a mother's love, finished

I do really like how this came out in the end. After spending over two weeks on it from start to finish, I feel accomplished! XD

update on a mother's love.

a mother's love

A painting in progress for school - I'm changing my direction a bit, and taking a look at filial cannibalism in hamsters! So far this one is really tough to tackle and I keep on reworking it, reworking all the different parts. I like the visual of the mother hamster literally just STUFFING her own baby into her mouth though. Hope I can make the image work.

Mother

Two soft pastel drawings in school, still looking at parents' roles in the family.

posters

Ah, I've been neglecting my poor sketch blog! School's been eating me up. Anyway - lame way to kick off after my long absence, but here are a couple of projects I did for some teachers.

The Roots and Shoots group at school needed some kind of banner designed. Initial design sketches:They liked the first one the most - I modified it for a portrait poster-type banner, and here are the finished banners!Also was asked to come up with a poster for the upcoming art exhibition for the Grade 12 art students. (yes, there are only 5 this year, and yes, those are their gorgeous paintings!) Designing this poster gave me such a huge headache (I did 7 different versions before the teacher gave it the okay) but they all seemed to like how it turned out, so I'm relieved!

Dad progress

Worked more on this piece yesterday. Not sure if it's 100% finished yet - I might add a more greyish or reddish tinge to the background, but I think it looks pretty good at the moment too!

Dad

Started another piece for school - still building on the theme of family dynamics. The old man is the little girl's father - I'm trying to show that melancholy feeling you get from watching your parents grow old.

biology

We get write-ups and stuff for Bio, and drawing diagrams to go with the information makes the process just a bit funner. XD Here are some I've done for various assignments over the past couple of months.

My baby

A piece based on those early fetus paintings I did. Submitting this for one of my final pieces. I'm pretty happy with it overall, but the coloring almost borders on too shiny and glowy and not really the chunky solid style I'm more fond of.. what do you guys think?

Texture from cgtextures.

fetuses (blood)

I was thinking about the different stages of life for my art topic for school, and somehow ended up painting these unborn babies.
These next two were done after I had looked up photos, so you can see the difference. As a future warning to anyone who reads this, you do not want to search "fetus" in Google images unless you have a strong tolerance for blood. Trust me. XD;

Class of 2010

Some designs for the class T-shirt!
I think we're going to use this speech bubble one.

school paintings finished

back to school stuff!

I've been unhappy with anything I've done for art class this whole year so far.. so this semester I'm gonna just PUMP these pieces out and hope something good comes out 8DD I am still very much a beginner in painting... just experimenting with technique and trying to develop a method of doing this right now.

drip drip glub glub

I finished my first large piece for 'Growing up'! This'll be my final piece for this quarter. I'm hardly happy with it, but I don't have time to do a new piece. I'll do a better one next time! *determined arm pump!*
Here's one piece of the large painting the mural painting club has been working on for the past two months:
That's the section our group was working on! :D glub glub

wet hair

Acrylic painting for art class. Really don't like how it's turning out. I should really have used a reference, specially since I stupidly picked an angle I'm unfamilliar with XD;

Jessica finished

I like her original expression more. It somehow morphed into this on its own though. XD

Jessica

The topic I've chosen for my series of works in IB Art is 'Growing Up'. Here's the start of my first piece, just something sort of simple and figurative - my baby sister Jessica! She's 13 months old and growing every day; I thought she would be a perfect subject to start my project with.

Environment prelim. pieces

Our topic for art class was environment. Here are the preliminary, experimental type pieces I did. It feels really good to work with traditional!

Acrylic paint, on a piece of wood broken off a board. Ink wash on watercolor paper.And this last one is a more abstract experiment - sort of was influenced by Judy Watson, who I had to research for a presentation. This one was fun because I had no idea what I was doing and I didn't worry about anything. I just built the texture up with glue, paper and scraps underneath.

bikes

Done in art class. Bad scan!

my lovely friends

Yesterday was my last day at school. I just sketched and painted my friends in art class. Kitty, Squish and Jordan, I'll miss you guys!