Dead Bodies Everywhere/ Fat Man ON a Little Car

2 designs I created in Design I many years ago at Carteret Community College. Both are collages. Both are neat to look at :D

Quit, But Don't Stop

This is the only painting I've finished so far. It is a self-portrait I did in Art II in high school. The design happened by chance. The morning we were supposed to start painting in class, i went to the art supply store to buy canvas stretchers and they only had 2 of the longest and 2 of the shortest stretchers left. The rest just fell into place and now I present for your viewing pleasure, my self-portrait, "Quit, but don't stop".

Tooting candy

This is an experiment in using MS Paint and human candy coating government experiments. Mmm.. tasty :3

Yin and Yang in the Sky

Some of you may not know, but I have a slight affiliation for clouds. I used to get in trouble in high school for looking out the window. I can't count how many phone calls my parents have gotten from concerned teachers about me zoning out during an entire class period staring out the window at the sky... But I digress. These pictures, like the Tipi Village, were taken with my camera phone. I was on the way to Ian's house and I noticed the clouds were split in an almost straight line between light and dark, and it followed the highway almost perfectly the whole way. There's just something about the sky and its infinite expanse that has a certain beauty that speaks to me in a way that no other part of nature does. I love the sky. I love clouds. I love this planet :)

Setting Sun on the Tipi Village

This is the Tipi Village. It is set up in a field at Ian's house. That's Ian on the right. The tipi that i camp in in on the left. The tipi on the right is made of canvas and belongs to Jim Davies. The center tipi is the prototype tipi that Ian lives in. The outside tipi's measure 16 feet in diameter. Ian's tipi is 18' in diameter. The big pit of water being pumped out is used to roast bamboo poles and as a 'kiln' for primitive pottery firing. By the way, the primitive firing will be at Ian's house this weekend (Nov 21st-23rd). You should come check it out ;)

A Colorful World Tree

This drawing was done in crayon. It is a compilation of trees around the art studio at RCC.

Between Scylla and Charybdis

This drawing was done in charcoal. It is my interpretation of a scene from The Odyssey where Odysseus is sailing between the two monsters Scylla and Charybdis. According to Greek mythology, Scylla, the monster on the left, was a multi-headed monster with many rows of teeth in each head and wolves around her waist. Charybdis is the other monster on the right. Three times each day it would take in large amounts of water and belch them back up. If a ship sailed too close to Scylla, its heads would devour sailors. Too close to Charybdis, and the entire ship would be swallowed. The phrase 'between Scylla and Charybdis' also references 'between a rock and a hard place' or a Catch-22.

First Entry

Hello. My name is Desmond and this is my art blog. This picture was taken in front of the Lincoln Memorial shaking hands with my buddy Dixon Rivers.