Final

This is one of my characters. I have a couple but this one is my second favorite. Everything I do has to do with outer-space so I wasn't surprised that this would be my final project. It took a lot of time letting things dry because I made the paint so thick but I want it that way, it wasn't a mistake. It's called "High Off Love".

Still life

Apple with chicken soup

Double self-portrait

The loser is on the right side. The hero is on the left side. Myself though out the day... is just a loser. Thats how it feels, that I could never do anything right though out my days. My hero, this guy on the left side, it's me when I'm zoned out into space. Thats my safe zone; I'm always a winner there.

Abstract-Nature

This is my view, 10 stories high from the balcony. I've been seeing this same view every morning, afternoon, and night for the past 20 years so it sticks to my brain. I know that I'm home when I see this. When I don't see this, I know that I'm far from it. Having a view of both the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay is awesome, even though I don't appreciate it as much as everyone that comes to my house. When I heard nature, this was the first thing that came to mind because the way the trees are lined up, with the water on both side and the sky. It's something I guess I acknowledge in my own way. This was a way to show it through my eyes with a canvas and a paint brush.

Willem de Kooning@MoMA

When I went to the de Kooning exhibit I went with my Art in NY class. I'm not an abtract fan but I went with an open mind. My teacher suggested I get the audio phone thing. So at first I was only going to the photos that had the audio sign on it. I wasn't interested in anything. Everything looked like a mess but everyone around thought it was amazing, but I don't know why. There where a few things I liked, like the "Summer Couch" painting. I just thought the colors reminded me of what it was suppose to and after the audio told me what it was I could see it. His scultpures where cool too. He has some other work I think it was something with high heels, it was the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I didn't like the exhibit but I gave it a chance. I guess it would help me if I did more abstract work.

Self portrait

My self portrait is a half and half version of me. I think of self portraits of HOWEVER you see yourself, even if no one really understands it or if they will or still won't after you explain it to them. So I have this character I draw all the time, I never notice how much it was like myself. It an alien like robotic human version of me. I added this character into my self portrait. I planned on just doing our heads but since my character had no face just a back of a head; I mad it based in the back of our heads. The character has it's brains out, so that's what that is in back of it's head but mine, I have my hair. We both have gauges but mine are smaller. The background of the images are also important. On my side, I'm looking at the day time sky from earth but on my other side I'm looking at the stars and spaceship from outer space at what seems to be night because I'm right by the moon, although there isn't really a day or night when you're in outer space. I don't have all my ideas down on paper because I always change them and confuse myself so I wrote down ideas on the bottom if my drawing so when in ready to paint I know where I am at. Here is my self portrait.

Pointillist Painting

I thought pointillist was the hardest thing i've ever did. I even got mad threw the canvas during the process and even after it was finished I felt like doing the same thing. Painting is already difficult but I was trying to give this a chance. At first i thought "how hard could it be?". It wasn't as simple as it sound. My brush wouldn't make the dots that I wanted it to make. So what this is suppose to be is, the living room entertainment center. Yea, like you could tell. I am not proud of my work, I would of put up the self port. but I think I'll post it later. I was going to give up but I rather the teacher help me out and let me know what I did wrong, becasue there is clearly something that I am doing wrong. Please help me figure this out.