Recent Pieces

I have a passion for watercolor and floral designs. Below are sketches and watercolor test paper that I did for a possible textile design piece. This is a watercolor and pen/ink design. Daisies, a pink rose, gardenias, a chrysanthemum, snapdragons, a marigold, and an orange blossom are pictured. All of these flowers have been a part of and impacted my life in a memorable manner.

Inspiration Boards

(Top) © 2013 Victor Octaviano © 2010 Liberty London © 2013 E. Laitinen (Right) © 2013 Rifle Paper Co. © 2013 Helen Dardik (Center) © 2013 Rifle Paper Co.

A collection of sewing practice pieces created during my interior design courses. The top left piece pictures an original pillow design. The right and bottom image pictures a pillowcase design. There fabric inspired my watercolor print.

 My Secret Garden

I started the following series in Drawing 1 during the Spring 2013 term, and I completed the series in September 2013.  The model for this design is Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Head of an Angel c.1655. The original assignment was to create a series of three pieces with the same subject in different ways. I decided to create an outline, a negative sketch, and a shaded piece with a range of values. As time progressed, I studied different rules of portraits. During my research I came across geometric and watercolor portraits that inspired me to continue the series. I entitled the series The Phases of Bernini's Angel. The pieces are made from pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor. They demonstrate the design process, negative and positive formats, shading and values, and line variation. My Humanities and Art History courses in college inspired me to document the stages of a sculpture from the sculptor's beginning stages, to a well crafted and realistic piece, the fractionization of the piece due to time, and when the civilization is washed away after geological changes and natural disasters.

Link to Bernini's Head of an Angel:

http://library.artstor.org.db02.linccweb.org/library/secure/ViewImages?id=8D1Efjk2MyAoJiYuFTx5T3EtU3Yu&userId=gDBGdTso&zoomparams=

Inspiration Board

(Top Left) © 2013 Instructables (Top Right) © 2011 Josh Bryan  

(Bottom Left) © 2013 Allison Kunath (Bottom Right) © Justin K. Elder

The followng piece is a master copy of Van Gogh's Irises. I divided the original print of the piece, used vine charcoal to arrange the composition on the canvas board, and then used oil paints to create the painting.

Fall 2013

The following piece is a landscape oil painting completed in Painting 1. I photographed the reference picture in a park with "twin" lakes.

"Twin #2" - Fall 2013

Works Cited

Bryan, Josh. Helen-Bonham Carter. Digital image. Flickr. N.p., 7 Mar. 2011. Web. Sept. 2013. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshyouare/5825961913/in/set-72157626947038334>.

Dardik, Helen. Flora Pattern. Digital image. Orange You Lucky. Blogspot, n.d. Web. 1 Sept. 2013. <http://orangeyoulucky.blogspot.com/search?q=helen+dardik+floral+pattern>.

Elder, Justin K. Geometric Cow. Digital image. Justin. Kane. Elder. N.p., 2013. Web. Aug. 2013. <http://justinkaneelder.com/art/>.

Geomertric Portrait. Digital image. Instructables. N.p., n.d. Web. Sept. 2013. <http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-a-geometric-portrait-at-Techshop/?ALLSTEPS>.

Kunath, Allison. Geometric Portrait/ Mustafa. Digital image. Pigment + Surface. Etsy, 27 Feb. 2013. Web. Aug. 2013. <http://www.etsy.com/shop/PigmentPlusSurface>.

Laitinen, Anna E. Apple Blossom Meadow. Digital image. Anna Emilia. N.p., 2013. Web. Sept. 2013. <http://www.annaemilia.com/Flora.html>.

Merrick, Amy, Anna Bond, and Alpha Smoot. In Bloom. Digital image. Rifle Paper Co. N.p., 2013. Web. Oct. 2013. <http://riflepaperco.com/item.php?item_id=57&n=1>.

Pink Rose. 2013. Photograph. Tattoo Tatuagem. By Victor Octaviano. 2013. Web. Sept. 2013. <http://www.tattootatuagem.com.br/noticias/8341/victor-octaviano/>.

Small Susanna F Tana Lawn. 2010. Photograph. Liberty Art Fabrics, London. Liberty London. 2010. Web. 29 Sept. 2013. <http://www.liberty.co.uk/fcp/product/Liberty/Small-Susanna-F-Tana-Lawn-Liberty-Art-Fabrics/34646>.

Wildflower Wrapping Sheets. Digital image. Rifle Paper Co. N.p., 2012. Web. Sept. 2013. <http://riflepaperco.com/item/Wildflower_Wrapping_Sheets/294/c55>.