It's been awhile since a made a post. So here's an update! I have made so much progress in figuring out what I want to do for right now. I was focussing on making women feel empowered and that is still a primary goal an underlying theme in my work, but I'm taking it a step further and casting women in the role of goddesses, particularly fertility goddesses because they were valued and praised by their size instead of demeaned. I was going to use the body as a canvas, and I may still do that, but right now I am focusing just in the goddess aspect and editing the images of my models in photoshop.

I know this is just a crappy picture of the screen, but I'm updating this from my phone. I'll post a better picture tomorrow, but hey look at this!

I'm not normally a photographer but a good friend of mine is and she inspired me to do this project. You can view Becca's blog here.

So, I've spent awhile being really confused about where I wanted to go next. I was really confused after my last advanced drawing class because while I was inspired by Alex Grey's work, I felt like I was betraying myself and my working thesis. For now I've decided I want to work with female bodies just filling up the entire canvas, with little to no background. A few examples:

Advanced Drawing and Developing a New Idea

So I just had my second critique in advanced drawing. Mostly I've been working on anatomy sketches so that I have a better understanding of the muscles structure of a human, since that's what I typically focus on in my own work. So my teacher, Denise, suggested I continue working with body systems: muscles, veins and bone structures, as a part if my figures, like the artist Alex Grey. I looked at his work and really enjoyed it, although I know that's not specifically where I want to go next, but I am going to try to apply what I've learned about muscle structure to my figures.

I'm still playing around with the idea of modern day fertility figures, however now I'm contemplating combining body systems and birth with them.
Once I get a few solid sketches out, I'll post them on here!

Below are four images of Alex Grey's work I really enjoyed and will use as inspiration. The fifth image is another one of my anatomy sketches.

Anatomy Studies 1/20/13

Just a few pictures of today's sketches, also shown on my other art blog trinitysutterfield.tumblr.com

I Believe an Introduction is in Order

Hello, I'm Trinity Sutterfield. I am an activist/figure artist, living in Cincinnati and attending the University of Cincinnati- DAAP. My work tends to focus on bodyimage, fertility and sexuality, but specifically the fat female form and bodypositivity. I get a lot of my inspiration from spending a lot of time 'people watching', practicing what I preach and doing a lot of research. I typically draw the nude femaleform and accentuate and idealize her natural assets (and often the things thatsociety deems unacceptable or ugly) like stretch marks and fat rolls. My workis almost like modern day fertility goddesses. 
Here are some images!