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!