Black Birds

Very pleased with how these turned out! They were entered into Ventura College's Student Show and won for non-functional ceramics! I also won an award from Ventura County Friends of the Arts! Very exciting night.

Here are some detail shots to get a good look at those little guys.

 

Crow Wall Pieces

These were fun to make. Creating all of the different shapes turned this into structural, step-by-step project. These are unfired, with charcoal on raw clay. The next post will have the birds fired and glazed.

Ceramic, (sizes vary) 5"x8"x5"

Crow Mask

Ceramic wall piece/mask

Ceramic, 6"x13"x6"

More Life Drawing

This is from a while ago, but I just can't seem to finish it.

I was kinda goofing off with colored pencils and now I'm stuck.

Colored pencil, Graphite 12"x 20"

Life Drawing

Here are some of the drawings that came of last semester's life drawing class. The first two are graphite, the last one is charcoal.

This was a 2 day study for the final. 

Relief Print: Accident

This was made for our final print exchange in my printmaking class. I had to make enough prints for everyone in the class (plus some for my self). The theme was "forbidden." I feel like there is a lot forbidden about this image; public nudity as one example. It is also a little boy crossing the street with a blindfold; nakedness is just one factor in his vulnerability.

I chose to make a reductive print, which means that after each layer, I could never go back. It is suggested to start out making twice the amount that you want to end up with. I started out with  60 prints. My series ended up being out of 24. It was a total nightmare to print (I was experimenting with oil based ink) and by the end, I hated it mainly because it looked nothing like I had planned. Since then, it has grown on me a lot and is yet another example of a "happy accident."
Relief Print. Oil based ink. 7" x 10"

Light Drawing

I drew this as an assignment for a class. The  assignment was to capture light in a drawing. On the day of the critique, everyone else had drawings of objects dripping in sunshine with very little graphite used. Mine, as you can see, was of a dark room and used a lot of graphite. It was a nightmare trying to wash all of it off of my hands, face and clothes. I realized quickly that my drawing found light through shadow, instead of capturing literal light.

This was put in the Spring 2010 student art show. Graphite. 23" x 18"