Painting numero uno

Heres the finished product of the painting in the previous post. I tried to keep the colors atmospheric and still relevant to the subject matter. I am going to start doing more faster, smaller paintings with "The Secret Society" aka my friends from illustration class. Hopefully I can also do a few more alone over spring break in the time that I'm not spending begging local businesses for a summer job.

I think the colors came out a little weird though. I might try to replace the picture later.

Slum yum yum

This is the beginning of the first painting I've done in a while just for fun. In my environmental sociology class we watched a movie about maquiladoras, who are Mexican women who work in factories on the US-Mexico border. The slums they live in are often contaminated with toxic chemicals. I had a vague idea for a painting, so I figured I'd just kind of make it up as I go. I kind of messed it up last night during an impromptu work party with my illustration friends, but I'll fix it. Especially since I have spring break this week which means FREE TIME! Updates to come!

Reason I'm Sleep Deprived

Here's some work mostly from my first semester at RISD. I probably have about six times the amount of work posted here rolled up under my bed somewhere, but I feel like most of its too unfinished-looking since a lot of the work I've done here was almost more about the process of making it than the final product. Intense critiques on two hours of sleep also make it hard to think fondly of some work. Most of the work in this post is from my wintersession Intro to Illustration class, which was absolutely amazing and made picking my major super easy. :)

My final piece. Pretty bad photo quality though.

Assignment: Zombies Attacking RISD. I tried to make mine subtle, but I think it just looks like someone's getting mugged on Waterman Street out the window.

NC Wyeth master copy. The assignment was actually entitled "Wyeth he making us do thith?" Ohhh Shanth... haha

2D Camouflage project. And my first time using goache

Detail of project

DAMN CRAYFISH drawing

Intro

Hello! So I recently decided to make a blog for my artwork when my illustration teacher stressed my entire class out by stressing the importance of getting an internship AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and how important it is to get your work out there. I also thought that making a blog might make me more motivated to do some projects outside of class and let people know what I'm up to. So here's some art off my soon-to-be-deleted deviantart that I did in high school!