Something old, something new

So I'm putting up some pretty old work. Below is a multimedia painting I did in Painting I. The purple cloth is actual cloth; the duck is yellow shopping bag; the white cloth is newspaper. Not my best work, but I like the composition.


A cutout I painted for prom '06, with assistance from some of my high school friends. My darling sister is the head. It's house paint and glitter on wood panel.


Put together this managarie of different views of the same piece, a ceramic Egyptian pyramid. I formed it using slabs, so it is hollow inside. The hole through the eye is a real hole, and the piece was raku-fired. I don't remember which glaze, but I'm sure it musta been fairly common if our high school purchased some.


But of course, I have some new projects, too. My darling cousin commissioned this painting of her guitar. Her goal was to have a piece to add to the rock'n'roll theme of her apartment decor.

I found it very challenging to complete, since the reference photo I was using showed the guitar from a three-quarters angle. Another challenge was the unusual dimensions of the canvas; I had to paint the guitar in such a manner that it would fill the picture space without seeming terribly out of proportion. Despite my artistic angst and agitation, my cousin loved it, and it worked out nicely in the end.