so i havent post anything in a long time. i feel really bad about it. i lost my camera usb cord, so i couldnt up load any pictures. however, i did find my cord and we are suppose to get 2 feet of snow this weekend, so i plan on doing a bunch of updating.  i think i will start where i left off. my last post was right before i had my final critiques at AU. For our final crits we basically had to set up our work and then present the work in front of a panel of about 10 teachers/faculty members. the critiques lasted about 30 minutes for each person and the weeks leading up to the critiques were very stressful for much of the program. everyone was trying to get as much stuff done and working up until the last minute. i took a few pictures of what i had set up. unfortunately i couldnt take pictures during the crit, the faculty may have thought that was weird.

it was pretty hard to get a really good picture of the whole set up, and since it was in the corner it made it even harder to capture all of it. i had about some pieces to show for final crit and i was pretty pleased with what i put up. the semester was a real transition period for me. i came into american doing these creature paintings that eventually evolved into these abstract paintings. the more i painted the creatures the more i began to realized that i was more interested in the color and spatial interactions more then the actual creature in the piece. learning this i began to create paintings that were more focused on this interest and completely void of the creature. my next couple post will be all about my new body of work and what im interested in. sorry for not posting in so long. many more posts will come shortly. i promise