Is This College?

This was made when I switched schools in 2016. The previous school had seemed more cohesive, together and had a more varied cast of characters. The new one was all separate buildings populated by a homogeneous group of students who I could not relate to. The background sky is watercolor. I used a more modern phone to photograph the buildings and collage them together. Other students are clipped from brochures advertising this school. I photographed myself and traced most of the outlines to begin my drawing in pencil, sharpie and colored pencil.

Industrial Parking Lot

A band that I played in was practicing in an industrial building and our drummer was always late, so I would take primitive photos with my slider phone while I waited. This was one of the better photos that I turned into a drawing. The buildings and foliage are colored pencil. The parking lot itself is duct tape with ink on top and the puddles are watercolor.

Bookbinding

I learned bookbinding in printmaking class as well. The top set are little dollar store notebooks that I glued together and made covers with clasps for. The bottom set I cut the paper and sewed the binding as well.

Mike

I visited a friend from the school that I went to after high school during a recent summer. His girlfriend took this photo of us. 30x40 yellow construction paper from a roll. I penciled the outlines, used watercolor to start, switched to my acrylic/tempera blend and finished with oil pastels. The whole deal got gloss clear spray paint to seal it all in.

Suminagashi

My printmaking professor told me about this and I just had to do it. The idea is to float ink on water and print off the surface.