"let the grass grow green, beneath my toes,

and if the sun comes up, i'll paint a picture all about the colors i've been dreaming"

this quote always inspires me to go outside and see the world as it's meant to be seen. then i feel refreshed and ready to create art that is inspired by the creativity of my heavenly father. . . the one who created the grass, trees, and sun....

Michael: charcoal drawing

I finally found this charcoal piece that I did last year as my final for Figure Drawing Spring Semester last year.

self portrait/ masterpiece copy

For this photoshop project our goal was to change a famous masterpiece (i did Gustav Klimt's Lady with Fan) and put ourselves in it (i inserted my eyes, nose, lips.. the hair color and eye brows) but blend it in such a way that it still look close to the original. We were also supposed to add in other elements to change the masterpiece. I drew a border and scanned it in, changed her dress slightly and added in a few other details. This project was one of them most frustrating projects by far this semester.

Surreal Landscape

This is project was in photoshop. The goal was to create a surreal place in which you would want to visit, using photographs and 3 scanned in images. The flowers, sky and sun were drawings of mine that i decided to scan in. This was one of my favorite projects i have done in my digital tools class this semester.

Once again sorry for the crappy images- (still figuring out how to upload the actual jpg version), (So these are actually photographs of my photos panels). 

But hopefully you get the idea of some of these compositions.

I'm working on getting better images. 

continue Landscape panel

{sorry for the blurriness in the images}

Landscape panel.

These care the complete series of my Landscape Panels from my digital tools class.

The goal here wasn't just photography- It was creating an interesting composition that keeps the eye moving. 

Landscape panel.

These are some rough photos that led to my landscape photo panel. 

Chair project

Last year i had to construct a chair based on a famous yet fit the size of a five year old.

I chose to base my piece off Claus Oldenberg. He is a well known sculptor whom constructs huge pieces of ordinary objects into massive sculptures. Therefore, i took a very ordinary object (that being a flower) and turned it into a chair.  

Out of the Box

My 4-d design class really has my mind spinning out of control. 

I do not understand the point to much of its contents, but i still feel it is furthering me as an artist. I am learning ALL forms of art- including the 4th dimension which doesn't even have a set definition for its meaning. 

This project, was a lighting installation. Me and my friend Kevin Burch partnered up to create something with light- a medium neither of us have ever worked with. We used over 600 or so straws, rope light, fluorescents and lots and lots of duck tape. 

we had a all together successful experience besides some

minor

(major :/) problems for the critique. 

These are a couple of final projects from my Drawing 1 class last semester.

Figure Drawing

These are different works from my figure drawing class last year. The mediums include: pencil, charcoal and conte'.

Earlier Work: highschool work

These are just a couple of acrylic paintings that I did in high school.