Undergraduate Color Explorations

During my BFA at Kansas City Art Institute, I created various assignments. Beyond studying and presenting the world around me I learned to generate worlds in my head. After receiving a master copy assignment in my second year (where I studied the animation-geared work of Kali Ciesmier), I became obsessed with treating every assignment like a color study, where constructing and rearranging the colors, which vibrated against one another perfectly, creating emphasis and deemphasis in all the right places, became my goal and took up a bulk of the illustration process. This provided a solid foundation for all my acrylic paintings and risograph prints that followed and forever changed the way I view color. Please view my most notable undergraduate work below. The last illustration is one of my first illustrations ever for the program!