Drawings on my Sector9 long board skateboard

Pen and Ink on Wood

Quick Studies and Doodles

Future, Present, and Past

 Very interesting composition of reflective shapes and plains, possibly something worth exploring.

Flower 11"x 6" pen 12/11

A quick study while packing all my belongs before heading home to Hawai'i.

Dogs In Room 14"x 14" pencil 12/10

I would rather work from life, but multiple photos made due for this piece.

Something I did back in high school, it seems I drew on everything except paper back then. Definitely worth rediscovering again.

Oh Tiny Hands

So this is what I would look like with tiny hands

Collage Update

 One more sitting should complete this piece

 Top left

 Bottom left

Bottom right

Top right 

Center

Collage of me

Hawaiian flag, Bodyboarding, letters from my mother, girlfriend Courtney, beer bottle opener from Lovefest, Keone's (brother) hook necklace, beloved nephew Joshy, first paycheck, mail from home and the ocean.

Finally settled with this composition

 

Started with pencil, blocked in all items, added tone to the background, did some details

In progress, a few more sitting will do it

Sorry for overusing the commas

Worked on a few more items on the collage, really enjoying the process for this piece.

Quick studies

Courtney studying 18"x 24" pen and ink 11/10

A picture of pictures 18"x 24" pen and ink wash 11/10

Fingerprints of David

Close up

Day 2

Finally coming together, still much work to be done

Second attempt at fingerprints on a much larger scale, 38"x 56". Not sure how the hair on the face and head will come out. Ive been dreading it since I started this piece, still much work needs to be done.

Finally did the hair, a few more sessions should do the trick

First attempt at fingerprinting

First I started off  my drawing a grid on the photo, then resized the same grid to fit on the 18"x 24" drawing pad. Then worked on each individual square instead of focusing on the entire work as a whole.

 Once I finished the entire first layer of the drawing. I went back over the entire piece with another layer of fingerprints to block in the grid lines an work with the composition of the entire piece.

Once I finished blocking in the grid lines and built up the dark areas of her face, arm, and hair. I set the piece aside and will give it a once over look again later, maybe within 2-4 days. This way I'm not wrapped up in the piece being complete and can give an unbiased opinion if I feel it is finished or not.

Erica 18"x 24" ink with fingerprints 10/11



Chuck Close scribble etching

 Red

 Blue

 Orange

 Green

Dark Blue

 Pink

 Light Blue

 Yellow Orange

 Dark Green

 Black

 Black again

Chuck Close 18"x 24" color pencil 09/10

"Close's "game" with color is exacting and demanding, requiring a knowledge of the optical effects of color mixing that is virtually unparalleled in the history of art. He is able to achieve, in his work, to seemingly contradictory goals at once. On the one hand, his work is fully representational. On the other, it is fully abstract, even nonobjective in its purely formal interest in color. Close has it both way."

The above text is a excerpt from a magazine on Close's latest works in progress. This is my first attempt at scribble etching, instead of interchanging between primary colors all at once. You lay down different layers one after another after another. First, I started off with red, then blue, orange and so on till the final color, black. The technique used is simply scribbles built up on more scribbles. Definitely more pieces with this technique to come.