White Paper Drawings

Paper Mountain

Size: 10” x 9” x ½”

Medium: White Paper, White Gesso

Artist Statement: This assignment required to take a 21”x24” piece of white paper, tear it up and assemble the pieces together using gesso as an adhesive with no scraps wasted into a dimension of approximately 8”x10”. While tearing the piece of paper, a few piece curled up at the end while others had interesting texture on the edges. This inspired me to create a landscape scene using the curly tip pieces of paper into leaves for a tree and the piece of the rough edged texture ones for the mountain. Majority of the scrap paper were used to create the thickness in the tree trunk in the technique of paper mache and behind the triangular pieces that was used for creating the mountains, the scrapes helped make shadows to show there was distances between the mountains.

Charcoal Bird

Size: 8” x 10” x 1 ½”

Medium: White Paper, White Gesso, Rembrandt Black pastel

Artist Statement: As with the previous drawing assignment in to take a 21”x24” piece of paper and convert it into an 8”x10” but instead of tearing the paper I used scissors for clean cuts because I had an idea in mind. All the scrap pieces of paper from the last drawing inspired me to create a nest for a bird. Anything and everything can go into a bird’s nest right, but in this case all the scrape pieces at the end were matted down and layered to create this nest. Also for this drawing assignment, I was allowed to use some Rembrandt Black pastel to create value in this piece.  The pastel helped in distinguishing some of the layers on the adult bird and created an interest backdrop.

Ephemeral Marks in the Landscape

The Path I Once Walked 

Size: Approx. 4’ x 12’

Medium: Stones, Sticks

Artist Statement: I pass by this small hidden pathway every time I go to the St. Augustine Parking Garage and loved how the geometric squares curve off into the unknown. I thought this would be a nice and settle area to do my first ephemeral landscape and I could use the stones and stick around me to create marks within the landscape. Stone paths like these are meant to be walk on, so the idea was to leave footprints behind to show someone has already be here and left their mark. I used my own feet to outline the footprint and then filled it in to make it much more bold, it wasn’t so bold and obvious footprint when it was just an outline. The sticks in between the large square stones were meant as a guide your eyes from one square to the next.

A Tree's Self Portrait

Size:  Approx.. 5’ x 13’

Medium: Leaves

Artist Statement: After walking around trying to find a big enough space to do this assignment, I came across this dirt parking lot that was practically empty (because the parking spaces required a special permit in order to park there).  When looking around for inspirations on what I should do, my eyes landed on a tree and the leaves falling from it. I thought it would be a fun idea to have a tree to create its own self-portrait using its own leaves to create the shape on the ground. A couple of the leaves had a little bit of a lighter color then the majority of the other leaves, I used that to create a little bit of value within the shape of the tree. A lot of manual work went into this, considering I didn’t have a rake with me and to only use my hands, but in the end I’m pretty happy on what I accomplished.