Category Archives: Art

Book Cover: Baltimore Triumphs

Posted on April 10, 2013 by admin

My friend Patrice Hutton runs a nonprofit organization called Writers in Baltimore Schools, which provides writing classes for low-income Baltimore City students. Volunteers teach classes during and after school, and last summer WBS ran a week-long sleepaway writers’ workshop retreat … Continue reading →

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Engagement Portrait: Elias Hernandez and Patricia Herdoiza

Posted on March 25, 2013 by admin

Patricia, my sophomore roommate and one of my best friends, is getting married in a few months! She asked me to do this engagement portrait. This is the first formal painted portrait I’ve done, the first wedding picture, and the … Continue reading →

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Reverie

Posted on February 18, 2013 by admin

I designed a wall decal for the room of twin 2 1/2-year-old girls. Their room already has some decals up: the Dena Happi tree. When I looked up reference images for this piece, I first Google Image-searched “bike girl.” … Continue reading →

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Accidental Ravens Pride

Posted on February 3, 2013 by admin

In the past two weeks, I’ve completed two logos that involve indigo-leaning purple. It’s a complete coincidence that they both involved very similar shades of purple, and were given to me just before the the Super Bowl. I don’t understand … Continue reading →

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Fan Art: Inara Serra

Posted on January 3, 2013 by admin

Joss is boss. I’m a ridiculous Firefly fan. Ever since I first watched the series, I’ve been fascinated by Inara’s character. I imagine that if the show had gone on longer, we would have seen many different aspects of Inara’s … Continue reading →

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Joy’s Happy Hippie Home

Posted on October 25, 2012 by admin

At work, I’m developing a tutorial for turning Google SketchUp models into shiny photorealistic renderings using Kerkythea Rendering System. There are lots of tutorials online for Kerkythea, which, like the program, are free and open source. The problem is that … Continue reading →

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Henna!

Posted on September 24, 2012 by admin

My friend let me do henna for her this past weekend. Here are a few shots of it. I messed with the photos in Photoshop a little, but the henna is unaltered- I just played with color. You can click on … Continue reading →

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Just Ink?

Posted on September 5, 2012 by admin

Over Labor Day weekend, I was at a family picnic at Gilbert Run Park. It was a rainy, cloudy, misty, hot, humid, muggy, muddy day- but I had brought my sketchbook. I decided to try to draw a landscape in … Continue reading →

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Helter Skelter Airport Scene

Posted on August 15, 2012 by admin

Ink sketches –> Adobe Illustrator CS5. Experimenting with different styles. This is a scene from Helter Skelter, one of my works in progress, where a brother who hasn’t seen his sister for three years surprises her at the airport. I … Continue reading →

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The Art of Procrastination

Posted on August 8, 2012 by admin

In late 2008, I wrote “It Don’t Mean a Thing.” This was a chapter of Freshmen (one of my in-progress novels). I wrote it to avoid studying for a physics midterm I had in two days. The scene had been … Continue reading →

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