I was inspired by the prompt, "meeting the oracle." To me, an oracle is someone who has special knowledge or experience. In this piece, the oracle is a spaceship mechanic who is interrupted from her work by a small child with a broken robot. I wanted…
This painting is a self-portrait and a tribute to one of my favorite restaurants. I wanted to exaggerate orange and other hues to give a bit of a greasy feeling, since this piece was for my AP Drawing portfolio exploring the effects of fast food on…
This piece emerged from a moment of an overwhelming amount of emotion. The swirling forms and soft colors represent the raw energy of those emotions. The canvas was my means of expression.
This piece is a printed scan of a page in my sketchbook. I used watercolor and gouache to paint the zinnias I had gotten from the Lawrence Farmer's Market.
Just the thought of it makes my skin crawl! When I was facing housing insecurity, I couldn’t believe something like that could happen to me in my own home. I questioned what it meant to have a place to rest, a place to belong. I longed to return to a…