Another sketchbook

I'm sure posting these before I leave for Yellowstone. My last handmade book before I leave. Let's hope that I can make it across country first off, and second that it inspires a lot of art.

I should write or post more, but

New Sketchbook

Still trying...

Just finished my spring semester and have been getting back into working on the good stuff.

What to write? I've done my best to keep this blog as professional as possible. The idea of displaying any of my personal life here is honestly horrifying. You never know who's watching, or how what you reveal can come back to bite you in the ass.

The last few years of my life have felt like I've been waiting, for school to end or for myself to reach some level of preparedness for a career or life style I want. The scary part is that unbeknownst to myself I've actually been working really hard to get my self ready. Maybe I have not done as much art as I feel I should of done in this last year or so, but I've been working on the nitty gritty boring stuff. As well as doing my best to become a more mature and social person.

Shit. I still have a lot of work. Well the latency period needs to end. Now. And I'm hoping a summer job at Yellowstone will be the kick in the ass I need.

Anyways I feel I've successfully avoided getting into anything truely personal yet again, so here's some art.

"I read the pages about me

In her autobiography
They were brief and to the point"

New Sky

New Art

I realized I haven't posted in a few weeks, so here's what I've been up to.

First some sketchbook pages, and then some finished work.

Rock Paintings

Bought these from the Museum of Arts and Science in Macon. It's Gouache paint on rocks.

Body/Landscape Mix

I'll post some details later, kind of busy right now.

EDIT-I recently took this to a local gallery in Macon, La Galarie which is owned by the completely wonderful Marike. I've been looking at this piece and just feeling like something was off with it. Either it was unfinished or needed some serious reworking and her advice was exactly what I needed.

First she pointed out that there was simply to much happening, it's to busy. She compared it to a woman wearing to much make up, caked on. Second, it's an uncomfortable image, something about it is unsettling to her. She felt that something terrible had happened to the woman, and the image feels violent. In the end we decided the best thing to do would be to crop the image, cutting the entire left side off. I agree with her and plan on doing this soon.