Name of Art Piece:

Magazine Dress

Dimensions:

Media:

Magazine and Trash bags

Date of Completion:

February 6, 2008

Concept:

This dress was created as a costume for a play I was in. In the play I was playing a very out of the box ’trashin fashion designer’. I wanted to do something apart from the normal trash bag ensemble, and use the materials to create texture of their own, which is how the idea of the fans came into play. I also wanted to have the dress be vibrant to match the charecter, which is why I focused on the placement of the colors of the magazines.

Name of Art Piece:

Mask

Dimensions:

8x11

Media:

Scratchboard

Date of Completion:

December 6, 2008

Concept:

I have a fascination with the complexity and details of masquerade masks, and I wanted to try and convey the intricate designs in this piece. Once again I wanted to work with different mediums and I spent a large amount of my focus on trying to create texture and volume with the different strokes in scratching. This was also done over a period of a week.

This is a scratch board I did of an image of a mask i found that inspired me.

Name of Art Piece:

Magazine Art

Dimensions:

8x11

Media:

Magazine Clippings

Date of Completion:

June 28, 2008

Concept:

The idea of this piece was to recreate the image I found from a teen vogue magazine located on the left side with different bits of magazine clippings. In doing so I really wanted to focus on being able to recreate the different shadings and tones in the image as exact as possible. This was done over a period of a week.

Name of Art Piece:

Pear

Dimensions:

8x11

Media:

Pastels

Date of Completion:

December 20, 2009

Concept:

I wanted to do a direct drawing with a medium that I had not have much experience with .The set of pastels I was working with did not have any brown so I had to do a large amount of smudging to create the tones and shades I wished to convey. This was completed in around an hour.

Name of Art Piece:

Eye

Dimensions:

8x11

Media:

Charcoal Pencil

Date of Completion:

October 20, 2009

Concept:

One thing that I love to sketch are eyes. My figure drawing class inspired me to further investigate with charcoal. I really wanted to focus on the complexity of the pupil. I also wanted to use the pencils so I could focus more on getting the image to look realistic with out having to use a lot of smudging. I drew this eye in about two hours

Name of Art Piece:

Figure Drawing Sketch Three

Dimensions:

18x24

Media:

Charcoal

Date of Completion:

December 15, 2009

Concept:

This was the most recent figure drawing class I took. I spent a large amount of focus on the shoulders and up. I wanted to make her face look as realistic as possible. I spent a huge amount of focus on the shading and the way the light hit the models face. This piece was also done in about two hours.

Name of Art Piece:

Figure Drawing Sketch Two

Dimensions:

18x24

Media:

Charcoal

Date of Completion:

December 8, 2009

Concept:

This was the second nude model that I drew in my figure drawing class. In this I wanted to make sure that I included a background in the sketch. I spent a large amount of time working on the shading of where her body lies on the sheet. This piece was also done in two hours.

Name of Art Piece:

Figure Drawing Sketch One

Dimensions:

18x24

Media:

Charcoal

Date of Completion:

December 01, 2009

Concept:

This piece was done in a figure drawing class I enrolled in. This was the first sketch I had done with a nude model, and this was my third class using charcoal. I had not formally been enrolled in a art class, besides freshman and sophomore year art. I had spent a large amount of focus on the shading that was on the model. This piece was done in two hours.

Name of Art Piece:

Queen of Play

Dimensions:

32x24

Media:

Spay Paint and Playing Cards

Date of Completion:

September 30, 2009

Concept:

For this piece I wanted to experiment with different mediums. I first drew out the image of the girl and turned this sketch into my own personal stencils for the piece. Before creating this piece I had recently been to an exhibit of Shepard Fairey’s work, and was inspired by the idea of spray paint and stencils. I wanted to used cards as my background image to add another layer to the piece, and I felt as though the image of the girl was similar to that of the queens on the cards. I have always had an interest in masks and I wanted to try to see how detailed I could get with the decoration on the mask. I also wanted to only use a small color palette to help keep the idea of the playing cards consistent throughout the piece.