Another portrait :)

JoJo PortraitThis is my most recent portrait. I've been trying to get some more in, but they do take some time! This is Jojo, the drummer in a band I used to be in. She was a good friend of mine and this was a Christmas present for her.

Its a done in graphite pencils on paper. Its 8.5x11"One eye.Nose and mouth :)

I really like the way this turned out, it actually looks just like her. Everyone knows who it is as soon as they see it. I've come a long way from my last portraits on here!

Self Expression! :)

So this is a photo I took and edited. I typed EXPRESS YOURSELF into the acoustic. You also see Pat taking photos in the back, it really is a picture of being who you REALLY are. And I love that.

This is a photograph of Corey. I love is because there's SOOO much more than just a kid hugging a guitar. I think really the picture is pretty much more awesome than that. Look around. :)

Music :)I love this photo to begin with. Such a great shot. I just edited it on photoshop with some details and things to give it more feel. I put a quote above it. (my quote, btw.) and I think it gave the picture a cool edge to it.On purpose photography edited with words and details.

This is Jimmy of the Color Blind Kids

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GRIME

Photography, yes. Me and a sticker...edited on Photoshop.

To check out Grimes edgy classic sounding rock go to www.myspace.com/newyorkgrime

Shoes

Photos of shoes...yes, shoes.I think shoes really tell alot about a person...so yeah, I take pictures of them alot. Heres Robins shoes. Under are Jarikas shoes. Both were on purpose photographs and highlighted on Photoshop.

Photography

Some random photography. Art really is all around us, and so many people don't count pictures! This is Jimmy and his guitar cord. I saw this and thought it was a decent moment.
I think Converse Sneakers are so photograph-able. I love them! That's my black pair and Riley's red pair.Now-this is cheese. Yes, cheese. But look how pretty it is!

New Roots Tickets

New Roots Charter School Ice Cream Social Tickets

New Roots Charter School asked me to design a ticket for there Ice Cream Social they had awhile back, weeellll...I sorta spaced it! Sooo this is what I came up with on a last minute thing. I think they turned out alright. They were to be handed out around town to students who were interested in the charter school and needed the information on what this event was.

The Color Blind Kidz

The Color Blind Kids Logo

So my friends band was getting signed and they needed a logo. They toyed with alot of ideas and basically asked me to do one for them. So I did...I found the top picture on there myspace page. And I took the bassists screaming face and decided it would be a good logo idea.

Here's the middle piece. After ALOT of cropping, editing, faking spikes, smoothing lines, building lines, basically ALOT of work...I came up with THIS head out of the top picture.I sent them a couple proofs and this isn't the official one...because they own that now, but here's one of the ideas...which is basically like the one they chose...just a different font and now officially with a S. Please remember everything on here is owned by me. No stealing. This is a bands logo, you would literally be stealing.

To check out The Color Blind Kids pop/punk music go to www.myspace.com/amnesha

Funny Photoshop

Fun with Photoshop!SO-you can take pictures off the Internet on Photoshop and have fun with them too of course! When my friends and I were toying with the idea of having a band, OF COURSE I decided to photoshop there heads onto Larc-en-ceils bodies :P So its obviously not a great example of PERFECT photoshop, I had to fake the hair and stuff...BUT it was fun and I think it turned out pretty darn awesome for just some kicks and giggles. :P

Photoshop Picture Edits :)

Adobe Photoshop :)So I've been doing some photo editing lately. Now it seems like everyone is getting into this because you can do it off of an IPhone and things like this. Well I do it the old fashioned way... :P

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP!!!

The first one here is my nephew Jayden. I blurred out the background. I typed his name and then blurred that, and re-typed his name non-blurred and layered it.Same technique, minus the blurred background. This little guy turned 2 today :) My other nephew, Javari.Me. Turned the picture black and white and typed my favorite Sick Puppies quote and my name. If you turn a photo black and white, to type in color you MUST turn the setting back to RGB color. It wont change the picture :)This is among the most complex one. I cut out the background completely. Then I messed with the lighting and contrast to brighten the picture. Then I blurred the skin to make a pretty complexion. Then I selected the background and filled in with weird color. The spirals were a different unexplainable story. I didn't know you could do them before that moment. Then I just layered her name "Ravyn" and I called it finished.

Pretty much the simplest one EVER. I typed dots and changed the font. lol. Oh and messed with the contrast.

These are pretty fun. Mess with some of your friends myspace and facebook pictures.

Dani Filth Canvas

Dani Filth Canvas Collage :)So here is a pretty simple project to do. It took me about an hour. Pretty easy and very fun :) It also made a rockin' and cool custom birthday gift for my rocker friend! This project can be altered for anyone, and i have done this same project a few times for different friends! Its awesome and everyone seems to love it!
So first-my materials were : a 3x5" hardback canvas, acrylic paints, photo paper, card stock, diamond glaze, and a safety pin. Basically I just painted the canvas black and red, my friends two favorite colors and splattered it a little with white. While it was drying I found and printed pictures of the singer of her favorite band, Cradle of Filth. Then I called her up and asked what her favorite song by the was. I googled the lyrics, picked one line I liked the best, sized them on Photoshop, and printed them on photo paper.

When the ink was dry and so was the paint I mono-adhesive the picture and quotes to the card stock paper and assembled it as I liked. Mono doesn't normally stick to painted canvas to I use diamond glaze. It leaves a shine if you get it on top...so try to avoid that. The safety pin was also stuck on with Diamond Glaze.

All in all its a SUPER easy and cheap project that can be altered to any friend and made a cool birthday gift everyone liked...even if the guy is creepy :)

WOW! Long time, no blog!

Okay okay, so maybe I've been slacking! I know I haven't updated this in FOREVER! And even though people aren't out there begging...I think it would be considerate to AT LEAST post something. After all, its been like a year! I'll try to be more consistent... :)

Angel

My Greatest Creation...I think at least!The Angel...or at least thats what my mom and I call it. This was the drawing that made everyone in my family wonder why I was holding out on them. Haha. This has a story behind it. I woke up one day after many weeks of no art and I had had a dream and i was drawing this...so I decided to draw it.

End Of Story.
The face isnt as great as I wanted it to be. I wanted a more intense look to it but I really think that eyes turned out pretty good. My mom loves the face. My family and friends were pretty shocked that I did this at all!
The glowing ball of-of-uhh....light? Represents the light of wisdom and the light of waking up really. Its lighting up this chcik. Its lighting her up right in her face. That'll wake you up!
Her eyes are looking at you to see what have you learned? Have you woken up yet? Do you get it? The design on her eye was just for the heck of it. I just liked the idea of it.
Okay-all my friends are like "Whoa! You did that! Uh...shes naked."

Yes shes naked...nakedness represents voneralbility. Its represents being scared, vonerable and alone. The wing was just something that was there...so there. Haa.

This drawing took me alittle under a week to do and was really my first "real" drawing. It kinda woke me and told me that I COULD do "real" art. This is actually a really big drawing. It is almost 2ft by 1.5 ft. It is done all in colored pencil and a normal pencil.

Christmas Time, Oh Cristmas Time!

Christmas Art Compition

I did this art for holiday art in the paper. This is what I came up with. I think its really cute and it was used as a "business card" type of thing for the paper, which means someone else liked it too! I thought it was very cute. The job on the colored pencil looks pretty horrible here cuz I had to scan it and the colors got really bleached out so I tried to darked it and now the cute little girl looks like a freak. Oh well....

This is a Taking Back Sunday collage on canvas. I painted pin stripes on it in black and red. Then I splattered it in white. I think thats kinda a neat effect! The picture is of Adam Lazzara and the pix on the side are the rest of the band. I just printed that off on photo paper.
The words are lyrics from different songs of theres that I liked. I used actual safety pins on here, I just superglued them on and shut. The guitar is just a something I cut out of cardstock.

Here is one of the lyrics. This whole project took me like 4 hours cuz I had to get all the pictures but it was well worth it! I love it! I get complemts on it alot and people asking me if I can do one for a band they like. I have only done one other and it took soooo long. But I would make more in the future.

Adams Cristmas Gift

A Custom Sketchbook

Here is a custom sketchbook for my other best friend Adam. He is an absolutely amazing guy and he's got some killer talent in art. (Whether or not he wants to admit it) So I thought that it would be really cool to make him a sketchbook that was pretty freakin custom. This is actually funny cuz Meg got me a sketchbook and customized it, too! Great minds think alike!

Here are some of the greatest symbols on this very planet. The 'anarchy' symbol and the symbol most recognized by teens as the 'H.I.M' sign which is also used by Bam Margera (skateboarder/crazy dude...) I just crazily did red and then painted them over in black.

I also got Adam a pack of pencils and other great art supplies that you may use in a sketchbook. The image in the front of the book is an ACEO card that NO I didn't do...I am not that cool. I got it for this project though. Its pretty cool. And the little washer lookin things say 'create' uh...'friendship' and something else kickin like that.

The back is the same color as the front-a really dark purple mixed with black. So a really really dark purple? I of course put a cow stamp and signed it. I also inscribed the front page and was really careful not to dent the words over to the next pages...Who said I never cared!!!!

Megans Christmas Gift

Megan's MobileThis is a mobile for my best friend Megan. She is a truly caring person and these little boys are HER LIFE!!! So I decided what better idea than to make her a gift with her life on it??? And in her colors, too!I took that really hard cardboard stuff and cut two rectangles the same size and painted then red. While they were drying I was on Adobe Photoshop making the cute pix the right size and putting the names under them. I had painted cross-stitching hoop the night before and it already had a hole drilled in it so it made it really easy to put this together. Made for an marvelous gift for a marvelous person!!! She loved it!!!

**Please note that these are her brothers...NOT her kids...shes only 15, people!!!

MUSIC canvas/collage

Fun Collage on canvasThis is another canvas I did not so long ago...I was actually listening to the same band I am as I am typing this...that's kinda weird. Woo Papa Roach! lol...

I painted the whole thing black and then while it was still wet I did a small border effect around the edges in white-well it turned grey, so I had to work with THAT! Oh well-I did dark purple over that when it was dry.

These are cutouts from a free booklet thingy I picked up at Area Records when I was getting my guitar checked out. (Oh-BTW...its dead. I mean GONE!) I just cut them out and diamond glazed them on. Created kind of a cool effect to it. And then I used wooden letters painted with the same purple and super glued them on.

Nick Jonas ACEO

You guessed it...or maybe you didnt???

Its Nick Jonas from the Jonas Brothers. Its kinda cute, even though he isnt...(if I said that aloud I would probably be jumped by thousands of screaming 10yr old girl...eek!)
Its an ACEO card which means it is 3.5"x2.5" on cardstock and pencil. Did it on a whim and Elanee will probably get it for Ayyamiha or something. Cuz I dont want it!

My First Electric Guitar Painting

I started painting electric guitars in like 7th grade. This is the first one I did. I thought it was great then, everyone did! But now.......uh...it kinda sucks. I've done wayyyy better!

Acrylics and canvas.

'Bananas For Life' Canvas

'Bananas For Life' Canvas

This was done on an average sized standard Walmart canvas. I painted the whole thing black and then when it was all dry I painted in the circles and ovals. I used a stencil for them cuz I did try to make them perfect...and it was strange...

I used a stamp to do the bananas which are just stamped in yellow acrylic paint. I will later put a picture of my friend Mollie and I in there. Cuz we are bananas...inside joke. But a cute canvas!!!

Skater Legs

SkaterI know, I know, you arent supposed to put unfinished art up, but I couldnt help myself! This is for my best friend Adam who happens to skateboard. He doesnt know it and I dont know if I am gonna give it to him yet...so SHHHHH!

I used my feet and my Converse as a model but it could be anyone.
Top of the page: start of the leg. I was inspired to do this after I did my angel picture which isnt on here (along with alot of other stuff) I decided I COULD do it!

This is the bottom of the leg and the shoe. Again-pink Converse as the model...hehe.

I have started to color this one in with colored pencil and it is almost done...BUT! I cant come up with some sort of background for it so I am stuck...ugh.

Any suggestions??? Really...I need them. Just post a comment if you have any ideas???