Hope everyone had a great holiday break

Wow, it has been forever since I have been on here! Sorry to those of you who have been following my blog, I have kind of been M.I.A. the past few weeks. The holidays have just been so crazy! But I am finally back to AZ and ready to start up the new semester. So I am back, and will be posting more as usual, now that things have settled down.

Haven't been on in a while

Haven't been on here in a bit.....I am in Massachusetts with my family for christmas. I have a very large family and there are currently 11 people staying in the one house, for about 2 weeks! If I didn't love them so much I would go crazy. I will try to set aside some time to keep posting while I am here, things have just been nuts so far!

RIP my Pups

This is the tattoo I designed that I will be getting after christmas, in memory of my grandfather. This is just the drawing and to show where I want to get it. My grandfather loved crossword puzzles, in fact I found this picture of him where he fell asleep doing one. That was a regular occurance for him. He was also a devout catholic, and I was raised catholic, so I found the cross shape to be fitting. The Isaiah 41:10 is a bible passage which says "Don't be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my victorious right hand." The dates are his birth and death dates, and then it says RIP Papa. Tattoos are still a very controversial thing. I find them to be another medium for art. I know everyone's opinion on tattoos varies. I love tattoos, in fact this one will be my 7th...(well my 8th if you consider the fact that one of mine was added onto 2 years later). I am very excited for this one, and it will definitely be the one I hold closest to my heart.

More watercolor

These are some more pieces from my watercolor class. The first was a practice in glazing, I forget what the exact subject matter for the second one was, and the last one we had to do a landscape from a photograph.

Quote of the day

"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us." --Roy Adzak

Drawing 1 final

These were for my drawing 1 final...we had to set up a still life and then do 3 different drawings. Each one had to use a different medium, and be from a different perspective, and the differences had to be significant. The first one is pencil, the second one is oil pastels, and the last one is charcoal.

Practice practice practice

These are just some practice drawings I did. 2 are pastel, 2 are charcoal. The last one is my favorite.

Linear/planar 2d

This is a project I did in high school, where we had to take a photograph, and define the different areas of value into sections. From there we had to do a cross-hatch drawing, and then do a portrait out of construction paper.

Turtles everywhere

This is a portrait I did of my friend Sean.

Don't pretend to understand

It bothers me when people ask what I'm in school for, and I tell them I'm an art major and they either A) Ask me how I'm ever going to get a real job doing art, or B) Say "oh that must be easy." People don't realize how much time, effort, and brainstorming goes into being an art student. For every hour you are in class, I am in class for 3 hours. For every hour you spend doing homework, I'm putting in five hours on a project. I am not saying that art is any better than any major, just that it isn't any less significant. It takes a lot of guts to go into a career field knowing that it probably won't make you the most money, and you will most likely struggle. But to know that it is the one thing that will truly make you happy makes it worth it in the end.

Quote of the day

"What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough." --Eugene Delacroix

Faces

These are the first portraits I ever did using charcoal.

Stop

This is a link to a video compilation of all of our stop motion animations from my 3d design class. Mine is the first one in the sequence. Since I haven't been able to upload it myself, you can check it out on here. Everyone did an amazing job with their animations, so take a look!

3D Stop motion animation

Bags and bowls

This was a drawing I did for my drawing 1 class. Still life with paper bags, and glass bowls. Two of the hardest things to realistically draw.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....as long as society approves.

This is a mixed media piece I did on my own, not for a class or anything. It consists of collage, colored pencil, acrylic paint, and pencil.

Fun videos

Here are 2 of my classmate's stop motion animations.... I am still working on getting mine uploaded to youtube, but because I have music in the background that is copyrighted by a band, youtube wont let me upload it without changing the music, due to copyright infringement. I am working on switching the music to a track that youtube has rights to, but it's taking me a little longer to find a track that goes with my animation. Anyways, for now check out these 2 videos my classmates made. They are awesome! The hershey kisses animation was done by Olivia Mendes, and the blob animation was done by Lisa Bella-Bryson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Kpo66QLAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=navgsPyhtiQ