College art assignments:

This was an assignment for a warm/cool complementary color contrast. It's a little loose for me, but I like the effect it made. 

This assignment was to try and make a dynamic composition, so I asked myself "what could be more dynamic than a pink graffiti-style raptor turkey?" ...haha actually it just started out as a random sketch, and kind of evolved from there. 

This one was to try and show the stippling effect; straight hues put side by side create shades and neutrals in our minds eye. 

This one was suppose to be a split complementary painting. I wanted two animals of the same color. It's funny to watch how many people take a second look to realize the panda is out of place. 

I liked the panda and penguin one so much that i decided to do another one for the triadic complementary painting. A friend pointed out that the animals always started with the same first letter: a Panda and a Penguin, a Tiger and a Toucan. No i didn't do that on purpose, but maybe down the road I'll end up doing the whole alphabet. 

A Chuck Close style painting of the Afghan girl in National Geographic. 

I painted it one square at a time....It took FOREVER. 

This assignment was to create a new Sobe design using color discord. 

This is my newest one so far. Completed 4/10/12. 

The progression of Spider-Man

This is a piece i did with the airbrush.

It's all freehand, exempt for parts of the eye, where I drew and cut out my own stencil.

First black and white, and later the color...

Here I actually redid the lines on his upper shoulder, and also added the others. 

And there we have it. 

Some of the stuff I've done since I got back:

This piece was a commission for Elder Ulu'ave. It's the Laie Hawaiian Temple imbedded into their state flower. It's done in watercolor. 

This one is the first one I started when I got back from the mission. It's an oil painting. I wanted to challenge myself after not painting for two years. Let me tell you, it was a challenge. 

This is Tepi. I painted it in oils from a photo in The National Geographic Magazine of 2003. I was having problems doing skin tones in the previous painting, and had trouble not making it flat, so this one is mostly just a study for myself on skin tones. This one took several weeks to complete, but I'm liking the final product. 

Ummm...this is what happens when I get bored and tired in-between oil paintings (which take forever to dry). This is David, Michelangelo's sculpture. It's done in mixed media, mostly acrylic paint, party ribbons, and marker, and afterwards I textured it. 

This is also what I do when I get bored. I got an airbrush a couple years back, and haven't used it much. The idea is one I had when I was a sophomore in High school, kind of playing on "Who is Man's Best Friend?" Puppies, or Technology?

This is another little skin study from The National Geographic Magazine from October 2009. It's an oil painting. I actually finished this one in two days, so I was excited. 

This was a commission for Sam and Melani Mullen. If you look there is a sheep's face in the clouds, and a sheep skull in the rocks on the middle mountain. This was a fun one to do. 

This is some of my older work (2006-09)