Mo's Masterpieces

Portraits

2010-11-12T10:05:00.000-08:00

My roommate Tenille. Every year I've wanted to draw my roommates every year and this is the first year that I've actually gotten to it.

Best friend Corey.

Painting 1

2010-04-27T23:45:00.001-07:00

Very first oil painting EVER! We had to make a collage using plain color from magazines and then copy the color EXACTLY onto the canvas.
Yes I painted this. *LOOK AT IT UP CLOSE BY CLICKING ON IT! This is the view from my grandparents cabin deck.

*new pictures will be uploaded soon. Sadly, this one is very blurry :(

More 3D Design

2010-04-27T23:23:00.001-07:00

Wire sculpture day: "Ok everybody, I want you all to start brainstorming ideas on what you can do your sculpture on!" *class rushes to sketchbooks, drawing quickly and shielding their ideas from the people around them* Mo sits there, staring into space, hardly aware of what is around her. Suddenly the clouds part outside, and everything brightens. Her eyes are drawn to the bright colors of the grass, and there! the fire hydrant, with it's bright red exterior and interesting shape. "No one would even imagine of doing a fire hydrant, they are too easily passed over. That's what I'm doing!" she thought to herself. Grabbing wire, and getting to work, Mo finished her wire sculpture in 2 hours flat. Alas, on critique day, Mo's sculpture was everyone's favorite, with comments like, "I never would have thought to do that!" "It's so simple, but it looks so great!" and "You made a fire hydrant look cool!"

This sculpture was made after having to break up with a boyfriend. This was my frustration in plaster. Sadly, the emotion came out more like a yawn, but it fulfilled my need to express how I was feeling.

Cardboard Chair

2009-12-26T01:03:00.000-08:00

Cardboard chair made for my 3D class. Yes, you can sit on it, yes it's made entirely of cardboard and yes, it's awesome.

Abstract Piece

2009-12-26T00:53:00.000-08:00

Done in my tenth grade year, this piece sits on my desk where I can see it everyday. It was my favorite piece from tenth grade, but I got a poor score because my teacher said the overlaying black and silver lines made it too busy. He did like how the shapes that are painted on give the piece depth. I'm happy with it, and I like how crazy it turned out.

Acrylic on canvas. Yarn is covered in Elmers Glue mixed with india ink to make it black. Silver pen is used. Black and white buttons are glued on.

Detail of above piece.

Gum Wrapper "doodles"

2009-12-26T00:50:00.001-08:00

The following are done with 5 gum wrappers. I peel the foil away from the wax paper stuff and press it on paper. These are each three inches in diameter. They hang on my desk above my computer so when my lamp is on, they shine :) The designs are pretty random, but I love them!

This one reminds me of a canyon at night. Can you see it?

Random Sketches

2009-12-26T00:45:00.000-08:00

Random doodle I found on my desk today that I decided to include. Go me :)

Also done in my english class (sadly, I use that class for most of my doodling). We "read" God's Man which is a novel done entirely in woodcuts. I drew some of the faces that I liked the best from the book.

Done while talking to Jason on Skype. I got complacent with his arms and the rest of his body after I drew his shirt.

Single line squiggles

2009-12-26T00:27:00.000-08:00

Done in pen using one continuous line while in my english class

Detail of above picture.

Done while I worked at Western Wats call center. The whole thing is done with one line that doesn't intersect or touch. When I needed to switch colors, I continued on the same line. To define the shapes, I colored over it with colored pencil.

Detail of above picture.

Sketchbook update

2009-12-26T00:03:00.000-08:00

Helping my friend time monologues at the Shakespeare festival, I liked the judges profile a lot so I sketched it. When the monologue was done, my friend told me I looked like a creeper, staring at the judge. Oh well, I got my drawing so I'm :)

Done in the car with a friend over the course of a few days. Done in pen, free-handed. Super random, I know. Paisley inspired.

Penguins dream too! This is how I imagine a penguin's dream would look. Done in pen on paper.

Sketching on an airplane while by myself (scared to death). Random dude I made up. The woman next to me was so impressed by watching me draw him that she wanted to "inspect" my drawing when I was finished. She held my sketchbook up to her face for almost five minutes before slamming it back down on my tray table and pronouncing loudly that I was an amazing artist and she was proud to sit next to me. Thoroughly embarrassed, I didn't draw for the rest of the trip, but she and I had some good conversations for the remainder of the three hour plane ride.

Sketch drawn while sitting in my friend Squirrel's room. This is the resulting drawing. I also did a photoshopped colored copy of it as a gift for him, but I can't find it right now. I'll post it when I can :)

Initial sketches done in my English class. My prof saw them and liked them so much he commissioned the Zombie picture shown in a previous entry. Instead I gave him that picture because he got my copy of Coraline signed by Neil Gaiman. SO happy :)

My friend Phil loves his cat. This picture was done for fun based off his facebook profile picture.

My thoughts on Web 2.0

2009-11-19T09:39:00.000-08:00

I'm sitting in my CSIS class at 10:40 am. My assignment is to write something about Web 2.0 and post it to my blog. Everyone else had to create their own blog for this assignment, but I'm using one I already have.

Web 2.0 is the second wave of web use where regular people, not corporations or companies, wanted to start making their own websites to talk about whatever they want. It all started in 2003, and it changed the way people interact online. Blogs came into being. They are more about content, than presentation. They are no longer about reading the website, but about writing in one. They care less about the "corporate message" and more about "my message."

Art Famine

2009-09-17T12:17:00.000-07:00

It looks like I haven't done any artwork for a while, but that's only partly true. I just haven't taken pictures or scanned anything that I've done in a while. I am back in school now so the pieces will start flowing a lot faster. Feel free to bug me about posting more often on facebook or comments on this post. Thanks for keeping up with my stuff!

Commission #1

2009-09-17T12:13:00.000-07:00

Painting for Scott Jackson

Mixed Media: Acrylic, Elmers glue, India ink, yarn. I used a fork, feathers and masking tape to make some of the marks in this piece. The yarn is covered in elmers glue mixed with India ink.

Please let me know if you would like any paintings. I'm starting to play around with different designs and textures.

Dancing Flamingo

2009-09-17T12:02:00.001-07:00

Collaboration piece with Jim Perry. I did the original drawing and he painted it.

My original sketch.

Cellphone Pictures

2009-07-06T09:33:00.000-07:00

Preston Smith at a campfire, taken on my cell phone :P

I love accidents like this. I moved my camera too quickly and voila! C'est moi!

Not a Messenger

2009-07-06T09:29:00.000-07:00

Inspired by a note found in Emily's library book. I scanned it and used the actual writing, then composed the images around it. It wasn't turning out how I'd hoped, so I quit messing with it.

Moonlit Fortification

2009-07-06T09:14:00.000-07:00

Submitted to a Prismacolor competition online. I got a package in the mail a couple months later with a thank you postcard and a free Prismacolor felt tip marker in a bright teal color. Hooray for free random stuff!
This is the statement I sent with the picture:

"Walking through history on ancient grounds, feeling the souls of people from the past. The uneven architecture slides past my fingertips, and I think of memories long gone. The ghosts around me whisper to tell their stories. They press against me, fervently motioning about their lives. My mind can't keep it all in, and their voices are lost in my thoughts. I may not remember their stories, but I can portray how it felt to be among them."

Crazy Me

2009-04-17T19:41:00.001-07:00

Pinwheel Theory Studies

2009-04-02T14:43:00.000-07:00

Realism study with a formalist spin.

Pinwheel detail.

Formalist stance.
Expressionist stance.

Giraffe!

2009-04-02T14:37:00.000-07:00

This is a pastel done for my drawing 2 class. It's done on Wallis board, which feels like a very fine sandpaper. When critiqued, someone made the comment that it was Van Gogh-esque :D

Giraffe Detail
Detail on the shadow of the pot.

2009-03-23T22:20:00.000-07:00

After a couple more hours of work.....

2009-03-23T18:43:00.000-07:00

Working on the zombies for my English teacher. He said he would get my copy of Coraline signed by the author if I drew him some zombies. This is the first one I've gotten anywhere with. I was going to try sketching some until I remembered photoshop. I still should sketch some though. Any suggestions?

City Fish

2009-03-22T22:14:00.001-07:00

Fishies!

2009-03-19T16:06:00.001-07:00

Graffiti App on Facebook

2009-03-17T23:56:00.001-07:00

This was done a couple months ago, but I just figured out how to share it :)

Abstract Painting

2009-03-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

I was sitting in class one day when I suddenly had a great desire to make another one of these paintings. I had made one similiar to this in my sophmore year in high school and my teacher chewed it apart. I was kinda sad because it was one of my favorites I did that year. This painting is about 8x10. I used yellow and green yarn, elmers glue and acrylic. The black is elmers glue with india ink mixed in. ** It isn't supposed to be anything. I wasn't thinking of anything when I made the work. Yes, it is completely random, I only focused on composition.

Digital Imaging

2009-03-04T15:43:00.000-08:00

Drafts for my digital imaging class. We had to read an article and make an illustration for it. The article I read was a speech given by Hitler (excerpt at the bottom of the post).
Final illustration done in Adobe Illustrator with blending done in photoshop

The article I chose is a speech written by Hitler for the inauguration of the Munich Expedition 1937 of pieces that Hitler didn't think were art. I chose two paragraphs from the speech to do base my illustration on.

"I have observed among the pictures submitted here, quite a few paintings which make one actually come to the conclusion that they eye shows things differently to certain human beings than the way they really are, that is, that there really are men who see the present population of our nation only as rotten cretins; who, on principle, see meadows blue, skies green, clouds sulphur yellow, and so on, or, as they say, experience them as such. I do not want to enter into an argument here about the question of whether the persons concerned really do or do not see or feel in such a way; but, in the name of the German people, I want to forbid these pitiful misfortunates who quite obviously suffer from an eye disease, to try vehemently to foist these products of their misinterpretation upon the age we live in, or even to wish to present them as 'Art'.

No, here there are only two possibilities: Either these so-called 'artists' really see things this way and therefore believe in what they depict; then we would have to examine their eyesight-deformation to see if it is the product of a mechanical failure or of inheritance. In the first case, these unfortunates can only be pitied; in the second case, they would be the object of great interset to the Ministry of Interior of the Reich which would then have to take up the question of whether further inheritance of such gruesome malfunctioning of the eyes cannot atleast be checked. If, on the other hand, they themselves do not believe in the reality of such impressions but try to harass the nation with this humbug for other reasons, then such an attempt falls within the jurisdiction of hte penal law."

Gum Wrappers

2009-03-04T15:38:00.000-08:00

Hey dad, remember all those gum wrappers you've been sending me? I've been using them to make ART!

Sketchbook

2009-03-04T15:24:00.001-08:00

Attempt at drawing my friend Nick while he was doodling. I've never seen such a bad scan before sorry :(

I went and drew the ROTC while they were meeting. This is a sketch I got out of it.

During Stake Conference I was bored :S and I liked this woman's profile. I don't know her, but when my mom took my sketchbook and showed some people they recognized her :)
I finished a drawing project early in class one day and so I drew this to fill the time.

Mini Sketchbook

2009-03-04T15:18:00.001-08:00

Mad eye eh? Done while bored in classes :P I don't remember what I was mad at... probably the boring classes!

Done over last summer but I wanted to put it in the blog cuz I think it's cool.
Also done over the summer when I was bored in the airport. It'd be hard to read it on the computer but have fun if you try. I was rambling because we were stuck there so long.

Drawing II

2009-02-03T15:08:00.000-08:00

Self Portrait done in Nu Pastel. My teacher liked what I did with the glasses and the highlights on the left side.
I finished the first portrait a day and a half early so I started a new one. I've never done a self portrait smiling so I thought I'd try it. I don't like how it turned out, the proportions are off.
Pastel study in preparation for pastel still life.
Pastel still life done on blue pastel paper. It was used as an example in front of the class :)
Detail on the onion in the pastel still life.
Detail on shadow and reflection on the tea pot.

I'm really enjoying my Drawing class. I didn't realize how much I missed drawing and doodling. I'm happy that the things I'm doing are being noticed. I also like that my prof says the suggestions I have for other students are what they would have told them.

Digital Imaging

2009-02-02T17:27:00.001-08:00

This was done for my Digital Imaging class this semester. There is 20 layers to make up this piece. I used seven pictures to make the composite image. Click on it to get a larger view.
I did this one for fun because I love that Zach was coloring in a princess coloring book. The crayon above his ear makes me happy :) There is nine layers in this one with four pictures used.

2D Design Assignments

2009-01-15T17:12:00.001-08:00

Card stock paper on illustration board. Non-objective asymmetrical piece.

Another card stock on illustration board, this time symmetrical following the same shape design as the first. These were taken on my green fluffy rug and I was too lazy to photoshop it out. :P

Stipple design on illustration board. We did a bunch of studies of a fruit or vegetable (I chose a sweet dumpling squash). Then we took some of the thumbnails and made a composition on a large piece of illustration board. We each had to choose a symbol that we would use with the stippling to make different textures. I used an "@" sign, organic shading, and words to make my piece.

Detail of the seeds in the squash piece.

Detail of the squash and @ signs to make texture.

Detail of the squash stipple project. I put hidden words along with the squash. Here you can see pineapple and melon.

This is called a Bio Machine. It is done with black and white card stock paper, xeroxed pictures, spray paint, and foam core (to get layers).

cAcrylic color wheel with color studies at the bottom.

Collage made from magazine pictures and layered with foam core.

First Post Ever

2009-01-15T16:16:00.000-08:00

This is my first post on my first blog ever!! How exciting. To start, I'm glad you are here *looks solemnly around*. We will begin this blog by pointing out how truly happy I am to have this blog. I can't wait to start getting my art work in here and hearing comments *clears throat as a hint to people to comment PLEASE*. As I am a busy college student who also tries to have a social life, I don't know how often I will be able to post, but I can make a promise to you, my viewers, that I will do my best and at least think about updating this site as often as possible. I hope you enjoy your trip through my world!