Celebrating Milestones

I was lucky enough to witness two major events in family members' lives this year. First, my boyfriend's sister got married. And second, my dad celebrated his 60th birthday. I was heavily involved in both events mainly because I designed the invitations. I like doing graphic design projects more and more. I usually only do them for personal things, but I would love to start doing actual client work.

This is the front and back of the wedding invitation for my boyfriend's sister's wedding:

I collaborated on this one with my boyfriend. He's an artist as well. I did the text and layout while he did the illustrations. The three ovals in the middle were sticker designs that were printed out and stuck onto the bags of Costa Rican coffee that were given away as souvenirs to all the wedding guests.

And here they are printed out:

Not the best photos, but I just wanted to include this. They look great in person. Roughly 5"x7".

Here are the invites I made for my dad's surprise 60th birthday party:

I did all the artwork and layout on these ones. And here they are printed out with the green envelopes I bought to go with them:

By the way, the surprise was a huge success. My dad is a smart guy but not very observant at times, so it wasn't too difficult to keep all the planning hidden from him. Great times were had by all!

Buffs!

Here is something I drew after being inspired by all the buffalo I saw when I visited Yellowstone recently. I was also inspired by all the stupid people that got out of their cars to take pictures of the buffalo from like 20 feet away.

I was amazed at how dumb people are when it comes to wild animals. Especially when they gave out this exact flyer at the entrance gate to Yellowstone, along with a newspaper about the park and several other forms of warnings about the wildlife:

I just redrew the sign to be a little more humorous.

Deadmond Does It!

Here is a cartoon that my boyfriend drew and then I colored.

This is based on a real, hypothetical conversation.

Job Hunting

I found this drawing on my boyfriend's desk and decided to paint it in Photoshop. This is what it feels like to look for a job.

Hayden Bug

I have an idea for a children's book...

Chainsaw vs. Super Hipster Part 2

Here's the clean up drawing I did by hand:

And here it is colored in Photoshop CS5:


And here's a black and white version just because I think it looks cool:

Glorification

Here's a digital painting I created this weekend. It's me. This is what I look like in real life.

Reinterpretation of "The Death of Marat"

This is my final project for art history this quarter. It's 48" wide by 60" tall (almost as tall as myself). Done with acrylic paint.

Original painting by Jacques-Louis David below:

Finally Painting for Fun

My second dog, Kloi (pronounced like Chloe). This is the first painting I've done for fun since I took Portrait Painting! I did this during finals week before I left for break. It was a gift to my parents. She's so cute!

Portrait Painting Final

Here's my Portrait Painting final - 36" x 36" self-portrait. About 12 hours of work all together yesterday. I really like how it turned out, and the rest of my class had amazing paintings as well!


And here are the last few sketchbook paintings I did:

Original is an excerpt from a Caravaggio painting

Original by Joaquin Sorolla

Original by Joaquin Sorolla

I'm in an Orange Mood

In class painting from this afternoon. Joe put crazy red lighting on the model which made for amazing bright oranges and reds. I tried adding his actual eyes, but I thought he looked better without them. I wish this class was two terms long. I'm learning so much!

Another self-portrait I did for homework. I experimented with an elongated, stretched canvas. Stretched canvas is so much better to paint on than gessoed boards. It takes the paint better.

Portrait Painting and Figure Drawings From Last Couple Weeks

In class painting from week 7 of my Portrait Painting class


















5 minute poses from tonight




































10 minute poses from tonight. His shoulders were super boney! I loved drawing them.





































Poses from two Fridays ago




































These were from about a month ago. I really like these two.

Midterm Sketchbook Paintings

Here are some more paintings from my Portrait Painting sketchbook:




Original by Gustave Courbet


















Original was a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci



















Original by Gustave Courbet

















Original by Gustave Courbet



















Original by Rembrandt

Self-Portraits and Such

Me! My favorite one (above)


This is one I did in my painting sketchbook:


I believe the original of this was painted by John Singer Sargent....awesome!

Color Theory, Drawing, and PVC

Music project from Color Theory - Green Eyes by Coldplay


Drawing projects



Expressive self-portrait


PVC projects



Final project for PVC. We had to design playing cards based on another artist's work. I chose Tim Burton. His sketches are really cool and stylistic....plus, he's just awesome.

First Painting Session

Here are the paintings I did in my Portrait Painting class the other day. That class is so much fun!