marissa on pink & room 108

From Alex Schaefer's painting class, this term:


From life, two sessions. It's really nice to have the second week to fully develop certain areas, like the face.



A homework assignment - paint an interior or exterior with a figure. Anyone who works in 108 knows about the leaky pipe right over the sink.. I decided to play off of that.

"we're half-awake..."

My final project from last term, Gary Meyer's acrylic composition & painting class. The assignment was to do anything, so long as we included three figures with a background.


The idea for this was based off of the song "Fake Empires" by the National. I was listening to their latest album, Boxer, pretty consistently through the term, and the opening song in particular struck me for its vivid imagery. The images in the painting can be interpreted broadly, but the basic narrative is about disillusionment. The medium is acrylic, and I worked pretty large for this one - the final image size was probably around 12"x24".

digital life-drawing doodles

Crazy term!! So much fun, though.

These are from Cliff Nielsen's digital life drawing class.. All in Painter 10. This is pretty new to me, I'm trying to approach it like I would a traditional life-painting..




...more to come as soon as I photograph some paintings..