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North Hastings Family Health Team Logo

This was a logo I finished over the summer for a local Health Team in Bancroft, ON.
The logo is to emphasize the important of a caring family and community while incorporating health care.

Self Portrait

I just finished this tonight. A full day of drawing, eating, drawing, quick breaking, and more drawing! Finally done and I pleased, but some areas are still bugging me. I may work on some more touch-ups tomorrow, we'll see

Prayer Chapel

This is my latest drawing. It is a still life of the Prayer Chapel found on the campus of Liberty University. I really like the traditional appearance of this little chapel as there are not many still around any more. The purpose of this chapel is for students to have a place that will always be quiet so they can get away to pray, read or just get away to think. Hope you like

Forgiven

This is a piece that I am very passionate about and I wanted to use abstraction to create bring about a message. The message being Christ has justified and restored what was once condemned, US! He has forgiven you and me or our sins and paid the ultimate price in order to justify us. He has then restored us to a new life in Him that we may live for the purpose in which we were created.

Dead, Fake or Alive

This is a cd cover I created. We could either do an unknown artist or make up a group, so I thought why not, make up a group would be fun. The idea behind this album is as Christians we have three options, we can be dead, fake or alive. The cutout of a lightbulb shape is an example of a Christian whose faith is dead, non-existent. The 2D lightbulb exemplifies a Christian who's fake, appears to be a lightbulb but gives no light. The final lightbulb is alive it's not only a real lightbulb but it works, it's light shines for all to see. Which one are you?

Beyond The Pulpit

This was a book I designed. I took the photographs of both covers and the mock-author. We were required to create a book and interview a professor as the mock-author. Hope you like.

Bierworth Mack's

This is the logo I designed for a hometown softball team. They won the Ontario finals last year and were looking to come out sharp again this year. The top logo is for the jersey's and the bottom logo is for the hats and promotional gear. The local sponsor's Bierworth Readi-Mix which is one of the local cement companies hence the mixer in the logo.

Hope

Many of you are aware of the tragic earthquake that took place over in Haiti. This is a time where nations came together in order to help out one that was struggling. Many people were becoming creative in ways to help support Haiti because not everyone can go over to help out physically. As for me this was my little way of helping out a nation that was struggling. A group of graphic designers decided to create way of raising $1 000 000 for doctors without borders (DWB) to help them reach out to Haiti. Designers from all over America created posters and sent in 12-15 copies in order to sell and donate all proceeds to DWB. As for me I decided to get involved and create my poster for the cause. I created this one to emphasize hope. I printed 12 posters and sent them in to be sold, we all have a small role to play, help however you can.

The Motions

This is a song that you gotta listen to! This is a song written Matthew West. I have taken the course and created a typographic poster to remind myself of these important words, not just so I can nod my head in agreement but that I may live them out. I used strictly helvetica (except for "life") because it is the greatest typeface ever created!

Please Wait To Be Seated

This was a menu I had to design for class. We had to create a menu for a non-existent restaurant in which we had to make up. I called mine the Black Stallion as I was going for the family steakhouse.

Expressionism Self Portrait

This project was to create a self portrait after another artists style and art period. I choose Marc Franz Expressionist piece "Piggies" (bottom picture). The idea of expressionism was to blend the foreground and background together on the same plain yet still be distinguishable. Expressionism is also known for having many vibrant colors.

Shine: Literary Illustration

This is a recreation of the painting "Shine" I did earlier this year. This project was to create a literary illustration. We were to take a piece of text from a book or poem we have read and create an illustration that expresses the content of the words. Since I do not read many fiction books I resorted to what I do read, my Bible. This illustrates Matthew 5:16:

"In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."

Larger Than Life: Dream BIG, Aim small

This project was during the study of scale. We were required as a group to recreate an everyday object only MUCH bigger then the normal size. As a group we chose to do a dart because we did not have the money to spend on creating something that required more then cheap or found objects. In fact we only spent $11 on this project as many other groups would spend $50-$150. The tip of the dart is a metal spike, the gold grip part is an aquafina bottle, soup cans, texture plastic wrap and gold spray paint. The black stem of the dart is a plastic baseball bat, plastic piping and a plastic mountain dew cup all covered in black spray paint. Finally, the fins are cardboard that was spray painted red and I hand painted the logo on each side. We also build a stand for our dart board and nailed the dart into it.

What a stellar group!

Texture Project

This was a project in which we had to choose a piece of art from an artist and recreate it using a variety of textures. I choose to do David Hollenbach's painting "American Prospect." No worries this piece does not mean I hate America, haha. Hollenbach was making a statement about the American justice system. I think it has to do with slavery in the past but I'm not one hundred percent sure.

I created this piece using found objects such as: a cd, cardboard, canadian tire money, shoes laces, small rope, foam board, coffee filter, cling wrap, pencil case material, elastics, dryer sheets, piece of a towel, newspaper, sandpaper, toothpaste bottle, card stock, fudge-o packaging, epson ink cartridges and much more! We also had to have visual textures (can see but not touch, 2D) I have a couple of those to. For example, the face is drawn and not actually a texture, some of the stripes are just print outs of wood and metal textures.

(if you click on it you will be able to see the textures much better)

This is the original piece by David Hollenbach:

Photo Realism: Gillette

 This project was to buy a product and take a picture of it. Then we had to draw this picture identically to the photograph. At first glance you should not be able to tell the difference between the two images. However, up close the drawn piece is more clear because was created in a vector based program so it was created without pixels. The top image is my illustration and the bottom image is my photograph reference.

Now and Then

This is a project in the study of shapes. We were to create two compositions with a similar theme using card stock to cut and paste. One was to be created using only geometric shapes and the other using only curvilinear shapes. The top piece is an old car from the 70's that I choose to create with geometric shapes because cars then were very boxy. The piece on the bottom I chose to create an Audi R8 with curvilinear shapes. I created this one in curvilinear shapes because modern car today are much more rounded. I also chose the colours very carefully in order to create certain contrast. First of all the two time periods in which the cars are from create contrast alone. Also the brilliant red versus the dull grey create contrast. Even the individual pieces have contrast with the red versus white and the black and grey versus white. I chose the old car to red red because the sharp colour helps define the sharp edges in the piece. I chose greyscale for the newer car because the duller colours emphasize the curving lines. There is also the unity of each piece containing white and grey and both subject matters are cars.

I hope you've enjoyed this piece as much as I did creating it!

Time Flies

year: 2008

medium: acrylic on canvas

This was a piece that I did for an exam with a three hour time limit. Again I attempted to take another shot at abstract and I feel 

this time was quite successful. Image one shows my sketch that gave me the idea as I was doodling one day. The second image shows the finished product as it displays a very free and imagination like feeling. It is shows how time can not be contained as it continues to fly by.