{Italia}: Part 2

Italian architecture is a dream. It's this wonderful balance between geometry, pattern, history, & renovation. The colors they choose to paint their buildings with are fantastic, and it seems like anytime something needs to be patched up they just choose a "relatively similar" type of color to cover up the mishap--- creating some of the best walls and surface treatment I've ever seen. 

{Italy}:: Part 1

took this of my dear, dear friend Katie Winters with her disposable camera on our last day in Italy, in the Bobbili Gardens

really looking forward to sharing more in the next few days (& weeks) about what kinds of things I saw & learned. Katie Winters, was one of the most wonderful surprises of the trip---loved getting to know her gentle, ever-giving, sweet soul; getting to experience first-hand the way she sees & does life

---Pattern Painting

This painting was done for my Painting II class,  inspired by the Pattern & Decoration Movement. 

The pattern was inspired by a patterned arrangement of bricks outside of my apartment complex--- which is the first thing I see every day as I get up to my place.

 I am naturally drawn to pattern, it's something my hand automatically moves to create. What I'm really interested to work through and discover in the next year is how to incorporate some of my figurative work (like below) with some of this pattern work. 

self-portrait in a doorway & more

the above painting is from this past summer,

i'm a big fan of the color of the door,

 and would also love to do another painting with more stacks of chairs

Wires and Walls

A few old ones & a few new ones

It's taken me about 6 months to finally take pictures of some of my paintings,

but at long last, I've done it!

So, over the next week or two I'll post a few old ones & a few new ones.

Today's is from my Life Painting Class that I took with Jon Puls back in June, during Summer School. It was our last in-class painting we did for the course-- and definitely a challenge to paint someone reclining who is lying below you.

Lately I've been really missing getting to paint people--and this image makes me miss it all the more.