Drawing Collection

Title: Hand Me Downs

Dimensions: 3ft x 4ft

Medium: Paper, Pressed Flowers, Tea, Ink, Wax, Wood, Coffee Grounds, Tracing Paper, Conte Crayon, Pen, Acrylic, Gouache, Hair, Book Page, Ashes.

 Detail Images

Artist Statement: We started this assignment with a series of in class experiments. I responded to those and made more and got much of my inspiration from my mother and my pressed flower book. I remember my mother teaching me to preserve bouquets of flowers she received from various bf's/friends using Aqua net and hanging them upside down or pressing them in a book. A few years ago my best friend gifted me a flower pressing book that she already had started filling with flowers. As people have given me flowers, I have steadily been pressing them. I like saving these gifts much more than throwing them away. I always cherish when someone gifts me with flowers, potted or cut. My mom is also a fan of coffee, tea, incense, and gardening, so I felt this collection was really a collection of memories of my mother, and the memories of those who gave me the flowers in the first place.  

Multiple Panel

Title: Feminine Vibrations

Dimensions: Organic Shape, roughly 5ft in diameter

Medium: Block prints, Ink, Gesso

Detail Images

Artist Statement: I was inspired by a series of blocks I carved in Printmaking class. I originally had them printed on one large sheet, but I cut them apart and glued them to larger pieces of white roll paper. I extended the vibrating lines with ink. Eventually I attached the pieces and morphed the pieces into one organic shape. I connect the images with my feelings on body positivity and how it effects those around us. 

Transformation Drawing

Initial in-class Layer

 1st Change

 2nd Change

 3rd Change

 4th Change

5th Change

Title: Bed Head

Medium: Art Graf Discs, Charcoal, Ink, Conte Crayon, Acrylic

Dimensions: 42" x 36"

Detail Images

Artist Statement: I started the Transformation assignment intending my first layers to be light and impermanent. I used thin layers of the art graf disc and vine charcoal for the first few layers so I could easily build, change, and respond to the line work and value. I then added colored ink washes over top if it. I chose warm earth tones which I'm very partial to. I responded to those tones and used mostly white conte crayon to build a figure, (based off a photo of my dear friend Annabel). I liked that the coffee cup blocked much of her face and left her piercing blue eyes. I also liked the placement and positioning of her hands. I used some blue/purple conte crayon to create the shadows which I thought reacted well with the warm ink washes. It was a satisfying color field to build a figure on. 

Research:

I think a big inspiration for my final choices was the fact that I'm in Figure Drawing this semester and I love the conte crayon on toned paper. This is one of my drawings from that class. 

 Joan Limona 

Woman Lying Down

Edgar Degas

Woman Drying Herself

Memory and Response

Memory Drawing

Title: Spanish Pipedream

 Medium: toned paper with pen, ink, chalk pastel, charcoal, pressed flowers, and dried oil paint

Size: 19" x 25"

Detail 

Artist Statement

I went back into this drawing and clarified some of the important details of my childhood home that were in my original blind contour. I also added larger images to balance out the smallness of the blind contour based imagery. I liked using the black pen and then highlighting with the white pen and wax on the toned paper. 

Response Drawing

Original Response

Medium: toned paper and pen

Size: 19" x 25"

 Detail

Second Response

Title: Wanton Tree

Medium: paper with chalk pastel, oil pastel, hot glue, wax, herbs, and coffee grounds

Size: 18" x 24"

Detail 

Artist Statement

My original response from the story was very literal and busy, like the Memory drawing was. I thought an abandoned dead tree stump was a more simplified solution to the overall theme of the story. I liked layering the oil pastel and the chalk pastel, and using the mixed media to create drops of dew and mossy areas.   

Multiple Panel Research

Yu Yueng Tchine

Anna Boghiguan

Jiri Kolar

Drawing Collection Research

99 Heads

Marwan Bachi

Naked Series: Old Man

Thomas Eakins

The Fluidity of Horizons

Parvathi Nayar

Ephemeral

Boundary

I chose this location because of the length of the boardwalk. I used sticks to mirror the linear element that originally attracted me to this landscape. My goal was to have the sunrise cast long shadows down the boardwalk, but the last two days were too overcast. 

Scopophobia 

My inspiration for this drawing was scopophobia, the fear of being watched. I always suspect that someone can see inside my large well lit windows at night. I was hoping to have more lit windows in my photos, but once I started experimenting and using flash, my neighbors scopophobia must have kicked in because everyone turned off the lights and drew the blinds.