Freelance Work

The Spring issue of the Southwestern University Magazine debuted this week with the illustrations that I produced for them in February! You can check it out here (it's the first article.)

Reflection

The affect of GIF animation

I'm struggling on my current painting concept, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be GIF related. Here are a few tests from this evening utilizing my new tablet!

EDIT: I also wanted to add that I'm currently in the process for preparing my first show! It's a joint exhibition with a friend who's also graduating early, so we're in the process of getting the info on the show out into the aether. I'm preparing a small landing page for a mass emailing we're planning. You can see it here.

Host - In Full

Let's see how the critique goes.

Park

Fin!

Yay! Host is as done as it will get. Does anyone else have some paintings that never conclude? This one reached a point where further work felt like it would be over-polishing, and so I stopped. I plan on testing the interactive portion either tonight or tomorrow night, so a video will be up then.

Also, here's a GIF just for fun that I thought up this morning while trying to not spill my coffee.

Andy Warhol's 'Red Disaster' as a GIF

12 frames, all taken as mechanically as possible from his silk screen. Part of a research paper I'm working on. Notice anything interesting?

A preview for you, dear readers

A little bit of everything

Thursday Illusions

If you're visiting the site to see my example videos mentioned in my King Creativity Grant application, please scroll to the post below this one. Thanks!

This week has been fairly productive for me, especially for the development of my current painting, Landscape Piece (4th from the top). Outside of that, I've been really into optical effects pertaining to 3D lately, as evidenced by the tilt-GIF bee below.

The op-art pastiche painting at the bottom of this post is part of a test that incorporates anaglyph-like 3D into a painted surface via flashing colored lights. I can't test it right now because there are critiques in the studio all afternoon and evening, but maybe tonight I'll have a chance to give it a shot. Other than that, enjoy the doodles and keep watching this space!

Complete Projection Painting Videos

Below are three full videos of my first projection paintings. The colors are difficult to capture on video, but these clips give the general impression. I hope you enjoy them, and feel free to leave any comments you might have.

Gif Piece: Hallucination 3

This is Hallucination 3, a GIF I must have missed when I was uploading my earlier Hallucinations series. I'm in the process of meshing it with the physical - a new painting. Below are pics and a video of how it's progressing. I'll write in more details about the philosophy behind this one sometime when it's not 2 AM, but basically I'm confronting the momentary time aspect that the digital affords and binding it to a painting.

Kinkade Mutilation 2 - The Continuing Saga

Just a quick update on the painting. Here's a photo of it so far; I'm not sure if I'm done:



...and an animation of the process:

Seminar work - Transfer and new Composition

I'm working on transferring Kinkade Mutilation 2 to an acrylic painting. The first step is to print it out really huge on a sheet of paper and then attach it to Masonite. Here's the poster held over the board for sizing purposes. Behind you can see two paintings featured elsewhere on the blog, as well as Pixels, a work I produced for my first abstract painting class.

Just as a side note, I call it "2" because I've tried this method of composition before.


Here's the first new academic painting (almost wrote paining) of the semester, Self in Culture. Presumptuous, eh? I repainted this sucker entirely seven times.


I have a new video game finished, so stay tuned!

School - Conversation Piece

This is "Conversation Piece," my final project for seminar last semester. Sorry for such a crappy picture. My camera died during the last week of school, so this is from a friend's Facebook photos. Actually, this is only half of the work.



Using software called Isadora (the same thing I used for Color of Dissonance - http://troikatronix.com/isadora.html) I masked off all but the speech bubbles for the display of video and ran my datamoshed film on communication through them. This was then projected onto the surface of the canvas, lining up with the paiinted speech bubbles. Hopefully in the near future I can get a video of the complete work, but in the meantime put those imaginations to use!

Some ideas that went behind this - datamoshing and continuity in film, that is, trains of thought; the history of speech bubbles and codified symbols in art.

Facebook Experiment: 14 People an Hour Ago

Here's one of my projects for my painting seminar class. I asked everyone I knew on Facebook to use the Graffiti application and communicate in some form or fashion using only 1 color what they were doing in the hour before logging on. I then took the resulting 14 Graffiti and made a composite image. This was then interpreted into a painting. Conceptually it has some holes, such as the fact that I tagged people in the note and added my own take on the resulting composite into the painting, but I feel like it's a good start.

The Graffiti:

The composite:


The final painting: