Alissa's Art Gallery

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I have some illustration work from high school, as well as some more design-oriented work from my first year of college.
(click on the image to see a larger version)

click here to see some of my first black and white photos from sophmore year at carnegie mellon

Some of you may remember seeing these after I emerged from my portfolio hibernation period senior year:

This rose was rendered in colored pencil from life... (meaning it was drawn from a live rose, not a photograph, etc.)

While this bike was also rendered in colored pencil, it was done from a photograph instead of from life.

The fruitbowl was also done in colored pencil from life. The texture you can see is because it was done on a heavily textured paper. The previous two pictures were done on smooth paper.

This portrait was done from a photograph of a friend. It was done in charcoal on a textured paper

These are just a few of the design pieces i did at school this year...

The assignment for this was to manipulate the letters in a word in order to illustrate its meaning.

This assignment was to juxtapose a photograph and a phrase so that each gains a meaning that it would not possess on its own... The phrase "I do" allows the viewer to perceive the two trees leaning in the wind in a completely new light.

This was my favorite project for the year. The assignment was to take a black and white photograph of yourself and place a sheet of tracing paper on top. By writing words on the tracing paper in different sizes and thicknesses, you were supposed to recreate the portrait. You could compose the text yourself, use a favorite poem, story, song lyrics, etc. but the text was supposed to reflect something of who you are as a person. When the tracing paper was lifted you were left with a complete self portrait...text and image in one. For mine I used lyrics to favorite songs, and worked virtually straight through a long weekend to finish. It was a little tedious...but of course right down my alley.

I'll put up more work later, but a lot of it was collected for the summer by my teachers to be part of a traveling exhibit for the CMU School of Design.
(I know....but it's my page so I get to brag a little)


	This rose was rendered in colored pencil from life... (meaning it was drawn from a live rose, not a photograph, etc.)
	While this bike was also rendered in colored pencil, it was done from a photograph instead of from life.
	The fruitbowl was also done in colored pencil from life. The texture you can see is because it was done on a heavily textured paper. The previous two pictures were done on smooth paper.
	This portrait was done from a photograph of a friend. It was done in charcoal on a textured paper
These are just a few of the design pieces i did at school this year...
	The assignment for this was to manipulate the letters in a word in order to illustrate its meaning.
	This assignment was to juxtapose a photograph and a phrase so that each gains a meaning that it would not possess on its own... The phrase "I do" allows the viewer to perceive the two trees leaning in the wind in a completely new light.
	This was my favorite project for the year. The assignment was to take a black and white photograph of yourself and place a sheet of tracing paper on top. By writing words on the tracing paper in different sizes and thicknesses, you were supposed to recreate the portrait. You could compose the text yourself, use a favorite poem, story, song lyrics, etc. but the text was supposed to reflect something of who you are as a person. When the tracing paper was lifted you were left with a complete self portrait...text and image in one. For mine I used lyrics to favorite songs, and worked virtually straight through a long weekend to finish. It was a little tedious...but of course right down my alley.