"Pairs of Pears"
Oil paint on gesso paper
One part of this assignment was to mix two versions of black paint and experiment with different techniques. The second part was to consider how the tones and shades of the pear can affect the emotional connotations of the piece, along with the technicality of how it can be painted.
"Something Important to your everyday life"
Oil Paint on canvas
This project was to practice gradients in a monochromatic scale with an object that emits light or has light shining on it. This painting received the first place award at the Mira Costa Juried Art show 2018.
"Self portrait in the style of another artist"
Oil Paint on canvas
This painting was part of a two part prompt; choose an artist opposite your "style" and incorporate and animal. I chose the artist Alex Katz because he is the opposite of my photorealistic tendencies and I added a silhouette of a curvy cat inspired by the curviness of the large black hat.
Oil Painting II (Fall 2019)
"Red Velvet"
Oil Paint on paper
This painting is of a red leather jacket and the bottom of a velvet coat displayed in class for our one day painting exercise.
"How Times Have Changed"
Oil Paint on a painting reprint
This assignment was to paint over a thrift store painting with the intent to change the narrative. My initial idea was to add a mirror behind her (seen in the first image) but without her reflection, alluding to her being a vampire. I then decided to make a more drastic change and remove the lower portion of her dress.
I am not an artist who see's lingerie as inherently sexual and my intention of this was to show the progression of not only women's fashion, but women becoming more accepting of their bodies and their sexuality. Lingerie can be for someone else, or for herself.
I decided to paint her hips large and round as an ironic homage to Elizabethan dresses that were designed to give women that extreme shape. Those dimensions are flattering as a design but can be unrealistic in reality.
Anthropology 101
"Distant Relatives"
White and black charcoal on black charcoal paper
The comparison of a human, chimpanzee, and orangutan skull for an Anthropology extra credit assignment.