07/19/2012 Progress

Next panel in progress for guitar piece. 07/19/2012 

Emmaculate Conception

Emmaculate Conception is the second panel of color pencil on Masonite to be mounted on a piece of guitar art for a Las Vegas Event.

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What I See- completed

First of a series of masonite panels completed to be mounted on a guitar piece for a Las Vegas Event.
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Madonna with Grapes progress

07/12/2012 Progress on Madonna with Grapes has been intermittent. It has been my carry around piece, working on here or there. It is coming along and hope to finish it soon!

http://www.facebook.com/DRCGalleries

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A piece from the past

I created this sculpture relief out of a MYPSST t-shirt, a burnt out incandescent light bulb and oil paint with an acrylic paint base on canvas. It won in a 2008 group show with MYPSST.com t-shirt companyhttp://www.mypsst.com/ProductList.cfm?CatDisplay=10 .

 

 

Olympic Arts Competition making a come back!

The Olympic Arts Competition 2012 is re-introducing 5 categories - Architecture, Literature, Music, Painting, and Sculpture - which formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1952.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Olympic-Arts-Competition-2012/195011210558406
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Celebrate Las Vegas like a Rock Star!

I just picked up this B.C. Rich Warlock Guitar Yesterday, donated by Matthew Janes, to be turned into a Color Pencil Painting piece for the Celebrate Las Vegas Festival and Auction for Autism Awareness!
http://www.facebook.com/CelebrateLasVegas

Plans are to mutilate it and artistically piece it back together into a non-functional piece of visual art! I thought about keeping it functional but decided I'm going to have more fun destroying it before making it beautiful.

See yourself in my work.

Would anyone like to be in one of my next paintings? Message me with pictures you might get a chance.

It's my wonderful wife's Birthday today!

It's my lovely and talented wife, Bethamy Combs Birthday today! I'm so lucky to have someone that is devoted to loving me in spite of my craziness and art obsessions.

Mid Year 2012 Review of Art Award History

Award History:
1st Place- "Out of Eden", Art Competition at NIAA Art Center, Crown Point, IN 2008

1st Place- "Eden 1", Type of Artwork Drawing category on noenga.com, January 2011

1st Place- "Beating Hour", Pen and Ink Technique category on noeng.com, January 2011

1st Place- "Pastoral Family", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, January 2011

1st Place- "Loose Patel Study", Pastel Technique category on noenga.com, January 2011

3rd Place- "Internal Conflict", Type of Artwork Drawing category on noenga.com, January 2011

2nd Place- "Collective Manipulation", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, April 2011

3rd Place- "Modern Gorgon", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, April 2011

1st Place- "Creative Burst", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, July 2011

3rd Place- "Art of Target", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, August 2011

3rd Place- "On the Rocks", Overall Globally on noenga.com, September 2011

1st Place- "On the Rocks", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, Sepember 2011

1st Place- "On the Rocks", in Surreallistic Style category on noenga.com, September 2011

2nd Place- "On the Rocks", Type of Artwork Drawing category on noenga.com, October 2011

Artist of the week on noenga.com- November 2011

1st Place- "Ripped Away", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, January 2012

2nd Place- "Morning Star", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, January 2012

3rd Place- "Ripped Away", Type of Artwork Drawing category on noenga.com, January 2012

3rd Pace- "Ripped Away", Psychological Self Portrait Contest, Drawers-Life on deviantart.com- February 2012

2nd Place- "Ripped Away", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, February 2012

1st Place- "Portrait of Roses", Type of Artwork Drawing category on noenga.com, April 2012

2nd Place- "Portrait of Roses", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, April 2012

3rd Place- "Luminous Crane", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, April 2012

1st Place- "Portrait of Roses", Type of Arwork Drawing category on noenga.com, May 2012

2nd Place- "Luminous Crane", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, May 2012

3rd Place- "Portrait of Roses", Pencil Technique category on noenga.com, May 2012

Featured on cover of World Art Magazine on Facebook- May 2012

2nd Place- "Heavy Metal", Art Compettion at Water Conseration Fesival, Hobart, IN June 2012

On the Rocks is in a Wine Label Art Contest!

I just entered a Wine Label Art Contest with "On the Rocks"! Check it out at the link.

https://apps.facebook.com/artiste-wines/seid/26749

2nd Place at Water Conservation Festival

6/23/2012 I took 2nd Place at City of Hobart's Water Conservation Festival. I enetered a rain barrel I titled Heavy Metal.
I won a $100 gift card to Best Buy and a was picked for a $25 door prize gift card to Best Buy.
The Barrel will be getting a public display at the City Hall for 2 weeks soon. I will keep everyone posted with updates.

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Miniature Design #1

First of a series of Miniature Scratch Board pieces. Let me know what you think?

wip 6/22/2012

I started this next piece from a thumbnail I did on the ack of an envelope after a church sermon.
I'll have better pictures of the piece as I proceed.

World Art Magazine Feature Cover

It's been a while since my last entry, but here we go! I have been featured on the cover of World Art Magazine. Here's the cover.

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. I hope everyone is doing well!

04/06/2012 Progress

I know it's been a while since I last posted on my blog, my apologies. Since I last shared anything, I've been working on an Oil Painting for my Pastor.

It's 32"x 40" on Canvas, based on  an Illustration used in an at home Bible Study.

When I've been out and about, outside the Painting Studio. I've been working on an original Piece I'm creating on the theme of the Madonna and Child Christ. It's 8.5"x 11" on Rag Paper with Prismacolor Colored Pencils.

I hope you enjoy my current works.

02272012 Finishing Touches

Placing finishing touches on the piece today.

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2/25/2012 Progress on gift

I keep adding more to this piece! It ought to be finished soon.

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I received 3rd Place in this Art Contest!

Congratulations to the Contest Winners!!!!

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 9:48 AM by *NinthLife

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After a super long delay (sorry!) and very hard decisions on the finalists, you guys have chosen the winners for the Psychological Self Portrait Contest!

1st Place

The Delicate Balance by *baconworm



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Congratulations for also receiving a Daily Deviation!

2nd Place

Me Myself and I by *Allantiee



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3rd Place

Ripped Away by ~DRagsdale



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125 deviantART points from =digin
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Lost in Time

Lost in Time was completed 01-10-2012, on Rag paper with Prismacolor Color pencils 8.5"x 11". It was inspired by a fascination of clocks and time. The original concept from the patron was to take her fascination of clocks and time referring to life, and create a piece depicting a woman’s journey through the stages of; birth, life and death. As I worked on the piece I chose to use glimpses of astronomical features in the dialogue of the message in the piece. I was given a fairly large license over the outcome of the piece. I placed Venus above the figure to symbolize the common metaphor for the female. I felt the need to have fun with other symbols and floral patterns through the piece. I finished the piece with a suggestion made by the patron to place the moon in the piece. I thought it made a nice way of referring to the theme of death without playing with the figure of a dead or dying woman. Moon is typically known as a dead and cold planet, this is what locked in my decision.

http://www.noenga.com/new-art/?page=1&work=11117
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Raw nipples

I recently got a new pair of running shoes. They were a Christmas gift from my In laws. I had been ceasing my running activities for nearly a year, due to wearing out my last pair and not having the ability to get a new pair for the near future. I was very grateful. 

Yesterday I went for a reasonable run. I got halfway through and noticed my nipples were rubbing raw. Something I had forgotten about my running routine from before. Always make sure you Vaseline your nipples before going for a run, or face the consequences of raw nipples. If not checked for too long, on long runs they can actually be rubbed raw to the point of bleeding.

Self Portrait in photography

My wife took these photos of me. We thought it was fun.

Lost in Time WIP 2

I just wanted to share the next stage in Lost in Time with everyone. I decided to have fun with the character and give her fun  funky leggings. I played off the blues and purples I've been working into the piece. We'll see how the rest of the piece works out. I have a pretty good idea of how it will wrap up, though inspiration can be a finicky thing.
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Lost in Time WIP

Lost in Time is a commissioned piece involving a figure being pulled through time with a fascination with clocks. It will have three focal figures flowing through the piece; an infant, a youthful woman and an elderly woman. All figures are metaphors for the life journey of the same individual. Here it is about 2/3's completed. It is being done on Strathmore rag paper with Prismacolor Colored pencils, 8.5”x 11”.

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