This is another piece that I've been working on for a while. The idea is that no matter how dark things can get around you, there is always life forcing its way through. I used contrasting red and green to make it pop! :)

This is a painting that I've been working on for a while. It started out as Chad just kinda dinkin' around, but then I had some ideas for the painting so I took it over and made this. It is more of a non-figurative painting, but basically the twirly things are roots and almost everything else is fire.

This is an acrylic painting I did for the show at City Hall. I painted it from a picture of a purple flower. I think I may have put on too much gloss because the picture looks a little cloudy and before it did not.

So these are my shoes and the first was meant to be a little bit detailed and then less and less until you have a pretty abstract shoe. My shoes could have taken up more space on the page and it would have looked cooler and I think my lead strokes could have been more pronounced.

This is my final acrylic and I don't really like it as much as my second because I think I kind of messed up on the highlights on the fruit/vegetable things and I made them look like they are attached a little bit because I couldn't really get the colors right. I still like this one though.

This was my second acrylic and it's of some flowers in a vase with an apple beside it. I like this one a lot better. At first though, I was having a lot of trouble making it look how I wanted it to, but after some guidance from Mr. Meserve, I finished it up pretty well.

This is my first acrylic for this class and it's pretty crude since this was supposed to be done in one class period. I was painting a ceramics bowl kind of thing with an apple behind it, all on top of a rag.

This is my second still life and it looks like it could have turned out better than my first if I had been able to finish it. I did not do anymore outlining, but I wasn't able to finish it with shading and shadows and a background. I think it though.

My second watercolor turned out better but it still lacks the quality that I would have liked it to have because I was still outlining at this point. I learned not to outline after outlining both my apple and gourd/pumpkin/squash thing, but my pumpkin looks nice.