Water Bearer

Here's one of my final's for my lifestyles class. This was so much fun.

Pack Mentality

From a bird's eye view.

Clepto Mermaids and the Tiger Goddess

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Above is an unfinished assignment. I had to pick two existing ads, then photo collage the product into an illustration. The class suggested I add more gold jewelry for balance. Below it are five preliminary sketches. At the bottom is a random page out of my sketchbook. Rawr. :) I get inspired by Hindu Goddesses sometimes. If you can guess the story I'll give you something special.

chameleon

Ke$ha

 We drew names of pop stars out of hats to make an editorial portrait. I got Ke$ha.

Hot and dangerous.

Word Compositions

The first typography assignment was to cut out the word and place it in an environment to photograph. The second assignment was to illustrate the meaning of three words from a provided list. My favorite is stimulate. :)

the Lions Den

Above is the left half of my painting final. Its a master copy of Ruben's Daniel in the Lion's Den. The photo makes it look so small!! It's actually a 7ft x 10ft diptych sitting in my downstairs living room. I'll post the full painting next month when I make enough room to lay it out and document it together. Lately I've been interested in the process of hunting.

Eyes wide open

Dichotomy

a self portrait

...it's never the same.

life

Optical Illusions

Justin and I drove north from Baltimore city for a good thirty minutes and took an exit called "Mt Carmel" and this is the site we ended up at. A harvested crop field. It was strange I've never explored one in the fall time. I wanted to capture the energy of the place at that moment. The orchestra of crickets at peace, warning calls of crows, buzzards circling. The thing is when I scanned this painting in it didn't look right. I started playing with it and looking in the mirror at it to try and figure out what was making it not feel right. Is this a bad thing that it needs to be tilted? I'm no painting major. I've always struggled with the restriction of a rectangle sheet of paper or canvas. I'm more of an organic, circles, spirals kind of person.