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End of Academy

2008-07-19T08:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the delay in posts yet again. This will be short and sweet because I have to pack up and get ready to head back home!

Our assignments given by Robin Eley and Scott Anderson were to illustrate a specific scene in a children's book. The story I chose was the Tortoise and the Hare, when the tortoise challenges the hare, and the hare laughs at him.

The second half of this assignment was to portray a musician or band starting with a letter that we picked from a hat. I got the letter "L" so I chose to do Lily Allen.

Lastly we had the option of submitting a piece for the Gulf Coast Business magazine. This was a short week, and sadly I didn't bring mine to a level of finish that I was satisfied with, but I'll post it anyway

Week Four of the Academy

2008-07-09T21:12:00.001-07:00

The assignment for week four was given by Chris Payne. We had to illustrate a conversation/interaction between two people, but the two figures had to be cropped from the sternum up. After watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”, I was inspired to paint two men in an insane asylum.
I don’t know that I conveyed an insane asylum as well as I would have liked, but I really enjoyed doing this painting. On the plus side, I feel that this piece has been a breakthrough for my confidence in watercolor!

Academy Update

2008-06-29T18:12:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone! Sorry it has taken me so long to make a new post. I am now at the end of the fourth week of the Illustration Academy, which has been an amazing experience! I have been trying to work outside of my comfort zone by playing with other media, using more saturated colors, and not relying on linework to define my values. Yikes! Let me know what you all think!

The latest assignment we did was given by the one and only, Gary Kelley. We had to pick a color out of a hat, and illustrate it. My color was yellow. I chose to work larger on this piece, but in a media I am more comfortable in. Since watercolor is so fast, I wound up doing four pieces!

The second week was Jon Foster’s week, and our assignment was to illustrate a fictional character and to convey an emotion. I chose Pippi Longstocking because she is a character that I would not normally illustrate. This assignment forced me to use more saturated colors in oil glazes and on a scale much larger than what I am used to.

Our first assignment was given by Mark English, titled,“Slice of Sarasota”. We had to convey a part of the Sarasota lifestyle focusing on composition, value, and color. I did this in acrylic.

Senior Thesis Pieces- Grimms Fairy Tales

2008-04-27T21:14:00.002-07:00

Mary said to the hare, "There, there little hare! Do not eat all the cabbages."
-The Hare's Bride

"Ah! Where are your eyes, that you take this place for water?"
-The Hen Roost

But she thought, "How the silly frog does talk. All he does is sit in the water with the other frogs and croak. He could not be fit to associate with mankind."
-The Frog Prince

But at the self-same moment that she plucked the flowers, the twelve brothers were changed into twelve ravens, and flew away over the forest, and the house and garden vanished likewise.
-The Twelve Brothers

When it was bedtime, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear, "You can lie there by the hearth, and then you will be safe from the cold and the bad weather."
-Snow White and Rose Red

At last she found a cave behind the house, and in it a very old woman was seated.
-The Robber Bridegroom

The white bride and the black bride.
-The White Bride and the Black One

There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it.
-Stories About Paddocks

After she had been waiting for a short time, a white dove flew down from the tree.
-The Enchanted Tree

The Poppy Field

2008-04-05T14:58:00.001-07:00

Watercolor Sketchbook!

2008-03-16T16:40:00.001-07:00

Man, Pet, Machine

2008-02-11T14:51:00.001-08:00

Celebrity Portraits

2008-01-31T08:21:00.000-08:00

Helena Bonham Carter, Truman Capote

Portraits

2007-12-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

Costume Portraits and Landscape

2007-11-10T15:00:00.001-08:00

More Sketchbook

2007-11-10T14:18:00.000-08:00

The Lost Farthings

2007-10-14T15:52:00.001-07:00

More Sketchbook

2007-09-24T15:07:00.000-07:00

Illustrations

2007-09-24T15:03:00.001-07:00

Some Oil Studies

2007-09-24T15:02:00.000-07:00

Watercolor Sketchbook

2007-09-04T21:33:00.000-07:00

Summer Sketches

2007-09-04T20:18:00.000-07:00