Belmont Community Art Show

This past weekend I had a great time participating in the Belmont Community Art Show at Christ the King School. I really enjoyed meeting the other artists, learning about their career paths, and hearing the stories behind their wonderful artwork. I got a lot of feedback that will help me in both my creative process and my professionalism - I'm looking forward to future shows!

 My booth for the weekend.

I had some great visitors, including my friend Gloria :)

 

Wood-burned painting of Christ the King Church

Frogs and Toads

I've been illustrating all kinds of TN wildlife again, and along the way I've learned the differences between frogs and toads.  I have illustrated one of each:

American Toad

 watercolor

(for those interested.....)

Frogs:

• Need to live near water
• Have smooth, moist skin that makes them look “slimy”.
• Have a narrow body 
• Have higher, rounder, bulgier eyes
• Have longer hind legs 
• Belong to the family Ranidae
• Have many predators

Toads:

• Do not need to live near water to survive
• Have rough, dry, bumpy skin
• Have a wider body
• Have lower, football shaped eyes
• Have shorter, less powerful hind legs
• Belong to the family Bufonidae
• Do not have many predators.  Toad’s skin lets out a bitter taste and smell that burns the eyes and nostrils of its predators, much like a skunk does.
  
   

Illustrating in Illustrator

These past two weeks I have been playing around with Adobe Illustrator and a Bamboo drawing tablet. My project has been a Great Blue Heron, continuing my work illustrating different Tennessee wildlife.

Starting up the blog again

It's been a few years since I have updated this blog, but I'm excited to keep a better record of the art I have been making. Since graduating in the spring of 2013, I have been pursuing art as a career, painting and drawing on a daily basis.

One of my goals is to grow in the skills of scientific illustration. I created lots of detailed illustration of all kinds of birds and variety of TN wildlife. Here are some of the highlights:

Male and Female Cardinals

Juvenile Bald Eagle

Great Horned Owl

Song Sparrow

TN Plant life

Baby Math

Short graphic novel project for my illustration class. It's based on my sister Rachel's blog post which is here ----> http://sonatamathematique.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/baby-math/

Living off-campus

These are three paintings I made for mine and Phoebe's living room.
They are spray painted colors with black acrylic painted above. Inspired by Eads Bridge in STL and the inside of a piano organ.

Some old works recently photographed

16x20 pointillism painting











banana man watercolor/ink painting from Mary's trip to Cambodia summer 2008. She saw all kinds of amazing places and took wonderful photographs.







another watercolor/ink painting from Mary's trip. This is of Angkor Wat, 12th century ruins of a temple in Cambodia. The trees are growing out of the ruins, as shown in the photo on the right.








This is a decoration I made for the annual Spanish club Christmas party (2008). It's a "stained glass" window made from tissue paper duck-taped onto wax paper. It was about 8' tall.

Stop Motion

This was a flip book project for Communication Design 1, turned into a stop motion video.













Black tape wall art in my dorm room