Lily - Three Variations

I took this picture in summer of 2008.  I did an oil pastel and a colored pencil rendering of it.  The oil pastel is free hand.  For the colored pencil version, I printed out a faint version of the image and colored over that.  Unfortunately, I used standard paper, so I don't know how long the physical version of the drawing will last.  The digital version, on the other hand, should be fine for some time :)

My first oil pastel

Coloring

I've started coloring as a way to relax.  I've uploaded a few of the ones that I like the most.

Also, here is a pencil drawing that I did in April

Don’t Leave Reality Without …

 
I have recently completed Digital Photography II, which covered night photography, panoramas, and HDR (high dynamic range) among other things.  For the final project, I have created a poster titled “Don’t Leave Reality Without …”
The poster weighs in at 26″ x 36″ at 300 dpi.  The link at the left takes you to a reasonable size image, if you hit the “download” button on that page, you’ll get the whole big monster image.

Stuff People Put in Trees

(Note to self: pictures need to be re-uploaded and links repaired.)

I took a course on digital photography this last semester at NEU. As a final project, I decided to take pictures of the things that people put in trees. This was inspired by these fascinating little round mirrors that our neighbor put into her tree.
Each picture tells a story of a tree and someone’s interaction with it. Many of them are taken at Francis William Bird Park where people plant trees in someone’s memorial, or carve their current sweetheart into the bark of one big tree. Others were taken around where I work or on the way to work.
Hit show more to see the stuff that people put in trees near me!