sydney harbor

I went to Australia in December of 2007 for two weeks with my roommate at the time. We had a great time there and took the ferry out of Circular Quay across the harbor to the zoo, to Darling Harbor, and again to Manly. This was our favorite view from the ferry boats.

When returned I started taking a monotype printmaking class. The first project was to cover 22 x 26 piece of plexiglass with a layer of ink and then use different objects to remove ink from the plexi. We then ran the plate through a printing press to transfer the image.

I made this print as a gift to her. The perspective is a off on the bridge, but I think it just adds to the character of the piece :)

color

this isn't finished.
I just love the colors.
I tend to gravitate towards highly saturated, bright, awesomeness.

I would say this represents that fairly well.

highschool art

I was so proud of this when I did it.
To look at it now makes me laugh.

We had to take ordinary objects, in this case glassware, and draw them in open space, then fill in the space around it.

I loved working on this one. I remember going into the art room during my open period at the end of the day to spend more time on it. ah highschool.



my first experience with pen and ink wash.. fell in love with the medium.



self-portrait, senior year. I know this was "printmaking" but after taking 3 printmaking studios in college, this was so not a good representation of how awesome printmaking can be.



I LOVED THESE. My frogs. I love love loved doing these.



my first pencil drawing in my first highschool art class.

eve

when I was attending community college (shoot me in the face), I painted this oil painting for a history class. we had to write a paper and do a project that correlated with the time period/subject matter we chose.

the project could be anything, as long as it was time intensive and showed effort.
so I painted Eve's face from the Sistine Chapel.

this is one of the only oil paintings I've ever done, and for good reason. I'm not patient enough. c'est la vie.

Dom's art show

My cousin Dom presented his final projects at the UO extension campus in Portland this past week. His exhibit is the one shown to the left. 

He created all of the forms with 3D modeling software and "printed" them with the use of a 3D "printer".

His concept was interesting and unique. I will try to post a video of him describing his work to some by-standers.

these prints really struck a chord with me...
see the artist's website HERE