Week 5

 Hawk - For Jackie

This image was created with sharpie marker and charcoal on charcoal paper, and is sized 10 inches by 8 inches.  It currently sits on my desktop.

Week 4

So there it is, my first project hanging up nicely on the only hook to be found in my dorm room.

The piece is sharpie marker rendered onto a sheet of 10x8 inch parchment paper, of a pair of seahorses and coral drawn in my own twist on tribal design based off of a photograph taken by myself in August, 2010.  The piece was first sketched in pencil before using stippling and blending to create the effects of the piece in sharpie marker, which in my opinion has bolder colors, blends nicer, and is overall preferred to the more expensive prismacolor markers.  This particular piece focuses on an asymmetrical balance and seeks to use the natural texture of the parchment paper as the negative space, and the color palette is limited to cool colors in the teal, bule, and violet range.  As far as subject, this is the first of my tribal images that did not focus on mammalian or aviary creatures, and I am overall satisfied with the design.

Week 3- Portfolio Images

So I like to overdo some things... I very well know that the assignment is only to upload 10 images of works that we have, but I couldn't really decide between a few of them, and so I put up 12 instead.


I have for the past several years worked for the most part with drawings, but I felt like this was a good opportunity to put up a mixture of pieces...and also to bring out some of the photographs that I never have the chance to show, most of which I only recently took over the past three months of summer.


So I have this nice little mix of images...6 of which are color digital images, and two which were black and white images where I had to develop the film and then print onto photo paper by myself.  The remaining images are all drawings, three of which are watercolor and two of those using my own personal twist on the tribal designs that I stumbled into creating in my junior year of High School.  The last image is a multimedia piece, where an object study in pencil is overlaying the backdrop of distressed sudoku pages, watercolor and pen.

2010.  Digital Photograph

  2009.  Digital Photograph.

By the Rock and Lake.  2010.  Digital Photograph

Ruby Gaze.  2010. Digital Photograph

Upwards.  2009. Black and White Photograph

Squirrel.  2010.  Watercolor

The House.  2010.  Watercolor and Pen

Shell Sudoku.  2010. Mixed Media

Leaf Cascade.  2009.  Black and White Photography

Verdant Curtain. 2009.  Digital Photograph

Clipped and Caged.  2010. Digital Photograph

Lemur, 2010.  Watercolor

Week 2- Portfolio Spread

Well, the above is just a brief overview of a few of my portfolio pieces, though I do have many more pieces that are not shown just for the sake of floorspace not being available.

The pieces that I have vary in storage from medium to medium, as well as for the size.  I have several pieces that are metal jewelry (not shown) that are each packaged in separate boxes for their protection from scratches and the like.  I have an extensive collective of photographs takes over the past three years, which I have taken the time to commit to several photo albums as well as photo boxes that I have sorted into categories.  Additionally, I have quite a few works that are varied in mediums from oil pastel to watercolor and so on, which for the vast part are placed into matte board frames for the time being, until such a time that I choose to frame them or the like.  Only a few of the works are not in their matte frames, and those which aren't have either matte board for the backings for the support and then are tucked into a inside pocket of my portfolio, or are placed inside a smaller paper portfolio that is carried inside of my sturdier one, with newsprint paper between the pieces.  The matte framed pieces are securely tucked away inside the portfolio as well.