The biggest project of my 2010 (next to painting), is a film I am currently working on with my seriously talented friends: Matt "Gus" Gustavsen, Pat Perrotto, Matt Siciliano, and Paul Christian. The film is called Thesis and it is going to kick so much ass. It's the project I've been waiting for, something I love doing and something that makes life fun. I get to hang out with great people and create something awesome with them. The script was written by Gus and it's really got something. He's an amazing writer and is teeming with potential (for world domination).
One of the chracters in the script is an artist named Anja. Not only am I producer on this film, but I also get to do the artwork for Anja, which has lead to a lot of great paintings already.
"Untitled #3"
This is one of my favorite paintings that I've completed thus far, and oddly enough I can't think of what to name this. It's something that the more I look at it, the more I love it. This was featured in the "video" within the movie that we filmed up at Rutgers in Novemeber. It was a painting that Anja was working on while Zane (our film's protagonist) was working on his thesis.
"Zane"
This was a painting that I did specifically for the film. It is a portrait of Anja's feelings for Zane close to time of their breakup. For that to make more sense, you will have to see the film...
"The Tree is the Thesis"
This painting is one of the ones left behind by Anja. She had started it while Zane and she were still together, but when she left this was left behind incomplete.
The next painting I am working on for Thesis is a portrait of Zane. This is something Gus and I have been talking about for a couple months now, to try and figure out how Anja would portray Zane. We've discussed Van Gogh's paintings as an inspiration as well as Edvard Munch's. We are going to be doing a photo shoot with the actress playing Anja and Gus (who is playing Zane) next weekend when we shoot our short film that should be disturbing and awesome. Hopefully after that the portrait will just flow out. I already have some ideas kicking around and am excited to start it.