My portfolio includes work that I’ve done as gifts, works created for exploration, and some from my AP Art portfolio. The theme of my AP concentration was the intersection of entropy and innovation. My pieces reflect the tension between human creation and natures tendency to chaos or even destruction. It highlights the faults in human creation/ order and the beauty of natural disorder. The fight for an equilibrium between growth and decomposition is present in many of the following pieces.
Cote
Acrylic painting of Cote taken on a family vacation. Embellished with a textured wash and a thick body medium for the banner.
Snowstorm In Venice
An abstract acrylic piece painted soley with palette knives. Accompanied by silver leaf custom frame.
Fire Poppies
Depiction of the Papaver Californicum which appear mainly in California in areas of earth that have been recently scorched. Acrylic on oval canvas. Part of Entropy and Innovation series.
Bella Donna
This painting is inspired by Ukrainian photographer Alicebelladonna. Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas.
Short Circuit
This piece is a mixed media as a part of my entropy and innovation series. This is executed with a combination of ink wash and glue resist. Some of the piece is painted and some of it is done through finger paint. Ink is build up over glue and it washed off in the sink. Paint is then brought in and the details were done with posca markers.
Untitled Drawing
A profile gesture and value drawing in pencil. Graphite on textured paper.
Chernobyl
This piece is an interpretation of the Chernobyl reactor incident. The remnants of the abandoned city and the new radioactive plant life which is taking over in the absence of human life are visible. Acrylic on foam-board.
Black Hole
This work is based off of the image and imaginative interpretation of a black hole and its event horizon. Inside the black hole, a great city is depicted with a storm in the sky and a lightning strike in the middle. The piece is acrylic on canvas along with charcoal, chalk pastel, and crushed charcoal from my own fire place. A part of the Entropy and Innovation series on canvas.
Process photos for Black Hole
Rebirth
Mixed media on canvas board as part of entropy and innovation series. Acrylic paint, dried flowers + stems, assorted discarded computer parts.
Ozymandius
Acrylic, pastel, and watercolor on canvas. Original drawing torn up and pieced together using construction spackle, gold paint piping and clear varnish. Based on Ozymandius poem by Percy Shelley. Part of the entropy and innovation series.
Sands of Time
Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas. Exaggerated painting of my grandmothers hands to represent age. Palette knife for texture. Part of Entropy and Innovation series.
Fleeting Beauty
Oil pastel and baby oil on canvas. Part of entropy and innovation series.
Untitled Painting
Acrylic on canvas. Brush and palette knife. Custom frame.
Wheaton Quad
Alcohol markers and india ink on drawing paper. Depiction of the Wheaton quad from observation out of a window.
Glitch
Alcohol market on paper. Composition of photos made in photoshop, pencil sketch made, streaks erased, and finally marks drawn in with marker. Part of Entropy and Innovation series.
Stacey
Starting stages of drawing including triangulation, gesture, and shade blocking. Pencil on paper. Drawing of childhood best friend.