Buttons!

Today I got my shipment of awesome pigeon buttons! I'll be leaving them around the city in coffee shops and hopefully galleries.  Come out to first friday this week and I'll be handing them out there as well.   If you're looking to get some buttons made yourself check out the Philadelphia based button maker Mike Wall. He does a great job at fair prices.

Philly Beer Week

For my final project in my thesis class I decided to do a mock piece for Philly Beer Week.  I wanted to keep it bright and lighthearted,  and of course had to change the people into pigeons.  Thanks to the advice of a professor I have been trying out brown and sepia inks in my recent pieces and have been very happy with the results.

Robots

The last two weeks I decided to take a break from children's book themed paintings and tried out some robots.

The Twits

As the week comes to a close so does the finishing touches on my senior thesis or as we call it here in the Illustration dept of Uarts, the "Ely". For my thesis I chose to work with the children's book The Twits by Roald Dahl, which was one of my favorites growing up. Each piece was painted using watercolor and has a final size of 10x16.

I began with The Wormy Spaghetti. There are very few things left in this world that can really gross me out, however the reference photos for this piece was one of these things. In this chapter Mrs. Twit tricks her husband into eating a plate full of worms!

The second piece focused on Mrs. Twit Goes Ballooning Up. Here concludes the elaborate plan Mr. Twit created for his wife in which he fools her into believing she was shrinking. Painting legs have never been so fun!

The third project, No Bird Pie for Mr. Twit concentrates on when the animals who were wronged by the Twits begin to fight back. In this case they keep Mr. Twit from his favorite food, bird pie.

I concluded my thesis with the chapter The Twits Are Turned Upside Down. This was probably the most fun out of the four projects. It depicts the Twits panicing when they return home to find the entire inside of their home upside down.

Ely Poster

"Ely Poster" Ink to Digital 16x24

Thesis 3: No Bird Pie

"No Bird Pie" Watercolor 10x16

This is the third part of my senior thesis. I created my own artwork for the Rauld Dahl story The Twits. This is based off of the chapter "No Bird Pie."

Lancaster

Watercolor 8x10

This is a watercolor painting for my portfolio class. It is a landscape of Lancaster, PA.

The Giver

The Giver 10x16 Watercolor and ink

This is another piece for my children's book class. It is based on one of my favorites The Giver. In this story the world is sapped of all color and much of what makes people different. I decided to focus on a scene where the main character is able to see the color red for a split second.

Dragon

Halloween Card

The Hunger

This is a project from my children's book class.

Jurassic Park

Watercolor,ink and digital 5x7.5

This is a book cover for a class assignment. I choose Jurassic Park to get away from children's book themed images. This is also one the first times I tried cold press paper as opposed to hot press. The difference was amazing and I'll never look back.

Intangible Opposites

Watercolor 8x8

This projects objective was to think of an intangible opposite and to do two pieces on it. The opposite I based my pieces on was "Imagined and Reality."

Wait Till Emmit Comes

Watercolor and digital 16x10

This is the first assignment that was due for senior year. A one week project that we picked off a long list topics. I chose to try the children's book spread. Its based off the West Virginia folk tale "Wait till Emmit Comes."

The Man Portrait

Morgan Watercolor and ink 16x10

Tattoo

Tattoo design for a friend. I quickly colored it for fun.

Mermaids?

Watercolor and ink 8x10

My well researched discovery of mermaids.

My Goodness!

Guinness poster for my father. :)

Subway Shenanigans

Because only birds can be that much of a troll and get away with it.

The Odyssey

This is a children's book style piece based off of the Odyssey. It is painted in watercolor and ink.