mhmf

this was from july 20 so sorry its a bit late. anyway my girlfriend and i both bought each other tickets for this first annual music festival in denver for our birthdays. it was amazing! we were able to listen to brett dennen, one republic, colbie caillat, flogging molly, leftover salmon, samantha farrell, john mayer, and the dave matthews band! there were many many more bands and not nearly enough time to see them all.

bailey and me


dave matthews band

some old creations

so i know that i already posted a picture of this sculpture but i wanted to put up more photos and better ones at that!

this is a free-standing non-objective piece.





just a wood carving

its been a while

so the reason its been so long since my last post is because i was out on an adventure with my dad. we delivered and picked up cows across the south and the midwest totaling 2,618 miles in three days. thats 9 states in all!

Arkansas


Longhorn

another illustration

just another one. not one of my favs, oh well.

more illustrations

so here are some more recent illustrations. hope u like!

illustrations

so i thought id put up some of my illustrations. these are fairly old, but i hope you still enjoy. ill be adding some more recent ones next time i post!


i messed his face up pretty bad. still wanted to share though.



sorry for the quality, they were scanned in.

grafik design

random grafik design! i need some serious practice and i had some time on my hands so.....this is what i came up with.

staten island ferry

so one thing that i truly love and appreciate is being out on the open water. and when we took the staten island ferry i was able to just relax and enjoy seeing the city from a different view point. while out i snapped this pic of the statue. thought it was cool. anyway thats all i got today.

confined

so, i want to share a stop motion video that is playing on the disciplinary action taken when me and some friends broke curfew. long story shot we were out an hour and a half past curfew having coffee somewhere around nyu and because we returned late we were all grounded. joelle and i were grounded until wednesday and my friend josh was grounded grounded for the rest of the trip. lol. so we were confined to our living space and the studio only, pretty lame but because of it we were able to have constructive "time out" and out of it josh nix created a stop motion video showing you what we were confined to. its pretty funny and fun to watch. lol this whole situation is pretty funny because we are 22 years old, and grounded!
p.s. i helped take some pics too.

mustaches and trees

so the mustaches are becoming greater as the project progresses and i just wanted to let you know what that looks like. (notice- christian my other mustached friend is missing)



this is a tree that i illustrated for josh nix, originally intended to be a part of his individual installation, but instead it became random wall art in the studio.



thats all

The Opening!

its actually here! the first four and a half weeks went so fast and now that there is art work to show it actually feels like i have been here for a while. it has been a great learning experience and many great relationships have been built. i would love to take this time to invite everyone to the opening, which is tomorrow, so sorry for being so last minute. hope everyone can make it!

here's the poster/invite for our show!

a day in the park

so this account actually took place on thursday so sorry for being delayed. anyway we were supposed to go out into the city and engage with people about our individual projects and more specifically, our collaborative project. i didnt want to do that at all. i just wanted to chill. i was physically and emotionally exhausted from prior evangelism and working late nights. so i was in a really bad mood and just wanted to zone out and relax. this whole project is go go go, always moving and hardly resting, so that on top of being in an insanely crazy and different city causes alot of stress. anyway i was able to move past that moment of selfishness and see the beauty in the city. the picture is from Bryant Park- for those of you who dont know this park, it's the one where the fountain from the FRIENDS opening scene is located. random fact: the park is totally wireless! anyway hope this picture makes you realize how beautiful this city is. just to let you know what our collaborative project is up to ill add a picture from that. p.s. its the second pic

So this is a look into our collaborative project. to give you a brief explanation we again are working with the theme of re-humanization and we aimed to ask random people questions pertaining to humanity and emotion in an attempt to let them know that people actually care about them and want to see past their projected images and really get to know them. anyway, that was a bit rough, but anyway, what we did was then photograph them after the dialogue, and then i took their answers and typographically arranged them behind their portrait. we printed their photos on transparencies then laid them over the type. It looks pretty cool when actually all framed up but i dont have a photo for that because we aren't completely done, but i do have an illustrator file. and that is the picture below. the reason the photo is overexposed around the actual head is so that once printed and placed over the type it would be readable. anyway hope you like it.

Nasty food

One project we have these groups called d groups and to anyone outside of campus crusade that means discipleship, and we usually do growth development and stuff like that but one this particular night we wanted to just chill. So we set up a projector so we could watch youtube videos on the wall and we ordered some Chinese food to go along with that. Curtis called the order in and said give us your four best dishes, bad idea, but anyway we got our food and we were all scared once we saw what we actually had. It was horrible and hopefully the pictures explain how nasty this food was. It was so bad that we didnt eat it, so Curtis had the bright idea to have a competition with it. Each person was able to pick two pieces for someone else to eat. I was so close to puking when i ate my second piece. it brought tears to my eyes! anyway enjoy the pics.

the way my head looks is the way my stomach felt after this little creature

the tears are in my eyes

the plate

curtis contemplating