Painting: Traces of Emotion

20 x 24 inches

Oil and collage on paper

Description: This project explores expressive mark-making in oil paint through gesture, layering, and abstraction, culminating in a collage reassembled from painted fragments to convey rhythm and emotion.

2D Design: Sound to form Project

9 x 12 inches (each)

Watercolor on paper

Description: This project focuses on translating sound into visual design, exploring how design elements and principles can convert sound into a dynamic visual composition. The four designs are responses to four different experimental music pieces played in class by the same student.

2D design: Mixed media project

16 x 24 inches

Charcoal, ink, and collage on paper

Description: This project aims to create a collage that integrates familiar imagery, semiotics, and symbolism, with a focus on composition, design elements, and mixed-media experimentation.

Painting: Traces of Emotion (student's given title: controlled chaos)

20 x 24 inches

Oil and collage on paper

Description: This project explores expressive mark-making in oil paint through gesture, layering, and abstraction, culminating in a collage reassembled from painted fragments to convey rhythm and emotion.

Drawing I : Still Live with Value

18 X 24 inches

Graphite on Paper

2D design: Gestalt Principles & Monochromatic Color Project

9 x 12 inches

Micron pen and watercolor on paper

Description: This project aims to create a monochromatic composition that explores value, symbolism, and Gestalt design principles through experimentation and visual unity.

2D design: Principles of Design & Monochromatic Color Project

9 x 12 inches

Gouache on paper

Description: This project aims to develop the use of metaphor as a visual tool and to establish a basic understanding of achromatic values using gouache.

2D design: Element of design Project

18 x 24 inches

Collage on paper

Description: This project focuses on interpreting the elements of design through the medium of collage.

Painting: Achromatic still life

18 x 24 inches

Oil on paper

Description: This project introduces oil painting by focusing on black-and-white still lifes to enhance understanding of value application in oil painting.

Drawing I: Perspectives in Space and Imagination

18 x 24 inches

Charcoal on paper

Description: This project involves illustrating an architectural space in one- or two-point perspective. Afterward, enhance the drawing by adding an imaginary element of choice to convey a site-specific narrative.

Painting: Independent Project, installation view

42 x 60 inches

Oil on paper

Description: This project focuses on creating an independent body of work that reflects students’ personal interests, creative vision, and technical growth.

2D design: Symbolism Project

16 x 24 inches

Collage and mixed media

Description: This project aims to create a collage that integrates familiar imagery, semiotics, and symbolism, with a focus on composition, design elements, and mixed-media experimentation.

Painting: Mark Making + Collage with Paintings

36 X 48 inches

Oil on Paper

Drawing I : Hand Contour Composition

18 X 24 inches

Graphite on Paper

Painting: Monochromatic Self Potrait

18 X 24 inches

Oil on Paper

Concepts in Drawing: Non-representational Composition

48 X 72 inches

Mixed-media on Paper

Drawing I : Observational Perspective Integrated with Creative Element

18 X 24 inches

Graphite on Paper

Drawing I : Collage Reproduced with Subtractive Charcoal Technique

9 X 12 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Drawing I : Chairoscuro Study

18 X 24 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Painting: Still Life: Black and White

18 X 24 inches

Oil on Paper

Concepts in Drawing: Non-representational Composition

48 X 72 inches

Mixed-media on Paper

Drawing I : Introduction to Charcoal Medium

18 X 24 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Painting: One Object Study

18 X 24 inches

Oil on Paper

Drawing I : Still Live with Value

18 X 24 inches

Graphite on Paper

Drawing I : Collage Reproduced with Subtractive Charcoal Technique

9 X 12 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Drawing I : Chairoscuro Study

18 X 24 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Painting: Monochromatic Self Potrait

18 X 24 inches

Oil on Paper

Drawing I : Potrait - Master copy of a chosen protrait artist is completed and element from this copy is integrated into the final potrait

18 X 24 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Drawing I : Potrait - After Käthe Kollwitz

18 X 24 inches

Charcoal on Paper

Painting: Single subject study Project

18 x 24 inches

Oil on paper

Description: This project focuses on chromatic still lifes to enhance understanding of color, form, composition, and the application of value in oil painting.