Personal Artwork.
In my free time outside of class and work, I love to paint, draw and take photos.
I feel that it is important for me to create outside of just design in order to express myself in ways I am not able to through design.
Creating art also allows me to approach design from a different perspective
AutoBiography.
This is a painting created during the summer of 2016 after I graduated high school. I wanted to create a large work in summation of my life experiences up until that point. The painting is constructed from wooden window blinds and painted using acrylic paint.
Duo.
This painting was created during my senior year of high school. It was painted using acrylic paint on sketchbook paper. This painting won a Gold Key Award at the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2015.
BlindEd.
This is a painting created using cardboard, chopsticks and acrylic paint during the summer of 2017.
The painting was later re-purposed into a logo for Normal Boy Records, an independent record label based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
M. gustave.
This is a storyboard of the first several scenes of the film The Grand Budapest Hotel directed by Wes Anderson. I chose to recreate this film using digital watercolor because I have always loved the way Anderson colored the film.