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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Here is a bunch of 18x24 drawings from this semester's class being shown in the Waterman building at RISD. The first 5 are 20-30 minute charcoal drawings and the last is a 2 minute figure sketch.

A sketch per day...here's the Mach 40

 This is a lamp prototype that I made for my 3d class. I was messing around with different textures and opacity in each panel of the form. The light bulb is housed in a 4"x7" frame inside the form but isn't turned on in this picture.

The drawing below is a draft for an ink/paper cement assignment on giant bristol paper.

Here's a photo of it 90% done. Strips of cardboard with the corrugation removed are glued to the cardboard sections to secure them. 

Here's a preview of what will be a cardboard stool for my Intro to ID class...

Here's a gouache triptych from the previous semester at RISD for my design final. The assignment was to observe a location in Providence, RI, and demonstrate a network of relationships within the given area. This series documents the amount of activity in a traffic intersection in the morning, at noon and in the evening.

Born-Free: Today is the Last Day

Born-Free: Today is the Last Day: We will pick the winner tomorrow! We have had some really cool stuff submitted in the last week so it will be pretty tough to pick a winner....

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Here is my work on the Born Free blog.

Here's my work-in-progress for the poster contest that the Born Free blog is having for their next show in California.