Junior Review

A photo from my Junior Review. I'll try to upload the photos that I took soon.

Bookplate Finals

Here is the final for the unicorn bookplate. I did another sketch inbetween the final and the last sketch.
This is the other bookplate I worked on (We had to do two). It's in the art deco style.

Sneak Peak

Stage Three: A refined sketch. Now I was actually looking at pictures of horses. It's still on tracing paper though so I can still make some changes for the final sketch if I want before I transfer it onto illustration board.
Stage Two: A more refined version of the very rough sketch but still no reference. You can see it still looks cartoon-y. An over-all better design though.
Stage One: a rough sketch, no reference just a basic idea kind of thing. This is for my new assignment which is a bookplate done in a specific artistic style which in this case is Art Nouveau.

Massive Update Part 2!

Some woodblock prints (I think I've posted the polar bear before...) and some more oil paintings. The top two is a master study I did. The very top is a poster I have of the original and the one below that is my copy.

Massive Update Part 1!

This is some drawings and mostly practice paintings from last semester. The classes were Painting 1 and on of the Illustration Tools. Both classes were focused on painting in oils which was fun to learn.

Children's Book Illustration

Here's my children's book illustration. Most of the things had to start with a given letter (in this case P). I don't know why the image quality is a little off. I think it has to do with the fact that I washed and dried my thumb drive for the second time...

Magazine Cover

Here's my magazine cover. It's pretty bright.

Promotion piece

Here's my self portrait promotion piece. The bottom one is the first version and the top is the final. I just made some minor adjustments.

Random Sketch Book Pages

Wine Label and Editorial piece

My editorial illustration for an op-ed piece about how soldiers with PTSD aren't receiving purple hearts and my wine label piece.

More Quilt-O-Rama

Here are some more photos of the inside of the quilt. I had to use two different fabrics for the backing because I didn't have enough of the yellow animal pattern. The second fabric is of pink and yellow schools of fish

Quilt-O-Rama

This is the quilt I made. I did all the stitching by hand except for once when I used the machine to sew the large back piece together. I started by collecting different fabrics. Most of them are vintage ones I got online, some of them my roommate gave me, and some of them I got as scrape fabric. Then I cut them all into 3 different sized squares. While I was in Germany over winter break I sewed all the pieces together like you can see in the first couple of pictures. When I got back home I bought the fabric I used for the backing, sewed it all together with the machine, and then sewed it together with the front piece along with the batting (the stuff in the middle). I added the horse from an old pillow case of mine. Last but not least I (finally) added the border. It fits on a full bed no problem as you can see in the second picture.

La La La I'm not doing my color charts

In Order: An old reduction print from my woodblock class featuring a polar bear, a recent still life in oil, and a drapery study for the class that I'm not doing my homework for right now.

Kathi Mouse

We had to make ourselves in to an animal. I choose a mouse. I don't really like how it came out in the end, the wash over the candies didn't really turn out to well.

Octupus's Garden and a random oil painting

The top painting is an illustration for the song "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles. The first photo is of it before I finished the gardening tools and added the pattern on the octopus. The other picture is of the first oil painting I've done in a couple of years. It's of a ceramic sculpture of grapes.

Willard Part 2

The last section of my Willard story. The print with the owl got a little messed up due to some masking fluid.

Willard Part 1

My story featuring Willard. He goes on an adventure looking for his luck. The writing isn't very good but the pictures were okay. I carved linoleum, printed them and then used watercolor over them.