Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Picture and Word

Picture and Word was an exponentially rewarding double-credit class about the writing and illustrating of children's books, led by Stacy Graham O'Connell and Judy Sue Goodwin Sturges. During first semester of my junior year I wrote one 32-page children's book per week and also produced one illustration per book to represent each book's potential aesthetic.







For my final I brought one of these books into semi-fruition, creating and binding two fully designed dummy versions to be submitted to publishers. Clarimonde is my response to the prompt to make a Halloween-esque story with significant use of poetic devices (as well as personal critique to focus on creation myth): it is the story about how the raven chose his color, written mostly in unrhymed verse, and its message is one of individualism and acceptance.

The book includes a final draft of my text with full-color sketches of every illustration and a few "final" illustrations. I hesitate to show too much of the book here, because it is now being submitted to studios for consideration, and I'm not sure how the sharing of these images on the internet should work--but I believe that if this book were to be picked up, all existing images would be edited; this final project would ultimately become mutable "sketches" anyway.













The final critique took place in Studio Goodwin Sturges' lovely new Providence location and was augmented by brunch, dogs, and the feedback of special guests from the field.

 



Thank you everyone involved!
Critique photos courtesy of Ivy Tai.

Monday, December 13, 2010

The Alphabet Book.

P is for Purple Haze,
B is for Blueberry Yum-Yum.


And a collage sketch about the Biblical apocalypse.


Saturday, December 11, 2010

Beyonce's having a baby?!

Digital Illustration final 12/6/10. (Drawn with my laptop's trackpad rather than a mouse or a tablet. Yikes.)


Thursday, October 21, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

GOMEK FOREVER

Digital Illustration homework- my first digital painting on Photoshop, as a love letter to my favorite late croc-in-captivity from a zoo I frequented in my Floridian childhood.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Internship with Jewels By Lubeck

Several weeks of silversmith training with Jay Lubeck have resulted in these, my first jewelry pieces made from scratch. Special thanks to Jay and the crew for helping me out BIG TIME! Jewels By Lubeck is an amazing business in the Atlantic Beach, FL area.







My silver pendent was an adaptation of the the fossilized sea lilies I recently saw at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's breathtaking Department of Mineral Sciences.



Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Not at Home: Artist Book

Many thanks to Oren Sherman for introducing me to the idea of an Artist Book. Through guided meditation and writing exercises in his class we all identified important childhood memories in order to find a meaningful subject for our books. A defunct home was my subject, presented as a stage set in a pop-up or fold-out format.





Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Plumage



 



Upon reading Frankenstein in Oren Sherman's Illustration class we were prompted to conceptually "illustrate" a personally relatable moment in the book. I was drawn to the monster's conflict between inner nobility and outer repulsiveness, so I made this peacock out of garbage.