its been awhile!

I just realized that I haven't blogged in a really long time!! So I wanted to update everyone about some things I've been working on...

I'm taking a new studio, Advanced Drawing, which first freaked me out! It is a self-directed class that doesn't have any guidelines at all! The freedom is really nice, but also intimidating for me. Today I finally faced my fear and worked on a piece!

At first I started out with the idea of destruction of man. From my past projects, I saw a theme occurring throughout my work, I loved distressed things. Even from my screenprinting project (guns) shows a destruction of man theme so I thought it was perfect!!

But it wasn't perfect... Of course I was overthinking and stressing myself out about the idea. Today my teacher told me to play around and do anything! Just let myself go.. so I did and here's what happened....

 I just used the palette knife and lots of paint. My inspiration was of pealing paint. Here's a close up..