Nine County Art Show

This painting placed second in the painting category for the Nine County Art Show at the Honeywell Center. I'm so excited to have gotten it in and to have won second place with it!

My class travelled down yesterday to check out the show since three of us got in and won. Plus, two of our profs got in and a few alumni, so it was pretty exciting. The Center is pretty amazing but I wish there was better lighting on our pieces. I won't complain too much though!

Its been a pretty exciting couple of weeks and I'm looking forward to the Senior Show in about two days time!

Here With You

This is a watercolor painting that I just finished entitled, 'Here With You.' It is of my grandparents while they were at the Grand Canyon. My parents used to live in Arizona and this is of one time when they came out to visit. It is approximately 12x17.

It was kind of hard at times to paint since my grandpa has been gone for eleven years now. It wasn't easily to keep looking at his picture knowing that I won't get to see his reaction to my painting. And unfortunately, he has never seen or will see what I can do with paint, a brush and a canvas.

This painting, I finished in time for my senior show and it is up in the gallery now.

Game Day

This black conte drawing is titled "Game Day." This was a still life that I set up to draw a while ago. Its another of my favorites. It will also be in my senior show. It probably seems like there is a ton going in but really there are only six pieces that I'm entering. This is also on 24x18 size drawing paper.

Broken

This red conte drawing was a still life that I did in one of my classes. It is a 24x18 size drawing and is one of my favorites. It will also be in my senior show along with the two paintings that I posted in the last few days.

Untitled

This painting I just recently finished. It is Untitled as of now because I couldn't decide on a name. I used a photo for this painting that was taken by a friend on a mission trip to Thailand, from whom I got permission to paint. It is an oil on canvas and the canvas is large and square. I believe it is 42x42. This also will be in my senior show that is coming up.

Oh and I think that I forgot to mention that the painting "Looking Ahead" was based on a photo I took at Lake Michigan of some friends.

Now that I think about it, I probably should have posted some of my older work first. One, to show how I've improved and two, to raise the anticipation for my new work and save the good stuff for last! Oh well, I guess. I have a few new things still left to the imagination and I'll save those for a little later!

Love Remains

The title of this painting is 'Love Remains.' It is 24x18 size oil on canvas rendered in the same style as my previous painting.

I took this photo at Lake Michigan and i really enjoyed this couple walking on the beach. The seemed to really be in love and were walking up and down the beach holding hands. Then every once in awhile, they would stop and the man would pick up stones and skip them across the water. I could never do that, so I was a little impressed. haha

This painting will be in my Senior Show coming up. Hopefully I'll be able to enter it in more shows later.

Looking Ahead

Well, I just finished setting this up, and I'm hoping to start getting all of my photos up of my work. Hopefully, by the time I get up everything that I have I'll also have finished more to put on here. This image is a painting that I finished in the fall. I just entered into the Nine County Art Exhibit at the Honeywell Center in Wabash. I got a second place award in the painting category for it. I'm very excited to have gotten it in and to have had it win!

I like to keep the figures strong in my paintings. It is study of light, where the yellow ochre of the under-painting shows through in certain areas of the water, sky and sand. The title of this painting is "Looking Ahead." It is done in oils on an 18x24 canvas.

More paintings and things to come!