Legend of SIX

Still working on this concept. I've got the main characters and some sort of plot idea but that's about it. I've also been working with a new drawing style of working quickly am lets mistakes be.

Enjoy

The joke

There's something that stirs inside of me ever now and then. A mixture of thoughts which come together. Today these thoughts tell me that the greatest joke about our society is the story of the boy who goes off to college because it's what society tells him will help him get ahead. But what no one told him was that everybody else would be there and when it came time to enter the real world he would realize the past sixteen years of his life were nothing but a waist because he really didn't learn anything about how to live. 

The class rooms were organized with problems to be solved. Simple formulas were taught so that the young minds would know how to get the expected answer. Nothing was learned. We are taught that life is a formula and in order to achieve the correct answer you must follow each step to the letter. 

But the fact is the formula we learn ignores the variable of life. This variable makes every step some what meaningless. But what are we to do when we fear leaving the steps behind us, fear taking a different direction because it might not bring the answer we seek. All we can do is watch everything crumble and burn around us in hope that the ashes give way to an answer answer.

Not sure

I'm not sure if I like the look of this.

Watch it burn 08.25.12

Here are a few sketches for a painting series I might do.

Not sure if I like the all marker or mix of market and pen.

Electric

"Modern Day Religion" Series

"Modern Day Religion"

This world is filled with some many problems, but there are aspects of society within this country, which the people hold in high regard, aspects, which make this nation, in their eyes, the best country in the world. These aspects include the ideas of democracy, knowledge, freedom, free speech, justice, and equality. My goal with this series of paintings is to illustrate how these ideas have become a sort of modern day religion; ideals we praise. Hidden within these ideals though are elements of evil. They construct a system filled with flaws. Images of holy figures that appear dark and menacing, in addition to images of demons embodying the freedoms this country grants every individual, create a mythology of the good and bad of modern day society. This set of work is meant to illustrate that, which we praise in this society, while at the same time shedding light on the evil that lingers, unseen by the masses.

"Gods of Today"

"Demons of Speech"

"Angels: Equality and Justice"

going away

It's that time again. I'm going away to camp for seven weeks so I probably wont be posting on here. I'm still working on the "watch it all burn series". I plan to make them into paintings this fall.