I was commissioned to do at the end of the summer that I finally did a few weeks ago. It's Karrin, commissioned by her husband. colored pencil

Reflection

This piece is a wood burning and oil painting. I wanted to depict the imagination that a child has while looking at herself in a reflection in a window.

Strength

This piece is a wood burning and oil painting. It is symbolic of the strength of a woman

Consumed By Addiction

In this piece I wanted to show how addiction hurts more than just the addict. I wanted to show how alcoholism can break a family apart. In this piece the father is drifting away from the mother and daughter and being consumed by this dark mass. The mother is gazing in the opposite direction and in a way fading also into her own depression. The little girl is clinging to her father's pinky and holding her mother's hand at the same time desperately trying to hold her family together. She is the only light because she is the only hope for the family. In this piece I experimented with design. My approach to this piece was inspired by the artist Chagall. I wanted to show how dark addiction can be through a more surreal way.

Hats

These are a few contour studies with watercolor, just experimenting!

Ever wonder How they killed it?

This is what I think about politicians and their failed attempts at peace making ...
The mad man forced to watch is us..well who else could it be?
I sketched my idea first, then finished it in illustrator and photoshop :)

Didgeridoo

I made this Didgeridoo from a single board of maple that I cut in half, squared, and then hollowed out on both sides with a chisel and Di-grinder . I cut in some biscuit joints every 6 inches along the length of the walls to reinforce the two half's once they were glued together. Once glued together, I hand planed the square to get the outside shape of a tube, and then melted some beeswax and created the mouthpiece. What I'm working on now is the decorations, like the owl in the pictures. I plan to woodburn the entire instrument with various animals and possibly experiment with some home made wood stains.

-Vlad

playing around on my mac using harmony

collage

theater

this is a picture I took and distressed of an abandoned theater up by 22nd and chestnut.

Cutting out vs. Filling in

I’ve always liked making images out of geometric shapes and repetitive elements…it’s just like Lego..the difference is that it's more fun when you make up the shapes as you go…This time I tried to experiment by cutting out my image rather than painting or pasting on a surface...it started out abstract and unplanned..about half way through I started searching for a way to make it connect :)

Wolf Sisters

Who ever said they should be afraid of the big bad wolf? This is a little piece I did for fun. I have the lineart of this on my blog. I am considering redoing this piece traditionally only to try out a new medium.

Red Cap Goblin

This is a sketch of a red cap goblin that I did, because I was bored! If you don't know what a red cap is; it's a devious little creature that, after killing its target, will drop its hat into the blood of its fallen prey and then wear it as a trophy.

Moses for my Birthday?

I did this drawing today, which so happens to be my birthday. It seems the older you get, the less exciting the prospect of getting older declines. This drawing is to depict Moses. When the Bible was translated from the original Greek to Latin some details were lost. In Greek, it described Moses as having rays of light radiating from his head. The closest word to rays in Latin was horns. Thus, in the Latin translation Moses had horns! Michelangelo sculpted several pieces with a horned Moses and I thought it would be fun to do my own... he looks quite intimidating!

Zach

Revering the Ancient Masters

This is influenced by the ancient designs from a land that is now called Turkey. To practice patience and master different media these designs are perfect for me. Starting in the Ottoman times (and even before that until now) these designs were used to ornament palaces, mosques, clothing, pottery etc. painted by masters of pigment making and painting. All hand painted all slightly different from each other becoming one perfect thing. I love going through them looking for new movements,motifs and combining different colors with the old ones. It gives me a sense of meditation and completeness.

Some of my classmates have seen me use the same idea in a very contemporary form of art in one of our classes last semester: The Munny project. So much fun.

Revering the Ancient Masters

Taaraju

Hi there! My name is Avery Kane, and here's my first post! I love painting pictures or drawing things that take me to other places. This piece I finished today, doesn't have a particular meaning, really, the idea for it came from some photos that a friend had sent me from their trip to India. Note the "shaman figure" at the bottom, and then I love playing with the human figure, so I chose to depict one of the moves sometimes a contortionist will perform on stage. The painting is a simple Acryllic painting and it is about 7x15 in size.
Not much else to say but please Enjoy, and feel free to comment, I call the piece "taaraju" which I believe is a hindu word that means balance in english.

Nobody likes StarFish

A comic I did after the idea was made up by me and two other people in my class.

Rainbow Monster?

A little something I started in class and finished at home on some scrap wood. Willing to sell.
Acrylic and ink.

Comics...

These comics were done in our sequential format studio class.
It was initially a drawing warm up..each person drew one frame on a piece of paper and then it was passed on (randomly) to another person to draw the second frame..and so on..
It was really cool to pick up where someone else left off and we ended up with a bunch of awesome comic strips!