Candy Balance Study

This is a drawing of an old fashion Hershey's chocolate bar. The squares beneath it are enlargements of certain parts of the wrapper. It is a contour line drawings, with the silver letters against the brown. There is a lot of negative space around the squares, but that is what makes the pieces work together so well. 

Mixed Media Portait

This piece took a lot of hard work to complete. It consist of a structural design, fron the clean cut of the pictures posted on scapbook paper to the structural drawing of my face. There is a lot of texture in this piece, because the raised acrylic paint with the quotes on it, and the transfered picture, and also including the collage element with the different ballet images. I like the movement of the piece, because it makes your eyes travel from the bottom of the piece, to the top, in a very organized fashion.

watercolor landscape

This painting is of Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica at sunset. There is some contour lines in the rocks, but as the neutral colors filled it, it became more of gestured lines. The texture is evident by the roughness of the rocks around the edges, and the waves crashing into the rocks represented by gouache paint. I feel like the colors flow very nicely together with the darkness of the rocks and the clouds standing out on the light and muted colors of the orange sunset and the blue ocean.

Still life

This is a still life drawing of my pointe shoe. This is definitely a contour line drawing with the sharpness of the outline with the shoe. The shading in this drawing shows where the shoe has had pressure applied the most. This is a drawing of a 3-D object, drawn from an overhead viewpoint. I feel like the emphasis is on the shading and the details of the piece. 

elephant sketch

This drawing is a copied sketch from Rembrandt of an elephant. I added the little hat on the top, because I wanted to express myself a little more through the sketch. This is a contour line drawing with a lot of shading. The texture in this sketch is reflected by the many crosshatching lines, especially in the front of the elephant. These lines are there to show all the creases in the elephant's skin to make it look more realistic. 

High contrast portrait

This piece was taken from a picture, which was adjusted, so there was only back and white. This painting has an eve balance of negative and positive space. This piece took a long time, because of the complexity of the hair being combined with the sun. The colors in this piece are very intense, and the emphasis is really focused on wherever it is really dark.