Art Portfolio

Sahara City South

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013
Acrylic Paint on wood, glass tiles
This piece was inspired by a mirror I found in an old rundown restaurant while I was out
with my friends one night. Everything about it was so beautiful and mysterious. I worked a lot
with the texture using a palate knife to create the wall background behind the mirror. This was
a great study of light in the mirror as well as on the frame. Painting the picture frame was probably
one of the hardest things I've ever had to paint because I knew that the frame was the same pattern on
each corner, however because of the way the light hit it, you could only see parts of the patterns in
each side. Also the intricacy of the frame made it far more difficult than I had originally expected.
I think the tiles add a nice demential aspect and really add to the texture of the whole thing.
Also the idea that the focus is framed by a picture frame and then the picture frame is framed
by the tiles gives the piece a nice composition

This is the documentation of my process

Crotch Shot

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013
Sharpie
As an assignment we were to do fifty sharpie drawings, from there we picked our top ten and turned them into collages. I started out drawing my roommate's shorts then ventured out and started drawing the shorts of all the people I came across. In the end about 25 of my 50 drawings were contour drawings of people's pants. I worked a lot with cross hatching to compensate for the lack of tonal ranges I had to work with. The crosshatching technique helped create shadow and to add depth to the drawings.

Summer 2013
Sharpie and Watercolor Paint
I used the copy machine and made copies of my 10 best sharpie drawings on various zoom settings then collaged them together. I then went into the more detailed images with black watercolor paint.

Meagan's Jeans

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Sharpie

As an assignment we were to do fifty sharpie drawings, from there we picked our top ten and turned them into collages. I started out drawing my roommate's shorts then ventured out and started drawing the shorts of all the people I came across. In the end about 25 of my 50 drawings were contour drawings of people's pants. I worked a lot with cross hatching to compensate for the lack of tonal ranges I had to work with. The crosshatching technique helped create shadow and to add depth to the drawings.

Summer 2013

Sharpie, Acrylic Paint

This is a series of three collages using a limited color palate for each.

4 Quick Space Studies

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

India Ink

These are four quick studies of space. The assignment was to paint a space and

make the mood particularly potent.

Plum and Avocado

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013
Acrylic Paint
This was a study of color and tone as well as composition. Originally the assignment was to only use the primary colors (not white). Near the end of the class period we were permuted to go back in using white to match the tones more exact.