Sunday, March 10, 2013

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Website Launched!

My website is ryanchoart.com
My online portfolio will be on that site, and I'll continue posting other things here.

How Music Is Made

A mixed media interpretation of how music is made - inspired by a short story called "Ars Poetica".

Monday, March 4, 2013

The Marketplace of Kabul

Here's an illustrative interpretation of a passage from The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad.  The passage describes a woman wondering through the bazaar, buying various items.  She ends up at a cart with bras, and buys a "powerful corsetlike contraption".
The women in Kabul are required to wear burqas which have a small opening for the eyes - the grille.  These are often in the shape of a hexagon, which I used as a framing device to suggest first point perspective.


Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Loretta Lynn!

I love Loretta Lynn's music (esp. the Your Squaw is on the Warpath album)! I got a chance to illustrate her for my Op-Art assignment.  I wanted this piece to have an American folk art feel to it.  
The painting ended up much bigger than I anticipated; the dimensions are 18" x 30".  

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Prison + Hope

A small 1.85" x 2.35" piece about prison and having hope.


Geoengineering

I had a chance to illustrate an article about Geoengineering for Op-Ed class.  I decided to focus on the uncertain outcomes of this technology.  The piece was influenced by face card illustrations; I wanted this reference to subtly hint that we are gambling with our future.

Here's the original article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html