If you want something for your community, sometimes you have to do it yourself. That’s why I’m donating my time and professional expertise as a recent appointee to the board of Artworks of Westfield, Inc. Artworks is a non-profit organization who’s mission is to bring arts and culture to the… Read More »ArtWorks of Westfield
For the entire month of June I will be exhibiting some of my brightest watercolor paintings in a Solo show at the iYo Cafe in Davis Square, Somerville, Ma! Though the subject of the work varies, the collection was assembled primarily for its warm-weather feel. I would describe the bunch… Read More »Solo Art Exhibit at iYo Cafe in Somerville, MA
Last week with the snow storm of the decade looming, bundled up in front of my computer, I decided to pick up my Wacom tablet and paint a picture digitally. I am not a very experienced digital painter. I’ve only completed a small handful of pieces on the computer before,… Read More »An Exorcise in Digital Painting
Woo! Life is busy right now. I recently started a new job as Head of Advertising and Promotion at the University of Hartford Art School MFA in Illustration Program, and I just got back from New York Comic Con! Now, I will be on the road again this Thursday to… Read More »Old Worlds New Views, Exhibition of Artworks from Ghana and Sicily.
In less than two weeks, over 140 local artists of Lowell, MA will open their doors to the public for the 12th annual Lowell Open Studios Event. With over fifteen studio locations throughout the heart of Lowell, this two day event is a great opportunity for the community to buy… Read More »Lowell Open Studios, October 6th & 7th, 2012.
The commissioned work gallery has been updated with the latest portrait of a house completed for a local real-estate agency. Done in watercolors and black ink, this “fluffy” watercolor portrait is light and simple, and makes for a wonderful gift by which a seller can remember their former home.
Here is the first assignment from my oil painting class. Our task was to define an alter-ego for ourselves, and to paint our likeness on this fantasy identity. I decided that my alter-ego would be an exotic snake charmer, hiding from the dessert sun in her lavish arabian, or maybe… Read More »Alter-ego: The Snake Charmer
This is what we call a stock image. It’s a vague, metaphorical piece that could be applied to a number of projects. Painted with oil, this cheerful piggy bank is perfect for an add for savings accounts, or an article on financial growth. It could also be a an image… Read More »Stock Pig
Here is another figure drawing done in burnt sienna colored pencil, with white and cream for the highlights. I also worked in some henna colored pencil where the light comes out of shadow to give the figure some life. It looked pretty lifeless with just burnt sienna.
I really like how this Illustration came out. I knew that I wanted to paint sushi, but if I was going to spend fifty hours on a painting, it needed to be something really interesting and befitting of my unique sense of humor. So I just went for it. I… Read More »Fish People
Black and white pencil illustration of a scene from Jack and the Beanstalk. When Jack traded away his family’s last possession, a cow, for magic beans from a stranger, his mother, in anger, threw them out the window. The next day, Jack found that the beans had sprouted into a… Read More »Jack and the Beanstalk
This is a pencil drawing illustrating a scene from the story of Noah’s Arc. When the great biblical flood was over, it is written that God sent down a rainbow as a signal that he would never flood the earth again. This is the scene where Noah, his family, and… Read More »Noah’s Arc
This set of two is my completed final project for Lithography. Typically, when I set out to compose a work, I try to put together a window that allows to viewer to see into a complete scene. As an illustrator, I deal with narrative, setting, and continuity. Foreground, middle-ground, and… Read More »Third Print: My turtle!
For those of you who are interested in learning about the optical phenomena, here is a research paper that I wrote on aerial perspective. I would like to remind everyone, before you read, that plagiarism is lame. This paper is here for your enjoyment and education. Not for you to… Read More »Aerial Perspective.
Warning–this post contains pencil sketches of nude figures for education purposes. After five sessions, my Illustration class has concluded its unit on drawing directly from the figure. Prior to drawing from a model, we learned from a model skeleton about the correct proportions of the human body. We were given… Read More »Drawing from the Figure
Two days and a row! New Illustration piece in the main artwork gallery and illustration page. This piece is a 9×12 graphite pencil drawing on white paper of a landscape. The scene is of very old ruins; all that remains are rocks that once made up the structures. The ground,… Read More »More New Artwork
http://www.gardnermuseum.org/ Today, my boyfriend and I took a trip into the city of Boston to see the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which neither of us have ever been to. Admission was only $5 for college students, $12 for adults. The Museum is the work of Isabella Gardner, who collected paintings,… Read More »Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
This Sunday I spent the entire day doing a photo shoot with my younger brother in order to promote him as a musician and give him some nice pictures to put on cds and posters. His myspace is located here: http://www.myspace.com/ericleva And the fruit of our labor can be found… Read More »Promo Photoshoot.