Communist arrests

I am steadily approaching the halfway point of my sketchbook. This is exciting!
I am thinking, for Steve's class (I know I'm not officially in the class but I plan on sitting in) I am going to make my book about these portraits.

PS. The "communist!" drawing of the guy in the hat/pencil mustache: he reminds me of someone. He reminds me of Tan Chipmunk at the party who told me my lips looked good with frosting on them. Ahahahaha. If he had that mustache, they would be the exact same person. So great. So creepy.

Caught red-handed!!!

More from the "Least Wanted" Flickr photo set.

What I've been up to

We have a month off school during Christmas break so my friend Michael Burdick proposed the idea that we all fill one sketchbook during this month and document it in a blog. Good idea, Mike. So far I am keeping up with it rather well. Most of my pages are filled with old criminal mugshots from a flickr group I stumbled across a few weeks back, called "Least Wanted." Most of these people are everyday people brought into the police station for silly little misdemeanors and the like, which makes for some great mugshots. I have yet to draw a particular woman, but just a heads up she's going to be great. (Hint..she's still got curlers in her hair!)









To see what the rest of my friends are up to on this little holiday sketchbook experiment, check out the blog:
http://holidaysketchbook.blogspot.com

New Paintings!

Here's some new paintings I've done. The first painting is a pirate I did for Chuck's class. The second painting was supposed to be more of a Mother Nature-like figure but it ended up looking more like the Jolly Green Giant's sister or something. I still think it turned out pretty well- the texture of the wood is much more apparent in real life.

Come to Noel Night!

Tomorrow night is a big holiday event at my school and the rest of the midtown Detroit area. In my school specifically, there is a huge art sale happening in the Walter B. Ford Building, and I am going to be participating for the first time. I'll be selling a few original art prints, some holiday greeting cards, and best of all, face painting!! I'm sharing a table with Jillian, where she has some really neat stuff to sell too. We'll be on the second floor, right near the elevators. Please come support! 

Besides what's going on our campus, this event is spread out through the entire midtown district. There's Christmas carolers, carriage rides, and all sorts of stuff happening near the DIA.

It's from 5pm-9:30pm at 201 east kirby St. Detroit, MI.

Please come check it out! And get your face painted while you're at it!

Here's some of the designs I've made for my look book:

Medusa

Small assignment for a class. We got to do whatever we want. I decided pretty randomly to do a portrait of Medusa.

Acrylic glazes on wood