Artwork

Airports are great places to people watch - they're also a great place to sketch people. For one, there's often time to kill waiting for...

Just 11 months ago, I packed up all I owned to move cities, leaving my dear home of 13 years behind. I wasn't sure what awaited us in our...

I love drawing portraits of my friends and family - over the years, I've ended up with a pretty large collection of many of the people...

As we approached the portrait unit of my art class, we began a project with the goal of evoking a mood. I reflected on some of the...

Collage has never really been my thing - neither has unrealistic subjects. But in my art class we were prompted to "say something new,"...

Something I really enjoy about my art class right now is that we get a list of artists to explore each week - for inspiration, to see...

This last month I took a week to do themed daily drawings. Unsurprisingly, the theme I chose was food. I wanted it to be food that...

For one of my art class's assignments, we were to capture the reflective surfaces of a metallic or glass object. My teacher challenged me...

Wanting to work on creating textures and visual interest in my pieces, I decided to draw a plant that I thought had a very interesting...

What better way to pace yourself with your piles of Christmas candy than to take most of it and set it up to draw for a few days? As hard...

One of my favorite discoveries a few years ago was charcoal pencils. I loved how much depth it added to graphite drawings and the strong...

With Christmas break here, I have come to the end of my 2D Design art class and thought I'd share the rest of the projects I created. In...

Map-making can be a wonderful art project with lots of skills to practice. It involves creativity in coming up with the place and...

There is so much to be thankful for, and art is one of those things I am so thankful for. Between everything that inspires my art and all...

Nearly a year after beginning this project, I am excited to finally announce that my Adana watercolor series is ready to be sold! The...

With October coming to an end, I'm just over halfway through my semester-long 2D Design class. I wanted to take a look at the work I've...

In moving to Istanbul, something I was hoping for was inspiration for artwork, and this really has been the case. Between the amazing...

I've wanted to get some practice not just with faces by doing portraits, but also with the whole human figure. Last Saturday I went to a...

Up until now, I had mostly only done portraits with chalk pastels, and the few other drawings I did with them were all based heavily on...

A month or so ago during my painting class, I took a break from painting one afternoon to draw a spider plant that we have in a basket....