For this painting I aimed to encompass my art practice and life at the time entirely with symbols in black paint on a 3x3 foot canvas. My goal was to play with different themes in my life as well as technical aspects of the painting like form and maintaining a consistent negative space.
This was the final project in my painting 2 class. My objective was to implement a 3d flower motif I had seen at a restaurant in Detroit into a full scale oil painting. My goal was to work with color and I aimed to create a unique harmony of colors with reference to some of the work of Henri Matisse. I was going for energy, colors that would sing when put next to each other.
This was one of my linocut prints from my printmaking class at CCS. In this project I aimed to create a jarring contrast of sharp forms and textures as well as themes from my life at the time. Pictured in this scene is a dining room at my home featuring my cat Leo sitting on the table. I like the works and overall story of Picasso and was heavily inspired by his take on art especially in his later life.
Back in 2015 I studied design in Turin, Italy, this painting was of a location in Turin that I visited frequently when I lived there. I wanted to create a painting that commemorated that experience as Turin was where I learned all of my fundamental skills in art.
This is one of my forays into illustration as I am looking to receive an illustration minor at CCS as well as my current major in Fine Arts. For this project I had to design a lunch bag for the fast food chain Five Guys, a chain that I chose to design for. I aimed to create a catchy composition with bright and energetic colors that went well with each other but also accurately represented the brand that I was designing for.
These were some head carvings I did during a carving class I took with the carver Alec LaCasse. In these carvings I utilized my experience with the Andrew Loomis method of head drawing. I aimed to create a realistic head and these carvings show my ability working in 3 dimensions as well as 2 dimensional picture planes.
