Wrapping Paper Idea

I thought I'd take my Christmas card design and turn it into a wrapping paper sort of situation. So here it is:

A German Christmas, Perhaps

I was itching to play around on my Adobe Illustrator 30-day trial during my entire Christmas break but wasn't sure what to do. So, while looking through one of my school notebooks, I found some sketches of snowflake designs that I'd done during a boring class and recreated one to my liking.

It was really fun (and time-consuming) to figure out the basics to this software. I can't wait to learn more because I know the possibilities are endless!

Campbell Bear

My family has gotten so large that we've decided to have a set schedule of a single person (or family) that we are to get a Christmas gift for. Michael & I had Nate, Robin & Campbell this year.

My immediate thought was to do a portrait of Campbell. Michael had taken the sweetest picture of her on Halloween and I decided that it was perfect for a portrait. So anyway, it is done on a circle canvas with acrylic paint. And I chose yellow because Campbell is like a little ray of sweet sunshine to me.

In the end, I really like how it turned out.

My Resume

My Favorite Poem

I created this for a Design class assignment. We were to choose our favorite poem and translate it into a work of art using any materials. The poem I used is called "Fall of the Evening Star" by Kenneth Pachen. I chose to use acrylics on bristol board. I really enjoyed the freedom that we had for this assignment and felt that through that freedom I was able to portray the poem as I saw it in my mind.

Collage in pencil

I created this for my drawing class. The assignment was to look through magazines and cut out things that we liked, then to paste them into a collage on an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper. We were then instructed to make a grid on the collage and redraw it in pencil on an 18 x 24 piece of paper. This assignment took me forever but I loved every bit of it. In the end I felt that it told a story of a woman's life and showed her, now aged, looking back on that life.

Michael- Portrait 2

This is a personal work. I took a picture of my husband on his favorite beach in Oregon while he was doing one of his favorite things: recording memories on video. I love that picture and I wanted to re-create it in acrylics on illustration board. I loved working on this piece because he was so happy there when I took the picture and being able to take the time to study and paint it made me appreciate him even more.