Element of Magic

 

Princess Twilight Sparkle
Medium: digital painting

It's been so long since I painted something I wanted to paint, but since my usual clients don't seem to have work for me at the moment, I thought I'd relax by painting some ponies!

Non-Verbal Learning Disorder

NLD
Medium: oil on canvas

An oil painting depicting non-verbal learning disorder. NLD people are very literal, so much so that others often misunderstand them by reading unintended meaning into their words. To an NLD person, understanding normal human speech is like constantly trying to crack a code. Interacting is exhausting, and while many NLD people truly love others, they usually need significant amounts of time alone to “recharge.” NLD people often hold views which many people consider to be contradictory because of the associations normal people make with those views. However, NLD people look at the views themselves rather than what people generally associate with them, and thus their views are not contradictory at all, but rather complimentary, like the colors in the painting.

Sun and Moon

Sol

Medium: digital painting

Luna
Medium: digital painting

Happy Kitty

Happy
Medium: digital painting

This is a realistic portrait of Happy the flying cat from the anime and manga series Fairy Tail, created by Hiro Mashima.

Next to Normal

Kristen Hall's Next to Normal poster concept

I was entered in a poster contest for Center Stage of South Carolina's new musical, Next to Normal. Naturally I did not win, but that's just the story of my life. LOL

 The winning poster was very cute (although cuteness has nothing to do with the plot and overall emotion of Next to Normal). The emotional impact of the winning poster was one of endearing childlike innocence and it was crafted so that it looked like it was made out of a small child's building blocks and cartoon sketches. Very cute! I will post it here once the finished version is available. :)




Plot of Next to Normal: (SPOILER ALERT) Next to Normal revolves around a distraught and broken family. The main character is the mother, who is a manic-depressive, Schizophrenic, fractured woman who hallucinates about her dead infant son who was born out of wedlock. She believes that the son has grown up and is a young man. Her daughter feels rejected and "invisible" and therefore turns to drugs. The husband, who is trying to hold the house together, begins to feel the strain of holding together a family that is pulling apart. He hallucinates and has emotional, confused breakdowns as well. Although the wife firmly believes that her son is still alive, the husband knows he is dead and refuses to say the son's name. The story ends with the mother leaving the family and the father recognizing his hallucination.  The story does not have a happy ending although it is poignant and does have some resolution. Center Stage has “cleaned up” the script, although they still aim it at a PG-13 audience.

Toffee

Title: Toffee

Media: Photoshop paint

This is another portrait of one of my friend's horses.