My Dearest Beatrice

Title: Changing Beatrice 

Medium: 

• Acrylic paint

Dimensions: 20" x 14"

Description: This is one of my favorite pieces. Painted entirely with acrylic, the painting "Changing Beatrice" is a study of rotation. It is the same skull (a small fox skull) just slightly rotated to show a frontal view, a 3/4 view, and a side view. "Changing Beatrice" is also a study of geometric versus organic shapes with the organic movement swirling over Beatrice's head as well as the geometric circles surrounding her entire form. 

♫ A-Tisket, a-tasket, I drew a purple basket ♫

 

Title: Carriage Crossing

Medium:

• Color pencils
• Oil pastels

Dimensions: 9 3/4" x 7 3/4"

Description: Once a large artwork, this piece was cut into six almost 10 x 8 pieces. It is a study of both zooming into one object yet still having recognizable elements, and a monochromatic study. The carriage is strictly color pencil and the background space in oil pastel. This piece was divided because it allows the audience to choose which shot of the baby carriage they love the most, whether it is the entire shot, or the extreme close up of the design. 

Ariel

Title: Ariel

Medium: 

• Charcoal
• Gesso
• Acrylic

Dimensions: 16 1/2" X 24"

Description: This is part of my Color Splash series that currently only has 9 pieces. It was made by mixing charcoal with gesso to make different kinds of grays. The scarf is painted with acrylic paint. It was painted to look like a cut paper piece/strictly two dimensional, yet to give off a sense of depth, which is why nothing is shaded or painted to give a three-dimensional feel. 

Just to start things off...

I'd like to tell a little about me. Well first, I am a sophomore in college. I currently have two majors: Animation and Sequential Narrative. I have many goals in life, but what I want to do as an official career is to animate my own series and/or feature films. However, I am very versatile with my talents. I'm also very interested in painting (my role model being Takashi Murakami), drawing, photography, filming, writing, web comics and graphic novels. I have not, nor will I ever be interested in sculpture. It is just something I am not into. I do hope to create a great web comic/graphic novel because I have been developing an idea for one for about 2-3 years. My absolute role model is Hayao Miyazaki. I love every single one of his films and I hope and pray that one day I will be able to collaborate and work with him on an animated film.

 I do mostly traditional art work but I am delving into digital work (especially since I start animation classes soon). I prefer Corel Painter over much painting software but my second option, of course, would be Photoshop. I love oil and acrylic paints. I hate gouache  Period. I am not very good with watercolors but I suppose that is because of lack of practice. I have never really liked them that well though but I am extremely envious of people who can use them. I am currently writing a novel called Whistle to the Lights (I have a lot of projects and ideas going on at once. I finish them all mostly, but it takes a while). I do hope to get it published, but novel writing is not something I would love to do as a profession, just as a hobby. I am also very interested in illustration. It sort of goes hand in hand with sequential narrative, but I also want to use it to illustrate book covers and children's books. I just love having a lot of different things I can fall back on. Also, I love children. Since I know my art career might not pick up straight after college, I plan on becoming a nanny until I can get myself out there.

There are other small things about me. I love Doctor Who, Sherlock, Merlin, pretty much anything BBC or British. I love Supernatural and some anime. SOME (I used to like a lot but anime has just gotten too weird for me). I love making anything into characters and studying character development. Researching for my stories is my favorite past time. I adore animals of all kinds. My favorite book genre is mystery/suspense/thriller and my favorite music genre is anything under the sun. I want to learn any musical instrument I can and 7 different languages: Spanish, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Italian, and Chinese. Also Esperanto but technically it is not a language. And Latin but technically it is dead.

That's it for now but if you have any questions please leave them in the comments.

Ciao Ciao! :)