Russel Brand

Spring semester of my freshman year I took my first art class at Towson: Desgin for Non-Art Majors. One of our projects in this class was to manipulate the color in a photo of a person of our choice. We had to take the portrait, draw it on bristol board, then paint it with two complimentary colors. We could add value to the painting by adding black, white, or mixing the two colors. Our choices were violet and yellow, blue and orage, or red and green.

I chose to use a picture of Russel Brand, one of my favorite actors (especially in the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and painted it with violet and yellow acrylic paint.

Over the past summer I went to the Dave Matthews Band Caravan in Atlantic City with a group of my friends. The event was three days of music, food, camping, and awesome vendors. One of the vendors there was an artist named Erin R. Coffey. Her prints are done in Sharpie and pen and are awesome; I especially like her use of color and song lyrics from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, and John Lennon. Some of the prints are dominately black and white with spurts of color that really give it character. She also paints shoes and does photography. Her website is called Eclectic Current--check it out!