Last piece for real!

I lied last time. NEW last piece!

While I was putting together the book I realized that I didn't have enough pieces to format the pages the way I wanted.

I have to admit I'm a very lazy person and I was ready to settle and just deal with the book not being quite how I wanted it. But I kicked my butt into gear and I'm happy for it, I think this is one of my favorites.

Last one

Thats it! Last piece is done. I have learned so much making these pictures, its pretty hard looking back at the first few.

These pieces have been really important to me just on a personal level. I had been feeling extremely frustrated and depressed with myself during the year and a half after college but I think now I have a much better idea of who I am as an artist.

So now I have to produce the book, get everything printed and just hope I get a decent turn out at APE, will keep you guys posted on how things are coming together.

Flem

Hey all,

Penultimate piece! I think the last one will nicely wrap up this strange little adventure.

I really enjoy using close cropped figures to make compositions, someone once urged me to do 50 of them, might have to follow up on that.

Pulled

New Piece!

This image is going to be the first piece in the book, I really wanted something striking and a little unconventional.

Here you can see some process, I was lucky with this one in that I felt like I really had a very solid idea of how this looked in my head, from the beginning I have the composition set but the divers gesture was a lot harder to get down.

The idea was to get a sense of vertigo and claustrophobia. The sky is pushing down, the diver is crammed up into the corner suspended over a void, skewed horizon to further add to the vertigo.

Bubbles

Hey guys, here is the next piece.



Trying to push the graphic quantity of the work. I wanted to really emphasize the light quality of the bubbles, they are breaking up the dark silhouette of the diver, vaporizing him and then almost vanishing into the background, barely visible.

At least that's how I hope it reads.

The Cover

Hey guys, so this is to be the cover for my little book.

I really wanted the intimacy of a portrait, each event and situation indelibly leaves its mark and tells a story.