Joseph Troxler .5

        The past two weeks have been pretty productive. I have begun painting, nearly finished building my largest piece, and began progress on a new one. My concepts are coming together better than I could have hoped. Finally being able to see some of my ideas become a reality is very reassuring.
 Getting comfortable with casein paint has been much easier than I anticipated, creating a rather quick workflow, with very positive results in just a week. focusing on finalizing some of my ideas has been paramount throughout the past two weeks. With constantly thinking and rethinking work, it can get tiring trying to settle on something.
         The largest piece in my series of work has changed some in the past few days. Not necessarily in a physical manner, but in it's conceptual approach. following the results of this years presidential election, I decided to make this piece about the embodiment of the emotions that flooded over me because of the wave of fear that was suddenly thrust upon this nation. I feel moving forward making this piece political, with roots in fear will be a powerful statement among my work. It will definitely stand out from the more personal pieces I have been building.

  Here are a couple of my works in progress that I have been focused on the past two weeks.