Art & Adventures
Selected Illustration & Design Work
Wishing on Memories That Linger ©2026
(self-portrait, photography, layered in the darkroom, mixed in Photoshop)
Painting Workshop, November 2023
Watercolor, Spring 2023
B&W Photography, Spring 2022
This was such a fun piece. Part of my Black & White Photography class
A lot of prep work, some trial and error, pre-planning, and a bit of magic in the dark room.
This project was a blast start to finish, and this is just one image from that series. I was blessed to have my mom alongside me, since it was just after surgery, spring of 2022.
Music Technology, Spring 2022 (Music notation using Finale)
Photography, May 2021
Final Project for Digital Storytelling – Fall 2020 (Here with Me, music video)
Senior Exhibit, Fall 2020
Independent Painting, Fall 2020
Independent Drawing, Spring 2019
Glimpse of drawings from Dante’s Inferno project for my independent drawing class.
Painting III, Fall 2019
Painting, April 2013
Self-portrait in Photoshop, December 2011
Advertising, Fall 2008
Wild Rose Perfume-triplet ad
Typography, Fall 2008
Song/Poem Poster-Expressive (Starting Line, Best of Me)
Graphic Design II, Spring 2008
Margaret MacDonald MacKintosh-Stamp, hand-drawn, pastels
History of Graphic Design, Spring 2008
Wave is a modern interpretation of the Japanese woodblock print Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai made in 1832. In Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa “an enormous wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa; Mount Fuji can be seen in the background (Wikipedia).” This powerful piece shows nature’s force over man. Like many Japanese works man is part of the world around him, this is demonstrated by both the size of the people in the boats and the way the boats and people are hardly noticeable in the water. Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa has been influential to other artist ever since its creation. “Monet and Degas bought them (along with Chinese porcelains) in great numbers, and van Gogh, a great admirer of Hokusai, insisted that his own work was ‘founded on Japanese art (Book 5 p.120).’”My ink drawing, Wave, has been influenced by it as well, but it has a modern twist. Wave is about man’s influence on the environment. The modern man has done much harm to the environment, as cities become larger and pollution increases. Sometimes one forgets one’s own effects on nature—Wave is a reminder to the viewer of what can happen to nature if man continues in his destructive ways. When nature is destroyed so is man. Wave was drawn using Indian ink and then brushed with a white Indian ink wash.
Illuminated Manuscript – in Japanese, it says, “I’m thirsty! Goldfish swimming” and the stamp/seal/signature is a goldfish.