Childhood, relationships, and restaurants. Finally done this final!

These are the final paintings. I'm going to rework three of them over the summer, but this is what I turned in as my final for Elements of Visual Thinking.

They are about my childhood and growing up in a Chinese restaurant and the relationships I formed in it with the customers and my family.

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from my childhood series

There is something very exciting about watching a painting progress. After weeks of fretting and stressing over this project I feel like I'm finally getting it.

I feel like these paintings are slowly involving into something else. They're not only about my childhood spent at a restaurant in rural Carroll County nor just the fairytales I used to pour over inside the dingy closet at the back of the room. Something about these pieces frightens me, but I don't know what it is.

Some close up shots, and a sketch or two...



Look at how creepy these sketches are! Maybe it's a foreshadowing of my forthcoming doom.
Juuuust kidding, but really... are my paintings taking on a sinister feel? Or is that just me?

A painting I'm working on for Isaac. 28"x24"
Hope he doesn't know about this blog or else he'll see it! :x

Sorry for the crap quality.

This is a piece I did for my Elements of Visual Thinking class.

Everyone bought a 30x40in chip board and an oil bar, we layed the boards out as a grid (17 of them) and drew whatever we want, wrote whatever we want, did whatever we wanted with these boards until our oil bar sticks ran out.

The result wasn't how I had imagined it.

But everyone took a board home and recreated it into their own art pieces. So this is mine. There are still hints of the oil bar peeking through all the acrylic paint.

After we brought it to class, we took someone else's by picking a number.

Andrew has mine, I'll take a picture and post his result.

This project is based on a reading by Roland Barthes "Death of the Author."