Current Works

As I'm sure you gleaned from my previous post, I had fallen behind and hit what was most likely a self imposed creativity block. However, a quick reality check really woke me up and inspired me to work. I got angry at myself and I in turn created one of my most successful pieces in only 8 hours of working on it, which was considerable less than the time I spent on my last big painting. I took one of the photo 'fractured collages' that I had created previously and I began painting. I was going to continue with the idea of the semi hard edge painting approach, however when I moved the piece to a bigger canvas, I realized that that technique wasn't as powerful or as successful as it had been on the smaller canvas.

 So with Frank's words swimming around my brain that I needed to be taking risks, I began throwing paint in the canvas, caring less about that mathematical precision I was doing previously but more about trying to make the paint more fleshy. I got so into the painting that I stopped focusing on trying to see the whole picture in the painting, I just got deep into the painting and let the painting do what it wanted instead of focusing on photo realism. I got so deep into it, that I didn't realize it was done until I took a bathroom break and as I was walking back towards the painting, it was as though a halo formed around it and cosmically told me it was finished. 
This painting actually restored my my need to create artwork.

And here's what I'm working on currently! This is going to be another heavily shadowed painting, however the subject matter speaks more on the idea that plus sized women are sexy to other people rather than just to themselves, however this kind of love is only amplified by self love. Obviously, there isn't much to it yet, as I just start and was only able to spend an hour or so on it, but so far I believe it is successful. Below is the picture that it will be referencing.