Hi! this is a page dedicated to my art over my high school career.
About me: Hi, My name is Hannah Lunsford. I am a graduating senior in high school and I love music; I play guitar in a band and in a program called School of Rock. I love to listen to emo and post-hardcore music. I love animals as well. I have a cat named Evie and I am obsessed with birds. I could name any bird I find in my backyard. I love any kind of nature. I love mountains and beaches because they calm me down and make me feel good. And of course, I love art. I love looking at art and creating art.
My experience with art:
I enjoy art that makes me ponder the meaning. I enjoy picking it apart to create my own meaning for it. When I first started creating my own art, I was eight years old. I liked to write comics, even if the art style wasn’t very advanced. I was writing and illustrating these comics until I was 12 years old. Once I moved on from my comic phase, I started drawing anime characters when I got alcohol markers. I made visible progress with the accuracy of the visual references I used. I joined an art class at my school and that’s when I started getting into abstract art. I am inspired by my grandmother who is an abstract artist. Some of my favorite pieces were made when I was playing around in her studio. I create what’s on my mind, If I’m in a bad mood, I create a darker piece with darker colors. My favorite way to make art is through jelly prints. Jelly prints are made from a gel plate that you paint, and then lay a paper over it to transfer the design to the paper . There are many cool designs to make with jelly prints; if you’re creative enough. A lot of my pieces on this website were created through this method of printmaking.
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this piece was created for an assignment in my art class my sophomore year. It is something under a microscope and while I forget what it is that’s under the microscope, I find it fascinating that whatever object this is, it is beautiful zoomed in.
these three pieces are all related because I created them to look similar. These pieces were me experimenting with gelli prints; and I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing other than I wanted the viewer to be confused. for “Mushroom Garden”, I was going to add a “…” in the piece to name it “…” so it would be related to the others; but I decided not to do that. My favorite out of these three pieces is “???” because ever I have no idea what I’m looking at because there is so much going on. I am impressed with myself that I was able to create these pieces.
This piece was created when I was experimenting with watercolor and painting fruits. I was originally going to add a watermelon alongside the grapefruit, orange, lemon and lime but I thought it would look out of place and stand out too much so I added a purple mystery fruit instead.
this piece was created when I first started trying to create abstract art. to create it, I just scribbled on a piece of paper and filled in the spaces with designs using paint pens. I purposefully put three yellow and black squares with one in the middle so that it would stand out. then, to balance it I put the black and blue triangles on the top right and the bottom left corner as well as the vines on the top left and bottom right corner. I named this piece
these two pieces were created in the same day when I wanted to experiment with gelli print layering. There isn’t much to say about these pieces because they were experiments. I added them to the gallery because I think they look pretty.
This is one of the pieces I am most impressed with myself for creating. usually I create these types of pieces with paint pen but I used alcohol markers, another one of my favorite mediums, for this one. I wanted this piece to look as chaotic as possible and for the viewer to spend a lot of time looking at it because there is just so much going on. this is one of my favorite pieces.
This is my favorite piece I have ever created. It is my favorite because it is the cleanest; done entirely with paint pens. there is a lot to look at here and I am not sure how I was able to do this. I am very impressed with myself for this piece.
this piece was created when I started experimenting with drawing stars and bullseyes as well as lines to achieve the “Frutiger metro” kind of look. I also sprinkled in some of my own designs like the triangles. but, this piece was inspired by the Frutiger metro aesthetic.