Oregon State Fair

I forgot to post this but " The city " was accepted in the Oregon States Fair Professional Division. The fair closes September 5th, if you go you should swing by the "Heart of the Garden" and check out the art.


The City
20x16 graphite on arches 88

NC Wyeth Master Study

First Pend Drawing. I really love to draw in pen! It is so dramatic. I thought this piece by NC Wyeth would be the perfect mood for my master study.


12 x 16 Pen on Bristol

Close up of the dress

 more close ups

Actual painting by NC Wyeth...(well not actual painting, its just a jpg)

Art Dump of Art Firsts (or fists)

These were just laying around so I decided I should post them, they dont deserve their own entry but perhaps all together they deserve some sort of mention. This is mostly a lot of new media stuff I was trying. Well besides the charcoal and oil paintings of fists, but I had yet to do skin tones (and by that I mean skin tones that were half way human, these are at least getting there)



Boom in your face! Oil hands!

This is a gouache painting on yupo paper. Just for the record I HATE YUPO PAPER!!!, I mean maybe I just didnt understand how to use it with gouache, but it drove me crazy the constant smearing of the pigment. I blamed the gouache at first, but I have since tried gouache on normal FRIGGIN paper and I like that a lot. Actually really like how fast gouache is on normal paper, been working on some stuff, hopefully will be done soon!

Charcoal skull, black paper... you know... good times, oh wait no this is colored pencil... my bad.

Encaustics, WHO CARES! I really hated wasting my time on painting with wax, im sure some people can get some really nice stuff out of wax painting, but seriously... what a waste of time, nevermind that they arent very good, but I could have spent those two or three weeks actually painting something or actually learning something with OIL paints or any kind of paint... but WAX? ugh, I should melt them down and maybe I can somehow utilize the board underneath.

 good bye encaustics you will never be missed.... ever... I promise

Dog Family at Dinner

It has been awhile but I am finally getting around to posting stuff again. I have a ton of things to post the problem is actually posting it.

We were asked to take an animal and put them in a human environment. As is customary for me lately I decided to mix a little pop culture and art history to come up with a drawing. The idea mixes the card playing dog pictures and A Norman Rockwell painting from the Saturday Evening Post.

In case you dont know what I am talking about....

Some sketches ...
Sometimes and by that I mean all the time, my checkout clerk is a turtle....

tighter perspective

little further developed sketch

Finished (well mostly, I need to go back in and add some more colored pencil work, some of the color is too light)

This Will Be Good For You (Senior Show)

Just a quick post of my senior show. It was a group show with Nicola Harrison. Our styles seem to work together, think the show looked pretty good.

show card

show title

A Look at the space

Nicola Harrison : Emily in disguise

oil on board

18 x 24

BCJ : Driven

charcoal on bristol

19 x 24

 Nicola : Healing

oil on canvas

36 x 48

Nicola :  No Flight

charcoal on paper

18 x 24

Nicola : Excessive Control

oil on canvas

18 x 24

BCJ : Would you Like a Grape?

Graphite on Bristol

19 x 24

oh I put two of them on here, yay I like this drawing

Nicola : Bedlum

oil on canvas

36 x 48

BCJ : Stares

charcoal on bristol

19 x 24

 BCJ : Mus-cu-lature

charcoal on bristol

19 x 24

BCJ : Judging

oil on canvas

24 x 36

Nicola : After Paul Cadmus

charcoal on toned paper

18 x 24

BCJ : Blue Curtain 

oil on canvas

30 x 40

Here are photos of them all side by side for a better flow of the show I guess, that and I took these pics so I should use them right?