Portraits

When your deep in the desert without much to survive on, you are parched, starving, and so very weak, you mind might start creating mirages of water, or beautiful, rich, lush. oasis's. The difficult part is deciding what is real and what is not.

Now, I think about it, this painting had multiple inspirations. When you cross my obsession for music and the desire to play in a band, mixed with my celebrity crush, and the desire to draw horses and a volcano (because you where learning about them in class), apparently this is born. This painting shows a terrible world. The seas are rough, there are sharks swimming, storms rising, and a volcano erupting. Despite the things happening in the world, the teenage boy, the horse, dog, and magpie find that they are not of the world. Instead they are enjoying a peaceful paradise, filled with flowers, music, and each other's company.

This piece shows a situation where you want something, but it's obviously out of reach. The poor worker boy is in love with a beautiful high class girl in the distance. However, they are both of such different backgrounds, that actually getting together would be nearly impossible.

I actually don't remember what I originally named this, but Isolation describes this piece very well. Because of my personality, it's hard to find people that I can call "friends". I may have a bunch of "acquaintances", but there are only so many people I can actually call my friends. I am also somewhat shy, so all these attributes mixed together constantly makes me very lonely. That is what this piece is illustrating. Right now, I am either not as lonely as I used to be, or am just used to not having as many friends. Either way, thankfully I'm not as painfully lonely as it used to be when I originally painted this.

I remember painting this one near Halloween. I recreated a werewolf type girl who wandered into a pumpkin patch in the middle of autumn. I'm pretty sure this was the first composition I started painting magpies. I also tried painting a wolf pack in the background, but it's hard actually tell they are wolves.

A painting portraying two young people in love. I painted this after my first youth dance that I went to. I loved it, and was inspired to paint a couple dancing. I added a couple symbols from the church that I go to as well.

This was probably my first or second painting I have ever done with people in it. It's just a sweet painting portraying two young people in love.