Figure Drawing class

My first drawing 'session' in ages. This was a 20 min pose.

The Journey into 3-D

This is a sampling of some of the work I have done in the last year or two.*edit* (scroll down to see images, this post is longer then I expected it to be) :)
Stepping back I start to see how the work connects. Last year I was introduced to Maya and I really took to it, but once I got out of the class I went back to my comfort zone of making work in a physical tangible space. Maya can be really overwhelming. Months went by and I continued working with photography, painting, attempts at sculpture and collaborating with nature (she was not into collaborating this winter). Graduate school applications were coming closer and I did not feel I had a big enough portfolio of paintings. Then I realized that I don't want to just paint in grad school and that I need images that somehow fall in line with what I want to be doing rather then what I did in the past.

So I tried a few experiments with nature. I did a project last winter that capitalized on the cold weather also: http://jessicajoyart.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
This time I wanted to make colored icicles in perfect cone shapes and install them around the neighborhood and document how they melted and became more natural looking as nature took over what 'man'(or me in this case) had done. That didn't go too well, but I am willing to try it again next winter...

Eventually I decided to try out Maya again. I was initially very nervous about picking it up again, and I didn't think I would remember how to use it. What still baffles me is that I was actually able to use it BETTER then I had before.
The new work I made with Maya ended up becoming a very natural progression of what I was doing with my traditional media. I posted the images in a sequence below that would illustrate this progression.

Most of what is posted below is what I sent along for my Grad portfolio as well. I'm not sure if I should say where I applied, but wish me luck!

I also just signed up for twitter. You can see it on the top right of this blog. Come follow me on my journey... :)

scarlethawk & JJ collab

I had the amazing pleasure of collaborating with Anna Scarlethawk http://scarlethawk.deviantart.com
I have admired her work for years and so this was a dream come true... no seriously it was. She is an awesome girl!

We worked for a little over 5 hours on this watercolor painting.

Active Transport (Green tape)

First layer of layers is finished!

vessel w/ toxic greens

So I started another layer using oils... The rigid acrylics were stifling me.

The first layer was done in watercolors, 2nd layer acrylics, and now oils...

vessel

I have been working on this the past day or so on my days off trying to turn it into something I am interested in now rather then finishing what I was thinking when I started this painting. I frequently end up slowly layering over older paintings/ideas...

I am trying to make this one really clean looking as well...

Green Tape/Transfer of Potential Life

Decided to focus on this painting today. I have about 6 others I am working on at the same time. I am really trying to get a lot of detail into this one and make it look clean...



Then as you can see I decided to go over the right side with white and make another layer... you can't see however, that the white is made of of little tiny squares...