Look What I Found!

I finished this editorial piece about comparing baby and dog IQ's almost a year ago, and I realized that it was never put up on my blog here. It was just sitting in a large stack of past projects. I apologize for that gross oversight. Here you go!

Art Meets Dentisry... Sort Of

This is a piece I did during an Art Jam activity last week, and which I'm submitting for the Annual Vending Machine Show. I thought to myself "Hey, why don't I draw something about a dentist?" How it turned out creepy from there I'm not sure. Maybe it's just that time of year.

Caught (Like Father, Like Son)

These two pieces, which actually sit atop each other similar to what you see, were my submission into BYU's Nature and Nurture: Narratives of the Family Student Juried Show. I won't explain anything else about them. The message should be fairly readable.

I will admit that the color is a little off between the two, but these were photos taken after it was framed, so whatya gonna do?



Special thanks to my sister, Beth Summers for taking the reference photos I needed, and to her husband, Brad, and son, Will, for being my models. You are now immortalized in art. So you're welcome.

Guess What? Even More Figure Drawings!

So what makes these drawings different from past ones? Two things--first, this is from the Advanced Life Drawing class (meaning I passed Intermediate Life Drawing... huzzah!). Second, these mark my first foray into the medium of NuPastel. It's a lot smoother and versatile than the Conté crayons I was using from before.

Also, I ought to point out that although all three drawings look as if they are based off one single pose and one model from different viewpoints, they are in fact different people in different poses at different times. Honest. You'll have to take my word for it.

More Figure Drawings

Including disembodied hands and head!

Figure Drawings

In no particular order, here are my favorite studies from my Intermediate Life Drawing course.

Alice in Wonderland

Everyone in the class was to spend a month adapting Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of literary nonsense with their own style.

Some chose to do a series of finished paintings, while most compiled what's referred to in the industry as a dummy book--16 pages of nearly complete pencil illustrations indicative of the final product. From there we selected one page or spread to take to a final piece.

I'd like to think the scene speaks as to which part of the story is being told. Oh, and just as an FYI, my version of the story occurs in space...

ink, acrylics