Rainbows Support Group for Kids

This is a poster for Rainbows International, the Support group for kids dealing with a loss or divorce.  They're popular with schools and I remember a lot of kids leaving class and coming back with all these cool projects and ceramics that I never got to do.  I considered lying to be part of that group, they made cool arts and crafts in kindergarten!

Anyways, I wanted to do a positive promotional image of kids painting and interacting with each other.  I'll eventually place some type and place it in a formal setup.  The lines are graphite and the rest is done digitally.

I was kind of uncomfortable using an explosion of rainbow colors, I like to limit my color pallet and this image really stretched my limits to the number of colors used.  I just don't like throwup art.

Circus Boy

This is for my digital Illustration class/ NAVS (for animals).  Not many would know, but I modeled the boy after the kid from Circus Boy who later grew up to be one of the Monkeys.  It was a TV show where this kid lived with a circus, I don't know too much else about it. But the theme of this project was "Speak for the Animals" and everyone else has done an ape or some type of animal with a closeup on his mouth, the mouth stitched up, or looking really sad with a closed mouth. I wanted to do a more illustrative approach that could work for a children's book.

I'm also trying something new, a hybrid of traditional and digital media.  I was inspired by Corey Godbey and studied his blog to figure out how he got his images.  Look him up if you haven't.

I start off with a smooth graphite and digitally color it with and overlay and multiply layer.  It's so much faster this way and I still get to work traditionally.  And the watercolor textures were done really loosely on cheap bristol paper (im out of paper now) with black ink and then used as a multiply layer.

Graduation coming soon!

This project would be for The branch of the Girl Scouts that promotes girls being independent and unique in order to become successful in life. All digital...

Probably not finished yet, but I'm taking a break from it for now... graduation is coming soon!

Power of the Nose FINAL

This is the final for the editorial in my Digital Illustration class.  I wont say much more, I have to get some sleep before my exit interview tomorrow.  Pulling all nighters this week has been a bad idea.

This was a quick digital drawing (with pen scanned in) of Granuaile (Grace O'Malley), the Pirate Queen of Ireland.  I was obsessed with her in high school and for my AP art class, all of my artwork that semester revolved around her or a modern day version of the queen.  She was a spirited soul who didn't let men order her around, and she supposedly smelled a lot. Just as a disclaimer, this is not the girl from Brave , the newest Pixar movie.  I guess they look alike, but this woman is real and I suggest you look her up.  I have been to 2 of her castles, and she is quite the lady. 

And by the way, the pin she is wearing means clarity.  It's a feminine celtic symbol.

I think I finished this in a day, and I realize that she looks very young, I just tend to make all of my characters very young looking, probably a thing to work on.

Ballerina Pencils

This is a pencil for a promotional piece for To Get Her There owned by The Girl Scouts of America.  I really wanted to do something that had to do with girls being ok with their uniqueness.  I feel like girls today (and in the past as well) feel pressured to stick with the standards of being a "girl" and that being normal is the safe way to go.  

It's sad how many girls I know wanted to play hockey of football but were told by parents or teachers that they couldn't, that they would get teased.  I wanted to play gaelic football when I was younger, but they didn't have teams for girls.  They did have "co-ed" teams, but I was told no girls were on them.  We shouldn't be scared to be who we really are.  

 I'll upload the final this week!

Dozin with the Dinos 2

My updates, updated version of Dozin with the Dinos.  Probably will still need more work, but with the limited time I have, this will have to do for now. If I had all the time in the world, I'd make a dinosaur parade, maybe for the future.

By the way, my website is up and running, please check it out!

Portfolio Website

Power of the Nose

This is a digital piece for an article describing the persuasive power of scents and how companies are using it to get people (mainly women) to buy more.  In progress and will upload the finished version later!

Dozin with the Dinos 2

This is an improved version of the Dozin with the Dinos piece.. and I have a feeling it will be updated again!  Dozin with the Dinos is associated with the Field Museum in Chicago, this isn't official artwork for them, it's purely a portfolio piece.

Artist Bio

Really quick thing for the bio page of my website.. what do you think?

Dozin with the Dinos

For the Field Museum's sleepover (ages 12 and under)
Watercolor and Pen

Bear in the Bath

Based off of a song that needs to be written... "There's a Bear in the Bath"

Watercolor and Pen

Issues with templates

Just to let you know I've been having problems with the layout and template of this blog.. I'll continue to try to fix it so I can upload more artwork.  I'm very behind, my apologies.

Update

Apologies for the lack of posts, I will be posting again soon as I get more organized, because I have alot more to add!  New website coming soon!

Desert Pepper Salsa

Mango Peach Salsa by Desert Pepper is awesome.. I don't care if the mixture sounds gross or odd.

For advertising class.