Onward to Cali

This piece was also inspired by the book Grapes of Wrath. I liked the look of the older cars used at this time. This piece was drawn in sharpie ink and then I used watercolor on top. The whole thing is coated in wax. I was trying to create a dusty look.

Subs

By far my favorite piece! The funnest part of this piece was using the tabletop resin (sp?) on top of the entire piece. It really brough everything together and made everything pop. I think that it makes the sub filling look more realistic. I also like the ink drawing in between each sub.

Corn

My inspiration for this piece actually came from a book I was reading in English class, Grapes of Wrath. The book is about a family who is forced off of their land during the dust bowl because the banks are revoking their land. There is a lot of images of corn fields in the book and I drew inspiration from this. The hardest part of this was trying to get the kernels how I wanted them, and I'm also dissapointed the text underneath the corn was covered up. I was hoping to have some of the text showing through the corn.

Oranges

This piece is obviously oranges. Still done in acrylic paint with variouis materials on the background including tissue paper. I think that the color scheme is my favorite part, I love blues and oragnes together.

Carrots

I really liked this piece, the whole thing is done in acrylic paint and the circles in the background are done with sharpie ink. I think that the leaves of the carrots came out really well. I also liked the color choices on this one.

Cotton Candy

Eh, this one is deffinately not one of my faves. It was supposed to be cotton candy but it is hard to identify. However I really do like the background, unfortunately a lot of it is covered up!

Frappuccinos

This is yet another contiuation of my concentration of texture created with acrylic paint. I really like the background on this piece as well as the composition of all 4 frappuccinos (2x2). The texture I was really trying to focus on was the whipped cream and the frappuccinos mixture inside of the glass. However I do wish to revisit this piece because I do no think that the upper right green frappuccino has the right coloring to fit correctly in this piece. I want to go back and repaint it. On the other hand my favorite is the bottom left brown frappuccino, I think the highlights look the most realistic and that the mixture inside fo the glass looks the smoothest in comparison to the rest.