les pages

les pages, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

oh boy. 2009 and its already october in my brain. mind cluttered, but somehow this sketch seems to have some peace. maybe she will rub off on me :-/

if you haven't moved over yet please come visit my art blog in it's new home over here

i've moved!!!!

i moved my blog over here

come visit and merry new year :)

seeker: up close and personal

seeker: up close and personal, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

you can actually see the ridges of the canvas which is kinda cool

seeker

seeker, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

the biggest canvas i've painted on since high school. imagine that. { The only thing that's kinda wack about a big painting is that its hard to get a good shot of the whole thing. } ...slash blogspot is being lame and not showing the entire painting but you can click on the image to see the entire thing.

day by day

day by day, originally uploaded by J Laryea.



so....ive been really lazy. i started this little painting the same as the others. long story short i got caught up in mental add with this and other paintings. glad its finally finished now :)

inheritence

inheritence, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

so its been awhile. ive been working on a massive painting that based on this sketch...but it still not done yet so i decided to post something else ive been working on...that's also not done.
still trying to work out my own thoughts on the idea of childhood and child soldiers across the African continent

website update

wohoo! finally got off my lazy bum and updated my website. added a couple new sections in the creative side, organized existing series,updated fonts, cleaned up code and copy. phew! check it out over here

slash im working on a massive painting (for me) it will come soon :)

we do not lose heart

we do not lose heart, originally uploaded by J Laryea.



the first (along with the painting below) of the new series of images concerning female identity in my own mind as echoed throughout society. To be beautiful yet disturbing. to lack the essence of woman yet be hailed as one. This painting, i to an extent, this entire series may be difficult to grasp bc the images carry a kind of subversive hypocrisy,protest, sadness and beauty, which are all ways i feel about commonly accepted notions of beauty and which you may miss if you just look at the beauty of the image. we'll see how the series shapes up as i keep adding images.

eyes unveiled....

eyes unveiled...., originally uploaded by J Laryea.

it took a long time for me to finished this little painting, but i'm glad with the way it turned out

quick sketches

sketch

sketch, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

but for a moment

but for a moment, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

for the first time

for the first time, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

learning to breathe again
for the first time
for the first time
in so long

i LOVE this song so so much

some progress pictures

so i just got the most amazing camera ever (canon g10). okay... i exaggerate but it's pretty great. i dont even think you can see how great it is bc i had to shrink the images down but trust me. I finished 3 whole paintings last night yay.(which i still need to take pictures of) so i rewarded myself by doodling this just so i could use green.

temporal feel

eternal, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

so im finally posting some of my new paintings. This was the first one i finished (also the smallest so it kinda cheated) i've been kinda weary to post any at all until i can get really good pictures of them. i painted 3 before the show in LA. dealing with the consistency of the skin and the reflection of light, color and depth is tricky. sometimes i just want to scream at the canvas....but then i dont. and hopefully good things happen in the end.

don't you know...

don't you know..., originally uploaded by J Laryea.

one of the tiny 6x8s

hmmmm

we had fish for dinner today. yum

stressed

stressed, originally uploaded by Jacklyn Laryea.

pretty much how i feel right now with impossible deadlines and my art show coming up in LA. Def listening to Nina Simone right now :(

erykah

had erykah in my brain pretty much all weekend....as usual.

born with it?

born with it?, originally uploaded by J Laryea.

on the phone with a cousin for literally 3 hours. lucky i had some prismas nearby to help pass the time.

Lisa says she almost looks asian :)

website update

so i stopped being lazy, went into flash and updated the professional side of my website. check it out here

very old drawing

so i was looking through the drawings i managed to save and i found this one. i did it a million years ago when i was 15...ok so its actually been 7 years but who's counting :)

woman with no name

i started this one last december and finally finished it last week!
this is actually the biggest canvas ive worked with in a while (maybe 24x30?) I felt very confused when i graduated college, had to adjust and acclimate to the fact that there was, for the first time in my life, an uncharted, un-regulated path in front of me. I guess this painting is a product of those emotions

late night sketches

okay....i really need to sleep at some point in my life. grr

beautiful babies

beautiful beautiful children. so peaceful, so sad

good intentions

ok so i've started a new painting series concerning the idea of womanhood and femininity in this generation. I think i will show ALL women. black, white, asian, hispanic, etc. because i think we all suffer from the same social pressures to be perfect and we have lost our own individual notions of beauty. Im doing these quick sketches of women to figure out the feel i want for this series. I know its going to be very dark, but i also want it to be beautiful...i've almost finished about 4 paintings i may post them i a little while ;)

there alone

filling up my moleskin. maybe ill actually finish a whole sketchbook this year :)

sketches

lonesome, originally uploaded by Jacklyn Laryea.

new sketch in my moleskin. man i haven't even touched a sketch book since last dec.