Short and Long Term Best Works

 

"Swimming up the Column Waterfall"

 

Materials: Blue Painter's tape, sketchbook paper, markers

Dimensions: 1' 3" x 5'

 

  

 

"Abstract DNA"

Materials: Wood Popsicle Pieces, Hot Glue, and Acrylic Paints

Dimensions: 9 3/4' x 1'9 1/2"

  

 

 

  

"Small Treasures Found at the Beach's Pools"

Materials: Glass

Dimensions: 5' x 5'

"Creatures' Homes"

Materials: Cardboard, acrylic paints, ink, tape, glue, and spray paint

Dimensions: (Blue Figure) 3" x 6 1/2" x 3", (Red Figure) 4 3/4" x 5" x 3 1/2, (Yellow Figure) 10" x 7 1/2" x 3", 1'6" x 11 1/2", 1'3 1/2" x 1', 10" x 1'1"

"The Abandoned House on Lune Lake"

Materials: Pencil

Dimensions: 24" x 18"  

Drawing on Objects

"Woodland and its Woodland Creatures"

Drawing on Objects

Materials: Wood, Wood glue, nails, wood stains, and acrylic paint

Dimensions: 1'5" x 1'3" x 1', 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" x 2 1/4", 7" x 3 1/2" x 2", 7" x 4 1/2" x 2", 4 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 1 1/2", 7 1/2" x 6 3/4" x 3/4"

Artist Statement:

The project focused on our own interpretations and the imagination that we used to have as a child and how it still continues to be with us even as we get older.

When I was making the toy designs, I did not want them to represent any particular creature, instead, whatever comes to mind when I put the pieces together for the toys. I wanted to explore the unlimited imagination we have as humans, and how we are all able to think of something different when looking at something that can be interpreted. Even if we do have similar ideas, we all have different ways in perceiving the shapes, such as the colors and features.

While working on this project, it unlocked my inner child, or memories from when I used to a kid and would play with all of my toys. It brought back the times when I used to spend all day playing with my toys, having them all scattered across the floor, and continue expanding on the plot I had for the day and then the play set would expand along with it.

This whole project to me was about finding your inner child, going back and remembering how creative you were before you learn the truths about life and our world, the reality of living. A time when everything was considered your own world and what you think of it and anything at the time seems possible. 

Research/ Inspiration

Marisol Escobar

 

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/82062

Ben Bocquelet

 

https://conference.pictoplasma.com/2014/ben-bocquelet/

https://twitter.com/benbocquelet?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Rachel Beach

http://www.rachelbeach.com/long-standing/

Multiple Panel Drawing

 

"A Disturbance in the Quiet Night"

Multiple Panels

Materials: Wood, acrylic paints, and ink

Dimensions: 1 2" x 4", 5 2" x 2"

Artist Statement:

For my multiple panel project, I wanted to focus on illustration, my favorite and my prime focus in the art as of right now. Ever since I was a kid, I was always inspired by storytelling and cartoons, which made me a big fan of comics and cartoon tv shows. I also have always been interested in hearing stories told from different views. Everyone has their own perspectives on events, ideas, and beliefs, and I always like to hear both sides.

For this project, I wanted to illustrate a story that everyone could be apart of. In order to do that, I when onto my social media account and started with the set of the story, then allowing whoever wanted to participate to write out a continuation of the story. Besides the first panel, every other panel was from another person where I did the job of illustrating their part the best that I could. The final result from the storytellers was a lonely girl walking to home alone was spooked out by a monster who came out of the woods and frighten her, only to leave her in paralyzing fear.

I wanted to show in this project how people can impact a story, how they can change it, how there are different perspectives, and how when minds come together they are able to create new ideas. Although I set up the story, all the other panels after the first one were created by other people, and they were able to come together and form a flowing and functional story. Everyone has a story to tell, on about anything and anywhere, and they are always ready to share it. As an illustrator, it is important for me to illustrate the story that is told by others so I can show others their story and for what they have to say.

Research/Inspirations

Hellboy Comics

https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3004-007/Hellboy-Winter-Special-2018#prettyPhoto

Walt Disney Animation

 

https://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/getahorse

Grace Liu

 

   https://twitter.com/rawrgyle?lang=en

Transformation Drawing

 

"Broken"

 

"Water Pond"

 

"Cris-Cross Window" 

 

"Winter Wonderland"

 

"Veins"

 

"Bending"

Details Shots

Transformation Drawing Collection

Dimensions: 42" x 36"

Materials: Charcoal, ink, acrylic paints, newsprint paper

Artist Statement:

I was focused on changing the transformation drawing from verbal and mark responses. For the first drawing, I wanted to work with two contrasting materials, a soft texture contrasted with a hard texture. After that I responded to the markings made by the ink and painted in the areas between the lines, creating a shattered glass effect. I then went over it with the charcoal and worked around the organic shapes I made with acrylic paint, in response to the movement of the organic shapes. The second transformation reminded me of a pond, with windows looking into the depths of the water.

The second transformation was a response to the movement of the ink movement. Leaving a window open to the older design, I worked around the space and, like the ink lines, I worked with geometric and linear lines, moving around the window.

For the third transformation, I was inspired by the white blobs of acrylic paint that moves around the piece from the last transformation. I return to a more organic movement and created a spiraling pattern throughout the whole piece, then coming back over with acrylic paint of white and blues. My friend described the piece to be like of a winter wonderland, snow rounding through the air.

For the fourth transformation, my piece was a response from what my professor said about the last transformation, which was the word "veins." I sketched and cut out hands and arms and sprayed painted their shape on the piece. Afterward, I took the arms and painted the veins on them with ink and placed them on the piece for a final composition.

For the final transformation, I responded to what my classmates had to say had to be the next thing I needed to do for the piece, which was to cut it. I wanted to create movement once again in the piece, by creating flow from the top left corner, moving to the bottom, and rising again to the right top corner.

I was really inspired by movement for all my transformations. I wanted a feeling of energy moving through each piece, each design, and each stroke. While I worked on each one, I was very relaxed and felt at ease. Creating the strokes channel my energy into each stroke and took away all the stressful energy I was feeling during the semester. The transformation drawing was not only being transformed but so was the energy that was inside me whenever I worked on it.

Research/Inspirations

Vincent Van Gogh

 

https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0149V1962

Avatar the Last Airbender

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/ 

Jackson Pollock

 

   https://www.jackson-pollock.org/full-fathom-five.jsp