SAY WHAT? ANIMALS IN SUITS? INDEED.

Decided to combine three loves for this sketch: Bush Babies, Animals in suits, and ye olde european costumes. let me know what y'all think!

Yay for Moms

Thank God for moms.

Two Shows of Note:John Hendrix and Sterling Hundley

Have meant to bring this up before now, but just so you all are aware. Two of my former teachers are each having or are about to have shows. I highly encourage anyone who can to check them out. These guys helped change my life, and I can't praise them enough.

John Hendrix: John Brown Show

A showing of process work and final pieces of art for John's new book on John Brown. The show is up now and will culminate in a book signing in September at Subterranean Books, here in St. Louis.

http://johnhendrix.blogspot.com/2009/07/john-brown-show.html

Sterling Hundley:

"Emergent", The debut solo show of painter Sterling Clinton Hundley opens september 4th at Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond, VA. from 7pm- 10pm. The artist will be in attendance.
220 West Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23220
(804)344.1557
http://sterlingclintonhundley.blogspot.com/

A Not so Late Night

Thank God for Lions and Gelato.

Another Late Night

Thank God for Elephants and aquatint.

A Late Night.

Thank God for marker paper and funny monkeys.

Befores and Afters

Also wanted to post this. Updated this image earlier this summer. Utilizing new skills rocks!

old one first, new version second.

Sketch/Experiment Dump

While I tend to shy away from posting sketches two times in a row, I've wanted to post some of this stuff for awhile. As you can see, I'm still obsessed with apes. I have also recently bought an old Dover book FILLED with tons of historical costumes. Great for artist's block!

Since graduation I have been trying to produce as much work as possible, and I am loving every minute of it.

Figure Studies!

I've tried to make a habit of doing figure drawing at least once a week over at the St. Louis Artists' Guild. Here are some examples!

Jupiter v. Saturn

Hello everybody!

Sorry for the delay on this one!

I was inspired by my visit to the Illustration Academy to create this piece based on Gary Kelley's assignment. He tried a new one this year- an project based on one of the seven deadly sins. Sounded good to me!

I phoned a friend and had her give me one randomly. She chose "RAGE".

After thinking of a bunch of different situations, I remembered the mythological story of Jupiter slaying Saturn and taking over the realm of the Gods. This let me do some fun visual research! I got to look at tons of ancient and neoclassical works of art. I also decided to depict Jupiter as a bull(he definitely turned into one at various times), to create a better composition and what I think is just an image that's more fun.

Enjoy!