Food

As a little kid one always looks at peoples actions and turn them into symbols as objects, or things.  In my childhood i characterized myself as a watcher, or bystander.  As my grandma, my great grandma or my mother would cook, i would observe what they made, not for content, but to know what is on the menu.  One thing i always noticed they did, no matter what foor they were preparing, was chop onions.  Onions turned to a symbol of not only food, but the women in my family that i looked up to.  In this picture i depict the onions on a cutting board. Using watercolor layering as a wet media and sharpie as my dry, i tried to show the different layers in the onions to make them look realistic.  I also used the placing of the onions for focus and movement throughout the piece.

Back to life

I had seen on the list of topics, and i saw one that really interested me, patterns.  As i had worked with wood pattern before i had thought to make wood pattern into a sculpture, a newspaper sculpture.  This brought along the idea that paper comes from wood, not the other way around.  However, i had a chance to flip that statement.  I had taken newspaper and layered it on, not only flat, but in circles and ovals to give it the same shape of the wood grain.  Later i cut the sides off the newspapers to make a more solid block, which also portrayed the pattern better.  I used a block of wood as the base and top of the sculpture, these two pieces were stained to give a more uniform look to my project.  Although this was the first idea in my mind, i saw one of the sides of newspaper that looked like a great piece and chose not to throw it away.  I erected this piece over the top of the block, creating more movement, and a tree-like piece on top of my project.  All in all the hard work i put into this sculpture made a piece i was more than pleased with.

Dimensions

For this painting i chose the idea of having different dimensions within one painting.  These dimensions were representing different times during the day, during life, which can impact a person.  This shows a negative impact towards a person.  The focal point was the character in the painting, portrayed in ink and white paper. The topic i had chosen for this project was distortion, as i wanted to distort the ambient around the person, not only with the different hues of coloration throughout the trees, but how i made the leaves as well. This is also how I made my character, without portraying her realistically, but more as an outcast that only connected with her surroundings in little ways.

The Bojangles Fish

This side project was a project to be done from a found object.  I had found a Bojangle's wrapper on the trash.  I folded it like a fish, added a background and some details to the fish. This created a childlike picture portraying a fish.