Finished Works
All works that have prices listed are up for sale. Not in possession of card reader yet, cash or check perforable till then. All with no price are either awaiting a frame or not for sale. Those that do have a frame will have the frame factored into final cost.
T-Rex Family
Dimensions: 18 inches by 24 inches, 432 inch squared
Medium: Oil Paint on pre-stretched canvas
Year: 2021, Fall Semester
Price: $215
This was the final assignment of Opaque Painting class; this painting depicts a family of Tyrannosaurus Rex living in Hell Creek Montana at the End of the Cretaceous Period. Findings of groups of tyrannosaur species closely related to T-Rex, indicate that Tyrannosaurus lived and hunted in family packs. In these bone beds, there were at least 2 dozen individuals of varying sizes and ages. The red fern in the corner is a reference to the book Where the Red Ferns Grow, the story of the boy who acquires two coon hound puppies for hunting. The red fern is from a native american legend that states wherever a family is put into the ground, a red fern grows to show they are still around.
Dimensions: 18 inches by 24 inches, 432 inch squared
Medium: Oil Paint on pre-stretched canvas
Year: 2021, Fall Semester
Price: $215
This was the final assignment of Opaque Painting class; this painting depicts a family of Tyrannosaurus Rex living in Hell Creek Montana at the End of the Cretaceous Period. Findings of groups of tyrannosaur species closely related to T-Rex, indicate that Tyrannosaurus lived and hunted in family packs. In these bone beds, there were at least 2 dozen individuals of varying sizes and ages. The red fern in the corner is a reference to the book Where the Red Ferns Grow, the story of the boy who acquires two coon hound puppies for hunting. The red fern is from a native american legend that states wherever a family is put into the ground, a red fern grows to show they are still around.
Personal Calling Cards
Dimensions: 18 in x 24 in, 432 in squared
Medium: Pencil Drawing on Drawing Pad
Year: 2019, Fall Semester
Another Final assignment for my first drawing class at Tech, we were supposed to draw our common interests and combine them into a single compilation piece. The background is a gravel road that lines into a leavy that holds flood water away from the crop fields. The fields in question are from crop farms that my father farmed for more than 30 years. B7 and B8 were hell of fields to get lost in or to work. Geese and insects can be seen flying all around as well as a stork at the back above the tree line. The objects floating around range from interests like Trex and Avengers to geographical clues such as the quartz and the pine twig with needles. The claymore signals my Scottish ancestry and the pen leaving a stroke shows my interest in calligraphy. If you don't know who I am, this my give all the clues you need.
Dimensions: 18 in x 24 in, 432 in squared
Medium: Pencil Drawing on Drawing Pad
Year: 2019, Fall Semester
Another Final assignment for my first drawing class at Tech, we were supposed to draw our common interests and combine them into a single compilation piece. The background is a gravel road that lines into a leavy that holds flood water away from the crop fields. The fields in question are from crop farms that my father farmed for more than 30 years. B7 and B8 were hell of fields to get lost in or to work. Geese and insects can be seen flying all around as well as a stork at the back above the tree line. The objects floating around range from interests like Trex and Avengers to geographical clues such as the quartz and the pine twig with needles. The claymore signals my Scottish ancestry and the pen leaving a stroke shows my interest in calligraphy. If you don't know who I am, this my give all the clues you need.
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Mandella of Achromatic Value
Dimensions: 11in x 14in, 154 in squared Medium: Micron Ink Pen drawing on Bristol board Year: 2020, Fall Semester This was an assignment for 2D design where we were supposed to make a circular art of our own take based on the same artform from Buddhist monastery works. For this all the shapes go lighter from center to outer edge. The stips get thicker and the daimonds get bigger as well. |
Dawn of a Legend
Dimensions: 10in x 12in, 120 in squared
Medium: Muted Acrylic on Canvas board
Year: 2020, Spring Semester
Price: $60
A color design final meant to have been painted undersaturated for most of the chromatic value. This was made in the heat of Covid 19 in April of 2020. That was a great time to get away from tech and start my summer shift extremely early, but that also meant having to take everything online.
Dimensions: 10in x 12in, 120 in squared
Medium: Muted Acrylic on Canvas board
Year: 2020, Spring Semester
Price: $60
A color design final meant to have been painted undersaturated for most of the chromatic value. This was made in the heat of Covid 19 in April of 2020. That was a great time to get away from tech and start my summer shift extremely early, but that also meant having to take everything online.
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Plantar of the Soil
Medium: Unglazed Terracotta Ceramic Year: 2022, Spring Semester Final Dimensions 11 1/4 in (28.5 cm) long 4 in (10.16 cm) wide at the toe pad 7 in (17.78 cm) high (Shin attachment) 3 3/8 in (8.5 cm) wide forwardways 2 3/8 in (6 cm) sideways 5 in (12 cm) deep in the cavity Price: $155 This a sculpture of or own feet we had as an in-class assignment; the brown variants are the same foot before firing. The brighter orange ones are the same foot post firing. From the coloration this looks like terra cotta ceramic were. This foot can sharpen knives with a few stropping strokes, a finer stropping and that edge is ready for the field. |
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Expression Colosseum
Medium: Under glassed ceramic were Year: 2022, Spring Semester Final Dimensions Length: 10 3/4 in (27.3 cm) Width: 5 7/8 inches (12.7 cm) Height 3 7/8 inches (7.62 cm) 150 in cubed Price: $150 As the title suggests, this follows the shape of a coliseum or a American football stadium to be more accurate. The base is gone now but it looked pretty good next to the main attraction. The orange and blue coloration while giving an attention grasp has a message behind it. Orange is a vibrant color and also expresses outward energy forward, Blue on the other hand expresses coolness and or repression. The faces all have their own shape to them and are present on both sides. What does all this mean? This is an abstraction of hidden problems, flaws that would ostracize the person possessing them. Most of all this final product was an improvisation from the original sketch due to time use failure. Whether this was a success is beyond me, because every missed step and or failed assignment that lead to this was an absolute nightmare to live through. So I will leave the opinion of success up to the audience who observes it. As with the foot, the color changes on this piece too, only this time the sculpt has a layer of underglaze on it. |
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Woven Prism
Medium: carbon steel frame, yarn woven body Year: 2022, Spring Semester Dimensions 15 1/4 in (38.7 cm) high 24 in (60.9 cm) long 11 3/4 in (29.8 cm) wide 6 3/4 in (17.14 cm) long sides for top square. Price: $150 An experimentation with 3 dimensional shapes using steel as the frame and having yarn as the filler. From my lifetime the shape resembles a plow point that would be attached tightly to a tool bar via nuts and bolt. And from there would be a dozen of these attached all together, hitched to a tractor to plow some fields for planting or for clearing middles for irrigation. The form bends a bit and that is due to the pressure of the yarn being tugged around the steel structure. This is especially prominent on the longest side. The colors for this are golden yellow and maroon for on top. This makes a warm analogous color scheme to the sculpture, not only that but the vibrancy of both contrasts making them pop. At the bottom there is some empty space in a swoop up leading to the point, this was a means to cover the steel, but it gives it some flow as it goes to the other ends. The yarn gives the piece texture by default, but it also gives the indication that has been sliced into multiple sheets. There is movement in the piece as it goes down from the square to the arrow point, and the top has movement going down towards the inside. Two of the supports go forward while the other two go back. All this makes this a dynamic inanimate structure. This is one of my more adventurous pieces to date, it won't be forever. |
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Mii Kun
Year: 2018 Senior year in high school Medium: Hot Drawing on Wooden Pannel with special colored pencil Dimensions: 11.5 inches tall 5 3/4 inches wide 1 inch thick 55 in squared Price: $55 This was a project from high school, the subject is from a Japanese cartoon named How to Keep a Mummy. The show is about a highschooler who receives a coffin from Egypt. Unknown to him a mummy as small as a parakeet pops out and devotes its loyalty to him. From there he makes friend that get into the same problem as him. That is the basic plot, any further details you can look up on your own. |
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Orchard Wheat
Year: 2021 Fall Semester Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas Dimensions: 16 inches high 20 inches wide 320 inches squared Price: $160 Assignment for opaque painting class where we were supposed to paint a couple abstract paintings in this size. This one is of a wheat field with lucid vibrant hues |
The Havest(Harvest)
Year: 2021, Fall Semester
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions:
16 inches high
20 inches wide
320 inches squared
Price: $160
Misspelling aside, this is meant to signify the tradition of the harvest during the fall. FFA national gold and Navey blue, classy font and close up of a corn kernel.
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Tattoo Arms
Year: 2022, Spring Semester Dimensions: 8x12 inches, 96 in squared Medium: Ink and colored pencil on Bristol board An assignment from graphic design, the assignment was to make designs for tattoos. This on the left here shows a stegosaurus on the deltoid and the tail of the same dinosaur running along the forearm. The other is of a forearm with heavy ship chains running along its length. |
Logo Design
Dimensions: 9x12 inches
Medium: Colored pencil and ink on Stonehenge pape
Year:2022 Spring Semester
This was a project for the class where whoever had the winning sketch for techs new history and political science group. Surprisingly I did not win, I couldn't have cared less with the leader who cast the damn project on us, I had one of his classes and failed and dropped out of it before finals that previous semester. The diamond is divided in quarters and each quarter represented a central role in the group. The statue represented history, capitol building represents political science, the Arkansas silhouette represents geography and the head with belt driven wheel represent philosophy. There are also American political motifs from dollar bills, the olive brach going all around as well as the square zipper edge. One in color and one black and white.
Dimensions: 9x12 inches
Medium: Colored pencil and ink on Stonehenge pape
Year:2022 Spring Semester
This was a project for the class where whoever had the winning sketch for techs new history and political science group. Surprisingly I did not win, I couldn't have cared less with the leader who cast the damn project on us, I had one of his classes and failed and dropped out of it before finals that previous semester. The diamond is divided in quarters and each quarter represented a central role in the group. The statue represented history, capitol building represents political science, the Arkansas silhouette represents geography and the head with belt driven wheel represent philosophy. There are also American political motifs from dollar bills, the olive brach going all around as well as the square zipper edge. One in color and one black and white.
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Eclipse Glasses
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches, 432 in squared Medium: Ink on Stonehenge paper Year: 2022 spring semester These were designs for eclipse glasses for an eclipse in 2024 coming up. These go from weightless rocky planets to comets to the sun surface. This was nowhere near exciting in the least. The top depicts a Mars like landscape with floating boulders all about in the air. The second one is of meteor showers falling towards the center. And the last one features the sun against a stary sky with Earth and the moon not far from it. Spoiler alert, I did not see this design on the glasses when the eclipse came through. So much for that. |
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Franken Creature
Dimensions: 8x12 inches, 96 in squared Medium: Ink on Bristol board Year: 2022 spring semester Price: Styraconyx Sold, Entilobarovenator still avalible: $120 Hybridized creatures were the name of the game here. We were supposed to combine the characteristics of 3 different creatures equally throughout the whole animal. The Entilobarovenator had the head and neck of the Entelodon a distant relative of the hog, the arms and coat of a clouded leopard, and the core and legs of a brown bear. Styraconyx has a Styracosaurus head and body, Baryonyx arms and Gastonia's armor and tail. Both formidable creatures are both omnivores but will not yield under pressure. |
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Oil Painting Study
Dimensions: 18 x 20 inches, 180 in squared Medium: Oil on canvas Year: 2021 Fall Semester Price: $180 Oil painting practice using the Vanita technique, a technique where an artist paints values with brown and add the colors in later, each layer getting thicker as the artist going on. The model used is as seen on the painting itself. Personally, I favor the wet-on-wet technique utilized by Bob Ross in his Joy of Painting tv series. This is the way and medium I am hoping to use for main line of work. |
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Linoleum Prints
Dimensions: Sword: 6x4 inches, Dinosaur: 12x16 inches, 90in squared Medium: Linoleum prints on rice paper Year: Fall 2022 The sword depicts the Scottish claymore, the sword I use to signify something I make is authentic. The background of that is the Henderson tartan, my family line. The dinosaur is Therzinosaurus, a dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. Filling the same role as today's anteater or grizzly bear. This dinosaur is seen in Jurassic World Dominion swatting a deer and fighting alongside Roberta the Trex against the Biosyn Giganotosaurus. |
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Zinc Plate ground plate prints
Smalls: 4x3 inches, Large: 10x16 inches, 160 in squared Medium: Zinc ground print on Stonehenge paper. Year: Fall Semester 2022 These are all either prehistory or models, just pick your favorite topic and let me which is, won't be hurt my feelings. The crocodile one is of Deinosuchus ambushing a Kritosaurus at a waterhole in the Aguja Formation in Texas. This one was made with the hard ground technique, where the artist scratches marks on a zinc plate and then dips that same plate into a special acid that eats further into those marks to make where the ink holds. The bird one is of a fight between a lone Titanus Walleri(a predatory bird related to the Seriema bird from South America) and a trio of Smilodon Gracilis (an older species that gave rise to the larger species that arose in the next epoch.) in Florida at the rise of the Pleistocene. At this time 2 million years ago, volcanic activity gives birth to Isthmus of Panama and essentially connecting North and South America together and allowing animals from both sides to cross into either side. This one was developed by heating the plate and melting and distributing the soft ground on the plate, once it's cooled down the selected texture is pressed into the plate and some of that soft ground that remains making up the texture covers the plate from the acid dip. The girl prints are of Lucy Hale, one of the hottest brunettes' women to date. She also serves as main inspiration for the heroine in this website's salvo page, not much is on there yet but there will be more soon. As for technique it is Aquatint. The plate is sprayed with spray paint very evenly and delicately. After that, asphaltum a black tar like substance is painted on, the lightest goes on first and the darkest is painted last. Through all this, a value is developed making a lineless soft picture. The last one is the last and largest of these prints. The picture plane shows a family of Triceratops Porosus in Hell Creek Montana, the famous tri-horned dinosaur that coexisted with Tyrannosaurus Rex as the end of an arms race lasting 92 million years. Paleontologist Jack Horner made a discovery that dinosaurs changed as they aged, back in 2006. That discovery was used as reference from baby to full grown adult. This is a wallop of techniques, using the hardground for the basic linework, then utilizing soft ground for the textures, and then using the aquatint for the values. This in my experience was really ambitious to pull off. And the last one is of two Brontosaurus fighting for breeding rights to the herd. Yes, that is right Brontosaurus. That name was reintroduced in 2015, Brontosaurus was discovered to have a thinner frame and neck than Apatosaurus. This indicates niche partitioning in the ecosystem between the two genera. A further and more extreme example would be one of these two dinosaurs and Brachiosaurus or Camarasaurus. Two low browsers stacked up next to the tree top browsers, like zebras and giraffes in Africa today. The thicker frame of apatosaurus would put it further in the forests of the Morrison Formation, while the brontosaurus would browse at the forest edge along the fern prairies. And the Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus would forage from the tops of the higher trees. This makes a very divergent way for the herbivores to coexist. |
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Yellow Autum
Year: 2022 Fall Semester Dimensions: 3456 X 4608 pixels Medium: HDR image Not for sale This photo was taken just outside Ross Pendergraph Library at Arkansas Tech University. At this time our photography instructor was teaching us about alternate photo taking methods. This was one of them, taking the same image 3 or more times with each at a different exposure and then combining them in the editing. The different exposures make up a value scale, and furthermore photo with more visual depth than a usual photo. |
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Bas Tech Main Intersection
Year: Fall 2022 Dimensions:14218 X 3458 pixels Medium: Panorama image Not for sale This was another technique we were taught at the same night from the HDR technique. She also taught us light painting, but my camera did not work for that. For this image I combined 8 images taken at different angles and combined to make a wide, turnaround image. Each edge path is the path that leads to the bell tower and eventually to Ross Pendergraph and Rothwell buildings at Arkansas Tech University. |
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Vegetable Still Life
Year: Spring 2023 Dimensions: 18 x 24 in, 432 in squared Medium: Charcoal with No 2 pencil This was the first assignment for Drawing Studio I, the choices were to do something creative based on food or still life root vegetables so that is what I chose. I was not feeling excited at the time because both of my roommates got deployed by the national guard to go overseas and left me to hold down the fort. Not only that but my father retired from crop production making me scared stiff for my future. It was depressing to see the workplace and fields I grew up taken apart and sold to another farmer. Not I loved it there 100% but I along with the guys I worked with spent our lives, bodies and souls to maintain this land. But enough about my drama this is a website of art after all. The composition itself depicts root vegetables such as radishes, rutabagas, and ginger. All placed in front of a corn cob basket on a white tablecloth. Honestly this one of my dullest works but it was well received. |
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Threshold
Year: Spring 2023 Dimensions:18 x 20 in, 360 in squared Medium: Chalk pastel on paper For this we were told to make an entrance into something else. For this I chose my goal squat weight of 375 lbs. The clouds symbolize the uncertainty and fear in the situation, the lack of pins shows the spirit in the attempt. There were some areas that I felt very uncertain about in application and blending, but I feel it worked. Each weight plate is colored according to the Olympic Bumper plate color code. I have been lifting weights ever since I moved to my cousin's place that he had when he went to ATU, I moved in with his girlfriend at the time April Collins, Katy Johns their other roommate and my biological brother Ian. He is also the same guy who hooks me up with my first gym membership ever. Proving Grounds gym in Russellville, it is there I continued my current journey to become an absolute unit (a badass whom can defeat more than one opponent). Starting off from my second garage doing 100 push-ups, body rows, Squats and Bicycle Crunches now doing a Brian Alshure formulated plan. I have had a few peers in and outside of the gym that accolade me on my journey, but I have just as many who try to stop or discourage me. This sounds callus, but I have trust issues for a reason, this planet is too small and polluted and there too many people living on it for me to care about every single person. Where you stand with me is simple depending on history. If you have me as a relative or coworker, I love you and trust you. If we are in the same room for only one reason and nothing else and were strangers, then we stay strangers. If you imposed on me or did something wrong to me, I have no respect for you and I'm sure you are the same. I have my own priorities and no room to compromise for those who don't value my efforts towards them. |
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Ritual Dimensions:18 x 20 in Medium: Chalk Pastel on toned paper Year: Spring 2023 This is a composition of one of my coffee cups. Obviously, it is from ATU but the cup itself is meant to represent my ritual of coffee and caffeine. I felt I nailed it all together. The reference I used was right on top of one of the drawing tables in the studio. Ever since I started to volt up my workouts, I became something of a caffeine and protein addict, but I eat my vegies and fruits, so I'll be fine for the most part. Any self-proclaimed athlete who consumes neither of those 4 are either not true athletes or are utilizing special circumstances towards a greater goal. That second option maybe nothing more than a bluff. |
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Water Study
Dimensions: 12 x 15 inches for Main Work, 180 in squared. 18 x 24 for the study, 7.5 x 10 inches for each study Medium: Chalk Pastels on paper Year: Spring 2023 The task with these was to draw a natural scene with a body of water in it. For the studies were basically practice to make sure we got the physics of water down pat. The first study is based on Neil Welliver's work Brooke Baffier's, The second one up next to it is Van Goh's Night Over the Rhone, Study 3 is from David Bate's Caddo Lake and the last one from my first art professor David Mudrinich, named Along the Illinois Bayou. For the reference of the main work I used a photo from a walk I took on Spadra Creeks' Scout Trail in Clarksville Arkansas on the 6th of November back in the my fall 2021 semester, arguably the worst semester I ever had at ATU but that is tale for another time. Along the whole semester in that class we were instructed to turn in a shaped picture and that is what I did for this. By cutting the top to the shapes of the grass and rocks in the photo I gave the picture more depth than otherwise. This along with using yellow for the grass highlights and really studying the rocks to make sure they are shaded right, The ripples and shadows were a bit of a challenge so made sure to make sure they all flowed the same way giving the river a fluid appearance. In the critique for this assignment, one of the other students said that this was my strongest work in that class. |
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Mammoth Family Grave Visit
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches, 432 in squared Medium: Chalk Pastel on paper Year: Spring 2023 This was my final for that drawing class and it was open topic, so I choose to draw mammoths. The picture itself takes place in Siberia 40,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Era. The mammoths themselves are visiting a grave sight where some of their relatives died years prior. This behavior is observed in elephants to this day, and is assumed by paleontologists that other exinct proboscideans did this as well. Now your probably asking, why are these mammoths colors like they are here. That is because of a study because of a discovery back in 2006, scientists found the gene Mc1r from the bones of the mammoths themselves, this same gene is found in modern mammals today. In humans it makes red hair while in mice, dogs, horses and other mammals it makes blonde hair. With that knowledge I decided to incorporate that with each mammoth having each natural color there is: Burnette, blonde, brown and ginger. This picture marks the second time I have drawn a ginger mammoth as you will find out in the Suit Of Cards work. I have done nothing too elaborate with the shadows and the shine of the mammoths, same goes for the background and mountains. Lastly I feel that I used the pencil a bit much so it looks simpler than it should. Going forward I probably would not use the pencil too much but use the pastels to make the forms and let the highlights and shadows show the form. Not only that I did not put too much details in the snow so overall I could have did a bit more research into how all the surroundings look and then draw them. |
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Ginkgo Plant Twig
Dimensions: 15x20 in, 300 in squared Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: Spring 2023 The idea was to illustrate a flower or plant from living reference. I chose to paint the gingko since it is a living fossil all the way from the mid Jurassic of the Mesozoic. Ever since I started studying dinosaurs, ginkgoes along with ferns and cycads have been cited in all the old dinosaur textbooks as some of the few plants that dinosaurs coexisted with and presumably ate. Magnolias and other flowering plants are shown in the same books as first appearing at the start of the Cretaceous, along the way insects that depend on them. At first I drew a light pencil sketch and painted delicately from there. As with all watercolor, this was done on transparent layers, this helped to establish the shadow and the fine lines on the leaves. For composition, I added an orange border with blue corners and floral leaves and vines on each corner. The only thing that would have helped is to remember the shape on all 4 sides. On the bottom right side, the two vines do the same direction of an S when the other 3 are in opposing directions. This leaves it out of balance, but this is a minute mistake that can be prevented going forward. |
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Griffins' Rut
Dimensions: 15 x 20 inches (300 inches squared) Medium: Watercolor on paper Year: Spring 2023 This was one time were I finally put my Joy of Painting observations into practice. These two griffins are locked in combat to assert their dominance and to gain right to reproduce with the local females as raptors do. For this assignment we were supposed to incorporate a fantasy element to the main theme. I thought about using griffins since they are the main fantasy bird hybrid, but I decided to make the griffin as an animal more avian in anatomy than the traditional build, which had a lion's core body, legs and tail with the head, wings and feet for the arms. Instead, I used the forearms of Allosaurus. The heads of each griffin are based on Protoceratops skulls since there was a legend amongst paleontologists that the skull of the protoceratops inspired the fable of the griffin. Lastly, I used the Speckled Owl as guide for the wings, tail and the coloration. For the background did a wet-on-wet technique where the paper is moistened, and the fresh thick paint is painted on. This helped to get a better-looking sky, clouds, mountains, and forest. Speaking of which I used both warm and cool greens on each opposing side: blue green for the left-hand side and regular warm green on the right-handed side. The only things that would have made this better would be a more subtle technique with the grass and the flowers in the foreground. Also to add shadows and highlights on each griffin to indicate they are being lighted on by the sun. Aside from that this was a grand slam of a painting. The critique labeled this my strongest work of that class. |