Time Flows Along

I did this assignment for an art therapy grief and loss class. I drew this in response to an art documentary about a man who does artwork that's made completely out of nature. I forgot the guy's name though 0_0.

Name: Time Flows Along
Media: Oil pastels on white paper

Ethnicity portrait

Here's a portrait I did for my multicultural issues class. I drew my portrait off to the side, in the background is the road of my life, and the images around it represent all the things that my family and friends and experiences have gave me to make me into the person I am today.

Some Sketchbook Action

So I have to keep a sketchbook for my Studio Art Therapy class, and here's some doodles I've done in it! 

This is Not the Beginning

This is technically not the beginning of my art pieces that I've created throughout my art therapy journey (if you remember seeing the Papa Smurf portrait, I technically drew that piece for my intro to AT class). But this is the start of me making art in response to my feelings and emotions. This piece was drawn in response to my struggles with doubt over whether or not I'm going to be a good art therapist. Literally, this piece represents me trying to listen to my heart tell me what to do in the face of doubt. My ear represents, well, hearing, the heart represents my heart going cold and not being able to speak, and the thought bubble with the muddled form of a flower bud represents my dreams of being an art therapist becoming muddled in the face of all this doubt. I will eventually make a companion piece that represents me actually listening to my heart <3. Hope you like it!

Portrait sketch

Sketch of a picture of Adele as seen on the cover of a Rolling Stone magazine.

Love God, Love Others, and Make Art

This is how I try to live every day.

Da da da DAAAA!!! Here he is! Papa Smurf :)

Here's my newest drawing! It's a portrait of a guy named Papa Smurf. He is an amazing human being and I worked with him at a nonprofit art organization called Art & Soul. He was so awesome and could connect with the guests on such a deep level! He is also incredibly loving, could spin a story like nobody's business and is apparently a YouTube sensation! Hope you like it! :)

Life Review and Self Box

This is a project I had to do for one of my Art Therapy classes. It's a Life Review in a Self Box!

Decoupage...Bracelets!

Decoupaged these two bracelets in the span of about a month and a half. I liked how they turned out! Thank you Allison Biaglow for teaching me how to decoupage!

Decoupage shoes

So I've been feeling really crafty lately. All my inspiration has come out in making things out of cutting and pasting with modpodge. Case and point: these shoes I decoupaged. I've been kind of neglecting my drawings and paintings in lieu of repurosing things like these shoes. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing or if it just is. Ah well, I know some inspiration for drawing and painting will come soon enough :).

So...

So I've been on this jewelry making kick lately...

RSVPing

An RSVP card I made :).

Da back

Here's the back of the card.

And now for something completely different!

Save the Date card I made for a local gallery in town: 

A Desert Scape

I'm trying out new themes in my work so I decided to take some pictures of the desert in Arizona when I went there over the holidays. This is just a simple pic of some cacti :).

Lodge 4 Under a Pine

This is a drawn version of the water color painting of Lodge 4:

The Bell Amongst Clouds

One of my various drawings from senior year:
The meal bell is a symbol of Holden so naturally, I would draw a picture of it! :). Also, it's really hard to draw clouds in conte crayon!

Yes I'm doing a lot of blog activity today...

This painting is called "The Lady" as it's a painting of one of the boats, called The Lady 2, that leaves from Holden Village and travels back to Field's Point, which is the dock that's back in Chelan, Washington.

And now for something completely different...

This is an older watercolor class assignment of a picture I took while I was in Paris:

"A View of the Latin Quarter"

Some figure studies

Here are some figure studies I worked on during my senior year of college: