Still life painting studies

Acrylic object studies for my "tide pool" class with professor Alice Carter, a.k.a Bunny. Right now I am preparing to design/paint/render three Shakespearean forests this semester. The three forests are from Macbeth, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Nights Dream. Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to this semester!

Paris Streets

Water color and pen drawing I did as a gift for a friend's birthday. Working from one of Priscilla's awesome photos of Paris.

Paris Sketches

I spent the month of June in Paris, taking a class on creativity with my professor John Clapp. During that time, my outlook on life and art changed drastically thanks to the creative exercises and constant wise words of John. Self exploration became the theme of the trip for me, so the sketchbook I carried contains mostly notes, scribbles, and some journal entries. Here are some pages I thought looked finished enough to put on the blog.

Color Rendering, Acrylic

This is the 80 hour color rendering I did for my intermediate illustration class. The original painting is 8x8 inches. I used the low key, limited palette adjusted with a touch of yellow-orange for the final piece. Below are color comps, experimenting with analogous, atmospheric perspective, limited neutralized, and split complimentary color pallets.

First Plen Air, Acrylic

Plen air painting with Cameron Chun, the instructor for my intermediate illustration class, and the rest of my peers at Monte Bello near the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was my first time ever painting outside and painting a landscape. I think I have discovered my new passion!

Portraits

Portraits I did for Sheldon Borenstein's advanced life drawing class.

Figure Drawings

A few figure drawings from the past Spring semester. The bottom two I used for the SJSU A/I portfolio. Yey! I got in the program! The top two figure drawings were done after I finished my portfolio. After that, my figure drawings improved a good amount. Maybe I was celebrating through my drawings. Hmmm...