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Dragon Platter

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Rose

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Ship with Kraken

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Ship - front view

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lidded cup

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Chocolate Donut

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Sphere

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Box

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Apple

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Sheep

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Panda

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Detail of Leaf

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Sphere

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Mushroom

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Negative and Positive Shape

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Stop Bullying

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Collagraph Print

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Butterfly

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Collagraph Print

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Cheerleaders vs. Aliens should have beaten The Wolves at the one act competition.

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Cheerleaders vs. Aliens should have beaten The Wolves at the one act competition.

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Both of these are props for the play,  The Picture of Dorian Gray which is about a man that just does evil things and never grows old and gets away with it because his portrait is basically his scapegoat. The special challenge of theater props is that on a stage, the lights blast the pieces and they have to be recognizable from far away. The bright lights meant that I couldn't use a reflective medium like graphite, so I went with colored pencil instead. The answer to the far seats is to make the portraits really big which really just means giving myself a lot more work.

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Deinosuchus was a 30-foot long crocodilian from the early Cretaceous.

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There are two Dromaeosaurs too.

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Clay Crock

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Still Life

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Still Life in Sepia

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Clay Shoe

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Clay shoe

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Shoe

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Still Life

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Lovely Still Life

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Still Life

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Still Life

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Jittery Still Life

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Still Life

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Skull Still Life

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Still Life

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The Other Still Life

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Removing the Senses

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The only somewhat wholesome drawing I made this year

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The only somewhat wholesome drawing I made this year

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Koskinonodon was a temnospondyl  amphibian. It was a little less than 2 meters long.

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Michaella please don't sue me

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"Honorable Mention"

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Here are 2 versions of what are essentially the same model. The white one uses a 28x28 grid but the blue one uses a 32x32 grid. The advantage of the larger grid is that I was able to include more features like eyes and toes, and 16 is a power of 2, so no weird measurements are needed before folding. What really sets origami apart from other arts is that there's a lot more technical design elements, and as these two beetles show, improvements can always be made in new iterations.

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Some of the theater kids named one of them Jerry for some reason.

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32x32 grid, designed in Oripa

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covered box

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Well

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Clay House

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Mask

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Medium used: colored pencil

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By biggest inspiration is Disney Animation. I became interested in art when I first saw the film "The Little Mermaid" as a young child. I love how Disney animates their films to be both a cartoon and realistic at the same time. In Disney Animation, characters often have large eyes and bold features; I like to mirror that in my art work. I also like to use bright, vibrant colors in my work. On a deeper level, I like to show different cultures within some of my art pieces. Exploring different cultures of the world is incredibly important to me and I want that to reflect in in my work.

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24" x 30" canvas
Medium used: acrylic paint

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Medium used: graphite

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Medium used: colored pencil

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32x32 grid

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They don’t even live in the ocean.

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With some imagination, it could also be a muskie

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It looks cooler in person, I promise.

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Stone Book

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32x32 grid just to show reference points

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Here's a section of what one of those scales looks like up close. Pretty neat right? Hopefully you didn't think that because these scales gave me a grueling amount of work I had to do which I will explain below

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Medium used: acrylic paint

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medium used: graphite

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Medium used: colored pencil

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Medium used: colored pencil

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Stone Fox

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Rihanna

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Faker

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NM$L

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Young Larry David

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Barack

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Lester Green

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Sun and Moon Ceramic Tile

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Room in Perspective

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Room in Perspective

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Nemo

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The trick is that folding the scales is going to make the final product smaller than the original. It's obvious that a folded paper is never going to be larger than the sheet, but what matters is that in a repeating unit like a scale, the size decrease can be predicted. In the scales on the fish, I could predict that the length of the unfolded paper could be divided by 1.25 to find the length of the paper when the scales were folded.

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The ultimate goal is that I want to take midsection of the pike and give it scales. I know how long the midsection will be when the scales are folded, but I need to know how long it will be when unfolded, so I actually have to work backwards and calculate an increase. To begin, I broke the pike crease pattern into sections representing a part of the fish's body. The numbers are a ratio showing how much length of the paper each section of the fish takes up. As an example, if the length of the diagonal is 1 unit, then the amount of paper that the head takes up is .403 units.

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Finding these ratios was difficult, but it was made easier because I used what I like to call "natural origami numbers". These numbers include powers of 2 for grid length and for angles, any number that can be found by dividing 90 by a power of 2. This is because folding something in half is really easy. Basically, I found the length of the fish's midsection, multiplied it by 1.25, added the lengths of the other sections, and that was the new length of the unfolded paper.

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Wanye Thiebaud Cake