This is a gesture drawing of a suspended upright skeleton drawn during class during roughly a 30 second time frame.

These are examples of gesture drawings from class that are done rapidly at about 30 seconds each.

This is my colored sketch of my final idea for my Painting II class assignment of a landscape. I want to have the right side be a photo-real rendering of a tree stump and as the painting moves to the left I want to increase the amount of dramatic mark making and color use. An artist by the name of Eric Aho inspired me to try this technique in what will be the majority of the painting apart from the stump on the right side.

These are sketches from my Painting II sketchbook with added Guash coloring. They are early ideas for our new landscape assignment that needs to be uniquely different from the typical landscape where there is the basic rendering of the sky, background, and foreground.

This drawing is of a model who posed for us during class. I feel that finished the main subject matter, but I did not finish the details on the stick that he is holding.

This drawing is of a suspended skeleton that we observed during class. I drew most of the main features but did not finish it all.

These sketches are for an assignment in my Painting II class. I haven't finished the piece yet, but it was supposed to somehow be based on the figure. I chose to based the piece on the saying "The longest journey is from the mind to the heart". The man is shown with crumpled pieces of paper orbiting around his head to represent mental clutter, while he tries to escape it by writing a heartfelt letter to his family.