Baby Me

These are portraits I did of myself as a small child. Both are in conte crayon on gray paper and approximately 11x14. They were done in the spring of 2008 I tried to give the second to my dad for father's day. . . but then he gave it back to me because he was sure he'd ruin it.

First Serious Painting

Previous to this painting I hadn't done any paintings that mattered so much to me. Painting people is so much harder than painting a still life, at least for me. I painted this in acrylic in the spring of 2008, It was based off of a picture of m boyfriend as a baby, I spent a really long time on the face. I spent a ridiculous amount of time on the hands, however that is the weakest part of this painting. I think at some point, I will go back and repaint the hands to make them look a lot better.

Baby Girl

I drew this drawing in the winter/spring of 2008. She is my Sister's Husband's Cousin's Daughter. (I know, very closely related to me)

This is probably one of my most favorite drawings I've ever done. It's done in Prisma Color Pencils and Graphite. If anyone thinks that you cannot erase colored pencils, anyone with me while I drew this will tell you otherwise. The majority of this drawing was done at least twice before being erased and done again. I fell in love with this drawing in the process of drawing it, and I still get happy when I see this picture.

Charcoal Time

Both of these two drawings were done in the winter of 2007-2008 in charcoal. The top was a still life I set up in the kitchen at home (a problem for my parents because I refused to let them move it) and the bottom was a still life set up at school. I love my pumpkins, if I had to I could draw pumpkins all day long! Also I am really proud of the top left object in the second drawing,

Another set of Brothers

These two I did I believe in the fall of 2008. Both are done in Conte Crayon. The first I'm a little disappointed with because I did not make the face long enough but I'm still happy with the likeness of the two images to the two boys I drew.

Fall Paintings

I made these in my high school painting class in the fall of 2007. The first isn't really a painting, It's a pen contour drawing with a tea stain. The second is a still life done in water color.

Purple Elephant

I painted this in the summer of 2007 while spending my summer in California. I was learning how to draw elephants, and I also went to the zoo to draw them from life.

Beach Brothers

These two images are of my cousins at the beach. The drawing on the top is in graphite and the image on the bottom is in Sharpie and Prisma Color Markers. Both were done over the summer of 2007. Yes they are a bit old, but they are definitely two of my favorites, especially because they can really tell it's images of them, and they were excited that I drew them.

Oldies but Goodies

Purple Sharpie. Stipple image of a ceramic nose.

Chalk drawing of a half bone half muscle statue.

Conte Crayon drawing of a torso sculpture.

Conte Crayon and Pastel Drawing of a Skeleton.

All of these drawings were done in the end of winter and beginning of spring in 2006. Yep, super old. But I'm really proud of them. Seeing the later two make me really want to get some conte crayons and just go at it. The Torso drawing to this day is one of my favorite drawings I've ever done.

Starting Way Back

This is the second portrait I have ever done. The first one is almost good, except for the face which makes the piece fall apart. So I've decided to start my blog with this. This was done in June of 2006 in 3 days.

MinervaStyle.Com

So, I have a website already (MinervStyle.Com) But at this point being busy with college and other life things, that keeping up a website and making it look nice, is just too much work. I plan on adding a bunch of my old things, and then go ahead and add new pieces of artwork as I make them.

I'm currently working towards my bachelors in fine arts - I haven't decided on a concentration, I'm deciding between Painting and Sculpture. I'm also in the process of getting a Psychology Minor.

I'm really interested having my artwork seen as well as getting any feedback that people are willing to give me.

Thanks for checking out my blog and I hope you enjoy my work =)

~Minerva