The Things I Create.

I like to change things to make them better. I like to go in to a thrift store and and find something average and turn into something beautiful. I get this gift from my Mother: to see what something can be and not what it is.



These are just wooden blocks that I collaged with mostly covers from CD albums.

This is my dresser. My mom is the one who found it and then painted black. I think she also mde the mirror so that it looked old and used.

This is not a vase, this is actually of a light cover that I turned upside down and put some beautiful peonies in it.

These are champain glasses that I plan to make a center piece for a dining room table. But right now they are just filled with tea light candles and white rocks that I found on a Maryland beach. I am sure the security people at the airport thought I was crazy because I had a purse full of rocks.

This lamp had the worst shade on it...it was like off-white fuzzy fabric...very strange. Therefore I took about 1" plaid ribbon and rapped the the shad. This took a very long time...like most of the things I do.

This is just radom things that are on my nightstand.

This is a drawing that I didn't like that much that I had to do for one of my classes. I had to take a object and do only hard lines and no shading. Those are actually sea shells.

This is a lampshade that only had the firm form. I rapped the wire with light ribbon...but you can't really see it in this picture. I usually use it to hang my jewlery but recently I have been just hanging my scarves.

My Art!

Today I am going to add all the painting and drawings
that I have done sense high school. Well not all of them...

only the ones I do not hate. I used several different

mediums when creating these. I used pencil, color pencil,

oil pastels, acrilic paints, and oil paints...I also use papers

and picutres from different sources. Each one means a lot

of different things. Here are the little pieces of my soul.

This is what I consider to be my high school art...simply because that is when I created it. But all the same they are mine.

This one is one is of a magnolia...I am not sure why I

decided to paint this flower. In fact I think I found it

in Martha Stewart Magazine...I do love magnolias they remind me of where I grew up....Alabama. We had one magnolia tree in our back yard. We had one magnolia tree in our back yard. We had one magnolia tree in our back yard. We had one magnolia tree in our back yard.

This one was totally random...I am not even sure if it means anything. I painted my hands with all the different colors and then pressed them
against the canvas.

This is my personal attempt to do a "Chuck Close".
Although it looks nothing like what he does I still think
it turned out cool. It took a really really long time, because I painted each 1"x 1" square with a tiny brush and oil paint.






A real painting by Chuck Close name Emma.
To explain his tecnique: he basicly takes a photograph
and graphs it out in tiny squares. He cuts the photograph
up (I think)....then he only looks at one square; he never
looks at the photo as a whole. He paints the square that
he is looking at. And this is the finsih project...I hope i
explained that ok...I am not good at explaining.

This is one of my favorites!!!! It's called "What the Night should Be..."
It is based on a photography technique where you place the camra on
the north star for 24 hours and leave the shutter open. Because the
north star doesn't move nor do the trees those are the things that are clear.
And this is extremely heavy...

I did not make this one...my Mom did. She is what they call a
paper artist...she never really paints anything unless to give it color.
Well the tradition at Big Piney High School is to make Senior
posters with embarrassing baby pictures...well I am not a
embarrassing photo kind of girl. Thankfully nor is my mother
..instead she created this work of art. Thanks Mom!!!!

I am majoring in art...I am positive what I want to do with it but I have serveral options I am looking into, but I digress. From this point on my art I think is a lot different. It has a lot more technical bases to it. A lot of these where done not really because I wanted to but because I had to. They had specific mediums I had to use and specific things I had to draw or paint.

As you can see this is a work in progress...as it turns
out a really long one. I am painting this for my Mom.
My first semester at BYU-Idaho I took a family history class.
For the final we had to do a service for someone
dealing with family history and it had to last more than
8 hours. I decided to create this...and now I don't know
where to pick it up again.

This is a collage of index cards that I drew random
things on while watching a movie then later taped
together with packing tape. This is usually the background
for my phone.

For sure this was not my first drawing in my
drawing 110 class. (that one I threw away)
This project was to create a drawing...with marker....
that had good lines. For those who don't understand
good lines...when anything has good lines that means
when your eye is guided through out the drawing or
whatever you are looking at...The day this was due the
teacher didn't show up...

A close up....

This one is based on a poem by E. E. Cummings,
titled I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).
This is also my favorite. Here it is....

i carry your heart with me i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear)
and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)
i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

This is a close up of the lines of the poem
raining down from the top of the canvas.

Some people might consider this weird.

This was my art final. I stayed up all night to finish it....
I think I re-started about 10 times.

This is really not even close to be finished. It is a flower.
The technique is like pointillism but instead of dots it is lyrics.
Lyrics from songs such as "Be Be you love" by Racheal Yamagata,
"The Way I am" by Ingrid Michealson...and so many other great songs.

This was the test run. To see if my genius idea would be as great as I thought.