This is the view gallery. This is a place for images, studies, and experiments that involve drawing or painting, including such pieces that received some manipulation in some computer program or other.
This gallery, more than any other, is likely to have unfinished pieces on display as a means of my easily referencing other people to them for input and critique. Though I would find it hard to call anything finished, ever, there are a few things that are particularly not finished, but all of them are subject to further slaps.

NOTE: Most recent additions are to the bottom.

In the Rain - watercolor on canvas; a carefree little number with experimentation in trickle guidance, painted on a bright and sunny day
this work was published in the 2003 issue of Mnemosyne

Nagasaki Nightmare - acrylic on stretched canvas; inspired by an account of the events of the bombing of Hiroshima by Father Siomes (a German monk on missionary work in Nagasaki) which can be found here. The site holding this account is unaffiliated to idgonemad.net
this work was published in the 2003 issue of Mnemosyne

One Wore a Red Glove - acrylic on stretched canvas; an experiment in negativity, inversions, and color compliment projection. (view the inversion) .. this painting is under work again as of 2007, but you can still examine the old sample image and its inversion if you like

Another in the Rain - this is the layout of another work, but I found I liked the sketch on its own.

Bought with Candy - pencil, with clean-up and contrast enhancement; a drawing I used in my propaganda.

Crushing Fist! - pencil, with clean-up and contrast enhancement; a drawing I used in my propaganda.

FEMME - pencil, with clean-up and contrast enhancement; a drawing I used in my propaganda.
BONUS! OPPOSITION - inverted anthithesis for your convenience!

Shade Face 1 - A face from my sketchbook, defined by its shadow.

Crabs in a Merkin, Panel 3 - oil on canvased board (work in progress)

Crabs in a Merkin, Mint Chocolate - oil on canvased board (work in progress)

Boring Still Life #5 - oil on stretched canvas; at least it isn't a damned bowl of fruit.

Woman & Man, Under Corduroy Glass - charcoal; definitely simple, but maybe conveys ...something.

Let's Play Global Thermonuclear War - oil on stretched canvas; perpetually-updated painting using leftover paints.
An Earlier Version

The Murder of Trees - acrylic and oil pastels on paper; trees are jerks!
BONUS! The Ghosts of Trees - PhotoShoppapalooza!

Nude Figure #1 - charcoal on paper; if you're gonna practice, it might as well be on the ladies.

Conelly, Larceny - charcoal on paper; dominantly subtractive drawing of a vintage mugshot of a vintage scoundrel.

cryinggirl - acrylic on canvas; a very blue girl in a dark moment
this work was published in the 2004 issue of Mnemosyne

THE TERROR - acrylic and glue on paper; omfg!

Infernal Girl #2 - acrylic and watercolor on paper; every little thing she does is molten.

Landscape, Lamppost - oil on stretched canvas; a view from the Academic Building at John Tyler Community College, Midlothian campus.

Boring Still Life #6 - oil pastels on Bristol paper; this one is fruit and vegetables. And copper wire, of all things.

hotdog - oil pastels on Bristol paper; zomg hot dog!

Chubby Lady - oil pastels on Bristol paper; this is a reproduction of an old master's painting, but I'm not sure whose since the professor clipped that information from the reference image. Dubya tea eff?

eye - chalk and charcoal; drawing exercise - aye draw yew eye

Torsa - charcoal on paper; drawing of a woman's torso, sans limbs and head. Also known as "just the good parts" amirite? HA!

Victoria, Laying - charcoal on paper; With a name like Victoria, you'd never know she was a redneck, tattooed lesbian with a hickey on her boob the night of the drawing. I mean, unless I told you that.

I'm Sorry, I Thought You Were Someone Else - acrylic and watercolor on paper; I told you - you're my first priority. I'm on a very big case right now. Check this out. That's a true Albino pigeon. Some rich guy lost it. He's offering a $25,000 reward. As soon as I find this bird, you're paaaid! [Work In Progress]

Grey Areas - acrylic on canvas, alkyd medium and oil glaze; I find that the grey areas in one's morality are often more telling than the black and white.
Larger, Color Corrected Version

Study from Prud'hon Study (AKA "Deodorant Check") - charcoal on paper; dominantly subtractive, drawn in Colin Ferguson's class on 9/26/07 after weeks without a female model - enough was enough!

8 Gestures - charcoal on newsprint; set of eight one-to-five minute gesture drawings of the notorious LARRY, a sixty-something-year-old man that wears a leopard print robe and packs his lunch in a totally badass Fantastic Four backpack.

Larry #1 - conte on paper; the same Larry. Again.

Larry #2 - wash and conte on paper; the same Larry. Again. Don't get me wrong, he's a good model, but we spent a ridiculous eight weeks with just him. A dude. If I have to draw another testicle this year, I'm going to scream.

Nude Woman, Laying - charcoal and conte on paper; At last, a female model! A first-timer, too, actually - she was sweet and wore an Elmo-fur robe.

Girl Chasing After Kite, Landmines Exploding - aluminum, acrylic, latex, polyurethane with ink and print transfers on paper; It was a beautiful day when body parts started to fall from the sky.

Black & White, with Red #1 - charcoal and acrylic on paper; spookah!

Boring Still Life #7 - soft pastels on sandpaper; I hate soft pastels.

Girl, Dancing with Herself - acrylic on canvas; She just kept dancing around this mirrored column, the whole night. Guys would try to dance with her, but she wasn't having it!

Abstraction Visage - pencil on paper; One part doodling, one part experimenting with the relationships of facial features.

Boring Still Life #8 - soft pastels on charcoal paper; One might notice, at this point, a sunflower theme - sunflowers are great, but it's mostly because so few of the other objects and arrangements on the still life are at all interesting. This is the creme de la boredom.

Fabulous Pretty Girls - paper, aluminum, photograph paper, acrylic paint, pastel dust, ink, washers, cloth, catalog clippings, play money, polyurethane, overdraft notice; this began in an Art History class with the doodle of the topless lady, then was reexplored after having been pleased by the results of Girl Chasing After Kite, Landmines Exploding, which makes this the second in a chain of experiments with polyurethane and its use as a an adherent, sealant, and coat.

Jojo's Back - soft pastels on paper; this is the back of a naked lady ';'

Jojo's Face - soft pastels on paper; this is the face of a naked lady ';'

Jojo - soft pastels on paper; this is the naked of a naked lady ';'

Monochromatic Anger - paper, paper, newspaper and glue; in-class assignment, with limited materials, to turn an emotion into an abstract visual - in this case, I chose anger.

Undone - graphite on paper; o_O

Sara, with Disco Vase - soft pastels on paper; I made the nose a little big, but it does resemble her. Or The Baroness. I'll probably pick this up again and tweak it, but for now I need to forget the feeling of soft pastels in my hands.

Lynette (Is Afraid of the World) - acrylic on canvas; the world has changed so much, hasn't it, Squeaky?

selected topography - acrylic, oil, alkyd medium on canvas; I think I see a clearing up ahead...

True Blue Hero - acrylic, oil, alkyd medium on canvas; for Mega Man's 20th anniversary

Pale Lady - acrylic on paper; this chick was supercute back in the .. what .. '30s? Anyway, she's Madge Bellamy and she shot her husband for cheating on her, and she was in WHITE ZOMBIE with Bela. AND AND AND she was incredible in it, and very pale and overexposed.

Self Portrait with Plastic Fangs - oil on canvas; expressionist self portrait tapping into elements of Fauvism.

Broken Faced Flag - reused masking tape, watercolor, acrylic paint, and polyurethane on paper; I began with masking tape saved from a previous painting, aligned in mostly parallel bands, then saturated the paper with red watercolor - meanwhile, on a pane of glass covered in plastic wrap I painted a loose portrait of a woman, let it dry, then removed the plastic wrap and set it in a shoebox lid, covered it with polyurethane, then let that dry. Once it had (mostly) hardened, I peeled sections of the portrait from the plastic wrap and arranged them on the tape-and-paper "flag" I had made, then locked it all together in yet more polyurethane. Result: a fractured face on a flag-like background of dark blue-green bars on a pooling and fading field of red.

Somewhat More Interesting Still Life #4 - oil on gessoed paper; dichromatic still life of a brushed steel flask and two shot glasses filled with delicious firewater

verticalinear - acrylic and tape on canvas; I'm pulling your leg, here - this is a byproduct of the Mega Man painting. It doesn't even exist now - but! - its tape eventually was used in the Broken Faced Flag, two links up. ;D

Boring Still Life #9 - oil on canvas; still life from Painting class

Cubist Still Life #9 - acrylic and oil on canvas; Cubist interpretation of the above still life
600 x 800 version : Original Version : Do It Yourself Version

Master Study, Gustav Klimt's 'Dame Mit Hut und Federboa' - acrylic and oil on canvas; Master Study on Gustav Klimt's 'Dame Mit Hut und Federboa' - 'Lady with Hat and Feather Boa'

Lady with Glasses and Feather Boa - oil on canvas; still referencing Gustav Klimt's work, I decided to do my own take on the above study with my girlfriend Sara as the model. Where the Master Study above had its subject uninterested or unaware of the audience, I have gone the opposite direction, turning the audience into a point of intense interest for the subject, and even alluded to close proximity by very slightly broadening the model's features at her eye-level in accordance with a foreshortened perspective.

I hope your time viewing this gallery was not painful.

More to come...

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