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Traffic Jam

Flying Elephant on Beach

Lebron NBA Logo

Beanie Photoshop

Just applied some basic photoshop techniques to a picture of Beanie Wells against Michigan.

Lawson Photoshop

I had a couple of hours free, so I threw together a little photoshop image of Ty Lawson.

Lebron Painting

I was browsing the internet and stumbled upon yet another basketball painting. This one is of Lebron James, and immediately it captured me. It is one of my favorite sports paintings that I've seen.

Bass Flyer

This is the new flyer that I designed in order to get the word out about the Bass Fishing Club at Ohio State. I did it all in photoshop and was pleased with it overall.

M.C. Escher

Since a young age MC Escher has been my favorite artist. His skill and attention to details are only a small portion of my appreciation of his works. His thought process was so much beyond any other artist of the time, his pieces force your mind to do work while enjoying the quality of work.

Wood Turning Projects

Recently my dad purchased a lathe for smaller wood projects to be made on. Turning wooden bowls and other pieces is a process that i have always been fascinated by. Basically these projects are accomplished by taking a chunk of wood and fastening it to a center point that rotates at a very high rpm, then touch gouges to the surface of the spinning wood in order to carve a design into the piece.


This bowl was made with blocks of already dried wood glued together. This block of wood was then roughly cut into a circle with a bandsaw, then fastened to the center point of a bowl turning chuck. First the layout of the outside was created with a stepdown sort of layout. Then the chuck is moved to the other side of the bowl, and the inside is hollowed out. This hollowing process is much longer and more tedious than the outside shaping due to the idea that you are mainly cutting against the grain when you are inside the bowl. When working on the outside you are cutting with the grain. To finish the process off, while the piece is spinning, sand paper is applied to smooth the surface, then sealer and a varnish are added.

This is a goblet also turned from glued pieces of wood, this is a very delicate piece and can easily break at any second if one of the gouges would happen to catch the grain of the wood. This piece has been sanded but has not been finished or sealed yet.

Sports Art

My two loves in life are sports and art. When the two are combined it's a beautiful thing in my eyes.. Here are some of my favorites.. hope you enjoy them.

Etch a Sketch Art

I thought this stuff is wild. Using an etch a sketch as a kid it seemed almost impossible to create anything worth looking at.. but clearly this artist has perfected it and completed perfect renderings.

Will Ferrell Concert

Some Pictures from the Will Ferrell comedy tour last week. It was the highlight of the week. So man good jokes it's almost impossible to remember them all.

More Julian Beever

I've had a couple requests to post more Julian Beever Images.. so here they are... hope you enjoy.

Swimming girl from intended angle

Swimming Girl from opposite angle. Technique known as anamorphosis.

Turd's of NCAA Hoops

In my opinion college basketball has been filled with turds recently... So i just thought that i would document them.Greg Paulus... Littleman Syndrome Joakim Noah... I'm not even gonna say anything....He says it all himself.

Shelden Williams : BIG Turd

Ekpe Udoh.. Try to shush OSU in our house..... RIGHT
Seriously?! JJ Redick.. Monumental Turd

North Carolina vs. Duke

As anyone in the sports world is well aware, tonight is the most important night in the college basketball season. To some it may be considered more important than the National Championship. The bitter rivalry that puts Ohio State - Michigan to shame.... North Carolina - Duke. It should be a huge game due to the #2 vs #3 ranked situation. Unfortunately tonight is Ohio State's free Will Ferrel concert and that cant be Tivo'd... so i guess im going to have to record the game and get to it later. Hopefully Ty Lawson will be healthy, Ty Hansbrough will put down another hstoric game, Gerald Henderson will get an elboow to the face (just like he gave Hansbrough last year) and Duke will continue to suck with a tragic loss. Can't wait to see them cry.

3D Sidewalk Art

At first glance one might think that the artist is on a building in the first image and the artists is spraying water from a hose in the second piece. But actually both pieces are made with 2D materials to create a 3D look. This artist is Julian Beever, and this is all he does. His work is insanely interesting to me, and i would pay a lot of money to someday have one of his works in or around my house.

Bass Fishing Club at Ohio State

Rarely do i post anything that is not related to art but this is a special circumstance. Over the past few weeks I have been working with one of my childhood friends, who is also a student here at OSU, on starting up a bass fishing club at The Ohio State University. As part of this club members will travel the Eastern United States to compete in collegiate tournaments. The most prestigious of these tournaments being the Big Ten Tournament. No tournament experience is neccessary to join this club but some overall fishing experience is.

The club purpose is as follows: The purpose of the Bass Fishing Club of OSU is to bring students together to enjoy the sport of bass fishing. This club will be affiliated with the Collegiate Bass Anglers Association (CBAA) and compete in CBAA sanctioned tournaments including the Big Ten Classic. This club will also teach fishing tactics to all levels of fishermen and will participate in community activities that enhance the future of bass fishing.

Please contact myself at archer.122@osu.edu or President Jason Founds at founds.7@osu.edu
Change the subject of the email to something pertaining to the Ohio State Bass Club.

Kid Diptych

This half of the image shows how children who play baseball idolize sports stars. They don't neccesarily realize anything about steroids or any sort of drug.

Bonds Diptych

This is the first half of the Diptych images that I had to put together for my Photoshop class. It covers the idea of the controversy of steroids in sports. The astericks show how the record of all time homeruns was affected by steroids. Also half of the stitches were replaced with syringes.

Photoshop Magazine

In my Art Education class we were given the task of creating a magazine cover of our own publication. I fashioned a new Ohio State basketball publication called BuckeyeBall. This is the finished product, only half an hour was allowed so the overall look is not up to what i would like. Hope you enjoy.

Tribal Photoshop

I just happened to be sitting in an on campus computer lab, and started to mess with photoshop a bit. I opened my continuous drawing and started to work, right off the bat i clicked invert image and loved it, so i thought i would share it on here. I've been messing with it for a while now and I would have to say that the glow might just be my favorite, due to the fact that id doesn't even appear to be my work anymore.Hope you enjoy!

Sick

It's been over a week since I've posted largely due to the fact that I have been sick recently, and blogging is not at the top of anyone's list when it feels like every breath is your last one. But in the next couple of days i will be uploading some new images of both new work and old. I hope you enjoy them but there are no images for today, sorry to disappoint.

Carhauler w/ Car

I became bored and started to look around a couple of new books that i bought recently on the topic of sketching cars. As i sat here i began to sketch mindlessly and finished with a car hauler with a car on back. Neither vehicle is a describably model, but more so generic.

Work for JLB

Over the course of the last few years I have been lucky enough to be paired up with the sweetest girl I've ever met in my life. Over the course of our relationship I have made her dozens of pieces of work, so i thought that today i would add a couple of my favorites that i've given her. First is a Pen and Ink sketch that is somewhat random with things that remind me of her all through the composition, i also made the frame from plexiglass and painted the back with metallic black to complete the piece.

Second I made a 6x6 painting of a pink rose for her recently. I used acrylic paints and really exceeded my expectations of myself due to the fact that i have never really been a very succesful painter.

Continuous Drawing

This sketch was completed with an unbelievably large amount of work. I spent hour upon hour in lectures and labs last year at OSU Newark campus. Basically the whole piece together shows my hobbies and personality. This style of drawing is interesting to me because it can be never ending.