Painting practice

It's 1AM, I'm at Tara's house. Decided to do a little painting sketch from an earlier drawing I made. I'm happy with the eye and the nose, not so much with the rest of it. I need more practice painting fur in acrylic. I'll probably revist this tomorrow to add some more detail and clean up a few areas.

Sketches

On the subway-drew a wolf. At the MET-drew a sculpture. Sketch Night @ SI-drew a model

Grrrr....

I just realized...

...I never posted this...in my senior year @ FIT I was asked to create a playing card for a collaborative project between FIT, Parsons, Pratt, Xerox and the ICON5 conference. The cards were then produced and given out at the conference in NYC. It was an honor working on this project considering I was one of only 2 seniors selected to participate from FIT (the other 4 artists were in the masters program). I was given 7 of Clubs and created this. It was cool to see my work in a deck of cards.

Audubon Artists Inc.

I had a painting accepted into the 67th Annual Audubon Artists Juried Competition. The exhibit will run from September 27th-October 2nd at the Salmagundi Art Club @ 47 5th Ave in New York City. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, September 27th from 12-5. Come by if you're in the area and say hi!

Wildlife

I was given a "homework assignment" by illustrator Greg Manchess to sketch my two favorite animals. Although I love them all, I have always loved killer whales and really admire snow leopards. I plan on painting these skecthes as practice for a big painting coming up. I went to the Museum of Natural History this past weekend to take some photos and get some sketching in. Here's a hyena.

Summer 2009 Sketchbook/Journal

I decided to keep a sketchbook/journal for the summer. I wanted to try to be less precious with my art and not focus so much on trying to make things perfect. I just needed an outlet, I guess. I've been going through a difficult time in my life right now and I feel like this is going to help me. I've felt better since I started the book. Anyway, here are the first few pages.