Splat Cat

This is a paint splattered cat we did.  I like it a lot, though that might be because it has a cat in it.  This was a fairly simple one to do and if I did it again I'd probably end up putting a more complex patern on it.

Cartoon Portrait

The background is of a burning forest and the cartoon is of Syaoran Li with my arms around his shoulder.  My left arm is overlapping his neck and then his neck overlapps my right arm to help it look more real. I had to get rid of the feathers that were floating by too him but you can't really tell where they were. 

Angry Pancake

We made our angry pancakes while learning how to use photoshop.  This was fun and just the name angry pancake is very amusing.  If I were to do it again I would hope it would come out better than this one but I still really like it for my first try.

Frog toungue

This was the second thing we did in computer art.  This one was even more fun and turned out much better than the last one.  We were still learning new things in photoshop but not as many though it took even longer to make.  I'm very happy with it and hope my work continues to improve.

Time Shoe

Taking ink you can water it down to make shades and patterns.  Time Shoe was inspired by passing time.  Time enamors me, so the heel ended up an hour glass and clock hands were put on the shoe itself.  The whole thing is bound by a thread with a pendulum like weight at the top.  The thread is to symbolize how we are all mortals bound by time that eventually ends for us.

Flourished Phoenix

When working with ink, flourishes are often used.  This phoenix is made of black ink and was originally just a bunch of random squiggles and flourishes but seemed to take form and flight on the page of my altered book.

Tangled Feelings

My overlapped figure drawing, Tangled Feelings, is quick marker outlines of people painted in with water color any color but the original overlay the blue red and purple tangled background.  Each person carrying a particular emotion in their pose.

Social Isolation Through Technology

 These are three photos I took showing how even though technology allows us to "interact" more even though we are spending more and more time alone.  People will often sit for hours at a time as they “interact” with others, never actually seeing or talking to another. We can even be in the same room without truly being together, so distracted by our technology today.

White Rose

White Rose was inspired by Chuck Close who does lots of large portraits, sometimes of himself and sometimes of others.  It's a double self portrait using acrylics and medium.  It's double because it was finger painted.  A picture of me with my finger prints all over it. 

Shadow Bugs

By pouring small amounts of ink onto a sheet of paper and blowing it you can get strange intricate patterns such as here in Shadow Bugs.  Each of the three spindly shapes remind me both of dark dancing shadows and of insects.  I tend to imagine the two above fighting the one below.