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. 

Posterized Self-Portrait

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013
India Ink
This is a posterized self-portrait that allowed me to study tone as well as practice working quickly.

Live Model Figure Paintings

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

Acrylic Paint

These were done from a live model using a limited palate. These were both a study of color and the human figure.

Natural History Museum Drawings

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

These were drawn from life at the Natural History Museum in New York City. 

Hard Oil Pastel
In this study I was working with light and dark values as well as texture. 

Prismacolor Marker and Hard Oil Pastel
In this study I worked primarily on composition. 

Hard Oil Pastel
This was a study of texture. I experimented with tone using two colors. 

More Paper Still Lives

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

India Ink

These are more drawings of white paper still lives.

In this one I went over the India Ink with some hard oil pastel and some white charcoal.

Highline Park

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

Acrylic Paint

This is a series of three landscape paintings done at New York City's Highline Park. I used only the colors black, white, and ultramarine blue to emphasize the mood of the park that day. 

Zander

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013
India Ink, Charcoal, Watercolor Paint
The India ink is the first layer, it is gestural drawings done during a session with a live model.
The models were moving, so the idea was to put down a few basic lines to demonstrate each
pose. Next I used a live model to draw the large figure in charcoal, and lastly I went back in
with the watercolor paint to emphasize the figure drawn during the gestural drawings. 

Contour Line Still Life Drawings

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

India Ink

This was a still life made up of all white objects.

This is a posterized drawing of the same still life. 

3 White Paper Still Life Paintings

Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class

Summer 2013

India Ink and Watercolor Paint

This is a series of three white paper still life paintings.

Live Model Figure Drawings

                Parsons Summer Intensive Drawing and Painting Class
                                               Summer 2013

Charcoal

Charcoal 

India Ink
Gestural Drawing (the figure was moving, so the idea was to get the gesture down on paper
in the moment they were in that possision)

Graphite Pencil

India Ink and Watercolor paint
This is a mixture of gestural drawings (using moving models) and more detailed drawings.

Hard oil pastel 

Live Model Figure Drawings

Fall 2012
Hard prisma oil pastels, toned paper, and white charcoal
My first attempt at figure drawing with a live model.
These are all figure drawings done at a studio near my house. It's not like a class with instruction or anything, you just pay a $5 student fee and you can come in and draw the models.