Hey everyone, So typically, I do a lot of updating after getting back from a convention, and believe me, I do have a lot to update. However I am experiencing some super computer problems which are going to make it very difficult for me to update the site or the… Read More »Forgive the Lull in Updates
This past weekend I attended Connecticon for the third time. It was located in Hartford, CT at the Connecticut Convention Center. If you missed the fun, you can look into registering for next year at their website. Whether you were there or not, you can read my review of the… Read More »Connecticon is over.
Hey! My brother just released his first itunes single, and I designed the cover art. But I’m not going to show you the art here just yet 😉 If you want to see it, go to your itunes store and search for “Lemon Lime,” by Eric Leva. And while your… Read More »My Art’s on iTunes!
Sadly, I am very disappointed in what I saw on the actual fourth of July in terms of photographable fireworks. We were stationed on the beach in New Hampshire, surrounded by fireworks going off in the distance, but there were very few close enough to shoot. The best shots I… Read More »The Fourth: Food and Fireworks.
Last night I attended another fireworks display, this time in Wilmington. This show was a really dazzling one, but more difficult to photograph because the fireworks went off at irregular intervals making it more difficult than the Lexington show to get the timing right. I got a few good shots,… Read More »Fireworks Round Two.
This post is a visual post more than anything; my favorite part about The Fourth of July is the Fire works, and because the Fourth falls on a Sunday this year, I get to enjoy fireworks all weekend long. Below is a gallery of the fireworks show I saw last… Read More »Fourth of July Visuals
Just a reminder to everyone that Connecticon is happening the weekend of July 9th through the 11th at the Connecticut Convention Center. You can get your regitration online or at the Convention Center. Regular Price: $60.00, Single Day Memberships: Friday Only Membership: $30.00, also available for purchase in person at… Read More »Connecticon is fast Approaching!
I would like to thank the The Colonel Connelly Park Committee, and the Friends of Lake Quannapowitt for having me as a Caricaturist at the opening celebration for a brand new playground built at Colonel Connelly Park on lake Quannapowitt, just off exit 40 of route 128 in Wakefield. Though… Read More »Park Opening at Lake Quannapowitt
Looking for a fun, easy, nearly effort-free activity to do with kids (or not)? You should go to Plaster Fun Time. That’s what I did yesterday. I love that place, and I’m what? 20? And I’ve loved it since I was what? 5?Plaster Fun Time is recommended for children ages… Read More »Fun with Plaster
For my brother’s graduation this past Sunday, I decorated his cap for him, as many students do, to reflect their interests and personalities. The whole thing was done in acrylic paint and sharpie markers. Thanks to two years in college, this cap looks a lot better than my own did… Read More »Graduation cap
For anyone who is wondering, I buy the Mehndi Henna Kit by Jacquard every time I feel like drawing all over people. I think that they recently changed their formula, because this time around, the mixture was MUCH smoother and stained a lot darker, and a lot faster. They also… Read More »“You should charge for this.” More henna.
A while back I designed a business package for a fictional musician or music school with the hopes that it could someday be modified to fit my younger brother’s needs as a free-lance musician. Yesterday, that business package, which included a business card design, came in handy. Now my brother… Read More »Custom Business Card in Commissions Gallery
What to do with these long summer days? I know, I shall learn how to knit! Or should I learn crochet? Let’s do some research on the internet before I invest in one or the other…..lets see….they say that knitting is harder to pick up, but crochet has more different… Read More »To Knit or Crochet?
Late spring is a wonderful time to grab your camera, and head out exploring. Take a hike, go hunt down a few yard sales, and stumble upon a some unexpected treasures in your own backyard. This is what I’ve been doing all weekend, and the sights and sounds that I… Read More »The Spark of Spring
Now that my sophomore year is over, I decided to make a list of what I think are the ten most important things that I have learned this year. They may not be in perfect order, but I tried to somewhat number them by importance. Hopefully, knowing these things will… Read More »Top 10 Things I learned this year
Classes are done for the year! All I have left to work on is some final papers. But as far as studio classes go, I am DONE with work. This is my latest piece from drawing for Illustration. Our assignment was to draw a gargoyle in an architectural setting. Now,… Read More »Gargoyle Illustration
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!
This is the finished version of my second lithography project. After many disasters, I managed to pull four good prints to make an edition. Our assignment was to use a newspaper to inspire our work. What we took from the newspaper, no matter how much or little, was up to… Read More »Second Print
Once again, as part of my science and art class (which is now finished btw) we spent some time becoming familiar with different kinds of paint. This tiny little piece is my very first time working with oil paint! This panel is only 4″x4″ and has been gesso’d and sanded… Read More »First Oil Painting
This week in Illustration, the class built human skulls out of super sculpey, a “ceramic like” polymer clay that hardens after baking. Fresh out of the box the sculpey is quite rigid, but the heat from your hands start a chemical reaction that softens the clay as you work. This… Read More »Building a Super Sculpey Skull
Yes, I’m still on my henna kick. I did this design on my hand today during my film class. I can totally draw and watch movies at the same time. So I would like to clarify, first of all that the henna in these photo graphs is not the color… Read More »A little more on henna
I have completed a new illustration! It has been added to the website’s main gallery as well as the illustration page. This is a graphite 9×12 illustration of a waterfall spirit. Our assignment was to create some sort of denizen of nature. A spirit, or ghoul, or god of the… Read More »Waterfall Illustration
In my science and art class we have been learning about different kinds of paint: how to make them and how to use them. I’ve only ever painted with watercolors and acrylics, so it was my first time using fresco, egg tempera, and oil paints. Egg tempera is traditionally a… Read More »First Egg Tempera
Style and appearance are very important. We can all agree on that right? That people judge you first by how you look, and then by what you do. Hair cut and style is included as a facet of someone’s appearance. Hair can make a person look put together or sporty… Read More »All About Hair Straighteners
Another day of henna in the beautiful weather. Unfortunately, I don’t have pictures of everyone that I drew on.
We’re in the middle of Spring fling 2010 at the University of Hartford, and so far, the highlight of my weekend really has been the henna that I have been doing. I have a few pictures here for you of the work I’ve been doing on people. Henna is a… Read More »Spring Fling Henna 2
As I did last year, I will once again be bringing henna to the festivities of Spring Fling at the University. I am very excited to get started and plan to do some practice henna on myself tomorrow in I have a chance. If not, it will have to wait… Read More »Henna for Spring Fling
So I was very nervous about lithography, as anyone would know if they read my “End of the Year Crunch” post. Fortunately though today in lithography I got more than I thought I would be able to done, and will be printing the first state on Wednesday. I thought that… Read More »Printing Wednesday
I finally have enough pictures of my Sheik costume where I feel I am ready for a critique. I plan to fix up this costume for Connecticon and future cons to come. If you have any suggestions for me on how I can improve, please Critique my costume on the Cosplay.com… Read More »Costume Critique
Really only three more weeks until this semester is over, and everyone–both students and teachers–are feeling the pressure. Those poor graphic designers! They’re reviews are coming up this Thursday and my boyfriend has been in the studio non-stop for three days. Lots of majors are preparing for their portfolio reviews… Read More »End of the Year Crunch
A lot of people have heard of the idea of using duct tape to make a dress form that perfectly matches the model’s shape. It involves wrapping the model tightly in duct tape, cutting him/her out and then stuffing this hollow shell with foam or newspaper or fiberfill. I have… Read More »Duct tape Corsets?
I was so busy with Anime Boston preparations that I never got a chance to write about my visit to the Norman Rockwell Museum! It was the Thursday before Anime Boston, April 21st I believe, that the Illustration department took a field trip to the Rockwell Museum, and then drove… Read More »Norman Rockwell Museum
Today I’ve updated my artistic achievements list as well as the list of cons that I’ve attended to include I-con and Anime Boston 2010.
I got into my major! I passed the sophomore review with a score of 98. I also received a certificate for having one of the top portfolios in my grade! My work is currently on display in the Hartford Art school hallways. 😀 Today in drawing for illustration we learned… Read More »Outstanding Portfolio Award, Bad Illustrations, and New Artwork added to site..
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
Anime Boston is over and I have finally been able to update the costume page for Sheik (Super Smash Brothers: Brawl) with new pictures and information. You can take a look at: http://shaunartcosplay.wordpress.com/completed-costumes/video-game-original-design-cosplay/sheik-super-smash-brother-brawl/ Look foreword to my upcoming review of Anime Boston 2010.
A new online article titled “100 incredible web tools to indulge your creativity” was recently brought to my attention with the hopes that I would pass it on to my readers. The article lists, and gives brief summary of 100 hundred online services that allow the users to create and… Read More »100 creative tools
I just got back from I-Con and have four days until Anime Boston. You can find my review of I-Con at www.shaunartcosplay.wordpress.com
Hello everyone! After much work, my little brother has just entered Ingrid Michaelson’s “Everybody Video Contest.” To make it to the next round, he has to get into the top ten videos with the most views. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDHmTZ1G2_E I was co-editor of the video and provided much artistic guidance, so I… Read More »Music Video Contest
Next weekend I will be attending Icon on long island. It will be my first time at this Con, and with a busy two weeks ahead leading up to Anime Boston, I’m not planning any big cosplays. I did, however, put something together. You can read about it on my… Read More »Attending ICon
Thanks to the 1and1 24-hour support team, the problem loading the main gallery and the RSS feed seems to have been fixed. And hopefully it will stay that way because I’ve just uploaded some old pieces I did in graphic design last year. I just dug them out of storage… Read More »Graphic Design
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
So I’ve made a couple of changes to the homepage and how I will be adding news to the site. From now on, (unless people don’t like it) the RSS feed from this blog will appear automatically as the “latest news” on the homepage of the main site. Updates will… Read More »Changes to the Homepage and New Illustration
Added to the site today under the commissioned work gallery is a logo for a television show titled, “your senior moment.” The show is all about the elderly and is growing in both age and popularity. This gallery update should show on the main site even though the announcement about… Read More »Completed Logo for “Your Senior Moment”
Now that we’ve finally completed our unit on perspective in my drawing for illustration class, we have moved on to anatomy of the human body. We are starting with the skeleton and have been learning all the proportions and ways that the skeleton can move. Drawing from a magazine is… Read More »Learning about the body.
This is it! Tonight is the opening night of the Vagina Monologues. Remember, 7:30 $10 for Students! Come show your support. Plus, I’ve edited the Illustration page of the main website just a smidge. All the same pictures, but they are now listed on the page in thumbnail format. You… Read More »Show Time!
In order to help out with the upcoming performance of the “Vagina Monologues” at the University of Hartford, I designed the playbill. Nothing too fancy. I drew the image and the the letters out by hand and scanned them into the computer to add color.
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
Next Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30, I will be performing in the play “The Vagina Monologues,” written by Eve Ensler, and Directed by Joy Correia and Amanda Hiles, to help raise money for battered men and women. The show is taking place at the University of Hartford, in Aurbach… Read More »Performance in one week