Posters!

Here are two posters that I did for the Paul Rogers - quite possibly one of the funniest and most insightful teachers I've had.
I had a lot of fun doing these; the first one is for Woody Guthrie's Centennial Celebration and the second one is a fan poster for Little Miss Sunshine.

Lived in Bars

Another Notorious assignment.  This one is a personal interpretation of Chan Marshall's "Lived in Bars".

Islands

Here's another Notorious piece.  It's a visual interpretation of Chan Marshall's song, "Islands".

Jimmy Rhum's Album

This is Jimmy Rhum, the folk singer who traveled around the US.  From time to time he'd borrow a banjo from a fellow traveler and sing unintelligible yet strangely nostalgic songs.

  

     

In Class Doodles

Jim brought in models a couple of times for Notorious.
Here's some of the drawings that I ended up liking.

Jimmy Rhum's CGB guitar

Here's another assignment that I did for Rob's class.  It was a drawing as dimension.  We got to do anything we wanted to as long as it wasn't confined to a two dimensional space.  I decided to make a cigar box guitar.  I was particularly interested in cigar box and match box illustrations from the mid 20th century, and wanted to tie that aesthetic in.  

I created a fictional story behind the guitar which helped me with the image making process.  The gist of it was: (Set in the late 1940s) It belonged to a man named Jimmy Rhum, who decided to go on the road after certain devastating events (the tipping point being his wife's affair with another man).  The guitar was his sole possession during his travels as he hitchhiked and hopped on trains.  He decorated the guitar as a means  of a travel log; the decorations weren't lucrative like the stickers on rich people's travel bags, but the idea was the same. He glued on discarded/stolen illustrations from places that he visited (a lot of them being night clubs).  There's bits and pieces of hobo language throughout the guitar which he placed as reminders of what certain places were like.

Skoot!

This term, I took a great class taught by Rob Clayton.  One of the projects was a personal term project, with which we could do anything we wanted.  I decided to make skateboards;  I was particularly interested in skateboards from the late 50's (the DIY homebuilt boards) and also the 60's (the early production models).  The trucks/wheels for the "Mongo" board were "chopped up" and sanded down roller skates from the 50's (or older).  I skated one of these before I started painting them, and it was super fun/loud/scary.  I was also looking at a lot of sign paintings, and got inspired by them.