A work that displays a female figure in the dilapidated basement of an older building (late 19th- early 20th century). It is intended to go against the traditional Gaze of female objectivity. The title, Obsidian, serves as a metaphor for the act of going into one’s darkness to create a vitreous and sturdy material, just like obsidian as an igneous rock comes from within the earth, initially as liquid lava.
This was a still life created in autumn of 2012 for a Studio Lighting class to get practice using strobe lights.
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 51″ x 39″ (with frame). Natural wood frame created by Lee Walker, artist in Western North Carolina.
Drawing, black conte crayon on Rives BFK. Exploring light, dance, and visual pattern as subjects.
Drawing, black conte crayon on Rives BFK paper. Needs a few finishing touches on the figure and a background put in.
A photo of the stone tanzanite- my favorite blue-violet color!! (photo copied from the website jungleadventuretanzania.4mg.com)
This drawing I did from direct observation in 2005 while standing outside of the Basilica in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, in the sunshine and surrounded by roses in bloom. Colored pencils and graphite on 9 x 12 in. paper in a sketchbook.
This is a wall-hanging made of acrylic paint and iridescent pigment on satin (or a close relative of formalwear fabric such as acetate), suspended on a painted bamboo rod. This piece was inspired by the iridescent blue violet butterfly wings of the Blue Morpho species in the Amazonian rainforests, such as in Peru. The wing patterns in this wall-hanging are not replicas of the Blue Morphos, rather, they are a conglomerate of various wing patterns that I observed in scientific books on butterflies. I did a series of illustrations, using the images in these books as my reference material, and then compiled patterns into these new set of wings on the wall-hanging. I began this piece several years ago, and haven’t worked on it since. There are a few finishing touches I’d like to add but it is almost there.
Created during my freshman year in Foundations, this is a painting of acrylic on canvas paper. A study in the way the eyes perceive color and value shifts. Golden brand acrylic paints rock!
This collage was done using ColorAid paper my freshman year in Foundations. The leaves were drawn from direct observation of a Japanese Maple tree, then traced, so that the identical shapes could be cut out of the various ColorAid pieces.
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