Ezekiel 6:5

Here is the final print of Ezekiel 6:5 (the actual title). It came out really well, and I hope I can get a hold of a screen and keep with the medium.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

A Bully Story

This was the final for my Illustration Topics Class. The subject was rainforest, and the story goes that Teddy Roosevelt, while hunting in the Amazon witnessed the massacre of a cow by a school of piranha. This illustration had to be painted large enough to still print clearly on a 30x40" banner print, which was part of the assignment.
"They will rend and devour alive any wounded man or beast; for blood in the water excites them to madness." -Teddy Roosevelt, "Through the Brazillian Wilderness"

Done for my Illustration Topics Class with Tom Garrett.

Children's Book Final

The final for my Children's Book Class involved making a dummy (rough draft) book and illustrating three of the pages. My story involved a rabbit who can't sleep so he goes on an adventure with his turtle friend that brings him into space, until he falls asleep and is faced with the question, "Was it real?"

Done for my Children's Book Illustration Class with Nancy Carlson.

Lusty Worm

Since I finished my screen print final, I still get access to a screen and printing facilities for a week. So I took a sketch and made some extra prints.

Original Sketch

Silver ink test print.

Black ink test print.











The image was burned off of plain paper instead of transparency or xante, so it's kind of grainy (if that doesn't make sense, it just means I went cheaper and quicker). So the idea was to take a deadly sin and turn it into a monster (actually one of my ideas for senior project).
Thanks to Dylan Davis, who gave me the colorful paper. What a swell guy.

Ezekiel 6:5

This is an in process image of the screen print I'm working on now about a passage from Ezekiel. Hope to be done before Thanksgiving; I only have two more layers left, and getting one done tonight.

Clifford

This was my first screen print. YAAAY! The North Dakota punk band Clifford has not to my knowledge had the chance or funds to make any merch to sell at their shows. So I used this assignment to make some prints they could sell. I hope people buy them!

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams

Roanoke

This was a mixed media print consisting of linoleum cut over xerox print of a collage. The space on the left was left for a binding, as it was later made into a book with similar prints contributed by the rest of the class members. The prints in the book centered on the theme "Lost" (luckily no one mentioned the TV show); mine deals with the missing colony of colonial Roanoke Virginia. When the British suppliers to the village returned one year, the found the population gone with no clue to their whereabouts other than the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree in the village.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Leif Ericson

These were made as a sort of tribute to Leif Ericson, the TRUE discoverer of the Americas. Haha... This is a five layer, linoleum cut print.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Detective Dracula

This was a linoleum cut relief print. We were allowed to do whatever we wanted, and I chose to do Dracula. After sketching for a while I thought his his collar looked like a detective's jacket. So I drew him as a sort of a film noir Dracula.

Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Cross Stamp

This was my first print EVER! It was just a rubber stamp, but I likes it. I likes it a lot.
Done for my Print Paper Book Techniques Class with Jody Williams.

Ezekiel 6:5

This is a sketch about Ezekiel 6:5 ("The most hardcore book of the Bible" - Nate Cariveau), where God tells the Israelites that he will "Lay [their] bones round [their] altars" because they have left him to worship idols. This will be turned into a screen print for my Intro to Print Paper Book Class.
Hopefully it comes out well!

Done for my Intro to Print Paper Book Class with Jody Williams.

Slav Spirit

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This was a sort of tribute/ emblem for the Vikings of Scandinavia. It incorporates symbols from Norway (elk) and Sweden (Linnea Borealis).
This is the finished art from a sketch I drew a while ago.

Opposites - "Prickly Pear" and "Bison"

"Prickly Pear"


"Bison"



These pieces were intended as calender illustrations illustrating the opposites Flora and Fauna. I wanted to do something with a Western theme, so I chose a plant and animal that would have been common to the lives of the two figures, but I wanted the Flora and Fauna to be the subjects, not the figures. Because of this, I placed them in the foreground and out of balance with the rest of the piece. Also it was really fun to research and create my own patterns, symbolizing American Indian and American cowboy aesthetics.

Done for my Illustration Topics Class with Tom Garrett.

Childhood Memory

This was an assignment to get us "in touch with our inner child." We were told to illustrate a memory from our childhood. I remember one time my mom let me go and play in a mud puddle in my shorts and a bucket. I think that's the only time I ever did that, or it occurred to me to do that, so it stuck in my mind. Also, there is a photo of me sitting bum down in a ten gallon pale with my legs and head sticking out the top. For the sake of avoiding a very confusing image, I just stuffed the whole of "myself" in the bucket for this illustration.

Done for my Children's Book Illustration Class with Nancy Carlson.

P.S. I find this image somewhat disgustingly cute.

Underwater Prince

This was a two page spread illustration for my children's book class. The prompt was "imagination" so I got to do whatever I want. I had been on sort of a mini tentacle spree with my doodles and a few illustrations, and while I was finishing this someone said, "That's perfect. It goes along perfectly with the whole octopus trend!" I have since gotten over my tentacle phase.

Paranormal ABCs

X is for X-Rays that light up the night.


Y is for "Yelp;" my issue of fright.


Z is for Zone that the government holds tight.


This was part of an idea for a children's alphabet book. Aside from "Q," X and Z are often the most difficult letters to find words for. Because of this, I decided to start the edition with "X, Y, Z," and just fill in the rest someday. While thinking of "X," I thought, "X-Files;" ergo the paranormal.

Done for my Children's Book Illustration Class with Nancy Carlson.

"A Chasing After the Wind"

This piece illustrates my feelings about struggle for earthly status and possessions. The beggar dies like the king, it is all meaningless.

Self-guided illustration, in watercolor and pen and ink.

(For preceding stages see here)

Bat, Bat

This illustration was for a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that I thought was really goofy, titled "Bat, Bat." This illustration was done in a two page spread format.

Done for my Children's Book Illustration Class.

MCAD Mug Design

This was a design I submitted for a mug. I originally was gonna have "coffee blood" emitting from a slashed tentacle, but I was advised against it (as the mugs are given to donators and those who sponsor interns from MCAD).

Done for my Illustration Topics Class with Tom Garrett.

Viking Motif

This was a sort of tribute/ emblem for the Vikings of Scandinavia. It incorporates symbols from Norway (elk) and Sweden (Linnea Borealis).

Tree by Water

This 9x11" graphite sketch was sold at the Bluewater Men's Camp auction for $50.
I'm a real artist now.

Locust Pattern

This assignment was to design and arrange characters in a pattern that could be infinitely repeated. I drew spot illustrations of the members of the band The Locust.

Done for my Digital Illustration Class with James Obrien.

Subcutaneous Figure

This drawing is a study of the skeletal structure, and how muscle and tissue lies on top of it.

Done for my Figure Drawing Class with Emily Sheehan.

Reclining Figure

This drawings portrays the manner in which the human figure lies when relaxed.

Done for my Figure Drawing Class with Emily Sheehan.

Drawing Co-op

These studies were made at an MCAD drawing co-op. I was trying to research and refine parts of human anatomy that previously gave me trouble when drawing.

Drapery Study

This was a study in drapery, and how it reacts to the figure.


Done for my Figure Drawing Class with Emily Sheehan.