These two are just semester projects I had my freshman year in Beginning Drawing & Painting, where we had to stipple an animal of our choosing. I'm not really a fan of cats--I just liked the pictures.
This is not one of my favorites--I could probably fix it now that I am more experienced in the arts and how I want to use colored pencil. I actually might, now that I am really looking at it. But we just had to take a pop can and draw it any certain way on a table with some background. It's alright.
This one, along with the rest of the images, are from my sophomore year. This is a colored pencil drawing from sophomore year, it was also a semester project, if I recall correctly. We just had to use an inanimate object such as a game piece, or keys, as I chose. It was right around the time I got my car, so I used my brand new set of keys as my subject. And my favorite color scheme--orange and blue.
To the left, the combination of watercolor and marker, was a project we did where we got to choose something from our childhood. I showed horses for about 5 years, and it was a big part of growing up for me. Don't get me wrong--I am still a child, but this time in my life was one that made me who I am today. I first used watercolor to lay the base for the colors, then used marker to get the finer detail that I couldn't achieve with a paintbrush.
To the right is a colored pencil drawing. We were given a picture, then told to create a frame to place around the image to find the spot we wanted to recreate. I took the liberty of adding a little something extra in drawing the face not once, but twice. This is one of my better pieces. In the image below, we used acryllic to create an abstract painting. I painted a ring that was given to me when I turned 16 years old from my mother. The opal in the ring was a part of the ring my grandmother gave to my mother when she turned 16, and the sapphire is my birthstone, so the ring meant a lot to me. The red in the image was a random color chosen to offset the colors in the opal.
We also got to experiment with pastels in my sophomore year. I personally had never tried them, I actually had no idea how to use them. But I was quite satisfied with my first attempt with this forestation seen below. I really like the left side of the piece, the long tree trunks, as well as the path below. The leaves need some definite work, though, in my opinion.
And finally, here to the right is also a first attempt at using charcoal. I love everything about this piece. Even the background, which, I must admit, was drawn quite haphazardly. It was a last second thing the instructor requested I add. But I especially loved the easy way charcoal blended beneath my fingertips to get all the shadows, the smoothness of her sweatshirt, and the different textures seen. It was my first drawing with a live subject.
Hopefully once I get through this year of ceramics I will be able to add to my collection of art. I intend to enroll in a photography class as well as creative drawing & painting, so look to see more in the future!
The brightly colored image below is a watercolor also done in my sophomore year. I really like this one, especially the use of warm colors in the flowers contrasting with the cool ones in the background. We were given a large vase of flowers and told to paint a blocked recreation of what we could see form our perspective. I usually go for making my pieces untraditional, which is why you don't see a simple vase on a counter full of flowers.
We also got to experiment with pastels in my sophomore year. I personally had never tried them, I actually had no idea how to use them. But I was quite satisfied with my first attempt with this forestation seen below. I really like the left side of the piece, the long tree trunks, as well as the path below. The leaves need some definite work, though, in my opinion.
And finally, here to the right is also a first attempt at using charcoal. I love everything about this piece. Even the background, which, I must admit, was drawn quite haphazardly. It was a last second thing the instructor requested I add. But I especially loved the easy way charcoal blended beneath my fingertips to get all the shadows, the smoothness of her sweatshirt, and the different textures seen. It was my first drawing with a live subject.Hopefully once I get through this year of ceramics I will be able to add to my collection of art. I intend to enroll in a photography class as well as creative drawing & painting, so look to see more in the future!
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