We make a thing every week and share it
During quarantine I decided that I wanted to do something with all of the boxes we had been shipping in. In June I bought Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and have really been enjoying the game, so I decided to make one of the weapons from the game.
It’s a little nerdy, but I had fun making it.
When I started working out in Los Angeles, there was a long period of time where I didn’t have time to paint. I missed it. A lot. One day, once things had slowed down, I took myself to Michael’s, bought some canvases, a basic brush set, and the primary colors. I found an image that I found inspiring, and went from there!
Here is my painting breakdown for the still of Chihiro riding the dragon, Haku in the movie “Spirited Away!”
We have two homes in Virginia and North Carolina, and so we wanted to pay tribute to them. Jaymie created a “Flora and Fauna of Virginia” painting, and Julia painted the Currituck Lighthouse.
Here is an interesting upcycle that I did this summer. I found this sort of “bust” like painting at Gift and Thrift. It was three dimensional and I thought it had amazing potential. I wasn’t crazy about the design that came with it, so I painted over the woman completely and decided to give her a fresh new look.
Here is a painting that I didn’t steal from a movie! It came to me when I was looking at the clouds one day which sounds very cringey but it is just facts. I saw pink clouds and cranes and this is what I made!
This is my virtual performance for my piano recital last fall. The piece I’m playing is Arabesque No. 1 by Debussy.
As part of the process of redecorating my room over quarantine, I created this tapestry to fill empty wall space. The painting is a recreation of the first shot in Spirited Away. I think this is the largest painting I have ever done. It was extremely time consuming and I learned through the process of creating it that painting on fabric is much more difficult and labor intensive than painting on canvas because the fabric absorbs the paint. I started the project by drawing the design on the fabric with pencil. I then painted in large blocks of color and once I had completed that I added shading and details. The last step was lining everything with sharpie.
Arabesque:
This piece uses a melodic motif from the song Arabesque No. 1 by Debussy. I decided to create a “lo-fi” style beat using this figure and simple chord backings. All of the percussion was created by sampling sounds of everyday objects.