Laura's Artwork

Girl with thorned hair

2012-01-29T17:52:00.000-08:00

This is a work in progress of a girl with a thorned hair prickling her finger. I'm still trying to work on the look of the torns which is her hair and the hands. I find hands are really hard to draw especially since I don't draw them often.

Birthday Cards for My Grandmother

2011-10-02T07:34:00.000-07:00

My grandmother's birthday was Sept. 5th and she loved the color purple. Unfortunately she died August 29th 2011 before my mom could get to see her. My mom had planned a trip to Peru to celebrate her birthday and that is when my grandmother would have gotten to see my card. My mom read the card at the funeral when she arrived in Peru. I hope my grandmother will rest in peace and know that I love her.

Birthday Cards

2011-10-02T07:24:00.001-07:00

My mom's birthday was this past Friday and I always make her cards. I never buy cards for any occasion because I have more fun designing or drawing cards for my friends and family. I should try to remember to take photos of all the cards I made because there have been a lot through out the years.

Hand Studies

2011-07-13T08:46:00.000-07:00

I used to draw hands more often just to get better at it. Hands have always been hard to draw and get proportionally right. The bottom drawing I did was of my own hand and the top was off a photo I found online. For my next drawings I will be photographing my own hands to draw so I can control the light and shadows.

Truth

2011-06-21T06:27:00.000-07:00

This is a drawing I did as a gift to my husband's cousin's son for his first birthday. The little boy's name is Truth and he is the cutest boy ever. We spend some time with him and my husband's family in LA and on another occasion when they came to visit us in NYC. I took a lot of photos of Truth and wanted to do a drawing of him from one of the photos. I really liked the way this drawing came out and I was able to give it to my husband's cousin before we moved out of LA as a gift for their son.

Cherry Blossom Apron

2011-05-10T13:07:00.000-07:00

I was invited to my friend's bridal shower back in 2009. I had heard she was going to Japan for her honeymoon so I decided to paint an apron with the famous cherry blossoms. I used acrylic paint and a white apron from Michael's arts and craft store and finished it in a few hours. If I had more time I would have definitely added more detail, but overall I like the way it came out.

My Rio Birthday Card

2011-05-10T12:31:00.000-07:00

I love making cards for different occasions, and for my mother-in-law's birthday I decided to make a card based on Rio the movie from BlueSky. Also, my husband (her son) worked on the movie so I thought it would be appropriate and a fun thing for her to have. :)

Wicked Witch

2010-11-09T16:48:00.001-08:00

I haven't updated in ages and a lot has happened since then. Here is a post to start things up.

progress again

2009-08-21T00:40:00.000-07:00

I was not liking the way the baby's head was looking especially with the hair. I pretty much re did a lot of the colors of the face and tried to blend the colors better overall in the painting.

More changes

2009-08-21T00:34:00.000-07:00

By this point of the painting I had changed my mind about the background and I tried to get the colors of the baby and the mother as solid as possible.

painting

2009-08-21T00:29:00.000-07:00

At this point I wasn't sure what colors to do for the baby's clothing. I knew I wanted to do a Mexican textile themed fabric, or at least colors that would be influenced by the Mexican culture. Jeniva had suggested to incorporate the Mexican soccer team jersey into the baby's clothing. I was also going to leave a space for the emblem.

adding a background

2009-08-21T00:26:00.000-07:00

As I was painting I couldn't decide on a background, but I couldn't leave the canvas white. At least with some color I was able to see if I liked it or not.

more color

2009-08-21T00:24:00.000-07:00

The photograph I had as refrence had a lot of contrast and lots of white. I didn't want to do the painting as an exact copy of the photograph so I made some decisions on what their clothes should look like.

More paint

2009-08-21T00:22:00.001-07:00

Adding more paint. deciding on a color palette.

Progress

2009-08-21T00:17:00.001-07:00

Still very early on with the painting. I took a lot of photos of the progress of the painting as the days went by.

Begining of a Painting

2009-08-21T00:10:00.000-07:00

I was asked by my friend, Jeniva, to do a painting for her wedding as a gift to her fiance, Gabriel. I started sketching out the image of Gabriel as a baby with his mom holding him for the painting. This was the very first part of the painting process and I used an old photograph as reference.

Voluptuous Vixen

2009-08-05T23:59:00.000-07:00

This is another sketch for the other blog that I'm keeping up with. The topic is Voluptous Vixen and I decided to draw Eve from the story of Adam and Eve. She is offering you the forbiden fruit as it covers part of her body. This was a quick sketch.

Rainbow Brite sketch

2009-07-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

This sketch is for the other blog and the topic was Rainbow Brite. I decided to draw her as an old woman who has grown out of her clothes and is not the same sweet little girl. To me Rainbow Brite is from the past and since she is not an important character in my life I choose to depict her as an old idea.

Self Portrait

2009-07-07T21:09:00.000-07:00

Trying to draw myself once more. I did this with just pencil and paper while preparing dinner. I need to practice more in order to get it to look more like me.

Fiance

2009-07-06T16:47:00.000-07:00

This is a quick drawing of Ilan.

Thundercats card

2009-06-13T09:17:00.000-07:00

This is a birthday card for my brother that I did using gouache and ink. I didn't want to do the traditional birthday card so I decided to have a Thundercat cut the cake.

Yolanda

2009-05-17T23:20:00.000-07:00

This is a painting of Yolanda, a refugee from Togo.

Lourdes

2009-05-17T23:17:00.000-07:00

This painting is part of the immigrant series. Lourdes is from Peru remembering her hometown.

self portrait #4

2009-05-17T23:11:00.000-07:00

A drawing of me with a hat and braids.

sketch

2009-05-17T23:08:00.000-07:00

I imagined everything floating.

self portrait #3

2009-05-17T22:52:00.000-07:00

Another watercolor.

self portrait #2

2009-05-17T22:51:00.001-07:00

Watercolors

self portrait

2009-05-17T22:47:00.000-07:00

One of many self portraits, but this was trying a new technique with oil pastels.

Ink illustration

2009-05-17T22:29:00.000-07:00

Ink illustration of a woman who fears getting old.

Illustration

2009-05-17T22:18:00.000-07:00

In this illustration I was experimenting with inks and also depicting the subject the result of fast food.

Quick sketch

2009-05-17T22:13:00.000-07:00

Using cubes to describe the figure.

Nude figure

2009-05-17T21:53:00.000-07:00

This drawing was from a 30 minute pose. In class we start with 10 sec sketches and gradually work our way up to 30 minutes or 1 hour.

sketch

2009-05-17T21:46:00.000-07:00

a figure study

Figure sketch

2009-05-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

another quick sketch from class

Figure Sketch

2009-05-17T21:28:00.000-07:00

Quick charcoal sketch

Arm study

2009-05-17T21:15:00.000-07:00

This is a small acrylic painting done in one of my figure painting classes.

Flowers

2009-05-16T21:55:00.000-07:00

I chose photos of flowers I took to create this painting.

Flower

2009-05-16T21:44:00.000-07:00

Acrylic painting of flower; not finished.

Portrait from Series

2009-05-16T21:37:00.000-07:00

This painting was part of the series of immigrants in the US. In the background is an old image of Ecuador which represents the past.

Deer painting

2009-05-16T21:33:00.000-07:00

Cloth study painting.

white chalk on black paper

2009-05-16T21:11:00.000-07:00

I used white chalk pastel on black bristol paper for this drawing.

tromp l'oeil painting

2009-05-16T20:52:00.000-07:00

A small acrylic painting of envelopes, stamps, and a postcard that I set up. The goal of this painting was to do it in a tromp l'oeil style; which means deception of the eye.

Collage Drawing

2009-05-16T20:20:00.000-07:00

I collected black and white images from magazines to create this collage. Then I drew the collage using pencil,charcoal and pastels.

Elephant drawing

2009-05-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

I did this elephant drawing at the Museum of Natural History in NYC during my freshman year of college. There are two pieces of paper put together to complete the drawing.

Self potrait

2009-05-16T19:59:00.000-07:00

Pencil drawing of me from a few years ago.

Pencil Drawing

2009-05-16T19:45:00.000-07:00

Pencil drawing of my mom taking a nap one afternoon.

Acrylic Painting of woman from Eritrea

2009-05-16T19:35:00.000-07:00

This is a painting of one woman I met at the refugee center from Eritrea.

Acrylic painting of Egyptian couple

2009-05-16T14:16:00.000-07:00

This is a painting of a couple from Egypt that I got to know through my internship at the Refugee Center in Silver Spring, Md during a summer in high school.

Acrylic painting from series

2009-05-16T14:05:00.000-07:00

I met many couples at the Refugee Center. This painting was done after interviewing one of the couples and getting to know them better throughout the summer.

Gesture drawing

2009-05-16T13:47:00.000-07:00

Pencil drawing

2009-05-16T12:35:00.000-07:00

Acrlylic painting

2009-05-16T12:29:00.001-07:00

Chalk pastel drawing

2009-05-16T12:25:00.001-07:00

Paintings and Drawings

2009-05-16T12:00:00.001-07:00

Here is a collection of my paintings and drawings. I hope you enjoy the work.