This is a pointillism art piece of a beachside I completed for an assignment during my junior year at Brother Rice High School.
I made this as an assignment for my art class at Brother Rice High School. The requirement was to draw and color an animal of our choosing using a grid system. This was accomplished by drawing a grid on an image of an animal we found on Google, which in my case was a sloth, and then drawing a grid on a larger poster board, and basing off the grid system of the image of the animal, you draw and color in portion by portion like a puzzle piece.
This piece was created when I was a student at Brother Rice High School. The assignment required us to make a pattern out of a shape, which was a circle, and make patterns within the circle. I wanted to portray my love for science-fiction fantasy monsters, urban cities, rocks, and spirituality. My goal was to create urban/graffiti-like art. I used marker and pencil.
This is a color drawing I did for the fun of it. It's a drawing of the sea monster creature from the 50's Universal monster movie Creature From the Black Lagoon.
The remaining paintings below were created for my Color and Design class, during my freshman year as a requirement for my Graphics Design Minor, at Michigan State University. The assignment required us to exercise our use with paint and create something that was abstract and had some sort of story to it. Each painting is meant to have multiple interpretations and have the viewer make up their own story with what they see.
This is a color drawing I did for fun. I've always loved looking up into the stars at night. Dreaming of floating in space. When I rub my eye and the retina displayed in different colors is what I was trying to portray.
This is a color drawing that I had done for fun. I wanted to create a picture of what it feels like to sleep. I love looking at people rest and seeing someone dream. I wanted to portray this man's dreams outside onto the bed he is laying on. The frog up in the top puts the viewer into the dream of where he is. I want the viewer to feel and hear the sounds of the dream.
This is a color drawing I did for my mother and father. It is a drawing of a photograph taken of us for my graduation from Michigan State University. I gave it to them as a gift and thank you for helping me get through all my years of schooling financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
I drew and painted this piece of paper clips for my art class during my junior year of high school. I experimented with different styles of art from artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock.
This was a comic strip I had made for my art class during my junior year of high school. I wanted to make something that made emotions at the forefront and wasn't grounded in logic or making sense.
This was a color piece I had created for my art class during my sophomore year in high school. We had to pick an animal of our choosing. I chose a scorpion because they have fascinated me in how they are portrayed in pop culture whether it be in Kenneth Anger's experimental short film Scorpio Rising (1963), Ray Harryhausen's scorpions in Clash of the Titans (1981) or Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011) I believe they have always been a symbol of fear or aggression. The different pop culture images on the scorpion and the colorful psychedelic-esque desert in the background represent the multi-cultural influence on the scorpion.
This was an arts and crafts project I had made for a family friend from South Korea. This was to showcase my work of being able to paint on wood and the ability to use different canvases to create artwork that was a gift someone. My dad also helped on this by supplying me with forest appliances.
Drawing that I did of Harpo Marx from Go West (1940) and then colored in the Procreate app on an iPad.