New Drawings from Fall 2010

Disney trees and teeth, colored pencil and charcoal on paper. 14" x 17".

Untitled, colored pencil and graphite on paper. 14" x 17".

Untitled, watercolor, charcoal, collage on paper, 18" x 23.5".

My first painting of the semester

Untitled, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, collage, and charcoal on paper, 45" x 30".

Work from a new show

I was in a show called Employed this week. I arrived on Thursday evening with 9 other artists and started working until yesterday at 4pm. All the work that people made during that period was hung in the gallery. There were also two installation pieces put up in the work room that we were in. I only took a few pictures of my own, but when I find the ones taken by others I'll post them as well. Here's the work I made:

Wire mother, Acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on canvas, 36" x 38"

Unknown at this time, Acrylic, watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on canvas.

I don't remember the size of this one, but it's slightly smaller than the other. I'll post the other pictures later.

I sat in the car, 18" x 24", graphite transfer on paper

It's so hard to take photos of graphite. I'm not sure why it's so grainy...

Collaboration with Mona

Today I went to a painting event in Montrose Beach with my friend Mona. A man named Andrew DeLaRosa, who runs Gallery B1E in Rogers Park, gave us paint and a canvas and brushes. We ate chips and made a collaborative painting:

Acrylic, graphite, and charcoal on canvas, like 12" x 18" possibly

It's weird how collaborative it actually ended up being. It does look like a hybrid of our work, my intuitive organic matter and disturbing sorts of drawings with the hesitancy that Mona's paintings have. I think it's quite good. The more I look at it the more I realize what a good painting it is.

I think about 4' x 5', I'll measure it later. Distemper, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, graphite, and charcoal.

I won $100 in a painting contest

First prize! It will pay for my materials for finals. Whee!