Personal Artwork
This first piece in a still life in graphite that I made about a year and a half ago. Creating realistic pencil drawings is something I really enjoy, and this piece I drew from life with sight measuring rather than from a picture, like I do more often. It is also larger than other pieces I have made, so it provided some new challenges in a medium I am pretty comfortable with. It was good practice with proportion and subtle shading.
The second piece is a multimedia painting I made around the same time. It is slightly more abstract than some of my other work, and I spent more time on the conceptual and ideation phase of the creation process. It is acrylic paint on canvas board that I prepped with gesso over pieces of old sheet music and pages of a book I loved when I was younger, and that I ended up with two copies of. I wanted the painting to have a dreamy, nostalgic feeling, like the viewer is looking back on a half-forgotten memory or story from their past.