South Dakota

I've been scanning in film that I shot in South Dakota over the summer. The color film was great. These are two of many photos I took in the Badlands National Park.

SOPHOMORE YEAR

Sophomore year has started. Hooray! This is a painting I made for my Painting class/just for fun. We had to do "nature studies". I painted leaves, a yellow bird outside Tyler, and this scene from the Tyler Painting studio. I'm pleased with the last two the best.

This image is from the view outside the studio. It's oil on canvas. I think it might be about 12" X 24". Oil paint is going great. I'm liking it better than acrylics. I used a lot of skills I learned over the summer to make this painting.

Mrs. Dalloway

This assignment was for Drawing class second semester. We had to draw a still life based off of a literary work. I chose one of my favorite books: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. I set up this still life in my dorm room and used watercolor pencils to render it.

Glass Squirrels

For my final in 3-D class, we got to use the glass studio to do sand-casting with glass. I made 5 squirrels out of glass. The final assignment was to create something with glass that related to architecture in a parasitic way.

I placed my glass squirrels on the ground in the emergency exit in a stairwell at Tyler. They didn't photograph very well in their intended location. This image is of just one of the squirrels in the Salon De Refuse (the last show for Freshmen at Tyler).

I wanted the building to be the parasite of the squirrels. This was based on an experience I had in the fall, where I found a squirrel that had been hit by a car and was still alive. The squirrel died shortly afterwards. At the time, I had recently started to photograph the birds that were dying from window strikes on campus. The city environment of Temple's campus was new to me, and I disheartened by the affect the city had on living things inside of it. I made this piece with that memory in mind.

Boathouse Row

I made this painting of Boathouse Row a couple weeks ago. Yesterday, I sold it at First Friday (an event where galleries exhibit new pieces and people sell their work by the side of the road). It's acrylic on canvas. It looked like it was about to storm when I was painting it. I decided to make this blog post to commemorate the painting and my first sale at First Friday.

Candy

This was the project we worked on in class the last day of Drawing before our final. Our teacher set up a still life of candy, cookies, and pinecones. We could approach it as a still life or as a landscape of candy.

I used chalk pastel on 18" X 24" paper. After we were done drawing, we could eat the candy and cookies. It was a great assignment.

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I've been learning photography recently. These are two images I took over spring break on color film and slide film. The film has been scanned into the computer, so I have them as digital files now.