Kiss

I modeled this sketch after a drawing I saw of two men. The arm and hand of the woman in the background is very masculine and looks out of place. Though the shading isn't quite right I really do like it. I enjoy the roughness of the lines. The picture is not realistic but it doesn't seem like a cartoon either.

Give Peace a Chance

This snapshot is very powerful to me. I feel like it is kind of a tack off of the famous picture of John Lennon and his second wife Yoko Ono. I really like how the girl facing us is not straddling the man. It really gives this picture a more peaceful feeling rather than love or lust. Though both people are stark naked the scene is set up in a very tactful manner. the peace sign stands out because of its light contrast to the rest of the picture. I just think that a lot of thought went into the position of the man and woman as well as how the photographer decided to frame the shot.

Fam-Bam!

My grandma made shirts for the whole family when my twin cousins were born. This picture shows how goofy my and my cousin Adrianne are! I really love this picture and it is a very personal picture. My grandpa died in Feb. and my grandma died just last month. I love this picture because it has the whole family in it! It is fun to look back on old pictures like these and see how much everyone has grown up and changed over the years.

As the Sun Sets

I took this picture one night back in Redding California. There is this place called 'the wall,' it is a brick wall in the middle of a pasture. I think this is such a breathtaking picture because of the lack of colors in it. I didn't not digitally edit this picture at all. The one cloud in the top right corner seems out of place and I wish it wasn't in the photograph. Other than that I really like how the trees frame the setting sun. This was taken with a small point and shoot camera.

Posters

Text as Design

Collages

People of the Heart

This is my first painting ever. It is very simplistic. The paint I used was very old and it didn't come out the way I had hoped. I didn't know how I was going to show the separation between the overlapping body parts. It was kind of by fault that I realized I was just going to leave white space. I need to work on my proportions. Next time I am going to work on using different color values.

Ephemera

I really like the retro feeling of Ephemera products. I like how they aren't politically correct. They have pretty women saying non-pretty, non-feminine things. The way the wording is added to the picture is done very well. IT seems like it was always there. It doesn't feel out of place. The graphics are very simple but that is a good thing because it makes the words and the satire stand out.

Imagine

My best friend Elizabeth Vines painted this for my 19th birthday. She used oil paints. The picture looks much better in real life than it does on the computer. The only thing I notice that has fault is that the rims of his glasses aren't the same size. I really Like the background in this picture as well. It reminds me of something one might see on the cover of an actual Beatles record. Faces are very difficult for me so I am amazed by the likeness to the real John Lennon. The movement in his hair is very pleasing to the eye and makes the painting feel more real than if it were just painted solid black.

Figure Drawing

This is one of my first figure drawings. I have never been very good at drawing people. Where the legs come together is a problem area in this sketch. The curves and alignment aren't correct. The arms are too thin for the rest of the body as well. The shadowing is okay, but I should have given more attention to the light source and exactly where the shadows would fall along the woman's figure. The foot is the best part of this drawing by far. All in all I am proud of this artwork. It was just a rough sketch I did for fun to practice and hopefully get better at figure drawing one day.

This print really catches my attention. The message the artist is trying to portray speaks loudly. The lack of color in this peace gives it a unhappy feeling. The bold black against the tame background makes a dramatic point. This piece says that we need to break free of the commercial world around us. We are trapped in a world that revolves around money and material objects. This print is very simple but in its simplicity it speaks volumes. I really like that the cage is made out of a barcode. At first the viewer might think it is just a picture of a leopard breaking free form a cage but then as they realize that really it is a barcode and not just bars of a cage, the meaning of this picture becomes more relevant to the human race.

I really enjoy this photograph I took Last Spring. There is not much going on in the background of this picture which I actually feel is a good thing. Ali seems to stand out from the background because everything in this picture seems to made up of strait lines. His body is a nice contrast to the sharp lines in the background. I really take pride that this was not a posed picture. I was actually out taking pictures of my friend and then Ali came and joined us to go sit by the river. We were all sitting around just talking and I decided to snap some candid shots. The candid photos turned out being my favorite! I really appreciate the beauty of everyday life rather than a modified, posed scene.