Updated About Me

About Me:

I am now a Freshman in college. I am a Studio Arts major currently experimenting in Digital media. I am currently an undergraduate of the University of Texas at Austin. I am set to graduate in 2019, and like all good Longhorns, I have the classic "horns up in front of the tower" photo.

Comic Book

Hey, so those of you who know me know that for a couple of years, I've been working on developing a story for something I plan on turning into a comic I've titled "Daisy the Reaper". The top two comic pages are from my junior year and the second two are from this year. Both have been published in my school's comic book. It's really fun to look at the two comics together. I've improved so much in just one year!

Daisy the Reaper- 1

Daisy the Reaper-2

Persephone

So I finally finished my Persephone piece in tribute to Alfonse Mucha! This watercolor piece took forever, but I think it turned out pretty nicely,

More pieces from this year's concentration

A few of the final pieces from this years concentration. I took to doing a more reflective style when imitating the slides, and I found myself really happy with how these pieces turned out!

A Better Explanation of my newest Concentration

This is the fifth piece in my newest Concentration, but it was one that I desperately wanted to do. I had the idea of it in my head almost from the beginning. However, I waited until I was a few pieces in to allow myself to figure out what exactly it was I wanted to do. The slide used is one of my late grandmother, Louis Swan Jones, or Mere as I called her. She was an art historian who taught at Texas University and traveled around Europe during the 50's, 60's and 70's to document and catalog the art. This resulted in chests upon chests of slides that our family has buried away in storage. However, last summer my father and I began to sort through them. We spent many summer afternoons hunched over a light table with magnifying glasses, sorting the good slides from the bad. It wasn't until months later that I had the idea to scan a few slides in and to begin manipulating them. But, when I started, I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do, did I want to tell a story? Did I want the original picture and the old to interact? When I looked at this slide, I knew I wanted to have myself in the picture along with Mere. Which is when I thought of the idea of copying her pose and reflecting it. However, there wasn't enough room in the picture to fit the entire pose in, so I extended the photo by continuing the background just enough to fit myself in along side her. Which ended up entirely shifting the iea of my concentration, but for the better, I think.

Veronica Jones: 8 Piece Scholarship Portfolio Admission

Self Portrait

Colored Pencil

Women In Mourning

Chalk Pastel and Charcoal

Dancing With the Stars

Acrylic and Colored Pencil

Bones and Stems

Pen and Ink 

Assorted Necessities

Ink and Water Color

Mother and Child

Manipulated Slides

Day at the Beach

Manipulated Slide

Like Grandmother, Like Granddaughter

Manipulated slide

Senior Year

Cones

Pen and Ink

Little Necessities

Water Color and Ink

Shadows

Water Color

Self Portrait: The Movie

Acylic and Colored Pencils

Dancing with the Stars

Acrylic and Colored Pencils

Bones and Stems

Ink

Dancing

Ink

Goddess

Acrylic on Wood

Digital Manipulation of Slides

These Slides were taken between the 50's and 70's by my grandmother and great-grandfather and I have scanned them in and digitally manipulated on Photoshop. 

Junior and Sophmore Year

Sydney C. 

Junior Concentration- Colored Pencil

Sam S.

Junior Concentration- Colored Pencil

Self Portrait

Junior Concentration- Colored Pencil

Haley C.

Junior Concentration- Colored Pencil

Women in Mourning

Junior Year- Chalk Pastel

Shoes and Boxes

Sophomore Year- Pen and Colored Pencil

Autumn Leaaves

Sophomore Year- Cut Paper

Spring Flowers

Junior Year- Water color and Ink

My Current Resume

Education:

 Booker T. Washington High School For The Performing and Visual Arts.

 Anticipated Graduation: 2015

Experience:

 (2010-2014) Methodist Hospital Events Volunteer

 (2013) The Rachofsky House Summer Internship

 (2013- Present)- Nasher Sculpture Center Student Advisor

(August 2014) Dallas Museum of Art Late Night Artist

Exhibits:

 (2012)- Spring Painting Show:

 (2013)- Spring Painting Show, Eddie Bernice Johnson Art Exhibit (Meyerson Symphony Center), "I Once Was a Teenage Pop Junkie" Booker T. Washington Comic Book

 (2014)- Spring Painting Show, Senior Show (Hudson Foundation Gallery), Figure Drawing Show (The Creative Arts Center of Dallas), I Am Booker T. (Myerson Symphony Center)

Awards:

 (2013) Eddie Bernice Johnson Participation Award

 (2014) AP Scholar

Organizations:

 (2007-2012) Buck Branch Ranch Equestrian

 (2012- Present) Extra Curricular Figure Drawing

 (2013-2014) National Organization For Women

 (2013- Present) Nasher Student Advisory Board

 (2015- ?) Dallas Museam of Art

Volunteer:

 (October, 2011) Healthy You at the Dallas Zoo, Methodist Booth Assistant

 (July, 2011) St. Mathews Church Mission Trip to Galveston, Mural Painter

 (January, 2012- Present) Booker T. Washington Auditions

 (January, 2013) Duncanville High School VASE Volunteer

 (April, 2012 and 2013) Oak Cliff Earth Day, Methodist Hospital Booth Assistant

 (2014-Present) Nasher Sculpture Garden Student Volunteer

Welcome

About Me

Senior at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

Artist Statement

In my work, I experiment with artistic style and personality through the illustration of figures. My personal drawing style is illustrative with thick outlines and soft colors in order to tell a story. Lately, I have begun experimenting with watercolors and felt tipped pens. The permanence and lack of predictability that comes with using them together has been an experience in diving straight in to my art. When I first started drawing, I was so afraid to make a mistake that i would erase every stray line and sometimes rip the paper from overusing my erasure or put off starting a piece just so there was no chance of messing up. Now I’m allowing myself to not only make mistakes when working, but also to learn from them and grow into a more confident artist.