Sketchy Sketchy

These are my sketches over the past few months. I am heavily inspired by my favorite movies. I used my love for film, cult classics and anime to be the inspiration behind my sketchbook. I have about 50 more pages to fill of this I think .. Hopefully I'll be able to post the full sketchbook on here soon!

Fresh Off The Press- Lost Myself

Went to print on a few of my images. Just a sneak preview into my next series! This is only one technique I used so far, but I am planning on using at least 2-3 more techniques to present my overall meaning. Anyways, you'll see the end result by Tuesday :)

Lost Myself

Sorry about being absent for the past week or so! School on top of being sick hasn't been the best duo for the past week. Its been awhile, but I wanted to show what I've been currently working on. "Lost Myself" is a series in which I explore the complete immersion of oneself into drugs/drinking to escape the world but in turn the escape themselves. Its still in the early stages, but I will be having the complete series finished by next week! I put this series on the back burner for the past few months so I'm super excited to see the full potential of this series!
Also, Happy October! I still don't know what I will be doing for Hallows Eve but It sure will involve tons of scary movies, haha.

Love For The Endangered

For all of those who know me, you know that I have always been a huge animal lover. Animals are God's given creatures to help this world survive. They have the purest souls. I've been following WWF for a while now. WWF is the World Wildlife Fund. This organization helps the world's citizens find out who the endangered species in this world are and how to stop them from extinction. I personally I always have wanted to be an animal activist but since starting school I had to put it on the back burner for a while. But now I feel there is more of a NEED for me to help. About 50% of the world's wildlife has declined in the last 40 years! And now is the time to act. I don't know of any better way to help than doing this through my artwork. So I will be painting an endangered animal every month and the artwork will be sold as a donation to WWF for their research and investigations. When my art piece sells ALL of the funds will go to DONATION, and with the painting you'll get a sheet of info about the animal painted and a receipt of contribution to the WWF organization. I hope that you guys will help me spread the word! Our world depends on it. And this little guy below will be my first painting to kick this off, so what better way than to paint WWF'S cutest panda!

Fall Tea!

Fall is here and I picked up some awesome teas from Teavana. I love tea more than any other beverage. So I picked up two new fall teas. The first I picked up Pumpkin Spice Brulee which has a sweet and chocolate-y taste. This tea was super amazing especially when I'm craving a (not so healthy) pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks.The next one I bought is a S'mores oolong tea. At first I thought it would be really weird tasting.I couldn't really pin point how it would taste/ But when brewed it silenced those thoughts. The tea has a gentle chocolate and smooth flavor and the marshmallows that were in the tea leaves added to the delicious nostalgic taste . Both of these teas will be great replacements for my coffee and will be carrying me along through the fall.

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Super excited!

My website is finally coming along! This is huge for me!! My website is basically a photography portfolio of past work and an where I will announce and show my future photography projects. My website will be open to view by the beginning of October :)

Photo Series- Home Safe Home

Home Safe Home

When I created this photo series I wanted to pursue almost nurture vs. nature or even human vs. nature; I did this by photographing interiors and exteriors of two very different types of houses. The nurture vs. nature aspect comes from how a house can become a home and also how a house can resign to nature itself. Where I live there is a street full of abandoned houses. The houses have been abandoned for months now and are starting to blend back into nature. These houses to me have a stoic, statue like behavior. There is no security or comfort being displayed. When I was taking images of these houses I felt unwelcomed, impatient, and uncomfortable. The nurture or human aspect I conveyed by taking images of my own home and recording the human existence with in its walls. I chose to focus a lot on images that seemed to mirror the abandoned houses well.  I wanted my home to convey comfort by how the house looked somewhat cluttered. To me, clutter means comfort. I feel as though clutter is a visualization of life. My home has a feeling of existence that the abandoned houses did not. I wanted to keep most of my pictures in a warm tonal color. I also really liked playing with depth of field in this series, especially with the walls. Both sets of images have a lot of warm tones but in the abandoned set there was a lot more rough texture. The rough textures being displayed inhabit the idea of unsafe, raw and somewhat dangerous feeling to the surroundings. I wanted to make sure that the houses were completely empty of people to not distract viewers from the main focus of the dualism and contrast between the houses.