bird screenprint

My first attempt at screenprinting using emulsion... it was a fun process that I would love to go back to

Octopus- Zante print

Zante is one of my favorite printmaking methods because of how closely it is related to drawing. I used a lot of pattern along with line density to differentiate the octopus tentacles from the background.

Relief Print and Woodcut -collaboration

Collaborative printmaking project using relief print and woodcut. It is based off of the idea that the more carrots you eat, the more orange you will get. My portion of the project was the lower half of the person eating the carrot and also the images of carrots themselves.

London

A Day in the Life: London creative brief

While in London, we were given a creative brief from Central Saint Martins School of Art/Design. We worked in pairs to convey "a day in the life" of an object taken from a provided list. My partner and I chose to do a loaf of bread and photographed the making of french toast from the bread's point of view. We chose and abstract approach to the photography with a lot of experimental lighting/compositions.

London Market Business Cards

One of my favorite parts about London was the markets. Each has its own character, so I decided to make business cards to convey my impression of them. The first card is for Portobello Road Market. This one was filled with antiques, so I decided to make a cuckoo clock where I replaced the pine cones with mushrooms. It has a pull out map mimicking the signs used to help guide shoppers through the long road. The second set is for Camden Market. This market had 3 different areas Lock, Stables, and Buck Street. I wanted to keep the mark simple so that I could play with the elements to fit each section. The third, Old Spitalfields Market had little character and the only distinct thing that I found about it was that it was open every day. I make a mock calendar out of the words and the days that had themes (antiques, fashion) had that in the top section. The 4th is my favorite market, Borough. It is a foodie's dream and you can literally sample your way through the entire thing. There is cuisine of every type here. It is pretty self explanatory, but you will leave feeling quite full. The 5th, Brick Lane, was a vintage dominant market with fashion galore. I used a sewing model and measuring tape to flip between the hand made and the fashion feel.

Vitamin Water iphone app

For our final project in illustration we were to take a piece of text and change its form somehow. I've always thought that the witty sayings on the back of vitamin waters are funny, so I went to the store and picked out the rhythm one because I liked the paragraph on the back about finding your rhythm. They connect the vitamin water's ability to help increase your heart beat with helping you find your rhythm in dancing. Off of this, I decided to make a game app for an iphone that would be for loyal customers. For only a few dollars you could buy the app and after catching the right combination of vitamins from the "electro-lights" you will receive a coupon for a free vitamin water zero rhythm. I called the app "Zero Rhythm" and designed a menu, directions, game screen, coupon, icon, and app advertisement for the label.

Video Interview

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For my first experiment with video, I decided to interview the food truck guy on main street here at UD. He is more than just a food truck guy though. Bennie Dollard is a former executive chef who creates delicious tasting (and smelling) food with all of the equipment that he has.

Honorable Mention!

It was new for me to see people actually looking at my work at the Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed Juried Exhibition. I was really happy that they placed it in a great spot right by the entrance. "Blown Disguise" (the piece on the left) got an honorable mention!

Event Signage

The second half of the Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed Juried Exhibition involved us making signage for the event. My group went off of the halftone dots from the first part for a banner in the window along with scattered white dots to draw attention.

illustrated letterform

This past project was very research based. We were to make a letter form based off of a topic that we chose to explore. I've always been interested in Native American history, so I chose to research the medicine wheel. The medicine wheel is the main concept of spirituality in the Native American culture and is all about the continuity and harmony of everything in nature. I STILL cannot decide between my more realistic representation (bottom) of the harmony of nature, or my one (top) that includes more graphic patterns. I'm leaning toward the top letter form, but we'll see if that changes after crit tomorrow...

Not Yet Famous Artists Revealed (Juried Show Installation)

"flip to reveal"- entry form below!

Our Call for Entries "poster" ended up being an installation piece made up of the entry forms themselves. We used half tone dots to draw the viewer in. From far away the image appears as disguise glasses. Each sheet has a "flip to reveal" dot on it and the entry form is below. We chose to do 3 different colors of forms to make it more visually interesting as the forms are removed. Dots are installed on the floor to further engage viewer interest.

Juried Show entry form

Every year Delaware holds a juried undergraduate student art show. The juniors are in charge of designing the entry forms and "call for entries" posters/installations. Here is my group's entry form based off of the installation in the post above.

Article Response

For the "aesthetic and emotion response" assignment we were to find a newspaper article and respond to it. The purpose was to not avoid illustrating what the article said and just to make a piece based off how we felt about it. I read an article about a baseball pitcher who almost died by being hit it the head with a line drive. It lead to the development of a pitcher's helmet, which is its way to becoming a mandatory piece of equipment for all pitchers to avoid these types of injuries. I decided to focus on the helmet's connection to life/death. I used the helmet "plug" and an electrical outlet as a metaphor for the need to plug in (or wear) a helmet to save lives.

The Food Bank of Delaware is in need of new designs for their various projects. My group chose to work with the "Plant-A-Row" program. This program works to raise awareness of how local and home gardeners can donate surplus produce to the food bank. We used these local gardeners as our main audience and stuck to a friendly/quirky approach. We wanted to make sure to include a tactile quality to the pieces so that it would be something the audience would want to keep.

brochure front

brochure inside

brochure back

email

poster (with tear away tabs)

Mixed Media Illustrations

For this project we were to choose 6 words from a list that we were given and illustrate it somehow. The guidelines were to use at least two mediums per piece. Experimentation was the goal. A few need to be gone back into, but here is what I have for now...

Double
(acrylic, colored pencil, hand stitching)

Dust
(wood, graphite, pastel)

Savor
(hot glue, watercolor, ink, cardboard)

Old Fashioned
(sandpaper, tracing paper, graphite, acrylic)

Beneath
(Cork, oil pastel, watercolor)

Caged
(wood, hand stitching, cut paper, pastel)