new website!

if you are linking to 45rpm directly through this blog, please note that i will no longer be updating it as i have updated and streamlined the site at its root address: http://45rpmdesigns.com
its clean, beautiful and will be updated more often.
check it out!

some classroom healing wisdom.

i think we all needed to hear this message this week.

new artworks.

i am starting to prep for a show in june with alex gruttadaro at joe bean coffee on university ave.

here is the first batch of paintings that i have completed for that show.

i am enjoying working the combined found surfaces, trying to find a balance where it looks as though the works have been excavated from within a wall, found under peeling wallpaper, or put together from objects left behind from the middle of the 20th century.

these works mark a new direction for me as i veer away from straight portraiture into something more painterly and less specifically about the subject. i have been inspired specifically by the work of mid-century painters richard diebenkorn, jasper johns and robert rauschenberg, along with contemporary artists vhils and best ever.

"raised"

"cyclical"

"segregation"

"the glow"

"shroud"

"transcendence"

"golden"

"laying back"

"blue skies"

friday wisdom.

friday wisdom.

friday wisdom.

lots of LOVE from friday wisdoms.

friday wisdom.

friday wisdom.

friday wisdom... the end of drawing 2 for the year!

i'll miss you all!

friday wisdom.

friday wisdom.

narrative artists for drawing 2

we had a great discussion about some contemporary narrative artworks this week in drawing 2.
the students will be using the lyrics of death cab for cutie (block 2) and bob dylan (block 3) as jumping off points for their own narrative works.
here are some of the artists we looked at, with links to find out more about them!

clive smith (see more here)

david bowers (see more here)

edgar jerins (see more here)

joan mateu (see more here)

maggie taylor (see more here)

margaret bowland (see more here)