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Nothing new to report just scanned a few new pages. I'm really digging the new Large format Watercolor Moleskine!

Some old Some new.

Thesis is looming now....seems whenever you're dreading something, time has a disobliging way of speeding up. I've got a few ideas but I'm on the fence and waring between ideals. I suppose I'll work that all out sooner or later. I'll update again when I finalize my idea. For now I figured I'd post a few things I've had scanned and a couple pages from my new sketchbook.

Sketchbook

Its been a bit since I've updated. The start of the year has been pretty crazy and it's honestly taken me a bit of time to get back into my stride. Lots of events have been piling up. FEWS is finally up and running and and its nice to have that behind me now. Illest is coming up this week! I've got a painting in the works for it and just this past weekend I was filmed creating a piece for a time lapse that will be played during the show. I'll post that and the stickers I made for the show as well a bit later. For now I wanted to put up a few sketchbook pages. Enjoy!

Mirror Mirror

Gary Kelly came and I cant tell you how great it was to have a chance to learn from him. Such a huge wealth of knowledge. The assignment he gave us was to illustrate a Sin. We were all assigned various ones and I got Envy. The portrait I chose to do was of the queen from Snow White. It was mostly an exploration of mixing media. I wasn't all that excited about the subject and all but I learned a lot media wise in the making of it. Its a step in a totally different direction from what I normally do.

Also the "Mirror Mirror" words in the background are in gold leaf and it doesn't exactly scan well... oh well

Portrait

For our second assignment we were to do a portrait of someone for a Rolling Stone Illustration. I chose to do one of John Lee Hooker.

Myakka

I cant tell you how much I enjoy painting in Myakka Park. Heres a recent one from Sunday and a few photos to go along with it. Planning another outing later this week. I hope the rain holds out.

Academy Drawings

Whoa man its been a long time since I've updated. I feel like I say that every time I post though. This summers been busy with the Illustration academy. I should be posting a lot more in the Next week or two.

Myakka Park

I've had the chance to get out to Myakka state park a lot lately for painting. Its and awesome place to paint and get out to see a bit of Florida wildlife. Gators are a big concern in the area. Since the water ways are full of them its important to kinda have your wits about you will moving about. Ill post more paintings I've done soon but for now heres one of them.

Avant Guard

A bunch of friends and myself had the chance to draw some people during Avant Guard at Ringling. We got the chance to meet a lot of cool people. Many had some really great costumes and were excited to sit for us. It was a really fun night and we raised a lot of money for FEWS. An after hours figure drawing program at Ringling run by student looking for more figure drawing/painting experience.