Trying my hand in other media

Been playin' around with some pastel and acrylic work lately. Here's the result:

Loosen Up!!!

Here's a couple pieces that I recently did with my adult watercolor class. The goal was to try and loosen up and experiment with abstractions. It was a lot of fun!

Last Post of 2009

Well its been an artful year and I am thankful for my opportunities to produce and teach art nearly every day. These pieces are works that I've worked on in the past few months. I continue to produce art with the thought that at some point I will begin to market it...really not a priority at this point.

Been a while...2.0

Started this blog to keep up with my artsy activites. I guess the good news is that my artsy activites have kept me really busy! Here's a few I've worked on recently. My teaching duties have kept me from painting quite as much as I would like to, but it has its own rewards, so I am happy!

Here's a few recent ones:

Been a while...

I haven't had a chance to post in a while, but I have been painting. The painting of the kids means a lot to me as it is a picture that has great emotional impact (to me). The other painting is a plein air piece that I painted outside the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Long Time Coming!

Boy have I been ready for Summer Break! I love teaching and I'll be ready to go come August, but ending a school year is tough stuff. I have missed posting my work, but at least I have still been working. Here are a couple of pieces I've been working on. These vary wildly in style and scope, but they all accomplish a common goal; to help me grow as an artist.

Watercolor Journal

I have been working out of a journal and feel very pleased with the process. The great thing about a journal is that it is a personal forum for experimentation and reflection. Sometimes process itself needs some reflection and writing about it as well as painting it out seems to be helpful. Visual art, by definition, is something produced with the purpose of being viewed by others so maybe that is why I am more reticent to expand our creative parameters on regular paper (someones going to see this mess). In my journal I am freed from this constraint, by the very nature of a journal, I can share it sure, but I can also keep it to myself! Either way, I'm having fun with it and I hope I stick to it. Here's a couple that fall into the share section; they are both of Monet.