Blog mugs in the Etsy shop!

I've finally gotten around to posting a few of the blobby mugs I recently made! It's been surprisingly satisfying to play around with and adapt a familiar form, while also trying out some new techniques for glazing. On the white and blue mug, I used an aerator for the first time, which is essentially a little air-brush pot that lets your blow fine layers of glaze onto a piece using your breath as the catalyst. I was pleased with the initial outcome, so expect more from that piece of equipment.
My Etsy shop.

Work crush: Bruce White's velvet paintings

I've always been allured by velvet paintings. I have a few of my own, which I'll probably share in a later post of my plethora of tackiness, but for now, I'll just focus on my love for Bruce White's work. Someday, if fortune smiles on me, I'll have one of my very own.

PS: All images copyright Bruce White. Visit his page: velvetgeek.com for more of his magnificence. 

Ash (from Evil Dead)

Kane (From Alien)

Morrissey

Monsieur Ivan (Bill Murray in The Grand Budapest Hotel)

And speaking of Bill Murray....

New Works: SpaceMan

The latest assignment for my color theory class was to create a digital work that dealt with art. So I took the Space Man I did for the limited palette assignment, and made a gif:

I can't WAIT to make more janky gifs.

Work Crush: Thai movie posters

In 1999, when I was 15, I started looking at ebay. One of the searches that still remains a favorite is for Thai horror movie posters. There's something so strange and beautiful about how the characters are rendered, in an almost air-brush manner. The selection of imagery is also excellent, like the artist picked the very best parts of the movies to put on their posters. 

Evil Dead

Evil Dead 2

 More delights after the jump!

Recent works: color theory assignment: optical mixing

*Sorry for the untimeliness of this post. The house I'm sitting is having some ridiculous internet connectivity issues, and I'm not sure how to correct it.

For the optical mixing assignment in my color theory class, I decided to do something I hadn't done in a very long time, if ever: a self-portrait based on life. Taken from a picture for a transit pass in Prague from the summer of 2010, I stayed true to the structure of my face rather than just giving myself one huge eye and gumdrop teeth. I made myself green, because, well...I couldn't make it completely serious. 

The point of this assignment was to use two or more colors in a way that from a distance they appear to be a certain color, but when you get near, you can see the distinct colors laying next to each other. Think pointillism from your art history class.


                                             

 Let's build a face!

Work Crush: Postcommodity: Pollination

This past week I was in Phoenix visiting my parents, which is normally a relaxing, though uneventful affair. Luckily, this trip happened to coincide with 2 pieces by the art group Postcommodity showing at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Having known one of the group's members, Raven Chacon, for quite a while, I was very excited to see these pieces in person.

More!

Recent Work: Getting home.

I recently visited my friend Anna Reser in Norman, Oklahoma,  where she's going to school for her master's degree in physical science (Focusing on images of the American space program).
I flew into Dallas since it's about $200 cheaper than flying into Oklahoma city.  Unfortunately for Anna,  two days before my flight home,  something fell out of her car's engine.  Fortunately for me,  there's a commuter train that runs from Norman to Fort Worth, with a connection to Dallas.
What was supposed to be a 3 hour ride, with a 2 hour stop and finished by another hour of train riding ended up being an 8 hour non-stop train ride.

More rails after the jump