Paintings and The Progress

More Sebastian and more bees.

It's for painting class.

I make them to be separate entities from my drawings.

However, if there is overlap of concepts,

that is intentional. I am only one person after all,

yet I am more than one artist.

St. Sebastian in Ink

I want to fix where the gold metal leaf smudged onto the black.

Other than that, I am pretty please with how this turned out.

The woman with her arms reaching toward Sebastian is

supposed to be the woman who saves him and heals his wounds.

Any paintings of St. Sebastian leave her out because

sometimes different tales of this story don't have her in it.

I wanted to include her. Her arms are really too long.

"The Lady with The Monkey" by Aubrey Beardsley.

I primarily borrowed the way Beardsley lays out his compositions. 

I just love the figures against solid black shapes.

The Way Things Look Is More Than You Know

My studio looks so discombobulated. However, it is far from dysfunctional chaos. That tissue box represents recurring colds due to cold weather. Anyways.................... my art is more 

important that my health.

This above piece are two SL avatars. This is just

a for fun, non-serious piece. I am dumping out all thoughts of

crazy out onto this one.

This depicts the Australian singer/musician Jonti. Check him out

he's pretty cool. This is not finished yet. I need to

paint in the features of the face and finish his foot.

And this is sketch of St. Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna

Experiment Un

I photoshopped this just to see what can become of this drawing. I am going to keep on experimenting like this.

New drawing or painting or blaaablaablaaa

I first drew this in August and now I am finally back to it again. Before I started to paint with gouache, I always seriously contemplated what I would do with this. So I feel good that I am painting it. But then I don't know what I should do with the background. That could take so many more months of thought.
****The pictures were taken with my instagram app on my itouch so sorry for such low quality images.
While I painted this, I listened to strange music such as The Residents, Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, Faust, Mr.Bungle, The Bonzo Dog Band, Thrones, Thinking Plague, Talking Heads and much more.

other stuff

 Mouth os Sauron from Lord of the Rings just cause he's cool

Is it Crazy?

I painted with gouache, acrylic inks,and metal foil!

I try and give myself explanations for this sort of fascination, but I can't. I went wild with color and fetish like fashion and someone in the 301 had a book of rubber,latex, and leather fashions of the sort so I got even more inspired. I like the way these fashions are designed, it makes the body look alien and unrecognizable. It's sci-fi and avant garde and eccentric.