Ianna's Senior VA Portfolio

I'm in college now!

2011-10-01T05:29:00.000-07:00

Okay, no one reads this...maybe i should take this opportunity to tell all of my deepest secrets and embarrassing stories...but then again, thats what 'facebook' is for. (HA!)

Artist's Statement

2010-05-03T05:23:00.000-07:00

As a senior in high school, I have reached a pinnacle point in my life as an artist. After two years of intensive instruction in the visual arts, I am now preparing the biggest exhibition I have had yet.
My work in the "Sealed For Freshness" exhibition will include my strongest pieces, predominately those of figure drawing.
My first period of struggle after I was accepted into the Arts department at the Boston Arts Academy was figure drawing class. With no prior instruction, my work lacked a sense of value, proportion, and composition.
In fact, I did not know what composition or value meant in terms of visual art. Therefore my work lacked the interest, curiosity, and life that my classmates were able to bring into their own pieces.
However, after a few months I began to grasp these new terms and to even apply them using different media including: watercolor, pen/ink, charcoal, etc.
By the end of my junior year, I was ecstatic every Friday when my class had a figure drawing course. I finally grew into my own element! I am now at a point where I can comfortably apply my technique and newfound knowledge to the content in my work whether it is a comic strip or even a painting.

Within my work I have grown and developed individuality that will not only set myself apart stylistically, but will make me feel prepared for my first semester of college at MassArt.

THE LATEST ISSUE.

2010-04-27T07:00:00.000-07:00

So here it is! Finally my senior grant project is coming to a close, and I have three lovely comics strips addressing BPS issues for the public to view and hopefully anger!

GRANTED!

2010-01-05T13:31:00.000-08:00

Sooooo...I got granted. No big deal. You know...Hahaha, yes I am very grateful and astonished to be one of the senior project finalists. My project is titled "The Latest Issue". It is a series of 3 comic strips. Each comic strip will address an individual issue that students face in the Boston Public School community. I chose three issues by asking students at the Boston Arts Academy as well as student run organizations such as the Boston Student Advisory Council what they felt was an issue affecting their education.

So, with that said I present you my first strip: MCAS (drum roll please)

2009-12-12T16:13:00.000-08:00

This is an illustration project that I am doing for Berklee College of Music. Well, its a draft unfortunately, but I will be sure to put up the final image they choose to use.

This is for my exhibitions class. It is an unorthodox business card, however I am thinking about getting quite a few printed professionally for my own promotion as an artist.

2009-11-03T08:02:00.000-08:00

For this project, I am concentrating on my form.

studio4 critique

2009-10-29T19:03:00.000-07:00

This past Monday, my class had a critique on our work thus far. I really like hearing what my classmates have to say because they always point something out that might not have ever crossed your mind. A few people commented on how my pieces are nice and all, but my craftsmanship is poor because of smudges which wouldn't look very presentable in a portfolio. I recieved many flattering comments that boosted my confidence about materials I struggled to work with. I LOVE my studio 4 senior class!!!!

2009-10-28T04:48:00.000-07:00

This is the close to final product for my senior grant project. It is also the first of a series of 3 comic strips addressing school issues.

New project!

2009-10-18T08:11:00.000-07:00

Soooo...Ms. Osediacz has decided to pass on a challenge to our senior class. She assigned us an independent project. How independent? Do whatever you want, whatever medium you want, whatever scale you want, as long as it follows the theme of food. For my project, I am making a comic strip about school lunch. I drew out the layout with panels and such, and I'm setting up each frame's composition with pencil. After I draw out the whole story, I ink the final marks I want and then erase stray pencil marks so they don't show up. Then I scan my images onto photoshop and do all the coloring and crisp editing on the computer. When I finish, I'll be sure to post the strip on my blog!

2009-10-12T07:52:00.000-07:00

These are all projects I'm working on. Except for the little girl cooking. Thats supposed to be me!!! Well, kinda. It was a homework assignment for school.

2009-10-08T18:25:00.000-07:00

I've had success in capturing the form.I've had trouble with the letters matching that form and making value with graphite.

2009-10-01T08:41:00.000-07:00

This is a comic strip I did last school year using prismacolor markers. I didn't have a sense for blending at the time but I still really like the bold colors.

Junior Year figure drawings and a tattoo design for my best friend

2009-09-24T17:07:00.001-07:00

This is the tattoo design I started for Cristina.

Every year in VA, Ms. Marsh teaches a self portraiture course. This was my second one and by far my most rendered for such a large composition. I was able to blend all the midtones and lighting by mixing black and white charcoal to create a grey tonal scale.

I'm pretty sure this was my last figure drawing for my junior year. Mr. Edwards taught that semester I believe.

My first set of pieces to post!

2009-09-23T18:41:00.000-07:00

<-- This is the last piece for the walnut series which is still in progress. My teacher encouraged me to continue rendering what should look like a surface under the walnut in the top right. She also wants me to add more texture to the walnut itself by adding more lines and not worrying too much about blending.

This is the first piece I did for the series which was done with an ebony pencil and then rendered over with an ink pen.

<--This is the second piece I did which incorporated pen and charcoal.

This was done on the second week of figure drawing this term with Ms.Osediacz.

Hello there!

2009-09-20T13:24:00.000-07:00

You are about to experience my senior porfolio thus far! Right now...there is not much to show.Please don't judge me, I'm a newb.