A Feast For Crows

16x20 Available for Purchase

I haven't updated this blog in a while, but I hope I can do a better job keeping up with it now that school has ended. Here is one of many paintings from my senior thesis. I am plunging forward this year with painting and attempting to establish myself as a professional full-time painter. The biggest thing will be attempting to make enough money to pay bills and continue to paint full-time. If you are interested in purchasing my work it is available via Madeby Gallery in Sarasota and through me at my website:

http://charlesvalsechi.com/56867/available

Update

Here are a couple of things I have been working on. Thesis previews still to come!

Above is a painting I made at FEWS: 6 Hours 16x20

An Illustration from Fall Semester 18x24

Recent Landscape Painting 9x12

Clovis, Possibly The Earliest 'American' People

I have found myself extremely absorbed in how amazing the world is. From science to history it really is just an amazing speck of dust in a black abyss. That being said one of those topics has been evolution and more specifically human evolution. This lead to me researching archaeological sites and learning about the Clovis people. I really enjoyed working on this piece and think I will do more prehistorical and  historical pieces in the future. The following is a basic overview of what I learned about these people:

Way before the 'Native Americans' and Christopher Columbus the Clovis people arrived in 'America'. This was about 13,000 years ago. They were a nomadic hunter gatherer society which followed large game like the pictured mammoths. One of the greatest places we have evidence of these people is a stone query in Topper, South Carolina. Here we find a place they used often to create stone tools and weapons ranging from boomerangs for small game to spear heads. The temperature in this time was cooler than it is today. It is likely they used animal furs to keep warm from the cold winters. Sadly, we have little evidence of what they wore. Those types of things simply don't withstand the test of time. A devastating comet killed off the Clovis about 500 years after they arrived in 'America'.