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  • Shut Your Mouth!

    Shut Your Mouth!

    I love frogs! Especially the bright beautiful Amazon frogs with a multitude of colors. While looking through magazines for my next pastel painting subject, I…

  • Double Rainbow

    Double Rainbow

    Now that I had two successful pen and ink drawings under my belt, it was time to try something new. I took the plunge into…

  • What Are You Looking At?

    What Are You Looking At?

    Once I had success with the stippling technique, I was ready to tackle another project. This time, I would go big (literally); the subject was…

  • Dylan

    Dylan

    In 2005 I began art classes with Kathy through the Warren Fine Arts Center (WFAC). It was really more of a workshop where a group…

  • Doorway

    Doorway

    During 1993 and 2005 was busy! I graduated from MSU and Graduate School. I worked a few temporary jobs until I found a great full-time one…

  • Mannequin

    Mannequin

    In 1997 I took a painting class from a local artist. I was way out of practice and this was my first experience with painting using…

  • Drawings

    Drawings

    In 1994, I took a drawing class in the local community where I was living at the time. One of the best exercises we did was…

  • Afterhours

    Afterhours

    Afterhours, or as I affectionately refer to it now, as the BEAST, was our final class project for Rendering class. We had to design a…

  • Live & Learn

    Live & Learn

    Our second major assignment was to design a small space to be used for both living and learning, such as a student. I imagined if…

  • Fantasy Façade

    Fantasy Façade

    For this project, we had to design our own fantasy home. The Fantasy Façade was one of my favorite assignments. I incorporated many of my…

  • Color & Rendering

    Color & Rendering

    As part of the Interior Design program, we took classes on color theory and rendering by hand. We didn’t have fancy computer programs that did the work…

  • Binders

    Binders

    Sophomore year of college I finally settled on a major — Interior Design. One of my roommates freshman year was a Junior in the program…