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