Landscape Paintings

A few landscape paintings from the semester!

Mixed Media

HI!
Just got home for Christmas break a few days ago and I want to do is MAKE MORE ART. Heres some of my favorites from my mixed media class this past semester.





And here are 2 of my final pieces!

Halloween Book!

Happy Halloween yall! I photographed a bunch of my artist book projects today but unfortunately most of the pictures came out pretty awful, so I guess I'll try again tomorrow. This one came out alright though. Our assignment was to make a Halloween or Day of the Dead themed artist book. I was thinking about what most neighborhoods look like after the night is over and wanted to capture that in my book.

Fall is here!

Heres a little something I did at the end of the summer. Though summer was lovely, I can't wait to start the school year!

Providence

I recently did a few cityscapes as a favor for my sister. The Providence one came out the best. I am really starting to like gouache!!

NEVILLE!

My friend anita's precollege class had the assignment to do an illustration of a hero figure incorporating elements of art nouveau. It sounded like so much fun that a couple of my friends and I did the assignment as well. I've been geeking out about the new Harry Potter movie and how awesome Neville is, so I made some heavily Mucha-inspired Neville fanart. Pretty pleased with how it came out!

Sandimation!

Hi! I just finished a sound-based sand animation for my animation for illustrators class. I've had so much fun with this class and I really hope I'll have the opportunity to take another animation class next year. Here's the one I just finished.


I also think I've had a kind of breakthrough in painting recently. I had never worked in oils before this year and I'm finding myself liking them more and more. I'm excited to continue exploring them! Here's the two-week figure painting I completed today

Cut-out animation

Hello! This is my latest animation project! The background and characters are hand-made in gouache and colored pencil, which was a new medium to work with, but I had a lot of fun with it. Pardon my terrible singing!

Metamorphosis

So this is my second animation project. I love this class but it eats up all my time. This week's assignment was to create an animation that contains a metamorphosis and is able to loop seamlessly. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out...

Animation!

This is my first animation project! I think this class is going to be well worth the additional stress of taking an extra studio

Baby's first digital painting

So I started an acrylic painting the other day when we had a snow day... and it was looking pretty bad. I tried to work on it for the next few nights but it was a pin in the butt to keep having to put out all my paints and acrylics dry so fast yadda yadda. SO, then I decided to take a picture and fuss around with it a bit in photoshop. Well it looks a LOT better now and it was pretty fun to play with. I still don't really know the program that well and I'm sure there are better brushes to use, but thankfully there are an abundance of people around me at RISD who are about 200 times better at digital painting, so I shall seek help from my super talented peers next time!

BLARF

Hello! I just finished my second knitting project ever! Its a blanket/scarf that i have dubbed the "blarf." It shall be cozy.

Painting Final

I "finished" my painting final! There are still a few things I want to fix but I don't really want to make any major changes right before crit (in 40 minutes ha). I had fun with this one and I'm kind of getting excited about oils. 2 more crits and then I'm home for CHRISTMAS YAY! The picture here is kind of bad because I just glazed the left side so its still shiny.

Finalllzzzzz aaaahhhhh!

So Im in the middle of finals right now and I want to crawl into a hole and hide for a while. Heres a figure painting i did yesterday. I think I'm finally starting to understand oils better.

New Work! Finally!

Hello blog readers!

I figured I should post some of the art I've done so far this year. I'm in my first year as an illustration major and its GREAT! AND BUSY! I bought a tablet and I cant wait to figure out how to do great things with it, but unfortunately I haven't had the time to play around with it much yet.... Anyways... these pieces are from my favorite classes, illustration and painting!

Master copy of a Caravaggio painting in black and white

I am indecisive when it comes to getting dressed. This was for my illustration assignment which was to write down everything we did for a whole day and then pick a part to do a project on. My approach was too conventional, so i redid it.... which resulted in......

A sweater monster?!?

This is a shadowbox I made for my illustration class. We were supposed to pick an element of the book Frankenstein and do something based on it. Yup. I'm going to try making some work in my "free time" (ha. ha. ha.) once i manage to get my homework under control. Stay tuned.

Painting is finished!

I finished the painting of the water tower and now I'm back at RISD! Yayay! More work will inevitably be posted soon!

ALL DAY ERR DAY

Hello! Summer is almost over.... I am finishing up my job at the country club this week and my Holden friends have left me and I am beyond excited to go back to RISD and see my friends and take all illustration classes all day err day! YAY! So at the moment I'm in the middle of like 4/5 projects and I have ideas in my head and I want to do them all at once but I'm easily distracted by things like popsicles and the internet... oops. So I figured I could at least post the projects I'm working on right now...

Soo... here I'm just experimenting with lighting and atmospheric color and perspective... Yeah, these are all things that i don't have a very good grip on right now, so its a bit frustrating... Anyways I'm probably like a third of the way done with it and I still haven't decided how to handle the sidewalks and the street.

This one is for my brother's Boy Scout Eagle Award project. I'm painting a picture of the water tower and train depot that used to be on the Rutland rail trail for a sign that'll be put up. I'm painting with acrylics on an aluminum sign ( I don't even know if thats okay...) which will be covered with a piece of glass and mounted on wood. Painting on metal is WEIRD. The paint isn't absorbed into the surface which is very strange. I guess this is kind of an underpainting, which is something I haven't done for a while... I've just gone straight for the painting, but its kind of nice to be able to see where everything goes without spending forever messing around with the colors on each individual part of the painting. I'm thinking a very purple/orange contrast-y color scheme for this one. I think the sky is mostly done, but its overall look will drastically change once the contrast is pumped up.

I'm a festival, I'm a parade

Greetings! Its summer and its strange. Heres some of the little art I've done recently:

I am trying to work on not getting hung up too much on details and just trying to create overall images just by blocking in color that conveys an atmosphere rather than individualized objects. I started this painting with a color scheme in mind rather than an actual scene that I wanted to paint. I did this painting after watching Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro and I was especially inspired by the scenes where everyone is frantically searching for Mei. The shots where the late afternoon/ night sky is in the background are amazing.

Just playing around with my Prismacolor markers in my sketchbook. The thing that bothers me about markers is that I don't have total control over the colors. They are made by the company, not me, and I'm trying to figure out how to layer colors to create the colors I am looking for

Lastly, my sister went to a Lady Gaga concert last night (SO JEALOUS) and I insisted that she go in costume. I tried to recreate her hat from the telephone music video using bristol board, hot glue, acrylics, and an old headband. There are much better pictures of it on my sister, but they're on her camera, so I'll upload them later. I guess Virgin Mobile was taking pictures of the people with the best costumes, so they took one of her. SUCCESS!

3D review

I just had my final review for 3d! As frustrating as that class was, I really think I'm going to miss it. There was a short period of time this winter when I was contemplating going into apparel, but then I quickly realized how unfashionable I am and how impatient I am when it comes to measuring things. But making clothes is FUN and Industrial design is COOL! Aaaaaaggghhh! Oh well. None of that in illustration next year, but I'm still wicked excited. So.... here are some of my projects from this semester..

My wire shoe! The assignment was to replicate any shoe at 2 1/2 scale. I stabbed myself many times with wire and made my fingers bleed. OOPS!

My makeup remover pad dress! The assignment was to make something, either sculptural or functional, out of 100, 500, or 1000 of something. This here is 500 makeup remover pads. I was just looking for an excuse to make a dress, so I loved this assignment, despite the hot glue burns I got all over my fingers! Thank you, Scott Brower for the photos!

And lastly, my chair. The assignment was to make a chair out of 1x2 pieces of pine. This was probably the most challenging assignment I've ever had. Measurements? Wood? Joints? Measurements????? After two weeks of hard work and a trip to health services for chiseling my finger, heres what I got.

FINALLLZZZZ

I've gone to bed around 6 am for the past two nights and will probably be doing the same tonight... oh yes, its finals week. I had my last 2d class today. Goodbye, Martie! Oh how I will miss your kindergarden assignments and critiques about how "cute" our pieces are.... I did like my final however. We had to write a haiku and illustrate it in three or more panels. Yes, the assignment is pretty dumb, but I like how mine came out. My haiku was about rain and I wanted the viewer to be reminded of those gloomy, rainy days where you just never want to get out of bed. I used a muted, dark color pallet and lots of vertical marks to give the illusion of rain. This is how it came out: