first illustration of the semester

alright errbody, here is my first assignment for illustration of the semester. we had to do an illustration for the cover of time magazine and of course, it had to be about obama and what's next. mine is basically just showing that obama is going to have many influences and people trying to tell him what to do, i mean, he already does. so, yeah! here we go!



now i'm off to class for a critique on it, seeya

mixed media!

so, the great thing about art school is that, even though you major in something, you have the wonderful freedom to take classes in something completely different from what you may be doing for the rest of your life. this semester im taking ceramics and printmaking.. and i've been in the ceramics studio quite a bit in the past week and so far this is what i've done:



we had to pick something out of nature and simplify it into basic shapes, and of course i chose a squid. so the first one is representing their internal beak where the tear apart meat and flesh for food and the second is representing their gills and where they suck in water. i guess itd be considered their nasal passages in a way. so yeah, these are done being shaped and we're going to glaze them, fire them, etc. so i'll post updates i assume

long time no bloggo also...ILLO FRIDAY: PALE

well hello, long time no blog because i've been traveling so much! no time to relax and i've also been looking for a new job or two.

i was in long island for christmas, brooklyn for new years, pennsylvania the weekend after new years and then on the 7th i flew down to florida with my brother for a bit, then back on the 12th, brooklyn on the 15th for a job interview/concert and now i am in long island for a day then moving back into the apartment tomorrow! jeeeeez

the concert i went to on the 15th was ida maria, who is prob one of my faves because she is just so crazy and fun and wild. the show was great. she's norwegian but lives in sweden and has this great accent. she's sooo beautiful too- pale skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair. so here's my entryy for illustration friday, for once!


sayonara!

christmas presents

merry christmas, happy holidays, all.

i was going to update today with all the work that i did over the semester that i hadn't posted up here yet in memorium of finals being over (which i did great on, four A's, two A-'s and one B- but it was math so its cool) definitely my best semester thus far.

because of my holiday laziness, i am not going to post all that stuff up, because, well i'm updating my website very soon i'm in the process of and all the new stuff will be there (and its going to be flash ooooOOOOooo).

so, i'm just going to post the artsy things i made for my parents and brother for christmas, which they all adored.

and i got an illustrated life by danny gregory which is an amazing book, and my fave illustrator is in there, tommy kane. i also got this sick urban art book from my brother which i spent about 2 hours flipping through this morning along with the pop up book mommy that maurice sendak did with matthew reinhart (see, pop up gods on my links bar).

so, here we go!

this first one i did for my dad, its an apron with his face looking all bad-ass on it. he is "the grillmaster" we all call him that and he shines so bright in the summer time. i also accompanied the apron with a t-bone steak.

this second one is a portrait i did for my brother of one of his best friends, Stu. Stu is one of a kind and I guess you have to really know him the understand the hilarious comedy in this portrait. he's still kinda funny lookin though

and this last one is for my mom. its this picture of my brother (which is my favorite photograph of all time) and i started painting it in oils like a year ago and basically abadoned it (like many oil paintings ive attempted) and she kept begging me to finish it. so i started new and fresh and did it over again in inks (a much more comfortable medium)
i may go back into it though


so, happy holidays y'all. i'll keep ya updated on the website.

fishy fishy

as you've probably noticed, sea creatures are my thing. here's some more aquatic friends.

these are preliminary experiments for one of my assignments. the revised will have less hatching and more shapely ink splatters and blobs.

enjoy

pop up paper engineering

so tuesday, i went to the studio of robert sabuda and matthew reinhart. if you do not know who these amazing men are... google!

my professor, kyle olmon (who is also a crazy talented paper engineer), works alongside them in their studio with a few other people i believe (simon is another guy who was incredibly friendly also). as some of you may know, i am taking a pop up class and i am thoroughly obsessed with it, and i am slowly realizing that i might want to do this forever and ever... and maybe make a career out of it.

unfortunately, robert sabuda was not at the studio when we were there, but matthew was and god he was so great! he was mad busy with deadlines, but he still was able to take time out to give us great advice on the art world and show us some of the many and beautiful things he does. a lot of his artwork is cut-paper collage, where he cuts out little pieces of colored paper to make his images... crazy and gorgeous!

so... i was extra inspired when we went to the studio and i am thinking about talking to my professor about interning there next semester. they were all so wonderful and i really think i would adore being able to get an experience like working next to some of the gods of pop up paper engineering.

so, here's what i've been working on for about 10 hours in the past two days! its part of my final project where i have to make a multiple piece advertisement. i'm doing the new york aquarium and this is one of my pieces.


i'm sleepy. so now i'm just working on drawing some goldfish for one of my illustration assignments. my semester is almost done. i'm freakin' out man!

december 17th is my final survey, if anyone wants to come... let me know! its on pratt campus... if you're interested i'll give you details!

IF_ pretend

no time to write!

kb