Heavens above...

Blogger, I certainly did not mean to abandon you for so long there.  I apologize.  But I do have a fab excuse this time.
This semester has obliterated my chances at producing finished work up until this point in time.  Two months into my last semester... that is far less than promising but I am moving as relentlessly as I can toward accomplishing some work whether my classes like that or not.  Next weekend should produce at least one completed something.

But, in the meantime, have a medley of stuff I've done in the past couple months.

Day ten.

Taking an extended break has grown more and more curious for me over the years- and that's probably a good thing concerning my career choice. In short it's hard for me to spend over two days straight without at least doodling. Of course it grows difficult when spending time with family and moving around to different places, but I still keep my spare moments occupied. I've also come to realize that graduation (coming up in the spring) has approached at the appropriate time.  The one thing art school drilled into my head that I will never lose is to continually work on your weak points and just draw draw draw!  And while some classes in senior year try to cater more to the individuals' wants and/or needs I've found there's still a drag both on creativity and drive- so personal projects tend to rage on in the background.  While this will of course continue post-graduation with freelance assignments and probably a part time job on the side, I can be more choice in where I take my artistic venture which I am looking forward to.
In the mean time, on the topic of weak spots, I've been doing a master copy every day of the new year so far.  I plan on continuing for a month, and after that point in time I'll at least draw something from life every day, with some master copies interspersed throughout the rest of the year.

Days 1-10

(unknown)

(EM Gist)

(Ilya Repin)

(Paul Hippolyte Delaroche)

(Nikolai Blohkin)

(Francis Vallejo)

(John Singer Sargent)

(Ilya Repin)

Color Studies

(EA Abbey, NC Wyeth, Howard Pyle)

(details from Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's 

The Women of Amphissa)

2012 thus far.

Alright, just going to post a medley of stuff that I've been working on so far.  Will do a more in depth post on a single something or other this weekend!

One Last Time

Tomorrow is the first day of school.  It's my senior year and it's more than fair to say I've learned a lot in the few years I've resided in Columbus.  Am I excited?  For some reason not really.  Intimidated?  Nope.  The school year is here and I'm just patiently waiting for it to just happen.  I'm not sure what kind of projects will unfold or new personal paths I'll find myself experimenting with but I'll be sure to keep this site updated.
Summer was productive and it was polished off the other day with some random sketches.

But beyond the art there was a lot of emotions that were unwound, repaired, and wired back together again which is something I'm looking forward to shoving into my art.  Did a bit of a write-up over on tumblr in response to a question I'd received and it's still something I'm thinking about.  Finally getting emotionally flared up in terms of my art is something that's needed to happen for a few years now.  New things coming soon!

Forest Lawn

 Spent most of my afternoon out at Forest Lawn today sketching a lot of what was around.  The one thing I love about cemeteries is the wide variety of subjects- figures, drapes, architecture, trees, and the occasional animal. 

Selective Sketches...

And by selective I mean selective.  I typically post all of them over on my art tumblr but some don't even make the cut over there.
But it's the end of the year and I realize that I haven't posted much during school the past two semesters.  So for those of you not on tumblr, I thought I'd post a decent sized grouping of the sketches I'm fond of for whatever reasons.

 Thankfully it looks like my summer will be a bit more open-ended than last, so much more art will be in  production and as such you can expect more updates here and on tumblr.