Emotion

My goals and intentions for this artwork were to get the most random colors to look good together.  I accomplished this by throwing colors together, and figuring out how to blend them.  My painting is about the jagged shapes, because I feel like they are great attention-getters, and they're interesting to look at.  My most difficult challenge to meet was blending opposite colors together.  I accomplished it by blending using different colors.  I feel like my painting really works down on the lips and in the hair, where I blended the colors best.  I learned to put any colors together and work with them in odd ways.  I could say that Wolf Kahn's paintings helped me with this, as I painted realistically but extremely distorted the color.  I learned from watching Rawlison that colors really don't matter, it's just the shape.  If I had a do-over, my colors would all be completely different.  I feel the best about the lips, they have the best color combinations, I feel.  This is something new I've never tried before, I'd love to do it again.

JPEG Challenge - Leftovers

 Leftover bits and pieces from a costume

 Leftover chip crumbs

 What's left of the soda

 Fragments of pecan pie

The table without the food

Mary Cassat - Mentor

JPEG challenge 4

 I spend lots of time in my room, just doing as I please.

 I love the outdoors, especially underneath trees or inside bush forts that I made.

In the classroom is where I am during the day.

I don't have any more pictures...

Paper Sculpture

This is a drawing of my paper sculpture.  My goal in this painting were to capture the lights and darks in the actual sculpture as close to exactly as possible.  I accomplished this by drawing from life as much as I possibly could.  My painting is about the light.  My most difficult challenge I had to accomplish was when my sculpture was squashed by someone unknown.  I fixed this by drawing from a photograph.  My painting really works where the light is shining on the paper spiral.  I learned while painting this that the light is very important and must be captured in all its essence.  I learned from Lien that even the most simple shapes work perfectly to make an interesting painting.  This was when we were building our sculpture.  I'd probably do the same thing if I did this over.  I'm very proud of my lighting.

Family

 Family is weird, but you love them anyway.

This photo depicts my sister, Grace.

 Family is different.

This photo is me and my dog, Bo.  I couldn't get my other dogs to pose for me.

 Family is friends, near and far.

This is a picture of me having a Skype chat with one of my friends, Angelica, from Texas.

 Family are the ones like you and who accept you.

These are my furry friends from Otakon, and anime convention.  They share the costume making talent and fascination with me.  (Not everyone made their costume themselves, but all are a one of a kind handmade work of art.)

Family is a fragile gift from God that should be treasured.

Carving Out the Light

My goals in this work were to successfully create a realistic representation of pumpkins, and use as little light as possible.  I accomplished this with a dark charcoal and drawing from life.  My painting is about how the light hits it.  The hardest challenge I faced while drawing this was getting every little shadow in and the exact detail of the depression lines in the pumpkins.  I accomplished this by placing light right next to a line of darkness.  I have a moment of light in the center.  I have learned that dark charcoals are very good for shading.  While I was watching Lien, I picked up a little bit of her shading techniques.  If I did it over, I'd try to get the proportions better.  I'm very proud of my shadows.

Special Places

Here are a couple places I wish I could call my own.  I spent/spend a lot of time in these places.

 

 Longwood Gardens

This may just be the bathroom area, but it makes for an excellent view.  The artistic genius in this place is unbelievable.

One of the ponds on campus

I have always loved ponds.  They are beautiful, and make an excellent place for life to grow, such as the goslings in this picture.

 Calvert Cliffs National Park

This is a picture of the marsh area.  I love the trees, even though they all happen to be dead.  They interest me.  Also, this whole marsh was made by beavers.

The Tree of Life, Animal Kingdom, Disney World

 Beautiful is all I can say about this.  The tree may be fake, but it's amazing nonetheless.

Keep Me Out of the Darkness

This is my charcoal painting.  There are two shells, one being larger and the other smaller.  They could be described as a family, such as a younger and an older sibling, or a mother and a child.  The "mother" shell is keeping the "baby" shell out of the darkness of her past, as she doesn't want her child to become like she was.  The child has a small shadow, and she could be forgiven of her mistakes, and the mother doesn't want her shadow to grow any bigger, so she is keeping her out of the darkness, hence my title.

I added in a light and dark merge.  I may not have a full value range for the dark, but it is enough to convey emotion.  I was going for a somewhat depressing mood.  Altogether, I'd give myself a 90-95%, as I have a realistic representation of shells, I have a nice range of values, my objects are quite cropped, and I have a zoomed in view, and I still have unoccupied space, as I didn't want to take up very much space, yet take up just enough.

Self-Portrait Photos

Hello, everyone.  I have a few photos I'd like to share of myself for my assignment.  I have five of them.  They probably need work, but I tried.

 

I call this one "Average Teen."  Always on the computer, lounging around, doing nothing.

This one is decent, but it's a bit blurry.

 

This one is titled "Fluff-feet."  I quite enjoy making fursuit costumes, and these are the feet from one of the costumes I made and have worn around Baltimore.  Fursuit costumes make people happy, and that makes me happy.

This one doesn't really have a title, but if I had to give it one, I'd call it "Graphic."  This is my Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch tablet which I draw with for the computer.  I keep it in a special place in my room so it will never get hurt.  I've had it for almost three years now, and I plan on keeping it for a couple more.

 This picture needs some serious adjusting, but I'll update it eventually.  It's my running shoes.  I keep them wherever I have easy access to them.  This one doesn't quite have a title yet.

This one is my favorite.  I call it "Color the World."  I love colors, and I love coloring, so this drawing is what I wish I could do to the sky every day - fill it with rainbows and make everyone happy.  Plus, this is what most girls who are just learning to draw always will draw, and I'm a child inside.

Alright!  That's all for now.  I'm going to try and update this blog weekly, and get as much as I can on here.  If I don't update with a drawing, that means I didn't draw anything interesting that week, and I'll just upload some notebook doodles.

Over and out!

My First Post, Sketchbook Cover!

Hello everyone, this is a blog for my art.  All kinds of art will be posted here.  Collages, sketchbook doodles, oil/watercolor paintings, and charcoal drawings, just to name a few!  I may make a separate blog for my crafts such as costumes.  Anyway, here is the cover for my newest sketchbook.  If I had to describe it in one word, I'd say "Happiness."

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