Favorite Artists: Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Favorite Artists: Stencils of Amy Sherald and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Stencils

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Amy Sherald

Three Fish

I added another fish to my illustration.

Cover Design: Process

Here is a design for my book cover or at least some merch...

Student Painting Number Five

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Title: Alexis

Date: November 2018

Student Painting Number Four

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Title: Patricia

Date: June 2018

Embroidery: Drawing with Thread

I like to work on these when I travel, so these were all made or started around the NAEA Convention in Seattle.

Your Eyelids are Getting Heavy (10-inch hoop)

Viking (7-inch hoop)

Cloudburst Brewing Logo (I will work for beer!) (7-inch hoop)

Process picture

Sara Ramirez Embroidery with Snow Patrol lyrics (10-inch hoop)

Embroidery as Drawing

 I started with a photo I took at the Bronx Zoo two summers ago. 

 

I sketched it in my sketchbook in pencil and then drew over my lines with a black marker.

I traced my marker drawing onto muslin with a pencil.

It was really fun to do and I like how it turned out.

Creating a High Contrast Stencil

Step 1: Take a high contrast photo. There should be shapes that are really light highlights and shapes that are really dark shadows.

Step 2: Trace the shapes that you want to cut out

Step 3: Prepare your background (if you need to.)

Step 4: Cut out your shapes.

Step 5: Spray or paint in the stencil shapes.

Stencil Self-Portrait

Highlights: Find the lightest areas of an image and cut them out.

Spray or brush the light color in the highlight shapes.

Shadows: Find the darkest values in an image. It helped me to draw over them with a black marker.

Cut dark shadows out.

Line up your image with the first stencil color. Spray or brush through the stencil. 

Now you have an image with highlights, mid-tones, and shadows. I think my mid-tones are a bit dark here, so it's not as successful as it could be.

This is from a session I went to at the NAEA Convention in March called "Tag It" A Unit on Graffiti and Stencil Street Art by Deborah Huff. Nasco has published this lesson plan as well.

Painting 3 of Student Series

I Finally finished it!

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas paper

Title: Justin

Date: March 2017

Painting of Student 2

Here is the finished painting.
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas paper
Title: Devin
Date: June 2016

Painting of Student 1

I did my students' assignment with them last year. This student was not in my class, but he asked me to paint him.
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas paper
Title: David
Date: May 2016

Overlapping Implied Shape Prints

Some of the registration is a bit shaky, but I will do more...many, many more.

Going Crazy With Implied Shapes

Can you tell I like doing this?

Implied Free-Form Shapes

Here is a printing assignment I'm doing with my students in Graphic Design.

We use geometric shapes to imply the free-form shape of an object.

Friend #1 Background

I have finally finished Friend #1! Yay.

Now I have to finish Friend #4... :)

Student on Ladder

It only took 30 hours! (That's sarcasm btw.)

Sneak Peek

Although these are not my friends they are students of friends, and it's the same style of those pieces.





You can see that it's not quite finished, but I thought I would share what I have been working on this summer.