drawing (graphite)

For my final piece in the class ARTSTUDI 139: Portraiture and Facial Anatomy for Artists, I decided to focus on a double portrait of my grandparents as a gift for my mother. I was initially drawn towards this subject matter while leafing through old photo albums in my grandmother's kitchen, and happened to come across a photograph of my grandparents at my mother's graduation. Bathed in afternoon sunlight, my grandparents looked perhaps the happiest and most at peace I've ever seen them, and I knew that this was the perfect moment to capture.

drawing (graphite + charcoal)

In the class ARTSTUDI 139: Portraiture and Facial Anatomy for Artists, I had the immense privilege of spending my afternoons in Stanford's CCSR (Center for Clinical Sciences Research) Dissection Lab. My first main piece for this class was a cadaver portrait, which I at first found rather daunting but grew to enjoy immensely.

drawing (ink)

As the final project for ME 110: Design Sketching, students were tasked with incorporating various lessons covering perspective use, shading, and physicality to create an illustration that represented an object, or objects, that were important to oneself. I was immediately drawn towards a group of plant pots that are my constant desk companions, both for the interesting physicality of the pots and the plants they housed, but also the human aspect of the subjects - the act of gifting and taking care of living beings.

bookmaking, painting (watercolor), drawing (ink)

For one of the main projects for ARTSTUDI 147: Art Book Object, a studio art class centered around exploratory bookmaking practices, I decided to create a miniature book to serve as an account of some of the amazing foods I had a chance to eat whilst traveling in Japan. In creating this book, I wanted to explore different ways of conveying the experience of cuisine, given that the structure of the book itself was rather standard (hard cover, standard hand-sewn pages). As such, I pursued a mix of watercolor, ink, and paper art to represent the dishes that I was fond of.

painting (watercolor)

While traveling in Kyoto, Japan, I was fortunate enough to be able to visit multiple temples which each had their own wonderful gardens. Of course, I had to take tons of photos to commemorate the trip. Upon returning home, I came across a photo that particularly struck me - a green clearing that revealed a pond and, in the distance, a small structure. I immediately knew that it would be a perfect subject for watercolor, and began painting it daily in my watercolor painting class in high school.