Tattoo Design

A quick draw up of a Celtic Sisterhood I did for my mother.

Don’t know if it needs more work though…

Shoe Design

For my Color Theory course, we had to research an artist of choice (mine being of Georgia O’Keeffe) and paint on a pair of shoes in the techniques that they used.  I picked her mainly for the fact of that she mimics my type of style – painterly and elegant. Lines flow gracefully from one to the next with vivid colors and fluid gradients. Her work was magnificent and I wanted to show that in a shoe design form. I believe I achieved this concept well, while incorporating my own take on her infamous style.

Shocking banned advertising material

Banned 2011 Material
After reading this article, its quite astonishing to find how much mundane stuff is actually forbidden and frowned upon in today’s advertising world. Details in advertising that seem quite minute to the normal viewer are investigated into so much that it is banned if it, in the slightest reason…ever, affects an individual to ANY extent.  Appears that designers and public relations employees alike are going to have to second guess their ideas for marketing certain material.

Some illustrations of mine

Wolf Drawing done in black and white charcoal

Pencil one point perspective drawing of photograph

Acrylic painting of Hawaiian coastline from original photograph

Practice of Color Theory

Complementary Collage

One of our first projects was to make a collage with various media using split complementary colors. I chose purple, orange and green. My theme was to show the translation of music from the vibrancy, passion and life of the city into the calm, simplistic nature of the suburbs and rural areas. The achromatic area in the middle of the piece is to convey the music’s ability to silently create its own new identity as it transform into another area of the world. I popped the city with stick on diamonds to mimic the twilight of the sky, with cutouts of people on the bottom to add life to the piece.

Bezold Effect

 

Our most recent project was to create a piece demonstrating the Bezold Effect. I felt I conveyed this concept fairly well. I chose the rectangle design to mimic the vibrating effect the Bezold effect can have on one’s eyes, creating constant movement and interest. The colors were planned out as well, of course. I wanted to start with a saturated blue color and then translate to a muted, toned down orange to see its effects on the colors in the painting. I found that the colors stood out greatly, except for green, with the blue, while they were drawn back with the green standing out in the orange section. A color’s reaction to a change of another hue is quite fascinating to experiment with.

 

Dali's Sleep rendered into a mosaic

For this project in my Color Theory course, we had to transform a notable piece of work into mosaic form. I chose Salvador Dali’s Sleep. Sleep is, in original form, very fluid, calm and composed of various smooth gradients. Like a dream, it shows the calmness and fantasy nature of it. I felt this would be an excellent piece to show in mosaic form, almost like translating it to a nightmare standpoint with a madness of torn pieces of painted paper. I mixed complementary colors together to get the neutral colors of the piece, while mixing cools and achromatic colors for the other parts.