and the colors keep running

"open sea"
7 x 9 inches
oil painting


"waiting near the water"
22 x 28 inches
oil painting

overload

Things have been moving along pretty quickly , when i started the semester i decided to take honors thesis , to work harder for myself for all the times i slacked off in high school. But my original plan was to create a comic book, i had written 13 pages of story but im overworked with my classes. My quota for painting is 20 hrs per week, im struggling to get the time and work done with my drawing class taking up the time from free nights during the week. So i decide to change it to writing my thesis on my own work, which is just as difficult. The paper would consist of 15-20 page paper on my work, ideas, and influences on my work. It equally as difficult but will help me put into words clear words the subject of my body of work, what i am looking to explore with the pictures of slums and the use of color that goes into creating the image into something new . As i work on my research i will post images of the artist that have influence my own works. By the end of the semester i wonder who my work will look like. Abstraction/color/landscapes.

rainbow detritus

Two more paintings done, the first one is

"spectral trash" 16 x 24 inches -oils

and the second one is

"colored sands" 11 x 14 inches - oils

It has been a week and i finished two more painting , but i started 6 more, the ideas are flowing from my mind, i was able to get the studio place next door so i put up some canvas to the wall and sketched out what i will work on, looking at those paintings it is a little daunting but without challenges there is no improving. Im excited for these challenges, i trying to see how i can change or abstract the image even further. In two weeks i will be in a group show, the works are being selected before the show, ive been told that most of my submission have be accepted which makes me excited, I has been a while since i have shown my new works and most of my friends have only seen them through picture, i wonder how the reactions will be when they set up in the gallery for all to see. Each painting is an obstacle the hardest part is to overcome the issues what i want the painting too look like in the end and stare at the sketch that only began 5 mins before, i take picture of each stage to show myself how it grows with each day. til next time with more pictures.

thoughts

ive decided to talk more about my thoughts on each piece , to show more about what goes through my mind. the mind of the artist. Everyone who loves art , enjoys going to artwalks, the night were the galleries open up and one enjoys seeing the new exhibits. Here in miami that night is the second saturday of every month, there are other smaller art walks all through out the city but the main one is in wynwood, formerly a puerto rican neighborhood back in the 90's but it has changed. i grew up from wynwood going to school at jose de diego, we fast forward to today, in an area of warehouses it became the main art center of miami.

The place to be is wynwood every second saturday, earlier in the month i posted a few pictures for the works that i was working on for this show "eclectic art show" a group show of young artist of different media in miami, at first i was inspired by this book called "The places we live" by jonas bendiksen, its his work of photography going around the world to for places, venezuela, india, jakarta and africa to the most impoverished places and getting to know the people and how they live. This book inspired me to work on paintings that showed this world, a world that interested me and i wanted to depict. At first i was going for depictions of the pictures i printed from the associated press archives at school. But i was stuck, i hit a wall that held me back, frustration overtook me at making something that i was not going where i wanted that i was doing what was expected from a amateur artist. I began playing around with colors , it sparked new ideas to what i wanted to do, i began to continue my research on images but the colors became more of interest to me. When i finished with the 3 pieces , 2 of the pieces were completely different but it showed me the difference in thought at occurred within my mind.

i keep thinking about what next i enjoy depicting realist picture but with color only, a bit of impressionism within , which is what i will continue on the first and third picture i posted, the second one is going in another direction, the picture is of cluttering of rooftops, common in many impoverish countries but as i continue to work on it, i will further abstract it and it will continue to grow. I added these thought to improve my blog on my works to not only show pictures of how my work develops but also as how my thoughts may also developed and change with how i make my art. Til next week.

Another round

I have been putting serious hours into these paintings and with time they will develop into something i can be proud of, this semester will be my most rigorous one and will be the one that i will be most proud of. Inspiration from hard work comes faster than just waiting for it. Oct 2 will finally show my new works in a group show with other artist at the nina torres gallery in wynwood. The deadline is in 10 days but i think i may be able to finish one more painting to squeeze into the submissions.