Exhibition and Spring break

Spring break is right around the corner. Except, there'll be snow.
It feels more accurate if I call it a 'mid-winter' break, and not 'spring' break. I doubt it, but hopefully the snow will go away next week. It is so close, yet so far away!
What are your plans for the break? Anyone going on a vacation? I wish I could go somewhere warm, but I'll be staying home in Michigan and catching up with both sleep and homework.

As mentioned in the last post, I submitted an art piece for the 5×7 fundraiser exhibition the CCS Haiti Service-Learning Trip 2015 group hosted, which happened last Friday.
I myself visited the exhibition with my friends who also submitted pieces for the show, and we had a great time! Lots of wonderful works, and good food.
Speaking of the CCS Haiti Service-Learning Trip group, they are going to Haiti over the spring break next week to learn about Haitian history, culture and art, and provide art classes there as well. Have a safe and a wonderful trip guys!


Here are some photos taken during the show. Besides some edits, photo credits goes to my friend Khia who kindly gave me some of her photos since my phone's battery died during the exhibition. haha

The last photo are some the people from CCS Haiti Service-Learning Trip 2015 group who organized this event. Click here for more information on this trip; they are accepting donations as well.

If interested in the piece I submitted, please check out the last post!

Have a creative day,

5×7 Fundraiser Exhibition

Back to the simple template for this blog, since on my other template no one was able to view the comments on the posts from the computer, including myself. Boo!

I believe you can see them now. I probably will want to change back to the old template later on, but for now, I'll go with this one.

Anyways.

While relaxing, listening to my favorite musics, and drinking the french vanilla from the new coffee machine we recently got in our cafeteria, I did a little experimentation piece combining graphite, watercolor, colored pencil, and ink for a special event.

I was invited by my friend Rachel (check out her blog here) to participate in the fundraiser exhibition the members of the CCS Haiti Service-Learning Trip are hosting. There will be artworks donated by the faculty and students of the College for Creative Studies, and each 5×7 in. piece will be sold for $25!

Here's the scanned image of the final piece I submitted (with little tweaking, of course). Below are some process shots I took while working on this piece.

These are the basic steps I took: first I drew with 2H and 2B pencil, painted the flowers with watercolor, added some watercolor washes onto parts of her face, inked the background, used color pencils to draw in the flowers, painted white gouache for highlights, and then used gold paint to add the finishing touch.

The exhibition will be located in the U245 Gallery in the lobby of The Art Center Building: 201 E Kirby st. 48202, this coming Friday, Feb. 27th from 4:30 PM. Come by to see all the good art!

( a little something I played around with just for fun )

Have a creative day,

A tribute to Valentinus

A very short post sharing a drawing I did in my sketchbook, colored digitally, for this special occasion.

Happy (belated) Valentine's to all of you <3