Snow

I wanted to create a scene where a little boy orphan is building a snowman while his younger brother is inside sick. He is building the snow man to cheer his brother up and to keep his mind busy. It is almost christmas and they have yet to be adopted. He is starting to lose hope but maybe a Christmas miracle will happen if he just keeps believing. 

Explore

When I think of the word explore I picture the dentist searching your teeth for cavities. Its like they are going a journey to find pearls. Well at least they hope there are good teeth but if there wasn't any small or large issues the dentist would not be needed. I thought it would be more interesting if the view was from the inside out. 

Theme and Variation Thumbnails

I have always loved jewelry, the older vintage jewelry at least. There is just something magical about it. Each piece tells a story and brings back memories of different times. The purpose of doing jewelry is to tell its story. 

Theme and Variation

For my theme and variation I wan to focus on jewelry. Mostly old, classic jewelry. The kind that grandparents wear. I will heavily focus on rings, watches, earrings and necklaces. The main idea is that the jewelry tells a story. The story behind it is going to be how you can tell where someone has been and how they are based off the jewelry that they wear. I want to focus on he more personal things such as things that tend to be passed down in families like a grandfathers pocket watch, grandmothers earrings or broach.

Stretch

The story behind this piece is that it can be a real struggle sometimes to trust someone enough to give them your heart and sometimes you have to stretch yourself to take the risk of getting hurt. I picture someone with a dead bolt look over their heart where it needs a key to unlock so it can be given away by choice. In this case the figure is struggling to unlock her heart and freely give it away to someone that will either break it or keep it safe but reality is that she has to bite the bullet and fight the battle because without risk there is nothing gained good or bad.  

Oil of Emma

I love using oil because of the thick application it can give and since it takes awhile to fully dry it gives me a few days to decide to easily change or keep something. I stuck to a tetrad of yellow orange, red, violet and blue green. i really wanted to focus in on the natural elegance that Emma always seems to portray. 

Whiskers

When I think about whiskers I picture magnificent mustaches of various assortments as well as a kitten named whiskers and british explores. So I combined a cuddly kitten with a handle bar mustache and an explorer attire. 

Zoom

Tree

When I imagine trees I think of families and where they came from. 

Amber Shellac

I love the effect this created and how the underdrawing shows through. 

Butterfly Sketch

I want to show my beginning stages before I move into paint. I personally like the Sketch the best so far.

Charcoal Subtractive Stage

I like the silky look subtractive process creates. It adds a delicate glow to my subject. the main idea is to portray Emma as how I see her as well as how she actually is.

Final Stages

beginning stages

I am also going digital with this sketch as well as the other linear sketch. I am trying to keep this one more basic so that one is more detailed while this is more general, kind of loose. 

Linear

I tried a different style with the same pose. I decided that in order to build upon a surface to create values and dimensions I would need to be as basic as possible. My goal was to keep it simple but have just enough details. 

Celebrity Value Composition

These are the beginning stages of a value composition to show depth and variation in facial structures. 

I am really trying to focus on a more smooth transition from one shade to the next to add dimensions.

Celebrity Linear

I am using Emma Stone as a celebrity portrait. I did research on who she is, what roles she has played. I relied on multiple sources to create a fast linear sketch that would show basic humanistic features such as the general necessities in composing a portrait. 

Walnut studys

The top half is a one sitting additive while the bottom is a one sitting subtractive. I started out by trying to come up with an original lay out. The top sketch was based on high contrast and refined details while the subtractive below was focused more towards a strong density of dark and light. 

Shy

Haunt

Sky

Water

When I think about water, I think about rain. When I think about rain I think about my Aunts funeral and how cold and rainy it was out on an already gloomy day. 

Pen and Ink Slippers

Mirror

Shapes within shapes

I worked in with bringing out the values. 

Form and Balance Edit

I worked back into the piece by creating new values to add balance to the form.

Edited Emphasis

I went back into the original piece and worked with really bringing out the idea of pushing something.

Emphasis

My point was emphasize one object to show that even when time may seem like total chaos, life goes on. 

Watercolor and Ink

I worked back into the original piece to bring out certain aspects. 

Edited

I decided to go back into my painting and create abstract sections. 

Identical: colored

Adjusted principles and elements

Book

Edited Crooked

In order to show the progression of building character and personality I created a heavily concentrated area to represent finished areas of a person while the higher up it goes the more broken up and incomplete the person becomes. 

Crooked

Everyone takes in words that they hear through out the day regardless of who the words are directed to and it changes them. Words that stand out the most can be ugly words filled with hate but powerful pleasant words can leave just as strong of an impression. So in essence, a person is formed by the environment around them. Some people may become crooked or askew in the process of finding themselves. 

Watercolors

To me it looks like a wizard but I purposely made this open to interpretation. I want it to mean something different to each viewer.  I started by using water color paper then drew with my eyes closed. It came out with interesting results.  I darkened lines that spoke out to me, used a dark color selection and my wizard was born. It was a fun practice that I am applying to ore of my art. 

Burst Colored

To me bursting bubbles is not always a bad thing. Sometimes a bubble needs to be burst to reach a new level. My art showing a ballerina in a bubble expresses my opinion on bursting bubbles. She needs to reach to better although her bubble or current position may be comfortable, she should still strive to be better which requires bursting the bubble. 

Burst

Oil Principles and Elements

The Principle is contrast and the element is space. I used a knifing technique to apply the oil to the watercolor paper than did a wash of watercolors. 

Abstract Principles and Elements

The principle is emphasis and the element is form. The ink clearly showing the emphasis made with bold strokes and splatter. The added quash helps to create the form as well as make a strong statement. I    put a great deal of emotion and movement into this piece to make it come alive. 

Imagination

When my grandmother first passed away I would bring my sketchbook to her grave and tell her all about the new art I was doing. Sometimes I imagine her standing up in heaven wearing her lace collar blouse with her thick hair curled with a message that was different every visit. It really helped me cop with her passing. 

Enlarged Principles and Elements

This principle is balance and the element is form. I often find that with form comes balance. They have a tendency to go hand in hand. To show the form I used balance of color variation from warm to cool and cool to warm. 

Acrylic Cropped Principles and Elements

The principle is contrast while the element is form. Every form has contrast. It can be light to dark or size. I used the fletcher color wheel to successfully create a strong contract between the colors as well as the forms. Once the contract was the way I wanted it then the forms came into view. 

Cropped and Colored Principles

This was originally two separate works of art that I had combined. The left was form and pattern while the right was form and unity. Pattern and unity are able to fit together quite efficiently. Pattern shows consistency and unity shows relativity. I used watercolors to create a continuous flow in unity and pattern but with more precision. 

identical

The greek gods believed that a person was composed of 2 heads, 4 legs, and 4 arms. They were then split and became soul mates, each person being half of the same person. Making them partially identical and opposite at the same time.

Colored Element principles

I enjoy trying new things and just experimenting to try new things and get a feel for it. 

Grande

Sometimes I wish I could buy a coffee this large on slow mornings

Tall

Element of Principles retry

Element Principles

pencil studies