Decemberists.

I FUCKIN LOVE THE DECEMBERISTS.
*cough*
Seriously, I love them more then any band in the world, and I had the privilege to see them live at Terminal 5 Last week. My god, they were so wonderful. I also really, really enjoyed Loch Lomond. They opened for The Decemberists, and they were really fantastic and quite interesting (different, in a really nice way!)
The concert was definitely the best i've ever seen.
I cannot wait for their new album "Hazards of Love" to be released. April 2009!
Sweet!
Check out better more awesome pictures at:

This was the set list.
-Shanty For The Arethusa (awesome)
-July, July (Colin was adorable and mixed up the lyrics right in the beginning.. but who cares, hes Colin Meloy)
-Dreams [Fleetwood Mac] intro>Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
-Valerie Plame (such an awesome song. I was one of the few that heard it, and was singing along...)
-O New England (BOSTON TRIP'S THEME SONG <3)
-The Bachelor and The Bride (God, they like, knew all my favorite songs and played them.)
-The Engine Driver ( so good, song makes me sad face)
-We Both Go Down Together (w/Amanda from Loch Lomond on viola (?)) (HAHA FUCK YEAH IT WAS A VIOLA)
-Record Year For Rain (w/Amanda from Loch Lomond on viola (?))
-Oceanside (Ryan had never heard this song, which made me feel quite awesome....)
-The Perfect Crime #2 ( I never really liked this song... until they played it live... IT BLEW US AWAY)
-Days of Elaine
-O Valencia!>Dracula's Daughter interlude
-Culling of the Fold (AWESOME, Colin called someone on an audience member's cellphone. So intense)
-The Chimbley Sweep (SARAH PALIN IS A CHIMBLEY SWEEP <3)
-16 Military Wives
-The Mariner's Revenge Song (Oh MAN, the most intense and fun way to end a set.)

ENCORE
-Raincoat Song
-Eli, The Barrow Boy (wth is that grind organ thing? I love it.)
-Sons And Daughters

The Fashion Institute

God, sorry guys! I've been dead for the longest time!

Here are some of the things I've been doing at FIT.
I don't have many pictures and scans, well because, that takes more effort.
I will get around to that eventually!

HOLY COW FLASH PAINTING. FIT is awesome. this guy came out of nowhere and asked me to paint with him. this is a little portion of my corner. XD Acrylic fun times.

I wonder where that painting went... XD

Mmm, in class model. four hour classes with Jane Bixby weller are always exciting. The crazy old woman loves my stuff. ( I say crazy with so much love and respect!)

thank god for picture plane.

Close up of the portrait!

Ahhh, the good stuff, to show you guys I do more then just pencils and painting.

That Mask if for my friend's halloween costume, he is going to be Leslie Vernon for Halloween.
Like I said before in a previous post, check out this move, its fantastic.
Linkage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437857/

I made the mask out of plaster bandages. molded it to the wearer and then once dry, sanded the sucker down so it was smooth and fit semi- loosely on the wearer for comfortable wearing. I painted the thing in acrylics, and I am SOO in love with it. <3

Life has been alright, but cash is tight.
I need commissions and I need them asap.

Thats all for now, I promise to update frequently.

(P.s: I tried LiveJournal, and it gave me a headache....)

Behind the Mask

So. It's my friend Alex's birthday.
We discovered the movie Behind the Mask the Rise of Leslie Vernon.
And its one of the best movies I ever saw. We love it.
So I decided to make her a Leslie card.
I think hes wonderful!
Totally check this movie out, you'll love it if you love horror/witty/comedic movies.
its epic and totally not conventional!
Cult classics ftw!!!



I drew the card on a bit of card stock with the wonderful prisma inky pens I got for my birthday a week ago!
It's such a dark and creepy birthday card... XD

Art Dump 2

I took a quick break to return the mad overdue library books that I had...
D:

So yeah, i'm dumping basically everything I have now, just as a reference for commission work. I'll eventually just post new things in one blog at a time. Like a new project im working on and so on... but for now, i'm purging my hard drive and putting it all up here... XD

wooot

Self Portrait! I was really bored one day, and just decided to draw my face. So i sat infront of a mirror... took maybe a half an hour...
XD for some reason, my teacher is in love with it. It has been featured in a lot of art shows...

Charactures of Locke and Hurely from LOST I love it...
They're done in water color... I'd love to do more of these :D!

This guy was a commission for a tattoo design! I love him! I named him Sir Alexander!
The character was born from a friend of a friends dream, and they wanted him tattoo'd onto them! I don't know if they ever got it done... but the loved the design!

My header. This was the first Piece for school I did this year. I love it. It was drawn from a memory I had from last summer. Two of my friends and I, roasting waffles over a campfire.
You only wish you were that awesome. :D
Colored pencils!

This was a birthday card for my dad. He loves LOST soooo... yeah, card!


AHHHH.

School Work Dump.

These are some of the Projects I've done for school...
^^ just for reference!

This is kinda what I visualized when I listened to the song "light my fire" by The Doors. I used Watercolor, marker, ink, and some gouache for this piece. Its pretty small, like, maybe 8 1/2 by 11

A scene from a cafe in Greenwich village! These are two friends of mine. I loved the moment, so I decided to illustrate it. I love their expressions.
This was done in colored pencil, this again is a rather small piece.

This was a assignment given to me. We had to look at Robert Rauschenberg's work and create a self portait reflecting his multimedia style. This is what I created. To this day, i'm still very proud of the piece! This is a large work... I'd say 13inches by something.... XD I created this with Acrylic gloss medium and lots of elbow grease... or finger grease...? XD

This was a project to draw the contour of a messy space. Can you find Lion-o?
XD Sharpies!

A forever unfinished portrait of a good friend of mine. I left it unfinished, because I didn't think it needed to be finished! :D Colored pencils!