Updates and Sneak Peek

Well, first off:
1) I made it into BYU's Mayhew Art Show!
For those of you that don't know, it's an annual art competition that's open to all students, meaning that I was competing against designers, illustrators, painters, sculptors, photographers, animators, and even non-art majors. I'll find out later if I actually won anything.

I used a painting that I did of my younger brother Stewart. I'd scan it and show you guys, but it's gonna be hanging up in the Arts Center for awhile. Sorry.
#famousartistproblems
#jk

2) I got the BYU Talent Award for my graphic design!
Here I was competing against all of the other designers and I was one of the 20 students selected to receive this scholarship. I'll find out in early April how much I got.



So in my Graphic Design Practicum class we're designing a magazine. I'm pretty much finished. I have to print it all and mount it by next Wednesday, and I'll post the whole thing then.

For now, a sampler:
The cover, and the opener for a feature on the actor, Michael Fassbender.

These are portraits that I had to do for a class that I did last night, at like 4 AM. And they're due tomorrow :/

I'm just really hoping that they'll dry before I have to turn them in. I may have to resort to drastic measures, like putting them in the oven (which apparently can either dry the painting, or make it explode...which I feel like is worth the risk). 

I'm still wrestling with the medium of oil paints. I suppose I've got about three years (and only one that really counts) of experience with the paints, and I believe that I'm slowly taming them. 

The self-portrait (which isn't perfect and has some likeness issues) was the last one that I painted, which is probably why it turned out the best. Also, I didn't have to try too hard for the facial structure, which was a battle for the other two. I know my own face pretty well: it's not like I gaze at it every day in the mirror. 

Also, these are part of midterm that I've got. I've also got to turn in all of my in-class paintings and a sketchbook. 

Expect some scans in the very near future. 

Supplies Used

Brushes:

Flat #10, #8, #4, #2

Palette:

-Ivory Black

-Titanium White

-Yellow Ochre

-Cadmium Yellow Light

-Cadmium Orange

-Cadmium Red Medium

-Alizarin Crimson

-Cerulean Blue

Step-by-step for self portrait: 1—drawing, 2 (&3)—color block in, 4 — skin modeling

Family series for portrait class. My two sisters and me. 

Opening Ceremonies

Well, this isn't the first blog that I've created, and it probably won't be the last. I have a history with letting them fall apart.

Not this time.

What better way to start out then a general posting of some of my old work.
NOTE: It's not my finest work, just what I already have on my computer.

Here we have a number of older pieces: figurative ones, photographic ones, design, etc.

In the future, I'll be posting new works, works-in-progress, and so on.

20 min figure study

Figure study detail

Russian textile design made on Adobe Illustrator

Card construction made on Adobe Illustrator

Detail of inner pattern