Textbook Cover

Conceptual assignment to recreate Johannes Itten's book cover for The Art of Color. I used Adobe Illustrator to design it and I'm pretty psyched about how it turned out. Let me know what you think! :)

Nature

Nature. Color pencils (June 2012).

Hand drawing sketch of a peaceful landscape inspired by one of Bob Ross' paintings. For this assignment we had to create a drawing reminiscent of a famous artist and only use analogous colors (colors that are next to each other on the color wheel). I chose blues and greens to maintain a feeling of calm and serenity since the landscape is a relaxed nature scene. We also had to create the illusion of depth, so I hope I did that :)

Painted Blocks

Blocks. Acrylic paint (June 2012).

Inspired by Mondrian's paintings of squares in red, yellow and blue, I painted blocks using bright colors from the Fauvist movement.

Face Mask

Face Mask. Acrylic paint (June 2012).

This painting was for a Fundamentals of Color class assignment, where we had to create a painting inspired by the Fauvist movement. Fauvism was created in the early 1900s in France by Henri Matisse and was short lived but included artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Seurat.

They were named Les Fauves (meaning Wild Beasts) by a reporter of the time. Art from this movement used bright colors, mostly primary. They also used rough short brush strokes to give the work an animalistic feel.

Focus

In my Design Principle class, we had to create a graphic poster for an imaginary (or real) band. I chose imaginary ;p.

The name of my contemporary band was Focus, and this is what I came up with after some edits. Let me know what you think!

Acorn Charcoal

Still life charcoal drawing: Basket, Flower buds, flower, pine cone, bell pepper, feather and lemon quarter. I used white chalk to for highlights (brightest areas), and compressed charcoal for the deepest shadows.

Reflections

REFLECTIONS - GRAPHITE

This was a very enjoyable assignment at the BAC in Boston, but it was pretty difficult. All the still life is metallic and the assignment was to draw reflections. It took about 3 classes to complete on a 24" x 36" sketch pad. It took a long time to get the still life to look like silver and to show the reflections properly. The water carafe was the hardest part, but I am very happy with how it turned out in the end ;)