BERKELEY!

Not that there are a zillion people viewing this blog and wondering where I have been, but regardless, I do apologize for not updating anything in a year. That's not cool. Anyway, I'm into my last month at community college, and will be "graduating" May 28th with an AA in art. Those two lame years of going to school next door to my high school paid off though. In August I'm off to attend UC Berkeley!!! My major will be Practice of Art. I'm so excited. I was so very close to choosing Savannah College of Art and Design (in Georgia!), but a twist of fate changed my mind. The day after I was accepted to UCB (!) I went to a welcome event for SCAD, and it was ironically in Berkeley. As soon as I got there I knew Berkeley was the college for me. The city was awesome, there were students all over, and god, it's UC Berkeley, how could I pass that up?! Anyway, that's the plan and I'm so excited to start my last two years of college as an art major there. It's gonna be rough, but I'm determined to graduate and get a job in my field. As always, I simply can't imagine pursuing a career not related to art. Alright, that was my excited rant. I'll include a recent painting I completed for (hopefully) your viewing pleasure...

update

In my latest post, which was from a while ago, I had been working on a loose portrait of a girl. Well, that was then. Most recently, I completely redid the portrait, and I think it's looking much more realistic. still needs to be tweaked, but I think it's on it's way to being successful...

weekend painting

"Tomato Stains Revisited" 16x16", oil on canvas

Latest piece I'm working on. Charcoal portrait of Ella Baker, one of the Civil Rights Movement's heroes...11x14 on toned paper.

Quick Plea For Followers

"Marbles and Gabilan" 2009. oil on canvas.
20x30"

Come on people! I feel rather lame that I have no followers on here! Promise I'll be more interesting and start posting some good stuff :)

My lastest piece--mixed media (acrylic, thread, graphite, conte). "Looking Ahead." 2010. portrait of my brother as a little boy...while deciding on a college to transfer to, I've found they like to see a more cohesive group of work, so this is my first attempt to make something relatively similar to past work I've done...(though it looks nothing like anything I've posted on here).

New Year

Well once again, I completely forgot about this thing. It's well into the new year now and I've started my second semester at school. In terms of art classes, I'm taking an etching class and a figure drawing class, both of which are excellent...Took a couple classes to get used to drawing naked people for 3 hours at a time, but I've since gotten over that initial strangeness. Etching's pretty rad too--it's cool to see your work engraved into metal and then printed. Anywhoo, for anyone that reads this stuff, gracias!

Oh, and for now I have my sights set on the San Francisco Art Institute. I visited back in January and it's a really lovely school, right in downtown SF. Talked to a teacher there who seems rather awesome as well (and had a sweet accent)...so as for schools to transfer to, SFAI is looking pretty good--hopefully a scholarship will find its way into my hands as well.