Current Project

This is a current painting I am working on. It is for a friend of mine and it has to be done before Christmas. I think I will finish on time. I love to paint people; I like painting their expressions.

Sundial Bridge

This is the sundial bridge in my hometown. This suspended bridge has become our town monument. If you want to know what to do in town...you go to the bridge. It's nice, but not that exciting. The man who designed this bridge also designed the monument at ground zero. As I crossed, the bridge was bouncing back and forth because of the wind. There was a lot of people there and you always run into someone you know. I had a nice day walking around enjoying the sun.

Here it is!

Papercraft Project

I had a lot of fun with this project. For this assignment I made a mime. I will have more to come. Also on the next post I will put up a picture of the completed papercraft.

Scratch Art

Picturing the Other

This was a difficult assignment for me. I am a shy person and so to ask someone if I could take their picture was out of my comfort zone. The bottom picture is of a lady I met on a hike, her name is Isabella. The picture in the middle is of my nephews at the pumpkin patch, they had so much fun. The top photo is of myself. I took it while I was studying and distracting myself from my work. I love that picture because my eyes are blue, but in real life my eyes are hazel...I had contacts in.

These pieces are done by an artist named Erica Grimm-Vance. She is an art teacher at Trinity Western University and she was the one who taught me the basics of art. It was in her class that I understood how to use a pencil in shading and to look at the negative space in an object. I learned a lot from an amazing artist. I love her technique and her use of loose form. It has a dreamy feel. I like how she uses steel in her art which creates conflict between the softness of the medium and the hardness of the form. The top piece is called Arc II, the second is This Wine We Offer, and the last is Memory Traces XIII.