Mixed Media
A blue and green alien-like being looks off into the distance. Their eyes take up almost half of their head, and only their face and torso are visible. The background behind them is a washed-out light blue with purple and navy squiggles of different thicknesses covering the paper. Made with marker and watercolor
A narrow piece of paper depicting stairs drawn in perspective, the corner of the stairs perfectly lined up in the center of the paper. Walking up the stairs is a collaged cut out of a figure, loose lines depicting their limbs. Pasted where their head should be is an amoeba of black and red lines and squiggles, traveling up to the top of the paper. The stairs and background are different shades of gray, making this colored amoeba pop against the background. Made with marker, felt-tip pen, and ink.
At the center of this piece of paper are a collection of black and white faces, drawn in different styles and all seemingly connected by necks and hair and hands and a wandering foot. Surrounding them (and sometimes on top of them) are strokes of color, made with watercolor, pencil, pastel, and marker. Faintly, in the background one can almost make out the words, "let each page be an adventure, a risk, a place to fail"
In this colored pencil drawing, a tall waterbottle towers over a girl. She is wearing green baggy pants, a tank top, and boots. Her hair is a short brown and her cheeks are flushed. She holds the waterbottle, which is swirling with different shades of blue to depict water, and looks up at it longingly. There are shadows of lines beneath both the girl and the bottle. Made with felt-tip pen and colored pencil.
This white page is occupied by a stack of 9 journals - some held together by rings, other by hard covers. They are loosely sketched with pen and colored in with purple, pink, blue, or gray watercolor. There is a faint shadow beneath the stack.
On this square-shaped paper, a being looks directly at the viewer with an expression of anguish. The top of their head is missing, and where there brain would be is hallow and filled with squiggles. A spoons scoops out some of these squiggles and a hand grips the being's neck coming from the same direction. The squiggles, the beings lips, and the hand's nails are a deep red. Made with market and pen.
In this self portrait I'm not standing on any surface, but floating atop the deep red background. I am fair-skinned, my head is shaved, I am wearing a white tank top, baggy green cargo pants, and maroon vans. My eyes are a yellow-ish brown and my piercings and chin dimple are drawn onto my face, as well as my rings on my fingers. The outline of my body is in felt-tip pen, and I am colored-in with watercolor.
This pastel composition zooms in on the face of an alien-being. They have a skinny neck and nose accompanied by full lips and massive eyes. Their skin is orange with yellow highlights. Both the background and the darks of their eyes are drawn in a deep indigo color. They are staring just above the viewer.
This square-shaped paper depicts a blue face with purple, full lips, drawn in pastel. Instead of two eyes though, they have 7 on each side, each seemingly floating atop the other.
On top of a white background, a face is drawn using loose squiggles. The squiggles are meticulously colored-in like puzzle pieces. The palette consists of cool tones like blues, purples, and greens. Made with marker, pen, and watercolor.
In this square-shaped portrait, a girl hugs her knees close to her chest. She looks up and to the side. She is white, her hair is a sandy blonde, her eyes are an icy blue, and she wears a bright red sweater. The shade of her sweater matches both her lips and the blush on her cheeks. She wears jeans and sneakers. The outline of the girl is drawn with felt-tip pen, and she is colored in with watercolor.
A pastel portrait of a blue being, but their left eye bulges beyond the outline of their head, and their left lip drops beyond their chin. The silhouette of this figure is surrounded by sky- blue, purple, and navy squiggles.
A purple, alien-like being kneels, with their shins aligning with the bottom of the paper. Their torso reaches the top of the paper, where their neck careens backwards to the point where the figure's head is upside-down. The background is blank, and the figure is given dimension with different shades of purple. Made with marker.
A yellow figure stands in the center of the blank page with their feet facing the bottom corners like a ballerina. A red mushroom top with yellow spots covers the top of their head. Instead of hands, this figure has more heads with similar mushroom tops covering each. Made with felt-tip pen, marker, and watercolor.
A figure is depicted off-center of the page. Their arms hang down below their feet. The outline of the figure is loosely drawn in black, and they are colored in with blue. Their silhouette is surrounded by black lines that fill the blank page. Made with marker.
A face is drawn with a thin pen, squiggling and looping to create the loose depiction of eyes, a nose, a mouth, and cheeks. Some areas where the squiggles loop around each other are colored in with pink and red tones, while other areas are left blank. Made with pen and marker.
A red torso emerges from the bottom of the page, while a blue one emerges from the top. The blue one seems to be doing a handstand while the red one's arms wrap around the blue torso in a spiral. Both torsos seem to share the same head, which is colored and oriented to match the red torso. The background is blank. Made with marker, watercolor, and pen.
A deep red strawberry has a face and the arms and legs of a stick figure. In their hand they hold an actual stick figure, seemingly dropping it on their tongue as if they are about to eat it. Made with watercolor, marker, and pen.
Here a gray, alien-like figure has arms that hang down beside their feet. Their skinny arms and legs are covered with a massive blue sweater. They look up into the page's corner. Made with felt-tip pen and watercolor.
A girl sits behind a desk. She is wearing a green sweatshirt, jeans, and boots. Her hair is a sandy brown and her cheeks are flushed. Atop the grey desk sits a notebook and a waterbottle. There is a slight shadow beneath her feet and the legs of the desk. The outlines are drawn in felt-tip pen, and watercolor fills them in,
In the top left corner is a clipping that reads, "the game of LIFE." Immediately to the right is a clipping that reads, "is," followed by a string of clippings reading, "massive, dirty, unrealistic, vulnerability, surviving, mundane, undeniable, indisputable, stretching, youth, dream, masterpiece, aggressive, everything, unveiled, renderings, magnificent, layers." In the bottom right corner is a clipping that says, "WARNING may cause death." Hanging from and jumping between these clippings are the silhouettes of figures. Surrounding both the figures and the clippings are squiggles drawn in pen.
A blue face is rendered in pastel with purple lines surrounding the face and neck.
A blue silhouette of a woman is centered on a blank page. Her arms are raised above her head and begin to swirl and interlink after her elbow. Her legs begin to do the same below her knee. Made with pastel.
An outline of a figure creates a circle on a square page. Their torso and stomach are the left side of the circle, with their limbs stretching behind them so that their hands and feet make the right side of the circle. Inside the circled made by the figure is a purple and blue bubble-like, squiggly pattern. Made with felt-tip pen and watercolor,
A black and white figure is centered, their limbs moving in loose squiggles across the page. The figure is filled in with a black-and-white pattern, but a separate blue pattern surrounds the figure to fill the background. Made with pen.
A girl stands to the left of the page. She has fair skin, shaggy brown hair, brown eyes, and flushed cheeks. She wears a bright blue crop top, a flowing green skirt, and brown clogs. There is a slight shadow depicted by lines below her shoes. There is a speech bubble on her right reading, "Does California make you soft?" Made with felt-tip pen and colored pencil.
Loosely drawn eyes, a nose, and mouth float in the center of the square-shaped page. Some areas where the lines intersect to create bubbles are filled in with orange or red pencil, but other areas are left blank. Made with pen and pencil.
A red figure with horns and a trident centers the page. Only their face and torso are seen. Their cheekbones are sharp and their shoulders angular. Made with colored pencil.
The outlines of figures float on top of each other on a blank page. Each is a different shade of blue, purple, or green. Their bodies move in a way that doesn't abide by the physics or gravity of the earth. Made with marker and pen.