I'm in the third senior show coming up and these are the pieces that I'm going to put in it (though i have two 3D pieces also but i don't have pics of them yet... but i will post them when i get them).
Symbol Layers 14" x 10" Freshman Year Ebony Pencil, Colored Pencil, and Sharpie This is the last piece that i did my freshman year and is definitely one of my favorites. It's also one of my best freshman pieces so of course i put this one in the show! The black and white background is of the "mini lake" behind my dad's house and the heart with a B on it is a necklace i got from an aunt when i was little. And the Triceratops is my favorite dinosaur and the bull is my zodiac and favorite living animal. P.S.: don't tell anyone but the reason the Triceratops (the dinosaur) looks so good is because i drew an action figure i have at home.
Painting Room Still Life 24" x 18" Sophomore Year Oil Pastel This is definitely my best still life and also my first one in full color (and with oil pastel). You may see this same still life by other people but we all have a different view of the still life so this is my view. The tricky thing for this still life though was that we weren't allowed to use black at all except for a tiny bit--so for the background i used a mix of blue and orange (complementary colors) to make it look black when it wasn't. And yes that is a pink graffiti covered shoe in the bottom right corner. FYI: i didn't put it there. :3
Hyenbull Hybrid 18" x 24" Junior Year Colored Pencil This is definitely one of my favorite pieces and one of my best ever. This was an assignment where we had to create a hybrid animal and then show it's habitat at the top and an interesting part of it as the border. Mine is a hybrid between a bull and a hyena (i decided i wanted to fuse my favorite animal--a bull--with another animal i liked that looked pretty compatible; so that's why i picked a hyena), the habitat is the plains near the mountains of Africa, and the border is it's tail which is two tails put together. And yes my new animal is a carnivore so don't go waving anything red in front of it or it will eat you. :3
House View #1 24" x 18" Sophomore Year Oil Pastel
This is my old house on Longview that we moved out of in the middle of me doing this concentration assignment; so that's why #'s 3 and 4 are of a different house. That tree somewhat blocking the view of the house is my tree and those are the bushes my mom kept getting paranoid about trimming just right (and yes some of the leaves are red so that's not blood all over them). This house was a duplex but we made it a single family house; oh and the red above the bushes is the front door.
House View #2 24" x 18" Sophomore Year Oil Pastel
The house really looks a lot older then how i drew it in this piece and that near the bottom left is in fact a pile of trash waiting to be thrown into the alley my mom didn't want me to draw. And i know the sky looks a little too blue but the sky does get like that on some days so nyeh. There's also a better view of my tree in this piece too. And in case u didn't see at first there's a little empty flowerpot on the window sill near the corner of the house (go ahead and look i know u want to).
Double Layer Contour 24" x 18" Sophomore Year Colored Pencil
This piece is actually two different contour drawings put on top of one another and then i drew them both onto one piece of paper. One of the drawings is of the couch in the living room of my old house, the curtains behind it, the two red pillows on it, and my little black cat Percilla next to the pillow on the left. The second picture is of a portion of the backyard (also at the old house) with another of my trees, the igloo dog house my old dog Chucho used to sleep in, the gate of our neighbor, the bushes in the neighbor's backyard, and the roof of the neighbor's garage. Coloring it all in was the hardest part!
Created Still Life 24" x 18" Sophomore Year Colored Pencil
In the show i accidently gave it a new title, so in the show it's called Self in Still Life. This was a kinda fun project where you either had to find or make a still life and then put yourself somewhere in it. This is obviously a made still life (and i got to actually use a lit candle as a light source yay!) and i'm near the middle in the inside DVD cover of the Jurassic Park Box set i have. And if i didn't tell u already I'm a HUGE dinosaur fanatic so there's a ton of my dinosaur toys in this still life (which my teachers didn't particularly like) among some of my other stuff.
Concentration Piece #5 18" x 9" Junior Year Oil Pastel and Black Gesso
In my junior year the class had to do a concentration series so i did mine on tools and stuff that you'd find in a garage since i could easily visit my uncle's garage anytime i needed (and there was also a lot of stuff i could draw). I also did some stuff from our own garage and tool shed too. This particular piece is actually two "drawings" put together (FYI one of them is upside down so either way u put it one is gonna be off somehow) and the drawing was of some brushes hanging from the wall. My teacher taught me how to do a piece in this style: basically i drew the piece with oil pastels, then put a light layer of black gesso which is basically paint over it, then i used a blade to scrape some but not all of the gesso off.
Circles, Squares, and Nines 12" x 9" Junior Year Oil Pastel This is a journey drawing we had to do last year and it's series nostalgia when i think over it. This was the first time in years that i'd done a journey drawing (the first and last times were in my freshman year) and it's harder to draw and a lot harder to color than it looks. Basically it's repetition of two shapes and a number, and also there's a dotted line running through the piece u gotta look for to find. it was fun doing this but i tried to keep the three colors not only evenly dispersed through the piece but also to keep the same color from being too close (cause then there'd be too much of that color in one spot).
