The White Doe

Gray Days

I have discovered a new way to draw clouds and rain! Oh the joy! The prompt was gray days and we were free to take that anyway we wanted. It got me thinking about the effect rainy gray days can have on me. They can be depressing and bleak or seen as an opportunity to stay indoors and have a quiet afternoon of reading. It all about attitude. I remember times in grade school when it would be raining outside and I would become mesmerized by the sight and sound of it. Even the smell would creep into me and become distracting. Recess would come and the excitement of the weather would take over. I'd run outside and suddenly be transported to another world which didn't exist before the storm. Fascination would eventually move aside when the wetness started to creep into my bones and i became cold. Then it was time to quickly make friends with someone who had an umbrella. The most reliable person was, of course, the teacher. They always seemed to be prepared for rain. The following illustration is about being in such a situation and the closeness it creates.

Cats 'n' Hearts

Pretty straight forward concept. I wanted to draw some cats and Valentines Day was coming up so i figured why not add some hearts! The hearts are a pattern in themselves that I used as a fill. Turns out Illustrator doesn't always like that... It was fine in the end though and lesson learn.

For my final for Children's Book I did four illustration from the fairy tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon. I greatly enjoyed this project as it gave me a chance to really absorb the text and interpret it however i wanted. This project also gave me the idea for what i wanted to do for my senior project, fairy tales!

Book Lover

This was another piece with the prompt Desire. Its all about the enthusiastic love of reading and possessing as many books as possible.



Done in pencil with an ink wash digitally laid over. Have plans to go back into and add color.

ABC

Images from my ABC project. I removed the text digitally from the first two to see how the images stand on there own.











All done in pencil with light ink washes.

Joy Trees

A project about desire. I chose the desire to be in nature and surrounded by community.

The Tiger

This was a project where we had to choose a poem and create an illustration for it. I chose William Blake's 'The Tiger', which can be found here. I love the words he uses and the imagery they create. Especially the image of a brightly colored tiger making their way through the ' forests of the night'. I like to imagine that this forest is perpetually under nightfall. Which is so strange and gives the feeling of quiet unease.