New Etsy Additions!

These are two of my more popular pieces and they have been added to my Etsy shop for purchase!

White Linen Night in the Heights

This piece painted by me will be available during the annual White Linen Night exhibition in the Heights on Saturday from 6pm-10pm.  The piece is called "Balance" and is painted in oil with some steel accents on a 12"x12" canvas.  Our tent will be on "Pink Street" between Oxford and Columbia and is juried by Lori Betz of the Betz gallery.  For more info about the event and some good paths for traveling around you can follow this link http://whitelinennightheights.com/map and a portion of the sales will go to benefit Houston Art and Culture, which helps to support and inspire art through scholarship and mentoring.  Hope to see ya'll there!

Finished Tree Painting

Here is the final Tree sculpture-painting and some close up of details. Gonna do some thinking to figure out the pricing on this baby. Anyone interested in purchasing it?

Concept for a tree painting

Here's a concept for a tree painting I want to do. Since my phoenix painting I really have become interested in texture and using different materials placed on the canvas and painted over with oil. For this one I'm actually thinking of stripping bark off of trees and placing it on the actual trunk and then painting over it for some cool textures. What do you think?

Exploring Oil Paints

Here are the paintings from my experiment in oil painting. I took a watercolor elective last quarter but it was very relaxed and didn't really dive into the heavier aspects of painting, so I am considering this course my first heavy duty painting course. These are posted roughly in the order in which they were painted and there is a lot of change as I became more experienced. All the figures were done at varying time lengths during class and the last two are semi-finished long term paintings. I still want to work on them some more when I get back home and have some time to myself. I feel like in my 3rd year of college, I'm really only just beginning to learn about art. All of next year I plan to explore as many mediums as I can possibly squeeze into my schedule, though working on my thesis will certainly prove to be an obstacle. I'm very excited about this! :)