Pumpkins and Squash...Mostly

this was fun. i started with a slightly greened black charcoaled backgrownd and drew in the subjects with white conte crayon, and white prismacolor pencil.  this one was real fun.  gosh im having so much fun with art lately!

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Grey Cactus

for the longest time i was stuck in a world of color.  this was a pleasant place to be, i argue  it's the BEST place to be.  But Ted Wolter (at CGCC in AZ) sent me on a different path.  I hadnt touched the black and white world in years and just about lost touch with it.  Ted helped bring me back into it with the wonder of charcoal and conte crayon, and not to mention willow charcoal and the eraser (the secret of the photgraphic quality of this peice).. i find im pretty good here, in this black and white world...if not better than i am in the color world. 
I WON AN AWARD for this one (ha, just wated you to see that)...well it was chosen along with 10 peices in all of Maricopa Community Colleges to be entered into this contest.  i understand why it didn't win anything up there, all it demostrated was a matured understanding of the basic princples of design-and not all of them btw...all this, but with no real conceptual aim.  i guess that would land this peice no higher in the art world than cowboy art. 
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Dawn of My Second Estate

i was born on December 21, 1985 at 10:45...or was it 11:45? (nevermind that the time is an important aspect of this peice). either way, after asking my mom what time i was born i set out to complete this peice. i am standing on this time (11:45), as you can see, to show that this was the very moment i became my own, and without cord or womb i, within my body, was a complete and whole vehicle unto myself, until the time i should pass away. there is a profound signifigance to this point in every souls existence, it is the dawn of the life we were meant to live here on earth. I appear as a monument, aged and statuesk, to immortilize and show greatness to this point in time. never before had i been embodied with flesh and blood, and until now i had not known sufferng. now i can feel as never before. the utmost bounds of pleasure and pain could now be appreciated due to the opportunity to feel both in the same sphere of existence. i never knew bitter, and therefore never really knew sweet, until now...and the same goes for all the opposites including good and evil. this, here depicted, represents the beginning of my journy as an agent unto myself here on earth.

          Also notice the placement of my feet. im on one of the hands of the clock. not only does this say that then was i born, but also that here and only here- in the moment- do we stand. not a filangey can excape this part of the clock (time), no it cannot touch either side of the hour or minute, but must remain where it always has been: in the moment. since before my earthly beginning i was in the moment, inexcapably, but now i am bound to stand and be measured by time. Continue Reading »