Chop

This is a one inch square lino chop. It is the print that the stamp created after it was carved out of the lino. The print is lack paint on printing paper. This piece has the element of contrast in the black and white colors and it also hase positive and negative space the white being the negative space that did not get paint on it and hte black being the positive space because it is where the black paint touched.

Silk Screen

This piece is made from textile paints on bristol paper. There are four layers, purple was first, red was second, orange was third and yellow was last. The Cateye piece was one of five and they were all done with silk screens. The elements in this piece are color and space because the piece has a large amount of negative space to emphasize the pop of color in the glasses. The elements of design in this piece are contrast and emphasis in the use of yellow against purple and there is emphasis on the sunglasses because there is nothing in the background.

Word Art

These two pieces are centered around the idea of words. The first piece is my name in an Italian beach and the second is a kite that it made all of words for the song, "Let's Go Fly a Kite." The name piece is gouache on cold press and the kite is marker, watercolor, and gesso clouds on cold press. The name piece has the elements of line in the crisp lines on the text and the element of color in the variety of vibrant colors on the umbrellas; the elements of design in this piece are balance in the name placement, pattern in the umbrellas, and movement and rhythm in the ocean. The kite piece has the elements of line and texture in the actual words that make up the kite and the implied lines they create and the texture is in the clouds because they are raised off the board. The element of design in the kite piece is emphasis because it is simply the kite on a plain background.

Jesu

This is an image of an orphan from Ecuador named Jesu. This painting was done for the Memory Project and it will be mailed to Ecuador for her to keep forever as a memory from her childhood. It was painted on canvas paper with acrylic. This image has the elements of value through the variations in skin color and the elements of design are emphasis and balance because the piece is a portrait of this young girl's face and it is symmetrically placed in the middle of the paper.

Change of Seasons

These are two paintings done in acrylic on canvas paper. They are off the same scene in two seasons the top is spring and the bottom is winter. These pieces have the elements of line and color, through the collor schemes of cool colors and the sharp lines of the trees. The elements of design that these pieces have are movement and rhythm through the body of water in the images.

High Contrast

These pieces were all done on cold press board with India ink. The first photo is of my father's 1949 Ford Pickup. The second photo is of my boyfriend and me at prom. The last photo is of my sister Megan. All photos have the technique of high contrast and have the elements of line and emphasis.

Artist Trading Cards

These two piece are done on canvas paper with ink. They were from photographs I took and painted on a small scale. These pieces show the elements of line and emphasis because they both has sharp clean lines and they emphaize the details of the flowers because they are very zoomed in photographs.

Mercy Piece

This piece is on cold press and is painted with acrylic. It is from a photo I took from the Great Hall looking out onto the patio. The elements of design this piece has are space becasue there is a foreground, a middle ground and a background. This piece also has line and color with the frame and the color of the foliage is vibrant and varies.

High Contrast

This is a painting done on cold press and painted with India Ink. I took this image at my cousin, Jeanette's,  wedding.