Winter quarter results

So I don't have all of the paintings/drawings/videos I did for art readily available, but I do have some. Just a heads up, they probably would be considered part of the "mature content" department, but all parties involved were consenting adults (adult, rather), and you have been warned. That being said, it's pretty damn tame considering what else is out there.

So enjoy!



First up is the beginning of a short series I ended up doing for the second half of the quarter. This was for my drawing class, but actually inspired me to challenge myself and try to replicate it in my beginning painting class, in oil.



This is the second of the series. Earlier in the quarter I did a drawing of a body contorted to be confined within the limitations of the page (I'd been sick for the last few weeks and wanted to express my frustrations with feeling trapped in my own body). That translated, in the later works I did, into other more conceptual expressions of confined spaces combined with other ideas: voyeurism, sexuality as self expression and as a taboo, and both physical, and mental isolation and confinement. I could probably do 50 more of these, so once I can afford more paper (all of these were large scale) of an even larger size, I'll do more. And for those who were wondering, the model in all of these is myself.

I apologize for the fuzzy quality of this one; I'll have to go back and take a better picture.




I wanted to try a looser piece in ink. It's not as polished as the others, but it's a good start for what I was working with.




This is the oil painting I referenced at the beginning of the post. I should mention, I had no idea I could paint like this. Most of my painting experiences in the past weren't the best or most exciting (though Grandma did give me a few lessons when I was a kid, bless her heart). I'll try to take pictures of the other paintings I did, but this really is the one I'm most proud of. It's 30 by 40, which was a bit bigger than the 2ft by 3ft canvases they provided for the final project (I wanted to go bigger, so I bought my own canvas). The result is not perfect, and there are things I may go back and change as time goes on and I get better at painting, but I'm pretty happy with it for what it is and the time I had.