my final four…

i picked these for my final four because i really enjoyed learning about the sub-genre and making the pieces.

inner city streets are hard on kidssleeping

robo-cat

sleeping

our little secret

My work…(color!!!)

After spring break we started color. I had been looking forward to this all semester! I had just discovered pastels a few months ago and fell in love with them! it is amazing feeling the softness under your fingers as you rub two colors together to make a beautiful blind that is hard to tell that there are two colors.

Our first assignment in color was a genre of our choice. I picked Sailor art, because I had been miss the boat and i love tattoos. I spent a lot of time researching   this subject. every tattoo sailors use to get had special meaning behind them. I decided that i would do two layers of tattoos, the first would be the tattoos that I had earned, and the second one would be tattoos i hope someday i will be able to earn. the way that i did this was first i started out with a base drawing of my body. then on transparency paper i drew on the tattoos i had earn. over that i placed another piece of transparency paper with the tattoos i hope someday to earn. below is both tattoos i have earn and tattoos i wish to earn.

tattoo beauty

these are tattoos that I have earned.

Tattoo beauty

and to show you what the base looks like…

tattoo beauty (with no tattoos!)

we did a two week self portrait that seem to never end for me. I love working with big paper and playing around with layers of color on top of layers of color. it is my favorite thing. if you had not notice by now there is a defendant ocean them to all of my art this semester. I love the ocean so to me it only made since that i would fallow threw and make myself a mermaid. but i didnt want to make it a beautiful one. i choice to cross myself with an wolf eel for many reasons. i can be a mean person and wolf eels are pretty nasty fish.

mer-eel

mer-eel face

so most defiantly one of the worst self portraits of all time. I am not sure why i cant get my face right. i am starting to wonder if i even know what i look like…

but on an up note…

My hands look like hands! even though they are webbed!

mer-eel hands

Our last project for the semester was Xerox Lithography. I had never made prints before, and now because of this class i have to take yet another class because i feel in love with it!! it was so much fun not knowing what would happen or if it would even come out or not!!

a made a lot of copies of my face to see what would happen and i got amazment! or at lest i think so!

in your face!

ear

sleeping

badger

lost

we had to do something that was out of my comfort zone. though i am more then fine with nudity, i have problems when photographers say its art when they photograph girls nude that are not adults. so what i did was xerox my own breast (because they are small like a young girls, and that seems to be the main focus for these piece of art).

our little secret

My work…(black and white)

this semester has been rough on me like i said earlier, feelings of being not good enough has a way of making your art suck. but none the less i try to push threw.

the first project that we did was the graffiti. the week that we were assigned this assignment was the same week that i found out that my parents sold their fishing permit. i grew up on the boat and fished every summer of my life. i felt really betrayed by my parents, so i wanted to show that in my art.

catching my life

I had to go with out somethings fishing and had a lot of hard times, but it was a huge part of my life and i loved it, i wanted to show that anger in this piece.

like i said before steampunk really spoke to me. i fell in love with it. there was so much detail in it, which most of my art does not have, but i like the challenged. plus i love Victorian time period.

inner workings

inner workings close up

i have made some changes to this from the original. i darken the back ground and add some more highlights to myself on the left. I really enjoyed making all the gears even though it took forever! I put a layer of transparency paper over the gears because they look to shocking and blunt without something to soften them.

For the fallowing week we did a geek genre. we set up a still life and got to play around with value and tying organic and inorganic objects together.

robo-cat

robo-cat close up

Post Apocalyptic was a lot of fun. My original idea was completely different form where i ended up. but I am much happier with the finish product. at first there were no buildings in the back ground, but after critique and a resounding dislike for the piece i added them hoping it would help put a time reference to the piece.

tonight's dinner is...

tonight's dinner is... close up

tonight's dinner is... close up

my cartoon/comic week was a lot of fun, having Jamie Smith come in and talk about how editing is very important with line art. it help me a lot to cut down on the business that i was originally having. the subject is pretty basic. i remember thinking as a child how life was rough sometimes for me, but now as an adult i can tell that i was just crazy and i had an awesome childhood. just because sometimes i would not get what i want when i wanted or if i lost something there is no reason to cry over spilled milk, or in this case spilled  ice cream.

inner city streets are hard on kids

Inner city streets are hard on kids close up

inner city streets are hard on kids close up

kitsch is something that i am not crazy about. i understand it, but i dont like it. i kept my drawing a little more Noir instead of mixing the two. i can relate to the fatal female, because i think every women in one time or another finds themselves in that situation. I know how i am hot headed and have a tendency of taking matters in my own hands.   that is what this piece is about.

waiting

I started to play with paper treatments on this piece, the first one this year really. though at first i did not have the window shade the way i do know. i went back after the critique and added a man in the window and cover it with transparency paper to make it more ghost like.

waiting close up shade up

I am actually fairly happy with my work. though i wish that i had done more ink drawings. everything was in charcoal which was something new for me. I learn a lot about how to mix it but i still prefer pen and ink. I like the clean lines you can get, which is had to do with charcoal, not imposable just hard.

about a girl…

I have always loved to draw, many of my presents as a child were coloring pencils, coloring books, pens, and the basic art supplies for a child. I grew up amusing myself a lot by drawing. As I got older I became more and more interested in science and lost the desior to draw, paint and to ceart. Science became my main focus in my life even though my parents wanted me to procusue my artistic talent. I went threw a few rough years in college and a few rough relationships that came with it before i rediscovered art. it was so wonderful to beable to expresse myself and have something physical to show for it.

though i was stuck. I wanted to learn, but I didnt understand the technecs or have creatism. I had all the support I needed from my family and friends, but i ever had anyone tell me what was wrong or what i could do to make a piece better. Thats when I met my best friend and the most important person in the world to me, Josh. he has helped me grow as an artist and a person and I owe a lot to him.
Thank you Josh.

When i started taking drawing classes it was my lest favorite medium. but after exploring that there was more to drawing other than still lives I started to fall in love with it. some of my favorite drawings i have done where in my intermetaded class. here my inscrcuter let me discover myself as an artist. my final project for her class was a bit over whelming but she let me take on a task that was diffecult because she had faith in me.

This semster I had to over come a lot of osicals. being in an advance drawiang class with grade students was very intemadating for me. I closed up and shut off all of my artistic ideas and lost all fate in my skills i had as an artist.

Then I discovered steampunk. here was a genre seemed to be descigned for me! it was wonderful. the strange presision was hard for me, but the ideas behind the art was born for me. I felt like a found what i wanted to do and was not afraid of people in the class thinking i was a bad artist, it didnt matter.