Alice In Wonderland

This (18"x28") collage is part of a two part assignment, Alice In Wonderland mock Neptune Theater poster. The first stage consisted of combining multiple textures and media. Magazine/paper/acrylics and gloss medium.
The concept of this poster is a twist off the classic Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. The frightened older Alice is faced with dark and mysterious adventures.
This Is the first version of the Alice poster i created using elements from the collage. The critique for this particular representation was terrible and was the single most disappointing feedback I've received this year. It was really disappointing because I really liked it and enjoyed the abstract layout, but to everyone else it didn't make sense.

So i took the negative feed back and made it a bit more understanding and better graphic elements. I'm still not happy with it but i do like this one better.

Long Lost

This is a cover i painted for a magazine me and my design associate Karen Mills designed for our third semester of the Applied Communication Arts class. Sadly me and karen have been faced with the crude reality that technology doesn't always have your back. Thinking she was taking extra precautions by buying an expensive portable external hard-drive, Karen saved our InDesign file of our Magazine and free'd up some space on her desktop, I'm sure you can guess what happened next.. It shit the bed. I do still have the PDF version of the project, How ever it is infested with spelling errors and bad layout design! where was the grid!!!? I guess its just a learning curve. Our next one will just have to be amazing right karen:)? oh and we'll save it on both computers.

I live. I design.

Art described by the New Oxford American Dictionary:

1 the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination,typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power: the art of the Renaissance | great art is concerned with moral imperfections | she studied art in Paris.• works produced by such skill and imagination : his collection of modern art | an exhibition of Tibetan art | [as adj. ] an art critic.• creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture : she’s good at art.

Halfway through the first semester of Saint Mary’s University while painting a very inspiring portrait, I was hit in the face with the possibility that i could channel my creative abilities in such a way that i could perhaps … make money.

University – Art + Year x4 – Money x-5 = job+university – 2(-money x 3)=job+money x5= wait.. what?

NSCC + Art – money + year = job+money x5