Elephant

This piece was made to show movement.  The idea was of abstraction from the natural world.  I picked an elephant because of its trunk.  This piece was made in oil and pencil.

Transparency

This project was to show transparency with prisma colored pencils.  I chose to get handheld magnifying glasses and take pictures.  I was able to get a great picture that shows different transparencies and colors.

Hunderwasser

This is a piece inspired by the artist Hunderwasser.  This piece depicts an image in a distorted, fun, colorful way.  I chose the landscape of a place where i grew up with alot of trees, and plants.

Classy

This is a portrayal of my vision of my late grandpa.  He was a very classy man, growing up i remember watching him dressing up and going to meetings, or church, or wherever.  His very famous look was such as this, a red tie with a black suit.  I decided to start from the top with a very intricate face, then eventually fade out to a different style, almost like realism.  The realism represents his death, as it fades to simpler abstract colors, and no in between colors.

Aura

On this project 'Aura' I decided to portray my grandma, and her aura through oil pastels.  As a kid, i used to spend alot of time in my grandma's house.  Throughout my childhood a vision of my grandma was created in my mind, which to this day is still the same.  With all her religious beleifs, morals, values, and actions, i thought of her a certain way, and created an aura.  These colors and patterns radiate the same ideas i have of my grandma.  In this piece I focused on color to balance my main point, which is my grandma.

Self-portrait

This piece is a self portait.  I focused on the theme up close and personal.  My topic was abstraction, and my media was chalk pastel.  I chose this media because it creates great contrast between colors and the background as well.  On this piece i wanted to create something that went from a normal picture into broken up colors and shapes, or abstraction.  This represents what a person is made up of, more personally all the things that make me up. 

Frutos de la vida

In this piece i am portraying my grandparents and their relationship.  During their life they accomplished alot of things and are still able to look at each other this way.  Certain aspects of the piece represent my family as well.  I added three pieces of newspaper to emphasize the point that they had three daughters, one of them being my mother.  Also, i added the popping colors in the background to symbolize fruit, as the piece is named 'frutos de la vida', fruits of life.  I used cut paper to portray my grandparents.  I focused on space, as i wanted to fill the space with colors and textures to make a more unified piece.  Also, my theme was to layer it on, which is why I went from the bottom to the top.