Little Boy Blue

Every time I want to experiment with a new form of painting or drawing I find myself going through all the Ryan McGinley photographs online and in old Vice Magazines i have. The one picture out of them all that I am drawn to is "Brennen (Blue)". The shape of his posture, the look on his face and the amount of shadowing is something incredibly interesting to me. So here is the original.

Now here are the two pieces i have done off this pic.

I did this one in April in preparation for my figure drawing final. I had just gotten some new colour inks and wanted to play around with them. No matter how permanent the bottle says the ink is, blue runs like a bitch on fire. Blue and Green are the two most difficult coloured inks to work with. Anywho, this was done on watercolour paper and is 20in x 15in.

This piece was done for my painting practices class last month. the assignment was to use a chance system to determine how i would paint an image. My system was to create a 20 count colour pallet, then i would roll a 20-sided dice to determine what colour would be placed in each shape i had sketched out on the canvas. I also rolled a 4-sided dice that would dictate if i would use walnut oil, turpenoid, linseed oil or no solvents. I decied to work with this image again because it has so many shadows and interesting shapes to it. This piece is 18in x 13in.

First Times, Part I

This semester I was in a class called "Working In Comics" which taught how comics are produced and the impact they have on society. The class was split into groups and each group was told to produce a comic book that would count as our final project. The group I was in decided to work off the idea of "first times". For the first installment we were talking about working with the "first time I fell in love" or the "first time I rode a bike" etc. In the end we agreed to work with theme of first time but not necessarily anything specific for the whole group. I liked the idea of doing a comic involving the first time i was in love. After contemplation, I decided to split my two page into the "first time I thought I was in love" and the "first time I knew I was in love". The time I thought I was in love would chronicle my relationship with Adam while when I knew I was in love would follow my relationship with Sharad. I settled on showing each event or moment in a Polaroid because they are just fragments of time and usually photographs are used to remember certain events.

"The First Time I Thought I was In Love"

"The First Time I Knew I was In Love"