Week Four of the Academy

The assignment for week four was given by Chris Payne. We had to illustrate a conversation/interaction between two people, but the two figures had to be cropped from the sternum up. After watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”, I was inspired to paint two men in an insane asylum.
I don’t know that I conveyed an insane asylum as well as I would have liked, but I really enjoyed doing this painting. On the plus side, I feel that this piece has been a breakthrough for my confidence in watercolor!

Academy Update

Hey everyone! Sorry it has taken me so long to make a new post. I am now at the end of the fourth week of the Illustration Academy, which has been an amazing experience! I have been trying to work outside of my comfort zone by playing with other media, using more saturated colors, and not relying on linework to define my values. Yikes! Let me know what you all think!


The latest assignment we did was given by the one and only, Gary Kelley. We had to pick a color out of a hat, and illustrate it. My color was yellow. I chose to work larger on this piece, but in a media I am more comfortable in. Since watercolor is so fast, I wound up doing four pieces!











The second week was Jon Foster’s week, and our assignment was to illustrate a fictional character and to convey an emotion. I chose Pippi Longstocking because she is a character that I would not normally illustrate. This assignment forced me to use more saturated colors in oil glazes and on a scale much larger than what I am used to.








Our first assignment was given by Mark English, titled,“Slice of Sarasota”. We had to convey a part of the Sarasota lifestyle focusing on composition, value, and color. I did this in acrylic.

Senior Thesis Pieces- Grimms Fairy Tales

Mary said to the hare, "There, there little hare! Do not eat all the cabbages."
-The Hare's Bride


"Ah! Where are your eyes, that you take this place for water?"
-The Hen Roost


But she thought, "How the silly frog does talk. All he does is sit in the water with the other frogs and croak. He could not be fit to associate with mankind."
-The Frog Prince


But at the self-same moment that she plucked the flowers, the twelve brothers were changed into twelve ravens, and flew away over the forest, and the house and garden vanished likewise.
-The Twelve Brothers


When it was bedtime, and the others went to bed, the mother said to the bear, "You can lie there by the hearth, and then you will be safe from the cold and the bad weather."
-Snow White and Rose Red


At last she found a cave behind the house, and in it a very old woman was seated.
-The Robber Bridegroom


The white bride and the black bride.
-The White Bride and the Black One


There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it.
-Stories About Paddocks


After she had been waiting for a short time, a white dove flew down from the tree.
-The Enchanted Tree

The Poppy Field

Watercolor Sketchbook!

Man, Pet, Machine

Celebrity Portraits

Helena Bonham Carter, Truman Capote