Abe Lincoln: I chose to have Abe walking through the steam of the train, because I wanted to do something dramatic. On my first attempt I chose to use chalk as my medium, but this was problematic when I got to Abraham Lincoln. The size of this is about 10''x15'' and the scale of him just wasn't big enough to render with chalk. In this revision I chose to lay down the line work first and then go over it with water color. I wanted to go for an impressionist feel so I have a lot of implied shapes. I added bright colors in the train to add dimension to the piece.
Article Illustration: This illustration is 10.5''x7'' and was for the newspaper article "Farmers survive the winter" I chose to do this in pen and ink because I had been struggling with structure in previous assignments. I chose to illustrate this because old farmer and the straw hat look like they've been trough a rough time but survived.
Life and Death: These are two separate illustrations both 8x10... I chose to do a whimsical design with a lively color tree on the right and the dead tree on the left. I started with laying down a layer of pen work and then did watercolor on top of it. I had most trouble with the feet on the skeleton and little boy but resolved the problem by adding a little more structure.
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