Art Work
As I've said in other places on this site: I've always been fascinate by the intersections of Art and Science in Theatre, which has resulted in a great deal of focus on the nuts and bolts of things. I do believe, however, that creative activity is essential to anyone wishing to practice our art form. As Josef Svoboda said "To draw is our language."
Many of these images were products of class projects where I was casting a dark-eclectic, almost comic bookish lens over things. For as long as I can remember, I've been sketching comics in the margins of my papers.
The gritty comic book aesthetic came to color a little bit of everything I did for a while. It all coalesced in my writing a play in college entitled The Escape Plan which was an exploration of Dissociative Identity Disorder, a drama. I shortly after started work on a comedy called Serial Killer Stanley.
This next entry isn't the kind of thing that most people traditionally think of as "Art" but it does bear similarities.
This staircase volute had to match the complex curve of the platform beneath it, but the hand rail had a totally different inciting angle. There was no single radius that could make it look natural. This meant that the only way to build the volute was to approximate the curve by eye-balling the three separate radii, and their center points that would make the curve look natural. This kind of carpentry is what I like to call "artistic geometry."
Yes, the spindle is intentionally broken.
Below are some examples of scenic painting I've done for classes I've taken. Fortunately for me, I've always had a really great scenic charge on realized productions, but it's nice to be able to help.
The last image I'll leave here is a rendering I did for the St. Valentines Day Massacre. It's an unrealized design I did to show the advantages of using Google Sketchup to render scenery on a three dimensional stage, complete with set dressing.