Glass

What you're looking at here is a piece of glass with which I used frit (crushed up glass that's basically powder). I took the glass and put it on a light box then working from a picture i basically drew the image in the glass with the frit, after that I put it in the kiln to fire for 12 hours. These pictures are of my family.

The artwork

I was really excited about this show, as the idea evolved i was able to incorporate more of my personal affection for antique cars and my love of family history. Much of my childhood was spent ridding in the backseat of one of our family cars, exploring the terrain of the pacific northwest. My parents could never pass up taking the long way home and i think this is where my love of our magnificent landscape comes in. I was surprised and excited to see how much cars really are a part of our history, as americans the represent the expanding of our country, they are a symbol of progress. In going through troves of family pictures i found these same themes popping up and soon my thesis was complete. So a show was born.

The grand Finale

This is it folks, after months of late nighters, gallons of coffee, planning till our heads exploded the Studio Art seniors of Fox succesfully executed a wonderful show, if I dont say so myself.
I had a great little corner in Lindgren Gallery,



THE BIG ONE! what question was I asked the most during the show? "how long did it take you to paint that one?" I figured it took about 48 hours straight maybe, of course I couldn't really get at it that way, usually it was after all my classes and work, during the late hours of the night.

Smallville?

The last few months before the show were spent entirly in brougher or our little studio( which is actually the living room of skyles house) to get the creative juices flowing Jen and I attempted to watch the first three seasons of smallville. Its sad but true :)

In an effort to describe the last few months of creative endeavours for friends, family and others who might be interested I have finally downloaded some great pictures. When I started working on my senior thesis exhibit at fox, there were a few bumps to get over, namely what my whole show was going to be about, I had it in my mind to create some huge grandiose figural sculptures. The funny thing with art is no matter how you try if the idea dosnt work it dosnt work, and its just best to let it be for a while. At least in my experience it just needs to flow. I shy away from saying this because I come from the back ground of "work hard enough and it can be done" but I found out, its more about being true to yourself and staying relaxed. So I combined what I knew and what I loved, and started to paint cars, the rest is history.
One of the bumps