Wavves

Wavves is an amazing noise rock band that plays songs about elemental demons:
http://www.myspace.com/wavves

Self Portraits XVII - XIX

Got lazy and forgot to update this blog with stuff:


Self Portrait XVII, Starburst Wrappers on Envelope,2008

Selfportrait XVIII (as clothes), Charcoal (Dark Manner),2008
This was my drawing final and I failed to take a good picture of it but I will get one up eventually when I get it back.


Self Portrait XIX, Digital Painting, 2009

Self Portrait XVI

College Schedule for Spring 2009

Fundamental Studio: 2d
Fundamental Studio: 3d
Italian 150
Ancient to Medieval Art History
Chocolate: Food of the Gods (topics course)

Self Portrait XV and Dark Manner Charcoal Drawings

Reworking of XIV:

Self Portrait XIV, Digital Painting, 2008

Did some dark manner charcoal drawings for my drawing class. Subjects were to be harshly lit. Had never done dark manner before and really enjoyed the process. It is nice to do charcoal and not have to worry about creating unwanted smudges.

Click to view these larger:

Self Portrait XIV

Self Portrait XIV: Confidence in Ugly Body Image, Digital Painting, 2008


Halloween lyrics special:

Shadows upon shadows passing
It is now 1831,
And as always I am absorbed with a delicate thought
It is how poetry has indefinite sensations
To which end,
music
is an essential
Since the comprehension of sweet sound
is our most indefinite conception
Music when combined with a pleasurable idea
is poetry
Music without the idea
is simply
music
Without music
or an intriguing idea
Color,
becomes pallor
Man,
becomes carcass
Home,
becomes catacomb
And the dead,
are but for a moment,
motionless.

From Alan Parson's Project's Fall of the House of Usher, composed of the writings of Edgar Allen Poe

MOSSSSSSHHHH

Here's a laughable take on colorful take on a mosh pit from 1994 as a mural for some music store:

To me it just looks like they're all just dancing in place but my friend Grey informs me that the women on the far left is clearly throwing her windmill back and the guy to the right of her is definitely two-stepping.

And here are two much more admirable, accurate, and good versions from Dan Witz:

Mosh Pit 2001. Oil on Canvas. 48x46.

Big Mosh Pit 2007. Oil and Mixed Media on Canvas. 46x70.