Still untitled

just done today

New pictures with my Casio

New Digital Camera and More

Hey guys, I got a Digital Camera EX-Z1080. The picture quality is GREAT. I'll need to upload my paintings again with this new camera.

Here are some I did just this weekend.

Tree Series

My girlfriend calls the blue one below, a "little dance of joy" . Therefore the title is Dans la nuit and I don't think it's finished, It needs something I just cant figure it out yet..
I don't know when trees crept their way into my usual southwest paintings...

Blue Balloon!

How could I possibly almost forget one of my favorite pieces ever?? This is Blue Balloon, it's chaotic and sunny and charming (in my own opinion). I named it Blue Balloon because when I look at it, it looks like like a Blue Balloon has just exploded everywhere. Deep. I know.

Those Yet Unannounced 2

This one was sort of a test for me, I tried to break away from my own desire to constantly add on and complicate a painting and just create a basic and rich landscape. That said, I think it helped mold my future work, but other than that, not over the moon about it.

Those Yet Unannounced

These two don't fit any certain personal category of art that I have but I still love them. The Grave Tree took a while and went through various transformations before I was done, its 3 ft by 3ft about on a stretched canvas. The Red Town was very uninhibited, I just literally kept grabbing gobs of paint and then folded the canvas paper in half, smudged it together and this is the resulting piece. Thoughts?

Which One?

Which version do you prefer?

Ragged Rainbow Storm

This is where I definitely feel my experience living in NYC is taking effect. Here to me the piece feels very urban, beautiful, wintry, and ragged. To me it's like a wonderful and hopeful winter snow storm.

I work with Kindergarteners in Manhattan and I've found a lot of inspiration from them, they are always painting rainbows and really use these unabashed colors, they really just paint from their gut and don't care about the consequences. Usually their work is pretty stunning to me, it has color composition and combinations that adults would never usually dare to use. I tried to recreate what I find from them everyday--some sort of purity with the colors, I really tried to keep it to just the primaries and give it a little wonder that I always see in my kids work.

The Red Galaxy Series

These are new this month and so far my favorites of my collection.

Light Night Sky

Originally meant to just be the background and first layer of the painting, I was mesmerized by the color composition with the black, light blue, and white, that I created the bottom land and left it just like this. Not yet Titled

Marfa Lights

This is one of the first pieces I produced back in October that really was the start of my focus on landscape and sky/galaxy pieces. I call this one Marfa Nights from the phenomenon in Marfa, Texas with lights that fill the night air.

Big Sky Collection

Those of you who don't know me, I'm a new Artist living in NYC. I'm originally from West Texas (the start of the Southwest) and a lot of my inspiration comes from the brilliant colors I see in the Southwest Sky.

I'm with a lot of people in the opinion that Southwest Art can be a bit tacky, and I've tried to reclaim what it means to use Southwest inspiration, colors, and landscape.

My main influences are Chagall, Kandinsky, Kahlo, and Van Gho.

My main medium is Acrylic with some watercolor thrown in a few pieces.

I create all my art intuitively, what I mean by that is that I rarely premeditate what I'm going to paint. I go to the canvas and let the work create itself by really just focusing on the composition of colors and shapes.

Outside of painting, I attend Columbia graduate school of Education . I went to Brown and took several RISD courses. Other than that, my work is completely new and I've never shown it to anyone--I find parting with my paintings virtually impossible. any opinions will be greatly appreciated.