Charles Chaisson

2011-05-18T23:35:00.000-07:00

New piece for Playboy's annual College fiction contest. The story is called "Hot Damn."

2011-02-27T21:37:00.000-08:00

Nightmare Final...lol, forgot to crop it.

2011-02-24T20:22:00.000-08:00

Progress on the nightmare image.

2011-02-21T01:37:00.000-08:00

Thumbnail for a new image I'm working on for the book project at SVA.

2011-01-04T17:15:00.000-08:00

Took long enough, but I finally got good digital images of the pieces I did for my undergrad thesis.

2010-11-13T19:15:00.000-08:00

Some Sketchbook stuff.

2010-10-27T16:23:00.000-07:00

Tight Sketch for Ostracon pieces #2

2010-10-26T18:27:00.000-07:00

For our Book Seminar class we had to read "Ostracon," A short story by Alex Ross about an elderly woman who is showing early signs of Dementia. From this we had to come up with a series of images based on a theme of our choosing that related to the story. I chose to paint a series of images about the relation between memory and the senses. This is the first piece, based on touch...showing an elderly woman examining the aging process of her hands.

2010-10-26T18:14:00.000-07:00

So for our experimental media class, we had to come up with "Orange Wrappers" that included an orange, a gorilla, and a stencil or stamp. I like the way it turned out.

2010-10-26T17:23:00.000-07:00

A quick Illustration that we had to complete for digital portfolio class at SVA. It had to be Autumn themed, so I decided to draw some sugar skulls since the day of the dead falls in Autumn.

2010-09-08T14:07:00.000-07:00

Finally got decent enough internet...and a good enough photo of one of my thesis paintings to post. Hopefully I'll be able to get the others soon.

2010-02-23T21:37:00.000-08:00

First thesis painting so far. Working on a gessoed masonite board with colored pencils first to work out the values. Going to go over it with a layer of skin colored matte medium, and work some other colors into the figure using this process.

Shitty camera phone picture though...lol.

2010-02-23T05:03:00.000-08:00

THESIS DEADLINES ARE APPROACHING!!! time is dwindling.

So my senior thesis is going to be five paintings based on a selection of dreams that I've had in the past year. I'm going to illustrate these dreams, as well as the meaning that I've discovered behind the imagery in them. Hopefully they'll turn out good, I'm really excited about them.

with that said, here's a rough sketch of the first piece I'm doing.

Dream: I was laying down in water, and could hear some sort of chanting in my ears. When I looked up, the source of the chanting was above me. There were three figures...two in shadow, and a woman holding a book, from which she seemed to be reading. This kind of freaked me out, lol... so I woke up. At that time, I was awake and could see around my room, but couldn't move at all, and could still hear the voices chanting.

2010-02-15T07:28:00.000-08:00

Started out the character study on some toned paper using graphite, ink, and a white colored pencil. Finished it by throwing it in photoshop and messing around with the colors and lighting.

Character study for the Flying Monkeys from the Wizard of Oz...I should really finish that piece when I get some free time.

2010-02-15T05:16:00.000-08:00

Did this painting in open acrylics. It's based off of the song "Strange Fruit" sung by Billy Holiday. Didn't want to really be too literal with the lyrics, but I used some imagery from the song.

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

2010-02-15T05:05:00.000-08:00

Worked on the original version of this a while ago. Started it out in oil, then worked back into it digitally.

2010-02-15T05:02:00.000-08:00

I need to start drawing more. so, I drew in my sketchbook for once...maybe i'll try to post something every other day.

2009-12-07T13:05:00.000-08:00

Another image in progress. "3 Conflicts"

2009-12-07T13:03:00.000-08:00

New Wizard of Oz piece in progress

2009-11-21T22:59:00.000-08:00

The new and Improved version of my senior portrait for the Ringling College of Art and Design's Senior Illustration Poster. lol...one of my friends in Graphic Design gave me a little slack about the type, so I decided to draw my own. Here it goes. I also brightened up the yellow a bit.

The Old Version

Final Senior Portrait.

2009-11-21T22:57:00.000-08:00

Line Drawing for Senior Portrait

2009-10-14T21:24:00.000-07:00

Soul Searchers. Open Acrylics

The version on top was retouched in photoshop to play with the focus of the image and add a little more detail.

2009-10-05T22:00:00.000-07:00

Scylla and Charybdis

Acrylic

2009-10-05T21:59:00.000-07:00

Sketch for "Scylla and Charybdis"

2009-10-05T21:58:00.000-07:00

Final Gates of Kiev piece

2009-10-05T21:57:00.000-07:00

Vector for "Gates of Kiev" Piece

2009-10-05T21:56:00.000-07:00

Final Illest Poster

2009-10-05T21:54:00.000-07:00

Vector for the Illest Poster

2009-10-05T21:45:00.000-07:00

Business Card and Portfolio Page

2009-10-05T21:43:00.000-07:00

Letterhead

2009-05-06T12:02:00.000-07:00

What Dreams May Come

clayboard, Ink, and photoshop

2009-02-23T13:04:00.000-08:00

Did this piece for the sci-fi show, our school was a part of. It's based off of the Mayan creation myth mentioned in the movie "The Fountain."

"Voodoo Queen." Acrylic. So i wanted to do a portrait of Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen of New Orleans for the second Sci-Fi assignment that I had to do.

2009-02-16T19:08:00.000-08:00

The man, pet and machine assignment for Brandes.

2008-11-22T18:54:00.000-08:00

Mantha the Majestic Manicorn?

2008-11-22T18:53:00.000-08:00

2008-11-22T18:51:00.000-08:00

Rockstar Energy Drink Advertisement for class. Acrylic, Colored Pencil and Digital.

2008-11-14T13:45:00.000-08:00

"Frankenstein."

Acrylics and Colored pencil.

2008-11-14T13:37:00.000-08:00

from the story "Charlotte." Weird ass story, mostly about wrestling, and love.

2008-11-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

A pulp art book cover for Computer Illustration....Kudos to Sonny for the suggestion of "Spicy" in the title. lol