'The Big Picture' series

My final project for the course I did in Italy! Titled 'The Big Picture', the series narrates a specific experience that I had during my time in Florence.

Paintings of Florence

I was in Italy this past month and it was an amazing experience! The majority of my stay with my school was at Florence and I was able to paint there every once in a while. Here are two sketches that I worked on while there.

final painting + 3 week painting

final painting 

3 week painting

infograph assignment

 

An infograph done of rainbow maki (which I ate afterwards!). I was pretty proud of this one, haha

A Decade Later...

 

This was a watercolour assignment for my mixed medias class where we had to draw our assigned portrait in a different era and age. I decided that my subject was a musician who became a cellist and still plays after retiring (and his eye sight slowly getting worse).

My favourite pieces from this year's lifedrawing classes. 

((Nudes underneath cut))

skeleton figure

cicadaaaaaas

 

 

pure collage

My piece for a collage assignment. I chose to do a 'pure collage' which is a collage method where no other media beside paper is used and once it's down, it can't be altered.

portrait

Dioramaaa (Llama)

Diorama for The Nutcracker & The Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman. I had fun with this, though I know it's a little empty, heh. I wanna make more!

Map Assignment

rough piece

 

 

final piece

I forgot to upload this, but during my first semester, one of my assignments was to explore Oakville and London and find landmarks. The criteria for the landmarks had to be something where you could see a relationship between manmade objects and nature. Everything was drawn by memory, so many of the routes are kind of wonky haha.

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

 The Nutcracker & The Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffman

'Step into my world' Thumbnails

 

 

Two thumbnails that I liked for one of my assignments this semester.

Watercolour Portrait Study

 

 

Maaaaasks

Masks made for my Mixed Media class during the first semester of school.

Cicada sketches

 

 

decorative WIP

Progress work of my decorative piece for school! I'll talk more about it when I post the final version.

Drawing my roommates~

 

 

It all started with a small birthday card, hehe... Now I wanna do some watercolour doodles xP

Hands Study a.k.a. musicians have cool hands

This piece was painted back in early 2012 while I was still in highschool. The old guy is a composer named Leonard Bernstein who composed the music for "West Side Story". I didn't know that when I painted this (plus I love the movie!) and the only reason I painted him as my subject was because I really liked his hands, haha.