Alphabets Galore!

This was my first time making a repeating pattern and I have to say, it was pretty fun! The pattern here was an assignment for my Handletters class. We had to make a pattern based on alphabets for one of Spoonflower's weekly competitions. I think I'll be making more patterns in the near future :)

Places and Spaces

These were from my last Illustration II assignment, which was to create three environments that conveyed a specific mood (she gave a list of 6 descriptive words to choose from). The three I chose were "simple", "cluttered" and "quiet". Each were done in watercolor with some colored pencil to finish.

tangents

I hope to be like this woman one day..
via COMPAI

Weekends are deadly

Huzzah for procrastination! It's a lazy sunday and I don't want to work at all, so instead I'll post some work. This is a couple years old, but it's a piece that I'm particularly attached to. It's painted in encaustic, which I played around with a lot near the end of my senior year but I've used it less since I went to college. I miss it though...one day I'll start painting again!

Letters

These are some samples from my handletters class this semester. I never knew how fun creating new letter forms could be!

Explorations

Long time no blog! Springtime is here again but it seems to hiding still, only a couple of nice days but now it's gotten cold again. Warm weather will come soon enough though, I guess it just takes time. Anyways, it's been a long time since I've updated so here we go! I know I keep saying this, but really, I will get better at posting more regularly...one day. ;p

These are some pieces that I did for my Illustration class, but were explorations into new mediums - or at least mediums that I was unfamiliar with. Despite some trouble in the beginning, I think these turned out well, but there's always room for improvement.

yarn yarn yarn!

Oy, I do need to get better at posing regularly! These are just some skeins of yarn I dyed this weekend for a weaving course. From these we'll be making "color blankets", just another color study/weaving I'm pretty sure. It's taking classes like these that remind me how wonderful it is to actually make something, it's such a great break from illustration.