Please enjoy this exploration of my highlighted school projects:

  • A Day in the Life of a Disneyland Trash Can

  • Rings: A Color Exploration

  • Escapism

  • Oyster Color Wheel

  • Roller Coaster Ruins

  • Riverwalk Animation

2D Studio Art

A Day in the Life of a Disneyland Trash Can

Given the task of exploring the elements of art first in black and white through the lenses of one object, I have chosen the most underappreciated item of all: the trash can. And not just any trash can, but that of the Disneyland trash can. Decorated as to not stand out as boring amongst the magical, thousands of guests pass them in a day and do not appreciate their beauty and importance in their trip. By using pen, watercolor, collage, and mixed media, this project served as a great introduction to 2D art.

  • Collage: Trash Can Project

  • Multimedia: Trash Can Project

  • Pen: Trash Can Project

  • Watercolor: Trash Can Project

Rings: A Color Exploration

As a female mechanical engineering student, I often find myself frustrated at issues my male peers do not have. One of these struggles is taking off my rings before I use machinery.

In my reference image, my Claddagh ring, an Irish symbol for love, is framed with a stack of bearings in the back that represent a different type of “ring” more fit for the masculine world of the machinery shop. By using digital and acrylic paint to recreate the image in different color schemes, I experiment how color can change the story of the image.

  • Analogous: Acrylic

  • Triad: Digital

  • Monochromatic: Acrylic

  • Pen Tool: Illustrator

  • Original Photo

Escapism

These seven pieces use different forms of media to explore the complexities of escapism. With two polar opposite pieces in Creation and Consumption to juxtapose between using escapism to inspire vs. using escapism to hide and loose yourself, I seek to ask viewers to look how escapism works in their own lives.

  • Escape

  • Recreate

  • Creation

  • Redefine

  • Balance

  • Consumption

  • Control

Oyster Color Wheel

This mini project asked to make a color wheel with Photoshop out of an unusual image we had taken. This plate of oysters from a farm in Ireland was the perfect way to explore color and the digital tool.

Roller Coater

Ruins

This painting of an abandoned roller coaster recolonized to represent the color of oxidized copper. This piece invites the question what defines a ruin? What man-made structures are worth preserving and what should be demolished to be left to the wastes of time. By framing this now demolished coaster in a soft sunset, I wish to capture a beautiful moment in-between life and death for this once beloved attraction.

Riverwalk Animation

Given the task of animating 30 seconds of a red ball moving from the left side of the screen and off of the right, I decided to take this ball on a tour of downtown San Antonio. Starting with a family on a tour of the Alamo and ending tragically with ice cream falling and splatting at the Riverwalk, this animation shows you the day of a younger version of me playing tourist in my hometown. The figures and backgrounds were all handprinted and scanned into Adobe After Effects to animate.

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