Branching

 

Details: ink pen sketch paper

Pentagon Tree House

Its been a weird sort of week thus far. Though I did get free chocolate covered espresso beans yesterday. Score one for me but over all strange week. All the same I'll add my latest greatest tree house drawing and see what happens. 

Thank you to everyone that's been so supportive the past couple of months/years.

Details: Ink pen on paper.

Family Tree House

 

I feel that this tree house would be similar to one that my father would make with the help of my brothers and myself. Its simple in design and seems to dare a mothers since of reality that no one will be harmed while clamoring up and down in playing. Which adds to the adventure in the climbing.

Details: Ink on paper.

Birds Nest Tree House

This one has to be one of my favorites so far I love the way the spiraling stair case worked out. No matter what my design professors say about spiraling stair cases. The platform and actual tree house turned out better than I had expected which was a pleasant surprise and the composition as a whole makes me happy.

Details: Ink of paper.

Double Decker Tree House

Haven't been in the best of moods as of late, we'll blame it on the weather and high stress levels. All the same here's one of the four tree houses I've been working on as of late. Please enjoy; even if it feels a little off balance.

Details: Ink pen on paper.

Camper of the Skys

This tree house is to all you modern fending kids out there. Most of my works seem to be somewhat tip towards the rustic in style/nature. Decided to stepping out a touch and playing with recreating a metallic/steel material. Which was fun since haven't tried while working with pen in a long while. 

As I was working on it had a strong feeling/connection to one of those 60s pull behind campers but then again that might just be me. I am happy with the out come and love the Doctor Seuss style hat to this little tree house home.

Cottage of the Sky

I started working on creating new tree house works, this is the second of the two newest siblings. They make me happiest and I've had some request for new ones.

Details: Sketchbook paper, ink pen

Sailing

Been working way too much the past week, to took me a full week to finish this drawing. Granted was kind of struggling with my perspective of Red but still shouldn't have taken me that long. Will try to do better. Let me know what you think about Red taking to the seas. 

Details: sketch book, ink pen.

Picnicking

Home version one, planning on rework this concept really love this one but feel that it could be a touch more interesting and the perspective feels a little off to me. Let me know what you think and if anyone else has ideas of which direction to take the rework.

Details: sketch book, ink pen and color pencil.

Meeting Noise to Noise

Red

As promised and possibly eagerly awaited my character study of Red. Possibly a more modern take on the young woman but I feel a little closer to truth of charter. Thank you Danny, for working as my photographer.

Details: Ink pen, color pencil on sketch book paper.

Red Watch's City

It's been a wild and woolie couple of months, with the gaining a new exciting job, quitting an old one, moving and then finding my new job not to be so perfect. Being fired and lucky enough to find two very part time gigs to pay the bills for a while. 

I am back and with the help of my sweet boy who was kind enough to give a gentle nudge I am back to drawing. (Trying rebuild ones confidence.) All in all I am happy with one of my newest creations. I have been working on my own version of Little Red Riding Hood. This is her second appearance in my hand-dandy new sketch book. The first being a character study which will hopefully one day appear. It's been fun none the less and I hope someone finds joy in my newer works as I work to have a positive happier outlook this year.

I do always find its interesting that when artist create cityscapes no matter the time frame it's  all new construction or lovely old worn buildings. Hardly a mix which is funny because in the world in which we live is most certainly a mix.  Good or bad it becomes part of our world so why not allow that to inform our envisioned cityscapes?

Details: sketchbook paper, ink pen and color pencil.

Floral Shop Across the Street

A quick drawing of the floral shop entry on Spring Garden.  It's a pretty entry though fairly certain they do not allow guest to this door which is a shame.  As always let me know what you think.  Thanks.

Details: Black ink pen, red felt pen and green highlighter on 1-800-Radiator stationary.

Handmade Sketchbook

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you all.  It's been a little crazy as of late, between job hunting, working and helping putting together a competitive club Ultimate Frisbee team with two awesome guys in the Durham area been a little stressed.  Honestly can not even bring to mind last time I was able to sit and draw and be creative.  One of these days it'll be better.  But I digress here is the project that I was working on before everything went to crazy.  


I designed and developed a sketchbook serious that uses recycled sketchbook paper.  Between being a design student and love for odd shaped and textured paper I have a lot of half used sketchbooks and notebooks.  I pulled these pages out and created a cover and back out of chipboard, covered in wrapping paper and binned with an old tank top, heavy duty thread and duck tape.  A good friend of mine took these images for me of her loved sketchbook.  These creations have come out of my need to build something and love the playful nature.  I wanted to create a sketchbook that had a langue of it's very own, no two books are alike and allow the artist to build on this.  I know I write and draw in my sketchbooks and this seems to play host to those efforts easier than the uniformed typical notebooks.  

I have the jungle themed books as well as some dump-truck which are reinforced with black duck tape on the outside edges for those who have the drops; as a way to protect the edging and works within.  Most of the books I have created so far have around 50 assorted pages.  Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in one of these fabulous creations.


Details: assortment re-used paper, duck tape, heavy duty thread , re-used t-shirt, chipboard, craft glue.
Images donated by: Caroline Hill

New Project in Works

For those who are following my blog closely I've been working on a new project.  Which I am super excited about.  It's a lot of fun, utilizing found materials and reworking them in a similar usage but very different orientation.  Already received some positive feed back from a good friend but waiting to unveil when completed with suggestions.

Thanks for your patients.

Mixed Media Project

My boyfriend was trying to get one of my old flash drives to work.  He found so many of my works that I thought lost for sure when my computer died my backup died and my backup of my backup was erased.  It made my day for sure.  This one is super old but one of my favorites has been hung up in every dorm, house and apartment that I've lived in past ten years. Had it scanned while I was at UNCG and cleaned it up a bit, age is rough on loved ones sometimes. 

It is a cut and past project from my high school art class, was suppose to fanned but loved it so much as is just couldn't.  Won a mixed media computation back in it's hay day.  Created from an old Vogo magazine; it's two girls faces and rather large.

Piece of School of Athens

Re-posting.  Since I am reaching back into some of my past works.  Here's one that came from about the same time as the outdoor school garden.  One of my favorite watercolors to date even if it didn't turn out like I had planed.  This work was part of a larger assignment, as a class we were given sections of the work 'School of Athens' and we were to make our own interpretation of our piece using whatever media we liked.  Then to piece the work back together as a whole.  Over all created an interesting piece with lots of depth and difference in color, style, background and understanding.

Conceptual Reuse Gardenscape

RE-POSTING.  This is one of my favorite works from my last full year at UNCG.  We were working with a local Greensboro school on revamping a new high school; one of the first sustainable in the nation.  It might be sustainable but not an easy space to work nor learn in.  I adopted the art room to work on and really focused a lot of energy on there out door patio.  The patio is on the south side of the building and sits about 100 feet from the visitor parking lot.  I was working to tie not only a sustainable/reuse aspect but pull in the idea of the existing environment as well.  The sunscreen above is made up of used tires, bolted into reused I-beams.  With old car parts/mufflers and the beams acting as support for the pant life.  There would also be flower pots and benches made up from junked car parts mostly bumpers/fenders.  

I really did love this part of the project and still is one of my favorite drawings.  It's a rather large drawing by the way drawn on 36" by 24" newsprint with ink pen.  (For the studio I had chosen to use a 36" by 24" newsprint pad.)

Torn Up

Been feeling a little lost and discombobulated as of late.  Was laid-off not only once but twice end of last week.  Lucky to still be working but don't know how I'll pay my bills.  

I've had this part of a drawing for a while.  Had been working on a full ink drawing but got lost on the other half and ended up getting frustrated and ripped the drawing into to pieces.  This part still made since but just a part of the whole.  Feel like my life is sort of along the same path right now.  Don't know where I am going or what I'll do; where's my other half?  Original idea was to lay it out on black paper so that you could see the rips.  Feel like hiding that aspect is a little more suiting right now.

B Ball Logo

It's been awhile; promise haven't completely abandon you all.  Been really excited about this t shirt design and have been wanting to share it for a good while.  Been putting off posting it in hopes of giving a friend of mine time to unveil the surprise first ever Levin JCC Basketball league shirts.  Like always let me know what you think.