Sorry to have been away so long, but I don't have a scanner at home and I had no new art pre-scanned to my computer so I was in a bit of a bind until I got back to the city. But now I'm back in the city and in my lovely, clean, roomate-free apartment and can start posting again.
The piece above is a wine label that I designed for my dad for his birthday for a wine that he made from a wine-kit. The wine isn't finished yet so none of us knows if it's good or not but at least the bottles will have swanky designer labels. And really, it's all about appearances.

Okay so the link is nowhere near as fun as the labyrinth generator but I still quite like it. Much as I feel that the world of webcomics is over-run by Japan fans there are still some good ones out there. One of these is No Rest For the Wicked by Andrea Peterson, it's an amazing and impressive blend of largely victorian fairytales into one conglomerate adeventure. So far the mentioned tales are Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, The Girl with No Hands, The Princess and the Pea, the Buried Moon and The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. Not only does she follow the more traditional and grimmer versions (Sandman fans will recognize her version of Red Riding Hood) but she also has created an intruging cast of characters. I'm particularly fond of Red and Perrault (Puss).

Well here I am at home, packing up my stuff. I already threw out a big black trashbag of crap and so far I've realised...that I have a lot of crap. I have a tonj of books and comic books. I think I'm going to try and sell some of my comic books and my magic cards on ebay. That's the kind of stuff people buy.

Anyways, here's another one from my portraiture class. The assignment was to make a mask over spring break and then we all drew each other wearing our masks.

So I'm pretty proud of this link, it's actually a really cool one. It's a labyrinth search engine. You type in where you are, or hat area you're looking in, and it gives you the addresses, phone numbers and websites of the narest labyrinths and what material the labyrinth is made of. There's only one in Boston, on Tremont Street, but I think I should go visit it, might be fun. Most of them are located in religious locations, however the labyrinth is a pretty cross-cultural symbol of spirituality so I don't think you really need to be of any specific religion to appreciate them.
Mask Girl Oil Pastel, Gouache 18" x 24" (c) 2006

So I'm back in the middle-of-nowhere New Hampshire for the next week or so, depending on how fast I clean. I have to pack up/clean out my room and art table in the basement for the whole parents-moving-out thing. I didn't really wanna come home. I mean, I love my parents and love seeing them but this town sucks the vigor right outta me and by the end of the week I'll be pining for the sounds and activity of the city.

But for you, I have a lovely gospel page. This is the final format, complete with kerning and leading and margins and all the appropriate typographic terminology seen to.

And for your featured link I'm sticking with a single thing today, but it's a good one. It's that fabulous website that I'm sure most of you know of, Wikipedia. I read on the Boston Globe website an article about the volunteers who run the site and the statistics show that there's more males than females, they tend to be young and that a large number of them can be found in Boston. Maybe I should join up. Not that there's any articles I wanted that they didn't have, but I bet it would be a good way to meet smart guys. However I've pretty much decided I'm going to wait on the whole relationship thing and see what my karma does for me, seeing as it should be around the level of a saint due to my patience with my roomate.
Just When I Had Begun to Hope Freehand 9" x 6" (c) 2006

Hey all, here's another collage from my Masks and Mirrors class, it's made up of National Geographic magazine photos, mostly from their September 2005 issue, I believe. I had to copies of it.

Now for the links! I've got fun ones today! Pompeii graffiti! Click the links for lovely sites and even a hilarious drawing. And you all thought latin was a noble language used for bibles and epic poems. Bet you didn't know they wrote stuff like, "Suspirium puellarum Celadus thraex." Haha, it's translated as "Celadus the Thracier makes the girls moan" Scuzy, right?
Urchin Collage (c) 2006

So it's only a couple of hours after I posted the last one, so who's counting anyway? Geez. No link for you, I've got better things to do.
Campbell 2 Mixed Media 18" x 24" (c) 2006

The first of two images I did of Joseph Campbell as the final for my Masks and Mirrors portraitiure class. I rather like them both, I'm considering putting them in a mat to join them as a diptych, or doing more.
And for a random quote...I give you the 'official' rules to shotgun.
Campbell Mixed Media 18" x 24" (c) 2006

Now that I'm out of school I have all this free time to do what I want! Like hang out in the museum, or do artwork or work at the school...pretty much the stuff I did before-hand. But now I have time for MORE.
Guess what? No links today! Yaaaaay!
This self portrait is more humerous than serious, I guess. Me just sort of playing around with oil pastels.
Self Portrait #3 Oil Pastels 24" x 18" (c) 2006