Sunday, July 28, 2013

Just finished this commissioned piece for the Brown University hockey team. Check out more photos here: http://portfolios.risd.edu/JacobAmrhein

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

This is my design final for RISD foundation year. It's 48"x48" acrylic on canvas.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Here's some quick, late night pinstriping. One-shot enamel with a Mack 00.

Sunday, April 21, 2013





Here are some quick portraits for my drawing class using oil pastels and scraping away with a razor as I go

Saturday, April 20, 2013

This is the product of a collaboration between Henry Swanson and I for our design class at RISD. The images were either printed or painted; in all cases the letters were painted by hand using One-shot enamel.

Here is the initial pencil layout for "Her"
The shadow of the letters, painted first
The rest of the word was painted using a Mack 00 brush.

Saturday, April 13, 2013


Some 18x24 figure drawings from today. The first is 20 minutes and the second one is 5 minutes.
The assignment for this project was to create a piece which connected with the idea of synesthesia (the phenomenon of hearing colors and seeing sounds). This piece came about as a result of my listening to Charles Mingus' Weird Nightmare and connecting hue, texture, and fragments of recognizable elements to create a layered composition. Gouache on illustration board 18x24.