t-shirts...

Inspiration painting: acyrlic









Spray paint with marker from stencil on t-shirt







tie dye effect with spray paint and stencil + marker









Spray paint and marker

Characters...

Do not know how to change the orientation

A few of the many....

Military/Nautical

Acrylic

Book with pattern and battleship pictures

Intaglio

Gouache

Pattern...

Litho

Gouache

Gouache

My Work.

So as of now, I only have some stencils worked out. I am still waiting on the arrival of the t-shirts I ordered. I got 10 sets of size runs in small, medium, large, xlarge. I got white, gray, black, navy, a sea foam color, and a tan. I am encorporating elements of urban life such as graffiti and street art mixed with nautical elements based on where I grew up. I am going to portray them in a flat, simple, but vivid and grungy way. I am going to be using texture that may act as design and pattern and keeping pattern involved. I have been working with Barb Madsen in creating a "character" based side of this as well. Whether or not this gets into my thesis, I am not sure, but I have been making pages of characters that could possibly turn into my logo design for the branding. I am posting pictures of my paintings that seem to embody what I am about as an artist. Like I said, I have no actual work on t-shirts because they have not yet arrived.

redone idea for thesis?

So as of now, my plan for my thesis is pretty much non changing, he only issue I will have is the hanging portion. I am going to make ideally 10 different t-shirt designs. My name is going to be IMPEKABLE. I am going to try to show graffiti and urban elements mixed with of nautical designs. I will also make them in sets of 4 (size run). I will only be showing ten, then having the others probably folded on a wooden table I made thats about 4 feet by 3 feet. I was thinking if I could possibly have a large corner? I don't know how possible this is or if it will greatly impact someone else's project next to mine, I am willing to change, but as of now I was thinking about a zig zagged clothes line type thing from top to bottom with the shirts hanging on it.

second critique

I showed some more of my work including actual shirts I have done before. I seemed to get good feedback from the group and continued to speak my ideas into word better. I feel I am getting more focused every critique and ironing out small details I was unsure of. I am positive I will be doing tee shirts with spray paint prints through a stencil process because I like that each one will be individual and original. I like the fact that each shirt has its own say splash of paint on a particular spot, or a darker thicker line on a certain area. This is showing that each shirt is acting as a canvas and that its not just screened over and over again making somewhat of a replica per shirt, I like the differences per time I paint them. I am still trying to figure out the ideas of hanging/showing, but I got some good feed back on possibly hanging from ceiling, maybe corner, and I'm thinking that the most simple will probably work the best.