Small Studies

A collection of studies dedicated to my thoughts about the movie, Black Orpheus.

Index Card, Watercolor, Acrylic, White-Out, Paper Collage, Ink

Small Studies

These quick studies were done on colored index cards. I was also thinking a lot about the movie Black Orpheus. Specifically parades, death and sun shaped kites.

Index Card, Watercolor, Paper Collage, Ink

Day Of The Dead

Index Card, Watercolor, Ink

Welcome!

Here are a few photos projecting the current state of my studio. Actually this is a lie, my studio is covered in shit.

Nature Collages

As of right now I am working on a series of natural elements (fermenting flowers, leaves, sap,and mold) combined with collage paper and magazine clippings. Both of these are created on stretched watercolor paper.

Here are some plastic bags filled with flowers. Mold has started to grow inside these. Once I feel like I have all the elements for said paintings, I cut the bag open and let the fermented liquid stain the surface of the paper. Then I being the collage process.

Stretched Watercolor Paper, Fermented Flowers, Fermented Leaves, Paper Collage, Magazine Collage, Acrylic

The Snow Is Finally Leaving

These photos were taken a couple of days ago. This is one of the many reasons why I keep thinking about Spring. My stain paintings that I had placed in the backyard a month ago are finally starting to show through the snow.

Please click here to see photo documentation of First Snow In 2010.

Raw Canvas, Acrylic, Snow

Random thoughts.

It has been a while. I am terribly sorry. I'm still making art, I just haven't had time to document my work. A lot of things have been running through my mind recently. I love makings lists so here it is, a list of my thoughts.

1. Today (February 13,2010) feels like Spring. I keep having random flashbacks of various times spent in Waterbury CT. My grandparents live here and have a beautiful backyard. So beautiful you forget you are in the center of a city that is slowly deteriorating.

2. My sister's birthday is tomorrow!

3. I applied to Skowhegan at the very beginning of this month. I find out in April if I got into their summer residence program. Please feel free to click on the link provided, you can get a better idea of what the program entails.

4. I've been thinking a lot about kites and more specifically kites that resemble the sun. This was inspired after watching Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus.

5. I recently saw the movie Coco Before Chanel at the Cabot Cinema. I would highly recommend seeing this movie.