murals

My friend Leanne and I have become interested in murals! We recently finished our first mural, which turned out really good and wanting to do more! Here are some pictures of our process and the final..

 Me painting one of the lions. We projected it onto the wall which is the outline on the wall.

 We didn't paint my legs, that is the projector.. Lots of people thought I had paint on my legs.

 First lion finished!!! We were sooo proud!

 This is the second wall, finally finished!

 

This is the first wall that we finished. 

 Completed mural that looks really nice!!!

gatlinburg

The past weekend I went to Gatlinburg with my family. I love going to Gatlinburg! The mountain air, the greenery, everything about it! When we went on a hike I decided to bring my camera along... so here are some pictures enhanced with photoshop...

 We also found a bunch of butterflies drinking the sap from trees. It was so cool!!

old photos

Awhile ago I posted that I finally went out and took pictures around my parent's house how using my mom's old camera. Well I never posted back how my pictures turned out. I really liked a couple of my pictures but then others turned out really bad, mostly they were exposed too much or too little. For some of them I went back into them on my computer and here's how they turned out...

I really love this lighting and I was so excited that I caught it! I love how it adds that orange-red color to subjects that are dull in color. When I went back into the computer I tried to enhance this color. Hope you like them!

recent photography

Last weekend I went out around my parents house and took some pictures.. Enjoy!!

its been awhile!

I just realized that I haven't blogged in a really long time!! So I wanted to update everyone about some things I've been working on...

I'm taking a new studio, Advanced Drawing, which first freaked me out! It is a self-directed class that doesn't have any guidelines at all! The freedom is really nice, but also intimidating for me. Today I finally faced my fear and worked on a piece!

At first I started out with the idea of destruction of man. From my past projects, I saw a theme occurring throughout my work, I loved distressed things. Even from my screenprinting project (guns) shows a destruction of man theme so I thought it was perfect!!

But it wasn't perfect... Of course I was overthinking and stressing myself out about the idea. Today my teacher told me to play around and do anything! Just let myself go.. so I did and here's what happened....

 I just used the palette knife and lots of paint. My inspiration was of pealing paint. Here's a close up..

final paintings!

So the end has come. Painting is over. Finally!!

After I started over three times on my second self portrait I have finished it. I found an artist named Jerome Lagarrigue. I love his paintings! They are detailed in certain parts but them not in others. I really liked doing this painting. Here is his website..http://www.jeromelagarrigue.com/

This is an example of one of his paintings from his series Boxing 2007..

Then here are pictures of what I've done..

I might go back in and add some things but I am not sure yet..

I also finished my other painting: food! Here is my finished food painting and a detail of one of the dumplings.