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"I only care to live to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness"

John Muir

Final Portfolio

1: Wallpaper

2: Mixed Media

3: Propaganda

4: Final Project (Mixed media wallpaper)

Limited Edition Print inspiration

A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually.

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world" - John Muir

Echinacea

Invasive plants are a major problem in the United States, our native landscape is slowly being overtaken. One of the main problems is that many people don.t know which plants are native and invasive. By creating a poster with the native plants, gardeners are aware of the native plants that are ok to plant in their garden.

For my final Limited Edition print Im creating a poster that illustrated the native hardy perennial species. I have done simple line drawings and colored them with a light wash of watered down acrylic paints. I scanned them and used photoshop to arrange them on the page.

This is Echinacea purpurea, the purple cone flower, which is my all time favorite plant.

limited edition print inspiration

some inspiration for my yearbook "montage that doesnt look like a montage" idea...

Save the Rainforest

I am very pleased at how my recycled chandeliers came out. I wasn't expecting the shadows to be so prominent on the walls. Im upset I wasn't able to project an image of the rainforest on the walls but since it wouldn't have covered the entire room, it wouldn't have looked as good as it did in my head. With the rainforest the shadows wouldn't be visible, so it worked out for the better.

Waking Up Early

I'm seriously considering doing this: http://the99percent.com/tips/6954/the-1-step-plan-for-super-productivity

When I interview creatives, I often ask them what advice they would give to the next generation, the up-and-comers. Curiously, there’s one incredibly important habit that nearly all of them possess that is almost never mentioned. So what is the secret ingredient in their productivity regime? It’s simple: They get up early.

I feel like i have a lot more time when I get up early and try to work.

3D Project Inspiration

For my 3D Propaganda project, I am creating a series of paper dolls to promote eating disorder awareness. This image is my an artist named Lisa Perrin, who creates a lot of paper dolls and recently commissioned these for a museum gift shop.

mixed media project

This is an image of my final mixed media project. For this project, I was inspired by vintage beach photos. I began with a bunch of found imagery and compiled a montage in photoshop. After printing this on canvas paper, I did some illustration over top to enhance the collage idea further. I kept the illustrations in the same style and muted colors as the photos felt. I am happy with the final product. However, I think this piece could have benefited by being larger in size.

the Curtain

I present to you the Curtain of Leaves. Im really pleased how it turned out and it has inspired me for further projects to go bigger and bolder. I enjoy working with fabric and other non paper materials and will take that idea into my next project.

Wallpaper

This is a portion of my final wallpaper. The simplicity and crispness of the lines helped to achieve the look I was going for. By having a simple line drawing, the lines turn into shapes and overlap creating new shapes. It becomes less about the plants and more into an organic pattern that grows up and down the wall.

I also tried the pattern in different color combinations and each one looks really nice. Its interesting to be able to change the colors based on your mood of the day. If only there was a way for rooms to change colors based on your mood haha.

Curtain of Leaves

For the third project I drew simple line drawings of leaves, mainly tropical/ tender perennial plants, then scanned them into the computer. In Illustrator I then used live trace then copied and pasted, changes the size and orientation and printed on the pre gessoed canvas.

To make my unique mark I painted into the leaves with oil paints in greens and dyed the back of the canvas with purple dyes. I cut out all the leaves and sewed them into the curtain. This is a sneak peak, the full curtain will be revealed in crit!

Wallpaper

I just realized I never posted my finished wallpaper. It's a solar system that tiles both vertically and horizontally. I printed it 4-up on 72x24 inch paper, but I'd rather have printed it at the right size. It's an Illustrator document, so it's easy to scale.



I did have a minor problem with printing. Mars wasn't right up against the edge, so I had a very small blue line going right through its middle.

Mixed Media Artist

So for the mixed media project, I've decided to deviate from my normal (pretty colors!  illustrator vectors! etc!) aesthetic and do something a little...creepier.  In honor of the up coming halloween holiday, of course.

Here's a little taste:

Milton Glaser

Since my project for mixed media is a collage project, I thought I'd look at some collage artists. One artist that Bill Deering recommended me to was Milton Glaser. Although I was looking for torn paper collage artists, Glaser does do cut paper collage, as you can see in this image.



Even though the image is 2D, it appears to have a dimensionality to it. I have another project that I'm going to do with torn paper, and figuring out a way to give a dimensionality to it is a very important aspect of the piece, even though the final result will be digital.

Finished Wallpaper

Here's a screen shot  of what my final wallpaper turned out to look like.

I think if I could do it again I might make each tile a bit bigger, so as not to be overwhelmed by so many lines on such a large surface area.  Other than that, I'm very happy with how it came out and I'd actually love to hang it in my room.  I actually have it tiled as by desktop on my laptop.  :)

WALLPAPER SAMPLES.