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Congratulations to the 2021 Photography and Visual Arts Program graduates from Suffolk County Community College’s Michael J. Grant Campus.

You all have persisted through this difficult time and created exceptional work in the pursuit of your degrees.  We wish you all the best on your future educational and artistic pursuits!

Best,

John Cyr

Director of Gallery West

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Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 12 x 18
Year: 2021
Description:  This was a gesture drawing that had a particular energy to it. Most of the energy and attitude comes from the line weight.

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"Reproduction of a master's work as practice"

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"Reproduction of a master's work as practice"

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Medium:  Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 12 x 18
Year: 2021
Description:  This was mainly to improve at drawing back muscles, but it also held a lot of value in just understanding the shapes and proportions by trying to replicate a master's work.

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Christopher Craig-5 Life Drawing Man Turned

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Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11
Year: 2020
Description: The goal was to paint in a way that was focused on capturing color and rough shapes.

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Christopher Craig-4 Watercolor Self Portrait

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Medium: Digital art
Dimensions: 1200 x 1551
Year: 2020
Description: Another experiment in style in which I tried to emulate a traditional painting aesthetic in a digital medium. I used a simulated dry bristle brush for most of the texture in the painting. This is how I prefer to paint portraits at the moment.

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Christopher Craig-10 Digital Young Girl (1)

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Medium: Digital art
Dimensions: 700 x 905
Year: 2020
Description:  This was an experiment in style. Originally it had a heart but I omitted it for a soft and smudgy storybook look.

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Christopher Craig-9 Digital Storybook Amy

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Medium: Digital Art
Dimensions: 3300 x 2553
Year: 2020
Description: Two complementary colors were chosen as the color scheme, red and green. The subject matter is fairy tales and I brought some horror into little red riding hood with the focus on the predator and prey relationship.

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Christopher Craig-8 Digital Complementary Little Red Riding Hood

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Medium: Watercolor on watercolor paper
Dimensions: 24 x 16
Year: 2021
Description: We took pictures of places outdoors and painted them. It was created by using reference pictures off Google and made a composition to paint.

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Christopher Craig-3 Watercolor Outdoor Landscape from Reference

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x16
Year: 2020
Description:  Another painting from class. It captures a couple of items that are very close to my childhood.

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Christopher Craig-2 Painting Gameboy and Dice Still Life

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"Personal Style Drawing from Model Reference"

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"Personal Style Drawing from Model Reference"

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Medium: Pen on paper
Dimensions: 11x 17
Year: 2021
Description: We were encouraged to draw how we wanted to for this piece. The proportions are definitely more in line with what I prefer to draw and the subject matter has a grisly twist to it.

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Christopher Craig-7 Life Drawing Personal Style from Model Reference

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 16
Year: 2020
Description: This was homework for my painting class during the pandemic. It turned out to look like a Rembrandt self portrait, which I didn't notice until my portfolio development professor pointed it out.

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Christopher Craig-1 Painting Self Portrait

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Medium: Charcoal on Bristol paper
Dimensions: 18 x 24
Year: 2020
Description: Study based on some famous photographs

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Medium: White conte on black paper
Dimensions: 18 x 24
Year: 2020
Description: This was a study based on pictures of the human skeleton, drawn with white conte on black paper.

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Medium: Picture collage on Illustration board
Dimensions: 11x 14
Year: 2019
Description: This surrealist horror was made by taking pictures from magazines and printing out some scenes from horror/suspense movies.

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 11x 14
Year: 2021
Description: The third and last part of the Abstract painting series. This painting was created by using only three hues. All of which were warm colors such as red, orange and yellow.

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 11x 14
Year: 2021
Description:  Part two of this series was created by using only only two hues: blues and teals.

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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 11x 14
Year: 2021
Description: First part of the Abstract painting series. I was working with only one hue: purple.

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Medium: Digital art

Dimensions: 4500 x 6000

Year: 2020

Description: Last but not least, we look at the portrait of the daughter. Drawing done in fire alpaca and pic collage done in Photoshop.

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Medium: Digital art

Dimensions: 4500 x 6000

Year: 2020

Description: The second parts of this series, we look at the mother this household. Drawing done in fire alpaca and pic collage done in Photoshop.

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Medium: Digital art

Dimensions: 4500 x 6000

Year: 2020

Description: First part of Family Portrait Series; we look at the father. Drawing done in fire alpaca and pic collage done in Photoshop.

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Medium: Ball point pen

Dimensions: 5” x 8”

Year: 2020

Description: Daily ball point pen study of my office’s surroundings.

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Medium: Acrylic paint

Dimensions: N/A

Year Made: 2018

Brief Description N/A

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Medium: Acrylic, graphite & ink.

Dimensions: 18” x 12”

Year: 2019

Description: Fragmentation of a photograph for multi-palette study of value.

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Medium: Post-its over Cardboard

Dimensions: 8” x 11”

Year: 2020

Description: To represent one self in an unusual way.

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Medium: Watercolor

Dimensions: 8” x 11”

Year: 2020

Description: Study of complementary colors in still life compositions.

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Medium: Oil Paint

Dimensions: 18” x 24”

Year: 2019

Description: Study of color reflections over white surfaces.

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Medium: Oil Paint

Dimensions: 6” x 4”

Year: 2019

Description: Quick painting done in one class session.

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Medium: Oil Paint

Dimensions: 18” x 24”

Year: 2019

Description: Study of complementary colors with Acrylic under paint.

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Medium: Original Acrylic paint altered with Adobe Photoshop
Dimensions: 15'' x 20''
Year: 2019
Description: This is an altered image of the painting "The Madness", where I applied Adobe Photoshop to enhance the emotion of the original painting which is a remake of the famous artwork "The Scream" by Edvard Munch.

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Medium: Acrylic Paint
Dimensions: 15'' x 20''
Year: 2017
Description: This painting is a remake of the famous "The Scream" by the Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch with my personal style added.

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Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Dimensions: 8'' x 11''
Year: 2017
Description: This photograph was inspired by the many different fields of sight granted to us through advancements in technology.

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Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Dimensions: 8'' x 11''
Year: 2017
Description: This artwork is an environmental statement however, like most things there is a human duality of what is pushed to the front and what is surprised to the back.

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Medium: Adobe Photoshop
Dimensions: 8'' x 11''
Year: 2017
Description: This artwork can best be described as a think piece loaded with questions like "why is man on top of all the other animals?", "Has man created their own jungle?".

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Medium: Oil Paint
Dimensions: 8'' x 10''
Year: 2020
Description: An abstract painting based off a collage of an assortment of colors and shapes inadvertently arranged, ironically the title conveys a pleasant message whereas the painting rebuttals.

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DeVaughn Williams-A Stroll in the Garden

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Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 18'' x 24''
Year: 2018
Description:  An artwork that displays an intense focus in a close snapshot.

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Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 18'' x 24''
Year: 2018
Description: This artwork was created with the focal point being an epicenter of darkness can give off waves of color.

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Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 8” x 10”

Year: 2021

Description: Complementary colors were something that I have always been aware of but never really utilized up until this point. I’d never even considered making a piece of art only using complementary colors before. I was skeptical at first, but after a few tries, I think that I understand more about the importance of tints and tones.

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Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 14” x 18”

Year: 2021

Description: This wasn’t my first time working in a greyscale, but it was the first time that I didn’t use black paint straight from the tube. I had experimented with created my own black tones in other paintings in smaller quantities. This was an entirely different challenge. Not only had I made my own black tone, but I also used it for an entire painting.

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Medium: Watercolor on Paper

Dimensions: 10” x 7”

Year: 2020

Description: This piece was created with the intent of being added to an already existing series of mine. I had challenged myself a few years back to work in a medium that I wasn’t comfortable in at the time, watercolor. I had created that one piece a few years ago only using a monochromatic pallet and loved the outcome. I wanted to continue the series, so I created a few other pieces that were all monochromatic with the subject of a skeleton.

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Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 16” x 20”

Year: 2021

Description: This piece was actually recently revised. I had painted it a few weeks ago but wasn’t completely happy with it. I started over entirely and loved the new result. This piece was created only using a limited pallet.

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Medium: Glazed Ceramics

Dimensions: 5.5” x 7” x 7”

Year: 2020

Description: Even though there are three pots, I do consider it one piece. I made these pots as part of a series that was meant to be viewed together. Each pot is the same size, the only differences are color and pattern.

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Medium: Glazed Ceramic

Dimensions: 12” x 10” x 10”

Year: 2020

Description: I created this piece by using a coil technique. It was a challenge to gradually increase the width of the pot as I built up. I started with a six-inch based and slowly expanded it to the ten-inch width that it is at the top. As for the carved design that surrounds the flowerpot, I thought it was humorous and a little bit of a literal label to carve the roses.

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Medium: Marker on Illustration Board

Dimensions: 20” x 15”

Year: 2020
Description: I had worked with stippling in the past, but this was the first piece that I’ve ever used pointillism. Trying to make an area look like a certain color without actually using it was the most difficult part of making this.

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Medium: Charcoal on Grey toned paper

Dimensions: 25” x 18”

Year: 2020

Description: This is one of the first charcoal pieces that I’ve done of a live model. I would say it was definitely a challenge because the model took a break about halfway through the pose, and when he came back, we didn’t get the pose exactly the same. Readjusting the proportions and trying to get everything right by the end of the session was a challenge for me.

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Medium: White Conte on Black Paper

Dimensions: 25” x 18”

Year: 2020

Description: When this was created, I was studying the proportions of the human body and the skeletal system. I really enjoy creating art that involves skeletons and doing this study of the body, I learned more about that shape of bones

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 1 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 2 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 3 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 4 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 5 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 6 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Digital Photography using archival pigment print

Dimensions: 13 x 19

Year: Fall 2020

Description: This series was a project where I photographed different places on Long Island that are normally populated but are now empty due to Covid-19. I also photographed different newspaper headlines that I thought were interesting and went along with the image and combined them together. This was a way for me to remember these times that has affected us all in some way or another.

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Katie McCormick- 7 Series- Isolation During Covid-19

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Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: 961 x 1048

Year: 2021

Description: In a bathroom with no lights, I created this image using a colored led light from my phone.

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Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: 1189 x 1920

Year: 2021

Description: I created a home studio and used a colored led light from my phone to capture this image.

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Jada McFarlane- Carved African Mother Figurine

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Medium: Photograph

Dimensions:  3456 x 5184

Year: 2021

Description: I turned a 21st century plant into a vintage photo.

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Medium: Digital Image

Dimensions: 1280 x 1920

Year: 2021

Description: A solarized wooded creek.

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Medium: Scanned dark room paper

Dimensions: 1231 x 1378

Year: 2021

Description: I experimented with sunlight, lotion and accidently spilled perfume on this paper... gorgeous!

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Jada McFarlane- Body Lotion & Perfume & Sunlight

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Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: 3456 x 3442

Year: 2021

Description: I created a home studio and used a colored led light from my phone to capture this image.

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Jada McFarlane- Black Americana Figurines

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Medium: Scanned dark room paper

Dimensions: 1347 x 1313

Year: 2021

Description: I created this lumen print with soap and sunlight!

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Medium: Digital Image

Dimensions: 1280 x 1920

Year Made: 2021

Description: A solarized wooded pond.

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Medium: Digital Image

Dimensions: 1280 x 1860

Year: 2021

Description: I combined a gigantic tree and a blooming plant using the double exposure method.

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Medium: Photograph

Dimensions: 5184 x 3456

Year: 2021

Description: Turned the new into the old.

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Medium: Mixed Media

Dimensions: 14x17”

Year: 2021

Description: This mixed media piece consists of some pencil, black and white acrylic paint and ink. This was a nonpictorial project in 2D design. There was a list of rigid guidelines to follow, leaving some possibilities to be creative with the individual choice of shapes, lines and tonal range.

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Medium: Acrylic On Canvas

Dimensions: 12x12”

Year: 2020

Description: Ultimately pursuing a career in art therapy, I felt the need to make a painting that looks relaxing and mentally takes us on a trip. I used a lot of cheery bright colors to depict the tropical, summery sunset.

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Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions:  8X10’

Year: 2021

Description:  We could only use a limited palette for a still life of a fruit. I chose to paint a strawberry and make it abstract with the use of  the ultramarine blue since no shades of red were included in the palette.

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Medium: Wire Sculpture

Dimensions: 9x4x1’

Year: 2020

Description:  We had to create a shoe sculpture made out  of wire in 3D design. I chose one of my favorite heels to replicate. This required a lot of twisting, layering, and molding the wire to the shapes and lines I needed it to be.

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Medium: Acrylic Painting

Dimensions: 18x24’

Year: 2020

Description: This painting was created as part of a series we had to develop in Portfolio Prep, but it was something I been meaning to paint further, based off a similar prior artwork. Inspired by intuitive visions in my minds eye, as well as a whimsical place for meditation.

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Medium: Oil paint
Dimensions: 16” x 20”
Year: 2021
Description: A still life of a white mug and bowl with pink and yellow utensils to show reflections of color.

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Danielle Henneborn- White Still Life with Colored Objects

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Medium: Oil paint
Dimensions: 8” x 10”
Year: 2021
Description: A still life of fruits and a glass bottle painted only using a palette knife.

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Danielle Henneborn- Palette Knife Still Life

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Medium: Ink
Dimensions: 15” x 20”
Year: 2021
Description: A still life of a plush frog.

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Medium: Ink and alcohol marker Dimensions: 18” x 24”
Year: 2021
Description: An abstract drawing consisting of marks of various values and sizes to suggest space and depth. The dashed lines and organic shapes were created using alcohol markers. The circles were created using homemade stencils and rolling a Crayola crayon dipped in ink over them.

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Medium: Alcohol marker Dimensions: 18” x 24”
Year: 2021
Description: A still life focusing on creating ambiguity with positive and negative space and shapes.

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Medium: Pencil
Dimensions: 11” x 14”
Year:  2021
Description: A still life of a found/natural set up - the inside of my dryer.

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Medium: Oil paint
Dimensions: 8” x 10”
Year:  2020
Description: A still life of plush animals painted in one-shot within a period of only three hours.

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Medium: Oil paint
Dimensions: 8” x 10”
Year: 2020
Description: A value study of a childhood toy who now accompanies me at my desk.

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Danielle Henneborn- Value Study of a Plush Hen

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Medium: Charcoal
Dimensions: 10” x 14”
Year: 2020
Description: A still life of a ceramic tea set with a solitary cat figurine inspired by this past year’s events.

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Danielle Henneborn- Social Distancing Tea Party

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Medium: Pencil
Dimensions: 14” x 10”
Year: 2020
Description: A drawing of my hand with Worms on a String, a popular toy in the 1970s that has experienced a pop culture revival within the past year. The background is inspired by the inside of a lava lamp.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 11” x 14” (2 canvases)

Year: 2019

Description: Dichotomy painting. I came up with the concept by being inspired with how people are usually ‘left-brained’ or ‘right-brained’. The left painting is monochromatic and linear, while the right painting is the opposite: flowy and colorful.

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Medium: Charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 18” x 24”

Year: 2019

Description: If not mistaken, this was our final drawing for our Life Drawing class, which we worked on for a while. The nude model was present and there was interesting light as well.

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Medium: Pastel on toned paper

Dimensions: 11” x 14”

Year: 2019

Description: During class, we were testing out pastels since we mostly worked with charcoal/pencil. We were told to set up a still life and use pastels instead of our usual materials.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16” x 20”

Year: 2021

Description: Inspired by an early childhood photo. The picture was me as a child wearing a paper bag vest which was painted with colorful patterns. I focused more on the paper bag vest and wondered how it would ‘look like’ if I found it in the future.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 9” x 12”

Year: 2019

Description: Assigned painting. This was a one-shot painting, meaning that we only worked on it for one class sitting (4 hours).

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Erick Collantes- Untitled (Still Life) 2

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16” x 20”

Year: 2019

Description: Assigned painting. There was interesting lighting which made me see all the colors (I put more of an emphasis on the color) that are in the canvas.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16” x 20”

Year: 2019

Description:  Assigned still life. All the objects in the painting are originally white, but I painted what color I saw from the shadows, there was a lot of color!

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 16” x 20”

Year: 2019

Description: Inspired by an early memory from childhood. The early memory was my aunt pushing my face on my birthday cake.

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Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 72” x 36”

Year: 2019

Description: Free painting assignment, inspired by the aspect of nature with classical Greek sculptures.