Sample Painting Portfolio: Student Work. Traditional and Contemporary Methods

Oil Painting:

Painting 1: Observational Still Life

  1. Color and Composition, Oil on Canvas, 16×20
  2. Color and Composition, Oil on Canvas, 16×20

3. Glass and Metal Surfaces, Oil on Canvas, 16×20

4. Glass and Metal Surfaces, Oil on Canvas, 16×20

5. Self Portrait, Oil on Canvas, 16×20

6. Self Portrait as Wassily Kandinsky, Oil on Canvas, 16×20

PAINTING 2: NARRATIVE AND EXPANDED CONCEPTS

7. (Narrative Topic: Daily Routine) Eyelashes, Oil on Canvas, 40″x30″

8. (Topic: Space and Place) Untitled, Oil on Gesso Plywood, 40″x60″

9. (Topic: Space and Place) Inside Garden, Oil on Canvas, 30″x40″

10. (Topic: Non-Square Construct) New Shoes, Oil on Masonite, approx 31″x 48″

11. (Topic: Non-Square Construct) Kay, Oil on Gesso Plywood, approx. 40″x60″

12. Beauty Box, Pinewood Shadow Box, Fake Pearls, Lipstick, compact mirror, paint and ephemeral papers, 11″x14″x2.5″

13. Obstruction, Metal Lantern, Plastic dinosaurs, pill bottles, cardboard letters, paint, clay whale, papers, ceramic cup, metal wiring, 7.5″x18.5″x7.7 (14″ with door open)

SPECIAL TOPICS: TROMPE L’OEIL

14. Untitled, Oil on Board, 11″x14″

15. Untitled, Oil on Boards, 11″x14″

SPECIAL TOPICS: WORKS ON PAPER

16. 6 Part Narrative Series: Morning Mood, watercolor and gouache on hot press paper, 14″x14″ (each)

17. Hidden, Gouache on RIVES BFK lightweight, 20″x16″

18. Example of student process: top row are studies done in pastel, bottom row are the finished paintings, oil on canvas, 18″x24″

19. Observational Figure Studies: watercolor and ink, 36″x48″

20. Figure and Flat space study, watercolor and pen, 24″x18″

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