Joseph Puperton

For those of you that don't know, this is Joey (AKA Joseph Puperton)



And this is Roxy



Joey likes Roxy, but she's a cranky old lady who dosn't like to be bothered with his puppy antics. Frequently, I'll do little sketches of them doing something quirky (Rolling around in the dirt, giving weird glances), but my favorite is to draw them as characters from the old west. Joeys a friendly gunslinger, the good guy in the story. But Roxy is more of a bandit, stealing food and causing a ruccus. Upon getting some tiny canvases from Michaels earlier this week, I thought it would be cute to do a few painting illustrating little stories. Here's the first one:



I image that Joey is roaming around the desert looking for Roxy, when suddenly, he spots her! What happens next, I'm not yet sure of, but I imagine it may very well be a duel.

Turtles

Turtles basking in the sun, Central Park NYC.

Haven't posted in FOREVER!

Hey all! This month started off with me being incredibly uninspired and just plain feeling bad about my art. That big painting hadn't been touched in forever, I wasn't sketching or reading or doodling. Then my good friend and artist Marco (Check him out here: http://marco-a-jimenez.blogspot.com/ ) inspired me. I just needed to make art, not matter if it was bad or good because really, not every piece was going to be a masterpiece. Once I acknowledged and accepted this into my life, things changed. I started out sketching, then I did a watercolor.

The composition is similar to alot of sketches I've been doing lately, but this time the sun changed a bit. I wanted to make it look like solar flares, as you can see it was alot of fun! After that I decided to return to the big painting I had put away for awhile, last time I touched it I put up some trees and grass, and painted the sky blue. It wasn't working at all!

I returned the sky to its original colors, and I wanted to make variations among the grass spots. It sounds so simple, but by adding some realistic shadows (Grass on the top is lighter, grass behind the mountain is darker) it just seems to make so much more sense! I'm really loving it, and I think it's almost done now.

The last piece I'm working on is supposed to study shadows during sunset from a birds eye view. Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm going to leave this one as is or some how add more to it. It'll just have to sit here and wait.

Otherwise, not much else is going on. Still working. Loving that it's staying lighter out later but hating that I'm inside my job for most of it. I'm hoping it gets warmer soon, can't believe there was snow last week!
Till next time, see ya!

Georgia O'Keeffe's Art Process

This is an incredibly interesting video about Georgias artistic process. I love her ability to be faithful to her original ideas, something I need to work on!

Troll, Kachina, Bear, Alpaca, Birdman

Montauk

Hello all! Long time no update, so thankfully I got the idea to visit Montauk today! For those of you who are not familiar with this place, it is located all the way at the end of Long Islands southern fork. The Montauk lighthouse, commissioned in 1792 by George Washington, is one of the islands most famous landmarks. Erosion is a significant problem there, which you can read more about here: http://www.montauklighthouse.com/erosion.htm . It's an interesting read, especially when you see the pictures of where it was in respect to the coast line, and where it is now. But I digress.

I didn't go to Montauk for the lighthouse, I went for the unique way the sun shines, the quiet, the cliffs. It's a special place to me, and if I had an endless supply of money it would be the only place on Long Island I would chose to live.

(The lighthouse in the distance. A nice hike when there's not a foot of snow on the ground)

(Camp Hero radar tower. Very cool building and surrounding area with army bunkers under 'hills'. Worthy of its own post, will do when the weather gets warmer)

(The cliffs along the Atlantic Ocean. These specific formations are known as 'hoodoos')

My hike began along the southern coast line, where one can walk along the cliffs. I was hoping to see some seals, but alas there were none. Plenty of birds were out in the water, as well as some boats.

(All the trees were permanently windswept from the wind coming off the ocean. Beautiful!)

After this I hopped in the car and went to the tip of the fork, where the lighthouse and a trail to the shore was.

I came across many dead fish. They looked like the same species, whatever that species is.

I loved seeing all the fishing lines and hooks that laid on the beach, especially when it all got tangled and formed these weird bundles!

Then, my day was made when a beautiful deer walked out from the dune to nibble on some plants at the base of them.

She was so calm and let me get really close before she scurried up the dune again. It really did make my day.

The air was getting colder and the sun was going to set soon, so I went a little while longer before discovering what I'd like to describe as the Garbage Man of Montauk.

After quite a bit of hiking, I headed home. This trip was fun, interesting, and inspiring. I suppose Long Island isn't as boring as I thought it was...

Nat Geo

Hey all! I have a little gallery over at the National Geographic site, check it out! I'll add photos as time goes on.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/gallery/299036#/gallery/1002478/