DAAPworks 2012

School is over, thesis is finished, and DAAPworks had their exhibit... Here are some images from the show including my final thesis paintings of homelessness and Over the Rhine!

painting

Both panels are 4'x4'. This is how the panels will viewed. 

little pieces

At the end of last quarter and beginning of my spring quart (sniff, sniff, my last quarter as an undergrad) I was/am working on different little studies.. Here's the work!

I started with this drawing I made using sharpie markers.. my studio smelled good after a little while.

 Then I added it to one of my studies that's on an 8x10 canvas. The background is the same as my large otr painting. The black is sharpie again.

This is the same painting but the buildings are cut out (which shows the wall of my studio ha). This is not finished I want to do something to the wood that is exposed from the canvas, possibly stain it. 

Working from this picture I took at Streetvibes Christmas party, I painted the picture below. I used photoshop to manipulate this picture so that there were shapes. 

For this painting, first I drew the man using a regular pencil, then used some black oil paint and polyurethane to drip onto the canvas. I used polyurethane to keep the pencil markings on the canvas, then where the polyurethane didn't drip on I erased the markings. I am really happy how this turned out! So it might not be the last time you see this technique!

OTR painting continued

So after my final senior thesis critique, I have decided to keep this painting of just the map of OTR, not using the similar style I did before of painting the faces of the homeless. I added another layer.. I'm going to add more layers of course, but I'm not exactly sure how yet or what technique... One girl suggested that I fill balloons up with paint and shoot them with a gun! That would be awesome except it scares me ha. But I think this would be interesting aesthetically and conceptually.

Over the Rhine is a feared neighborhood in Cincinnati after having a lot of bad publicity. For awhile police also feared it so the community got "ghettoized". It has become this shut out part of town, until recently. They are trying to renovate some of the buildings to make the area become more inviting but that just erases the affordable housing that was once available.

I applied polyurethane selectively, and I was surprised how it turned out.

 I was happy to see how it dried!

Here's a close up of how the polyurethane dried.

new painting...

Sticking to my thesis idea, I am on my next painting.. finally! My idea for this one is more constructed than the last one.. I think. I am first doing a layer of a map of Cincinnati, mainly Over the Rhine. Most of Cincinnati's homeless are concentrated to Over the Rhine because its within walking distance to jobs, transportation, and other services that they need.

Here's my progress to date...

Map of area I selected.

Finished painted on map

Closer view, the blue tape are the street names when I got confused what was what.