The message that comes with this piece is a "Beauty and the Beast" type of feel. I wasn't aiming to say anything with this one, but someone pointed out to me that it reminded them of that Disney movie. Thus the title, "Roses of the Beast".

This canvas I did at home. I painted the background a light blue, then took a different shade of blue, made it really watery, and painted it onto the canvas. Then, I took a Kleenex and dabbed the wet paint. Next I pasted the flowers on. These flowers are roses I had pressed into a book in February 2008, they were a Valentine's Day gift. Then, I took some leaves and pasted them on as well. Once the glue had dried, I took the light blue paint and did another watercolor layer, then I took dark blue paint and just highlighted the edges of the roses and the leaves, also adding some lines and took some wetter dark blue paint and splattered the canvas.

I didn't have a message to say with this piece. But I was inspired by another painting I had found on Deviant that had a similar color scheme and feel.

With this piece I used a board from the I.A. lab for my canvas and painted it with a base coat and then a coat of black. Once the black paint had dried, what I did was take gel medium, spread it in the middle of the canvas, and took a piece of metal that looks like the side of an Rubik's cube and pressed that into the gel medium. Once the gel medium was dry, I took the same piece of metal, dipped it in white paint and pressed that onto the board. Next layer I took a triangular sponge and made a pattern of red and yellow paint, then taking the piece of metal and dipping it in white again. The next stage I took black paint and painted the face and hair of a girl, then wrote the number 23 in the far bottom left corner. The number 23 is symbolic to Evan and I. I call this piece, "Magic Numbers".

The message for this painting that I was aiming for was that the environment has become poisonous for wildlife, like this fish, and they don't have the tecnology or the adaptation skills to adapt fast enough to the chemicals and garbage we're putting into their environment.

This piece I did on a canvas. I first took gel medium and spread it all over the canvas, then made the waves with a gel medium carving tool provided by Mrs. Chief, then made my fish's gills and fins and such. The once it dried I took a dark dark green a painted the entire canvas that color, the painted on the fish's body, then the gas mask. The red was a last minute decision. I think it adds the extra emphasis that my painting needed and makes the message more apparent. At the bottom is a message in Russian, this stays a secret with me. The title of this piece is "Gerdy".

This is a sketch I did in my sketchbook. It's a figure skater doing a uni-bauer (spl?). I saw a picture of this on Deviant and decided to sketch it into my sketch book. I think it turned out really well.