I always liked making designs that had to do with nature, So I thought that a tree-themed one would be really interesting to make

Movie Poster

I made a poster for the movie Alien.  I ended up making two different versions because after making the full one, I thought one where the alien looks like it is coming out of the shadows  would be cool

Fabric designs

I ended up making three different designs.  The third one (the squares) took the longest, simply because I tried to get each type of square done in equal amounts

tiling designs

Sonia Delaunay: I really like this fabric pattern because of how it connects.  The lines in each section are clearly separated by size and color, but they still somehow match up to each other and that is really cool.

William Morris:  I really liked this design because of the colors, specifically.  Blue and red are very contrasting, but they work really well here.  Also, the way they are faded gives the design a very old, aged look that adds character to it

Marimekko: I liked this print because of how much the different colors pop.  With the use of layering and having half of the objects be black & white, all the colored ones really stand out from the background

Japanese Prints:   I liked this one because you could continually copy this pattern and, because of how it was designed, the loops will always connect in the right spots, therefore making the pattern seamless

Persian Prints:   I like how bold and contrasting the colors are in this design.  It's really cool how the colors manage to be both faded and bold looking at the same.  I also like how warm colors are used for all the foreground objects and cool colors for the background objects.

citizen kane

This image uses two separate images and overlays them on each other.  Even though the images are blended together, they are still both very distinctive from each other.  This technique was probably used to show a transition between two different scenes.

This scene uses an interesting angle and the reflection in broken glass to show what is going on in the room.  This angle gives the scene a somewhat eerie feel to it.

Lettering in Art

Stuart Davis "The Mellow Pad":  He seems to use the letters more as just pictures, less as actual letters.  The way he combines them makes a very colorful collage.

Jasper Johns "Numbers in Color":  Johns' use of numbers in his art is interesting because even though you can tell they're numbers, it is still somewhat difficult to see them that way.  His use of all the different colors makes some of the numbers pop while some almost just blend into their background

Jean Michel Basquiat "Leeches":  I found this artwork very interesting.  The use of words and letters almost makes this picture seem like the ramblings of a madman and it gives the art character.

Pablo Picasso "Still Life with Bottle of Rum":  Picasso uses the letters here almost as just more background.  It looks as if they were part of a poster of billboard in the scene he painted and he has just moved them around.

Line, Shape, Color art

These are my Line, Shape, Color drawings.  There really wasn't a lot of thought process with these, I just sort of drew what came to mind.  My two favorites are the flower one (3rd on right) and the lightning/crack one (2nd on left).  For the flower, i just played with different shades of yellow and orange and mixed them together in the flower.  And for the crack drawing, I wanted to play with shading and blending.

Class Logo

These are my two logos I designed for the Art & Tech program.  I chose a chameleon for the first one because I felt that the combination of their colors and their eyes makes them very "visual" creatures.  And for the second logo I made a brain and decorated it based on the fact that one side of the brain is meant to be artistic and the other side is more technical.

Making Fonts

I ended up making three different fonts for my project.  The first one was really just me playing with colors and drawing lines really quickly.  The other two fonts had a little more thought to them.  I wanted to play with shapes and basically subtracting from them in order to make letters.  My favorite of the three is the circle font.  I like the smoothness of the lines and just feel that it looks the best overall