Posts – Katelyn Whitfield

Dan Levy

Here I had done a sketch of the actor Dan Levy from shows like “Schitts Creek” and from his time on “The Great Canadian Baking Show” on my iPad. The program I used offered a time lapse feature so this is the resulting video! I hope you enjoy and if you do, please leave a […]

Sketches January 2020

Hello again! The pieces in this post are not all from January, they are all from the period of time between my last update and January, which explains some of the dates on the pages. I decided to mix traditional and digital in this post, what do you think? There are, of course some other […]

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A New Chapter:

Over the past 4 years of my high school career, I have taken 4 media arts courses, 4 Visual Arts courses and 2 co-op courses teaching in my school’s Art department for a total of 10 courses over 4 years. That’s ⅓ of the number of classes required to graduate and I feel like I’ve […]

Serenity

This painting is a traditional mixed media painting that features acrylic, pen, marker, pencil and gold leaf to represent finding balance during the chaotic times of quarantine. This pandemic has given me many opportunities to do more art, and I feel this opportunity has really allowed me to focus on improving more and learning the […]

Mid-Morning Sky

This painting was done in early 2020, during the pandemic lock down and was meant to capture light and shadow filtering through a large band of clouds at sunrise or sunset. The orange tones and highlights on the warmer, brighter lit parts of the clouds are one of my favorite elements of this painting, however […]

Glowing Sun Child

This digital mixed media piece really elevated my understanding of many of the blending features that digital art offers. Contrary to media arts, the attention to Grey values, inverted values and artificial light are not often used, whereas in digital art it is arguably more prominent than natural or traditional lighting. This understanding I think […]

Chief

This painting is a traditionally done acrylic painting that was one of my first attempts into capturing light. It was made as a gift for a friend of mine and depicts the main character, Mastercheif, from the game Halo MCC, as seen in the poster for Halo 3. I had a lot of fun mixing […]

Blockism Still-Life

This acrylic painting is meant to mimic the colours and strokes often found in the pre-cubist art style of artists like Cezanne. I learned about this painting technique in one of my art classes while enrolled in the ACAM program at my high school. This painting was completed as part of a school project and […]

Impressionism Still-Life

This acrylic painting is meant to mimic the colours and strokes often found in the impressionistic art of artists like Monet and Degas from the 19th century. I learned about these techniques of capturing colour in one of my art classes while enrolled in the ACAM program at my high school. I found learning about […]

Tattoo Design

This line drawing was made digitally originally as a reference for a set of tattoos. I spent a lot of time focusing on balance and composition, which are some of the things I learned while in the ACAM program at my high school. I hadn’t originally intended to include it in my university portfolio, but […]

African Sun

While experimenting with light I created this based on a reference photo from pinterest. The warm light bouncing off the subject’s face was so captivating to me, as were the proportions in the subject’s features. With much of the digital art world being overwhelmingly white and female, I have often found myself fascinated by the […]