Senior Year Visual Arts

Artist Statement

2010-05-03T05:49:00.001-07:00

Enrolling at the Boston Arts Academy was the best thing I have ever accomplished. Attending school at BAA has dramatically improved my skills as an artist and scholar. I learned an important thing is life, which is to balance these two very important subjects. I have also learned to better by art by incorporating mixed medias, good compositions, strong value, and having a concept. All of these techniques helped me to glide through my high school years; once I had the guidelines down I had started to drift off into my own style and techniques. I love to design images to be printed onto images. Now I produce custom, hand-painted shirts, hats, and shoes, for friends and myself. When I design something first I have to look at the surface that it will be put onto. That is where it starts for me. Everything is a blank canvas for me. Walking down the street past plain doors gets my creativity going. I immediately start thinking about designs for that door. I draw out multiple sketches and mock-ups to try out varied compositions and colors, then choose one and get to work. I get inspired by practically anything; ordinary, every day objects, people, and history. I have a need to design and create things because I have too many ideas in my head and if I don’t get them out I fear I will lose them.

I hope to create my own clothing line in the near future. In this line it will encompass all of my designs and ideas and I would like to have other designers working for me as well. I am a person who really values the concept of characters. On a given week I come up with 4-5 new characters, in this way Sam Flores heavily influences me, He lives in California and has work in a store called Upper Play Ground. My characters are similar to his in the way that the body is either over exaggerated or under exaggerated. I hope to use many of my characters in the clothing line I want to create.

Comic Book Style Character Design

2010-04-30T08:23:00.000-07:00

This is a style I've been working on adapted to a new character. It's done with graphite.

Afro Dude Character Design

2010-04-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

These are several sketches of a character design of Afro Dude and a demonic figure in the right upper hand corner. It's done in graphite, Copic markers, and ink.

Bamboon

2010-04-30T08:19:00.000-07:00

A drawing of a baboon while I was bored. It's done with pen and Copic markers.

Buck Tooth bunny Character Design

2010-04-30T08:17:00.000-07:00

This is A character I've designed named Buck Tooth Bunny. It's done in Copic Markers, Pencil, and ink.

3D Still Life

2009-11-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

My teacher suggested that I do a still life made up of 3D objects. The still life is done with pencil and ink.

Process Still Life Piece

2009-11-03T08:37:00.000-08:00

I am working on accurate form using 3D objects to better my understanding of the human figure.

Critique Reflection

2009-10-28T19:04:00.000-07:00

When my work from Studio Art was critiqued I received a lot of good feedback. My friends and peers agreed with me that I needed to work harder on getting correct proportions of the human figure in figure drawing class. However they really like my use of color and value.

Independent Art Project

2009-10-15T08:40:00.000-07:00

Hello! So my class has started and independent art project in class today. We can do what ever we want, any media, any style. When I went to National Portfolio Day, one of the colleges suggested that I ass more still lives to my portfolio. I really like drawing metal, and I found this out with our last project which was to draw metal objects metal. So I decided that I would do a water color still life of a chair. I really love water color and I feel like painting a chair in this media would turn out as a very strong piece.

Metal Project 1

2009-10-06T20:07:00.000-07:00

The most difficult thing was to capture the apple with the appropriate style so you can tell it's an apple. Something I was successful in was the value in the apple corer.

Art Homework Blender 2

2009-10-01T18:13:00.000-07:00

One and a half hour drawing of half of a blender. Done in pencil.

Art Homework Blender 1

2009-10-01T18:09:00.000-07:00

One hour drawing of half of a blender. Done in pencil.

Cmission Hat 3

2009-09-24T03:29:00.000-07:00

Same hat but this is the underside of the Brim it's done with spray paint and fabric markers. It says : Danny.

Comission Hat 2

2009-09-23T18:41:00.000-07:00

This is the same hat except a different view.

Comission Hat 1

2009-09-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

Hat for a friend with Mickey Mouse on it. It's made with fabric markers.

Body Art 1

2009-09-23T18:33:00.000-07:00

This is a body art piece, done in paint markers.

Home Art 4

2009-09-23T18:31:00.000-07:00

A graffiti piece I drew with pen, sharpies, and paint markers.

Home Art 3

2009-09-23T18:29:00.000-07:00

These two are drawing of people from my mind. The one on the left is done in pen and sharpie. The one on the right is done in watercolor and oil paint.

Home Art 2

2009-09-23T18:27:00.000-07:00

This is a graffiti piece I did with pencil, pen, and sharpies, it says: Mute.

Home Art 1

2009-09-23T18:25:00.000-07:00

This is a graffiti piece I did on Flash, it says: Qewt.

Figure Drawing Class 9/18/09

2009-09-23T18:23:00.000-07:00

Model drawing done in charcoal and pastels.

Walnut Sketch 2

2009-09-23T18:22:00.000-07:00

A sketch of a walnut, done in pencil.

Walnut Sketch 1

2009-09-23T18:21:00.000-07:00

Sketch of a walnut, done with colored pencil.

Walnut Piece 3 In Process

2009-09-23T18:20:00.001-07:00

This is the third and final walnut piece, it's in progress and it's done with watercolor and colored pencil.

Walnut Piece 2

2009-09-23T18:16:00.001-07:00

This is the second walnut observational piece, it was done with walnut ink.

Walnut Piece 1

2009-09-23T18:11:00.000-07:00

This is the first walnut observational project, it's done with pencil.

Katrina's Senior Year Visual Art

2009-09-22T08:35:00.000-07:00

Hello! thanks for coming to my blog. This blog will have projects, drafts, and photos of the steps from projects. I hope you enjoy. Come back soon!