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First Finished Oil Painting

This semester in "Exploring Media" we rendered a model study in oil. I've really only used acrylic and watercolor in the past, so I'm ecstatic to have a new medium to play with. 

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History of Illustration

A recent assignment encouraged us to explore past illustrators. We learned more about illustration's golden age and various artists from the 1890s to the 1960s. Our assignment was to replicate the style of four different illustrators, from four different decades, using traditional media.

1920's Clara Bow in the style of Bradshaw Crandall - pastels 5"x7"

1920's Clara Bow in the style of Bradshaw Crandall - pastels 5"x7"

1910's Gloria Swanson, in the style of Coles Phillips - Acrylic 5"x7"

1910's Gloria Swanson, in the style of Coles Phillips - Acrylic 5"x7"

1930's Katharine Hepburn in Eric's style - Watercolor 5"x7"

1930's Katharine Hepburn in Eric's style - Watercolor 5"x7"

1950s Dorothy Dandridge in the style of Earl Oliver Hurst- Watercolor & Ink 5"x7"

1950s Dorothy Dandridge in the style of Earl Oliver Hurst- Watercolor & Ink 5"x7"

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Dreams Lived Dreams Shattered

Dreams Lived, Dreams Shattered: MLK, JFK 50 years later
Work of MFA Illustration Students and Faculty

Gallery FIT
November 9 - December 7, 2013 

Students and faculty of the MFA in Illustration program at FIT visually reflect on the 50th anniversary of two seminal events in American History. 

My piece for this exhbiit is titled "Bankruptcy"

"We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt." In the last fifty years, Americans of different races, genders, and ages have continued to demand their freedoms. The funds are growing and more checks are clearing, yet the richness and security of equality seems interminable.

 

Bankruptcy 

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