sunset time

this was the finished piece done from the sketch a few posts down. I did something a little different than what I normally do with pastels. I put a coat of spar varnish on, then made some oil glazes and some china marker.

Tails n' Trails of Rock n' Roll

Here is the cover for my book that I have been working on for the past three months. It is a timeline of illustrated song lyrics starting with the early days of guitar pounding delta blues, up to the reverb screaming cries of distorted electricity.

The book will be on display and for sale at the Ringling Senior Illustration Thesis Show on April 30th, and may also be for sale shortly after online.

I will post the other 14 Illustrations and 16 spots after the show so stay tuned!

clouds and flowers

Some pastel drawings I've done in the past few weeks

This was a still life that started out as a silhouette but then I started adding color, and detail, and it became a pretty nice flower drawing. I think I might do more flowers like this.

This was done over spring break, I was going to get some food, and the sun beaming through the clouds looked too cool to pass up. This was a 5 minute sketch but I think because of the short time, it captured a lot of energy.
This was done the other day, I was going to draw the bridge, but thought I might try to paint the sun being blocked by a passing cloud.

Till next time,

-Matt

Gene Evaro

A little picture I made about Gene Evaro and the wonderful music he and his sisters make. You can listen to it at myspace.com/evaromusic.

Golden Mushroom Woman

Thats the name I've given my new paint job on my old guitar.

a Bonnaroo design

this is a design I did for this years Bonnaroo design contest. Go onto Bonnarroo.com sign up, and vote for it to win, and others that spark your interest!

symphony stories

These are two paintings derived from listening to Mozart and Beethoven. They were just little drawings I blew up and colored. No real planning was involved, just fun.

This first one is from Beethoven's second movement from Symphony No. 5

And this one is from Mozart's first movement from Symphony No. 40

These were pretty fun to do, for the first time, I transfered these drawings on to wood, put a clear gesso on, and used pastel on that. It was a strange surface, once you lay down a color, the grain of the gesso really sets back and its difficult to layer another color onto that. Its great for holding one vibrant color though. it really grips and is fun to draw on with pastel.