Urban Scrawl 8

August 23rd and 24th made for a pretty cool weekend spent at Columbus's own Urban Scrawl 8. It's a two day event with live music and painting. Paintings all go to the benefit of the arts district and art programs around the area. My friend Ian was harping on me and my roommate Maxx to apply for canvases earlier this summer. A month later we were given big primed plywood canvases (4X8, 8X8). Here's a picture from Saturday night as well as Saturday afternoon, followed by what I ended up with and me being a terrible dork:

Wish I would have taken more photos - I only was able to catch a few of my friends by their pieces. I feel really fortunate to know a handful of people who want to and can make giant paintings with the sun beating down on them. Take a look at their websites, too:

Ian Ballantyne http://ianerballantyne.com/

Maxx MaEvoy http://maxxmcevoy.prosite.com/

Kyle Bergamo http://www.kylebergamo.com/

Aaron Kirchmaier http://www.aaronkirchmaier.com/
Lucie Shearer and Jake Mensinger http://www.lucieshearer.com http://www.mensingerart.com/

Jacob Tanner http://illustrateyourworld.wix.com/badtrumpeteer

Mandi Caskey http://mandiellen.wix.com/fine-artist

Sam Thomas http://waywardventure.tumblr.com
(and Logan Schmitt's on the right!! http://loganschmitt.tumblr.com/)

Winter Break Sketches Pt1: Face Studies & More

Here's a generous amount of various sketches from this past break from school. Most of them are from various Facebook friend pictures, some are from TheSmokingGun.com, a few others are from life, and a few are straight from my weird brain. I was getting inspired by clicking around the internet to a few really cool artists, notably Sam McKenzie (http://samsamsamsam.com) and the way he draws the face/figure. Also, I think my love for coloring in noses and ears is getting serious.

The break has been really nice, and now that school is back in session, I am definitely appreciating all that time I had to not do homework per se, and all the time I had to sleep... here's, though, to a new year, and many more sketchbook posts. Especially now that I no longer have Cafe Sketch class (http://sarahschmidtsketch.blogspot.com).