A Confused Artist

Robert Rauschenberg

As a Final in my AP2-D class we had to choose one artist from a list of 5. In addition to writing a report on the artist we were all given an 18" by 16" canvas board to create a piece in their style. The artist I chose was Robert Rauschenberg. I got a 100 on the final and my teacher liked it so much that she wanted me to continue it as a Concentration!

Printmaking II

This print was from my freshman year printmaking class. The assignment was to create an image telling how we felt about 9/11. The image you see is an angle wearing an ammo belt and below her is the city of New York during the attack.

The image represents how Americans cope with 9/11, some cope with their faith and others with violence. I felt it appropriate to call it "Faith vs. Violence" I originally drew the angle with her bare bottom showing, but my teacher made me cover it up sue to public school policy.

Printmakeing

These are prints I did my freshman year in high school. They are both done in black ink on white paper except the second print I colored in with Prismacolor colored pencils. I call it "The Tree of Life" The Earth represents a seed and the tree represents the life growing from it. I used planet Earth because its the only planet with life in our Solar System.

Aphrodite

This is a drawing of Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of love, beauty and sexual relationships. At the bottom of the page you can see I wrote her name in Greek letters with the end of a burnt match. You can also see Zeus written above it to the left. The page is from my old deconstruction book, an old copy of "Come On Seabiscut!" I like to experiment with textures and colors in my collages. You can see I used blue and gold glitter as well as ink pens, gold shoe polish and watercolor. I used blue and gold colored foils from the Five Gum wrappers to make the Greek Key pattern.

Watercolor

The four pieces below are a series of work I did during my Freshman year using in watercolor paint and ink pen on small mat board. They show the life of a white blob figure in different environments. This was something I did out of my own interest, it was not assigned.


The following two pieces were an assignment my freshman year in design class. We had to paint landscapes on these very small 2 inches by one inch paper in watercolor.

Wall Work

The two pieces below are collages I did my freshman year in design class.

This piece is made up of two collages next to each other. I did them in my free time during sophomore year.