Multimedia Still Life

Created in fall of 2014, this piece was one of my favorite pieces I have ever made. This painting/drawing/ collage was created by multiple different medias including acrylic paints, plastic bags, colored paper, pencil, and charcoal. Using different types of texture including including the smooth plastic bag and the wrinkled paper gives the image a unique sense of unity and balance.

Color Book

For this piece of the final project in 2D Design,  we were to present our pieces in a professional and unique way. Throughout the book I wanted to show a sense of relationship and unity from the front to the back cover of the book. By using the complimentary colors (red and green) as the cover of my books it shows a sense of a series. 

The Emotion of Color: Starry Night Sky style

For this piece in the final project of 2D Design we had to choose a famous painting and recreate it 6 different times that can change people's perception of the meaning of the piece. My favorite famous painting of all time is Starry Night Sky. I wanted to use complimentary colors to create a completely different view towards the painting as well as using warm colors to give the painting a sense of temperature and anger. 

Nature of Africa

This painting was created with Acrylic paint in my last months of high school. This photo captures a dramatic sense of nature and the warm colors give the piece a warm "comfortable" feeling. (created in 2014.)

Beauty Captured in Time

This photo was taken at Diamond Head State Monument overlooking the city of Honolulu.

This photo was taken at Spirit of the North resort at Leech Lake, in Walker, MN.

Leech Lake in Walker, MN.

This photo was taken at Niagara Falls, New York.

Niagara Falls, NY.

Scratchboard Works

Scratchboard piece of the assistant captain on the Minnesota Wild hockey team, Zach Parise. (created in 2013.)

Scratchboard piece- closeup of a skeleton with lightning jolting out of its skull. (created in 2013.)

Which is which?

This artwork was created with black paper cut out and pasted to a white background. This piece allows the viewers to make their own thoughts on which color is supposed to be the negative or positive space. This pattern can be overwhelming for the eyes, especially with the darkness battling the white space. (created in 2015.)

Negative/Positive Shapes with Textures

This piece is the same artwork with the negative and positive space. However, adding to the piece by creating different textures also adds more depth, interest, and relationships between the colors and shapes. The stippling effect (far left) adds a sense of "curve" in the shape or depth. The middle piece allows the shape to create a dramatic eye focus on the red opposed to the blue shape. The far right piece makes the viewer focus on the white area because of the amount of lines shown in the piece. (created in 2015.)

Negative/ Posotive Relationship

This piece was created with acrylic paints and color pencil. These different medias allowed me to express the real meaning behind positive and negative spaces in three different ways. The far left square portrays two identical shapes facing each other. I chose these two colors to show a battle between joy (yellow) and romance (pink) battling in between the dying relationship (black) as death. The square in the middle portrays a close up of the border of Africa (inner color borders) portrayed in blue and red. I wanted to add the negative space with the green to show earthy elements. On the far right, this square is another piece with two similar shapes battling with the white negative space. This piece has a personality of its own when the color pencil lines go all directions. This allows the viewer to perceive the direction this piece is supposed to be facing. (created in 2015.)

Shapes and Depth

This artwork portrays different kinds of art terminologies from depth, to shading and shadowing. This piece has no name, but can defy itself by the depth and shadowing shown throughout the piece. Lines/rectangular blocks run across the piece from the left and right side of the piece. There is no real focal point, which allows the viewers eyes to move around the piece willingly. (created in 2015.)