PAINTINGS

 This page contains things I've painted since 2005.  There is not an extensive array of paintings, since I have been working mainly on computer graphic design as of fall of 2006.  I do not have a specific technique when it comes to painting, save for the fact that I use mainly acrylics.  I've never really been taught in the way of watercolors and oils, but that doesn't mean I'd not be interested in trying at some point.

 This was painted in 2007 using acrylics on wood.  It is a picture of a hand with a stream of color coming out of the finger tip.  Its dimensions are 1'x1', and it is currently on sale at Artists for Humanity in South Boston.  I really like drawing this particular pose of the hand, and so I have a few times after having already painted it.  Modeled by my own hand.

 I happen to have caught one of these little guys in my back yard before, and was inspired after he had morphed into a moth to paint his image.  The caterpiller himself was actually about 4 1/2 " just before chrysalizing, so he was pretty amazing to look at while I had him.  This is acrylic on canvass, about 2.5" x 4.5", currently kept at home, painted last year.

 I did this painting back in ninth grade for a biology project.  We were supposed to incorporate something humans can do that animals can't into a project, so I chose painting.  I also happened to be fond of frogs, as I still am, so I chose to paint this based on an old poster I had.  Acrylics on canvas, about 2' x 3'.

 This was what I was told to create first at Artists for Humanity: a self-portrait.  I had never painted people before, let alone myself.  (I had short hair at the time.)  Though there doesn't seem to be a huge range of colors in the sky, this was one of the first points in my artistic career when I realized that skin has way more that just a couple of hues.  I had experimented, though, trying to use greys at first, which I realized had to have a little it of blue mixed in, and then I played around with pinks for blushing hues.  I really haven't painted any really big works since this, which is acryllic on a 1'x1' board and had been made in the spring of grade 9, that had to deal with human coloration, but that doesn't mean I won't try again in the future.

 I am generally a land-creature based artist, or so it seems apparent in a lot of my other works, but this idea, painted in the spring of 9th grade in acryllics on board, just popped into my head and I went with it.  It is a painting of a seal and a couple of  (significantly scaled down, so I later realized) ice bergs.