And Whose Vapors We Slowly Coalesce

2nd of 3 new paintings. I'm showing them in the order that I painted them so, based on critique and general feedback, I've considered new approaches and tried to refine the process and content. This one I struggled a lot with, especially compositionally because there are a lot of elements to balance. I remember teachers telling me the concept of your eye "resting" when looking at a piece and that was something I had a very hard time achieving with the composition. The composition and color were inspired by seeing a folded bag behind an electric green silkscreen. Also, I tried to stay away from symmetrical, central, and figure dominated pieces after noticing a lot of my personal work has those qualities. Thanks so much for the feedback on the previous piece. More critique is always appreciated.

Lights in the Deluge

While interning I've been fortunate enough to have some time to work on some personal pieces at James' studio. I approached these pieces much differently than I would a normal assignment, mostly because I didn't do any preliminary sketches which left room for exploration. The work changed a lot when I was working on it as I would paint over parts completely, glaze areas back, and switch mediums. I got some great critiques and feel like I learned a lot about making an image thanks to the generous input of James. Here's the first piece and I'll be posting the others in installments to try and get back in the habit of posting regularly. I would love to hear some feedback!

Big Ol' Sketch Dump

Hey everybody. It has been too long, as usual. I've been really busy working on both sketches and some bigger pieces. The paintings are almost finished and should be up within a week or so. Also, i got twitter! (http://twitter.com/camfloyd) Let me know if you're on twitter, I need to build up my good base of friends. Below are a some of the better pages from my sketchbook. I've almost finished this one up. Hope summer is going well!

These were done for Drawing from the Masters with Mark Karnes. It was a great class that reaffirmed the importance of master copies. I find them to be pretty relaxing and I always feel like I've learned a lot when I'm done. The 2nd piece was done after the Nerdrum copy (1st picture). It was a kind of reinterpretation, I mostly focused on the texture and general composition. Both are Charcoal and a bit of pastel on BFK.

This is a scene for my concept class in which we redesigned a dated (yet quality) sci-fi movie. I chose Logan's Run and while it was a good story, I feel like watching the movie or not watching the movie would have little to no consequence in your life. So, I tried to stick with the story and essentially gave it a boost to the future! Not sure if its better than the original, but I'm happy with it I think. What do you guys think?

experiments

Some experiments from the sketchbook.

I have really been enjoying the amazing freedom that the subject of space offers. Who's to tell you what can or can't exist out there? We're talking multi-dimensional glaciers.

By the way, I really really hate the image compression of blogger. It kinda just sucks the life out of the darks. Anyways...

Sketch Experiments

A bit of an experiment. I'm trying to get more confident with color and stay away from pastels for everything. I'm not sure I love this piece but its a new and interesting direction for me to explore.

Behold! A dump!

Yes, yes. It has been quite a while since my last update and I apologize. It has taken a little longer than expected to get the wheels rolling this semester but I finally feel like I am picking up steam.

These first posts are for my Character Development class. The class has been surprisingly helpful so far and has forced to me to work on another "style". Though I try to stay away from that word, the class is definitely helping me to think of different approaches. So far, I've been pretty happy with the result!







Next, work that needs no explanation, sketchbook pages!







Thanks to you all who follow this and get on me for not updating ;)

I promise it won't be as long till next post.

here is some concept art for a fictional video game i made up about vikings. the two environments pictured are scenes from 2 of the 9 realms in norse mythology. the fiery death lava place is called 'hel'(appropriately), and the cold mountainous giant pillar place is called 'niflheim'(a mouthful). anyways, i was focusing a lot on mood and scale in these pieces so hopefully they both are distinct in those areas.

Mixed (Charcoal and Acrylic) on Paper - for Peter Shaffer's Equus

Diptych portrait of Stephen Hawking. Mixed Media on Paper 32" x 16"

painting from last year about duty to one's country

Halloween Poster and new piece

Some sketches from family trip to Wrightsville, NC and a new shirt idea.

environment

trying my hand at design. i should point out that the design was based on something warren linn (www.warrenlinn.com) had done. he commissioned me to digitize it for him. i took some liberties with the layout, type, and color however.