Snowball

Finally it is the end of the semester! This was one of my final for my Illustration class--one of the last finals I had this semester. I have never had such a release of stress like I had at the end of this semester. It was hard but still I learned SO much. The assignment for this final was to create a comic style narrative. I chose one of my favorite poems by Shel Silverstein to illustrate:

"Snowball"

I made myself a snowball

as perfect as can be

I thought I'd keep it as a pet

and let it sleep with me

I made it some pajamas 

and a pillow for its head

then last night it ran away

but first it wet the bed

I painted this piece with acrylic on 140 weight hot press watercolor paper. It was a complete new experience for me, one because I'd never used hot press watercolor paper, never used acrylic on watercolor, and never used ink with paint. One of my instructors, Will Terry, is an amazing illustrator and he told us how he uses acrylic on hot press watercolor paper and when it warps he's able to roll the paper without disturbing the paint. I really wanted to experiment with this idea, and though I knew my illustration class was not the best place to experiment it was one of the last assignments I had so I did. Let me know what you guys think!

Illustration of Work

I was given the assignment to show how something is made or done. The first thought I had was a sandwich falling together--since working in a sandwich shack was my first summer job. There is no visible person in this piece and maybe that's to show how monotonous sandwich making (or any job for that matter) can get. It eventually can be done without a second thought. This piece was done in acrylic on illustration board.

Voodoo

This was the best Halloween costume ever. I sewed a mask to be a voodoo doll and I won the  'Scariest Costume Contest"/ Then after the holiday was over I decided I wanted to paint it. This, like the last few, is water color. What do you think? Creepy?

Pianist

I'm turning into one of "those" people. It's only mid November and I am so excited for the Christmas season. I cannot wait for it. Every drawing I do incorporates something Christmassy in it. This painting was based off the idea of work--that I've done. When I was younger (pretty much up until 2 years ago) I've had to play the piano or sing at our family Christmas parties. I love playing the piano and this painting is how I wish I felt performing for my family

Trouble

So I wanted to paint something but I had no idea what. I asked my boyfriend for 2 words: he gave me sock and then a lot of other words that weren't really fun to work with. The first thought I had was mobster. So here you are, a mobster interrogating the distraught sock layed out in front of him. This was done in water color and is one of the first I've done

Ice Cream Land!!! 2011

So really? Isn't this everyone's dream rather than  just a kids? True, this girl is super lucky and I know, we all wish we could be her