sophomore: touch of evil

a poster for the movie, touch of evil. it's not very good, but i've always like the eye i did for him ;) all digital

sophomore: the stranger

one piece from a series about albert camus' novel, the stranger. i'll try to post the rest later, but i never scanned them, and they're in massachusetts. this is a silk screen over watercolor

sophomore: suns

four images from a series of suns. when we came in for crit someone else from my class had something so similar to the tree image. he even used a red sun! cut paper, gouache and ink

sophomore: snow, glass, apples

two of the five images i made for neil gaiman's story, snow, glass, apples. it's a play on the fairy tale of snow white. gouache and ink

sophomore: italy: sinbad the sailor

an illustrated chapter from alexandre dumas' novel, the count of monte cristo. the chapter is called itally: sinbad the sailor. in it, franz, a young french gentleman moors his boat off the island of monte cristo, an apparently barren, deserted mound of rock. at night he and his men are discovered at their fire, and he is invited to dine with a mysterious host. he is led blindfolded into a cave that is richly decorated in exotic middle eastern fashion. his host calls himself sinbad the sailor, and, in keeping, franz calls himself aladdin. the two men dine on pheasant, corsican blackbirds, wild boar, goat, turbot and lobster, of which "sinbad" barely touches. then he convinces franz to try hashish in the form of a luminous green paste. he hallucinates that he's had an orgy with two beautiful women that just moments ago where the two stone statues holding baskets of fruit. the next morning franz wakes on a straw bed outside the cave, and sinbad is far on the horizon. he and his men search in vain for the entrance to the enchanted cave, but leave disappointed.

obviously the pieces i've posted are rather scattered and ambiguous in their relation to the story just relayed. one day, one day! gouache, oil, ink, china paper, and velum on parchment

sophomore: salvador dali poster design

sophomore: rhinos!

rhinos from the natural history museum :) gouache and ink

sophomore: rebus: word puzzle

bombing for peace is like screwing for virginity. gouache and ink

sophomore: painting class

my first oils! on canvas

sophomore: frankenstein!

a silk screened poster for frankenstein. the letters are body parts!

sophomore: lady frankenstein!!!

my first etching! the tones were made using aquatint. here dr. frankenstein reveals his anxiety at what he knows he is creating for the monster: a lady monster ;)

sophomore: christopher walken

cut paper

sophomore: brooklyn botanical gardens

cut paper and gouache

sophomore: blood tree

blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry with us - osbert sitwell. gouache and ink