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The artist, hAndroid went to UC Santa Cruz as an anthropology major, but has always had an affinity for art appreciation and creation. Since her grassroots non-kid-friendly coloring book distribution last year, hAndroid has since received much-earned attention from the UCSC crowd. The images featured are from her coloring book, which features pleasantly-worded confessions […]
Our Local Santa Cruz Featured Artist for Sunday, July 12th is freelance/Cabrillo College artist, Nicholas LaPlaca. For LaPlaca, art is both a form of communication and a miracle of mystic nature. He says, “Illustration is the only occupation that has stuck with me throughout my life and honestly, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. To me, art […]
Have a great day, Santa Cruz–enjoy the views! Artist- Julianna Chavez
Today I worked on a number of self portraits, including a handful that were inspired by famous works of art. This is an unfinished detail shot of a self portrait I worked on in reference to the Birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel, a masterpiece that I find to be empowering–and is one of my […]
During this last Spring quarter at UC Santa Cruz, I had the pleasure of taking Stacy Kamehiro’s class, Art of the Body in Oceania, a course about visual culture phenomena in Polynesian island areas. Before this class, whenever I had heard the term, “tribal tattoo,” all I could think about were sunburned, sweaty lines […]
This week’s illustration, Autopilot, represents moments when I feel most like myself. Namely, I’m referring to walks home, usually from running errands. I believe religiously in stopping and smelling the roses, and if the roses do not require stopping, then I put myself on autopilot, completely encapsulated in the scent of the flowers. With the […]
This morning’s illustration is titled, “Oh, the Places…” and is open to interpretation in more ways than one (take what you need). I used 05 Micron and a fine-point pink Sharpie. Artist- Julianna Chavez
If you have become familiar with the Saturday Morning Cartoons posts/series, you probably know that I like to focus on minute details in my illustrations. This Saturday I thought that I would try something a little different. Whilst I am known for my extremely expressive drawings of faces, I thought that it would be […]
I like to emphasize the details of passion and/or emotion in my drawings, so recently I did an exercise where I went through a memory and expressed each proceeding feeling through (an illustration of) the eyes. Following after the beloved and skilled theater artist, Whoopi Goldberg, I chose to challenge myself and opted out of using […]
What entices me about photography is that however insignificant or small a moment may be, its most lovable features usually stay in the photograph. Even if a picture is blurry, mistimed, or simply ugly, it still has a lot of memories attached to it; it’s still a truthful snippet of a part of someone’s life. […]
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