The Little Mermaid

Project 5 Progress

Panel 3 Progress

Panel 2 Progress

I believe this will be the final for my first panel...

Project 5_1

Starting Direction for Project 5

Christopher Alexander

"We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe."

"If you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?
Just a waste of space in your brain, to take the place of hate, or things all the same"

The Deluge at Norderney - Isak Dinesen

“He stood up, his huge and heavy figure looming over them in the large, half-dark room.”

TheLastTemplar-Raymond Khoury

"This is from....."

Science Textbook

"Blocked by DAM methylation, isoschizomer Sau3AI is not."
Which my biology major sister explained to me is a dna cutting enzyme...

The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd

"He thought of the chapel behind the chancel, where the mermaid chair sat on a carpeted dias."

Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk

"Sister Katherine stood over me all morning with a curling iron until my hair was this big butter creme frosting hairdo, this big off-the-face hairdo."

Project 4 Final

Project 4 Progress

In Class Collage

Cosmetic Girl Collage

I recently heard about a woman who injected her 8 year old daughter with botox for beauty pageant competitions (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/13/BAMG1JG1OD.DTL), inspiring this collage. A typical young girl covered in plastic surgeon lines and makeup, referencing botox needles to call attention to the increasing pressure to "cure" imperfections even for young girls.

Prison Bars Collage Continued

What imprisons him? The bars? The People? Is he a victim? Is he fraught with anger, grief, or anguish?

Cuffs Collage

The blog was down for a while then I took a bit of a break from my computer this weekend, so here goes the catch up work...

In this collage, all the images are related to police brutality combined within a symbol of authority and restraint... hand cuffs

Prison Collage 3 Continued....

In this collage the images are all related but taken out of their context they have different meanings. The man hunched over alone draws out a feeling of sympathy, the lights bring a representation of authority, and the mug shots a sense of fear and threat. All together in the prison cell, you're not sure if you should sympathize, feel safer, or be aware of the dangers within society.

Prison Collage Option 3

Prison Collage Option 2

Prison Collage

Inspired by my sister

On the Roof of Casa Mila

Pattern

No Child Left Behind

Eyeball

Project 3 Final Rendering

Final Project 3 drawing:

Squid and ink done in Illustrator

Bubbles watercolored then edited in Photoshop

Project 3 Final Progress

Illustrator line work for my interpretation

The Pen Tool is My New Best Friend

My final attempt at mastering the Shadow Chen technique.....

Last Reproduction...Wooooo.

The Original... Another section of the same drawing the previous flower was taken from.

And here is my progress so far.....

Piece 4 Final

Illustrator and Photoshop Combo