Some watercolor stain work...

Thanks to the lovely Rachel & Tanner for modeling. :)

New Concentration

It's kind of late for me to be changing my whole concentration, but about two weeks ago, Ms. Diaz and I decided that portraits would be easier for me to complete on time and would get me a higher score with the college board. Some samples:

Digital Manipulations

I've been working on some fun, relatively easy photo-editing stuff for the breadth section of my portfolio. They're kind of like easy points on the AP, I just can't use too many because I have to have variety. However, these came out pretty good and I think I'll have 3 or 4 digital pieces in the breadth section of my portfolio. I sadly don't have photoshop so I just did these in sai.

Tigers & Symmetry - Finished

My first concentration piece is all done - now, to whip out at least 9 more of these by May...

New Portraits

The first portrait is of my friend Bobbie, and it's a photomanipulation for my portfolio. The second is of Rachel and, while it isn't for my portfolio, I love it. She has the prettiest bone structure! Click on them to see the larger versions, which look a lot cooler because of the detail.

Markers on hotpress. Inspired by the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale.

Newsprint Nails

It doesn't count as an art piece, but...



Step 1: Paint your nails a pale shade, such as white or silver.
Step 2: Wait until they dry completely.
Step 3: Dip one nail in rubbing alcohol, and make sure to cover the whole nail. If you don't have rubbing alcohol, a high-alcohol substitute will work. I used vodka.
Step 4: Hold down a strip of newspaper on your nail for 30 seconds, then peel it off.
Step 5: Put on a coat of clear nail polish so it lasts.

It wasn't difficult at all. I read about this somewhere before, but I can't recall where. It was probably an article I came across or something.

A little morbid for my taste...

However, I like the way it came out.




More pieces for my AP.

Suchita

Portraits

Still Life

First Experiments with Photography

I recently was gifted a Nikon d40, a camera that I've been pining after for a while. I won't pretend to be a photographer, I won't pretend to know what I'm doing. I've been messing with the settings and attempting to find things to take pictures of. I've done some film stuff with my mom's old Minolta, but I'm working on finding the time to develop it (and learning how to develop film in general). Yup, I'm a total amateur at photography, I know it. I only learned what aperture and shutterspeed are today, in fact. But I've enjoyed it, and there's a few photographs in particular that I'm rather proud of, even if they pale in comparison to the work of more experienced artists. I did two portraits and a still life, and I'm going to upload them in just a minute. And then... I'll probably work on calculus. Integrals, fun stuff!

Organized Mess - Finished!

I added some unplanned acrylic paint with a touch of watercolors. I'm ecstatic with the way it came out, I think it's my favorite portfolio piece so far. It's kind of messy looking, but I like that.

Finished inking...

Outlined with black pen. Planning to paint soon - watercolor with a touch of acrylic, maybe?

Work in-Progress

New concept, new piece. Pencil on paper (soon to be watercolor). 18x24

Stage 1:


Stage 2:


Deer closeup:

First complete piece for my AP portfolio: Inside-Outside

Chartpak markers on hotpress.

Business Card Assignment

Part of a design career is business & advertising - you need to be able to get yourself out there. This is why my art teacher gave us a homework assignment that involved making our own business cards. I'm not actually a designer/illustrator in the career sense, nor am I planning to be one, but I felt that title would be most appropriate. Didn't take long. About 20 minutes in paint tool sai. Great program.

Song of Solomon

We're reading this book in English, and I don't like that class; it's really boring. Certain aspects of the book disturb me. I'm usually an avid reader, but this book really creeps me out. I'm not usually creeped out, either. I read this book called Choke about a sex addict and everyone in the book had some kind of problem. It was interesting, though. The Song of Solomon doesn't catch my attention, and it's weird, but not to the point of being interesting. Therefore, during my class, I will be illustrating the first page of each chapter for every day we spend reading it. This is the first.

There is a theme of flight. Some guy jumps off of a building and dies.

Suicide. Yay.