Drawings & Paintings
Ryan Emma Moran Busby | Artist Portfolio | 2024
My favorite medium is graphite pencil. I love the simplicity of one tool and the techniques that create depth like shading. I also enjoy oil pastel for a little change and color
<< This beautiful icon wasn't often heard. Most people just looked at her as an object. I thought it would be cool to draw her using her own quotes. The shading is achieved with several quotes written really close together
This exercise was to work with capturing a favorite artist with interesting hair. Only two people came to mind, Dolly Parton and Amy Winehouse. I went with the real hair. I also surrounded the drawing with the lyrics of my three favorite songs and her obituary >>
<< An exercise in 'Expression.' I immediately thought of a photo of my older brother when he was nine-years-old and he caught a foul ball at his first baseball game.
<< Another example on 'Expression.'
The subject was actually a three-foot high disco ball, but most of my family thought I was drawing a Christmas ornament. Either way it high-lights perspective to give the appearance of rounding >>
<< More 'Expression.'
A painting I did and sent in a care package to an orphanage in Ukraine. Using the colors of their flag as a backdrop I chose the flower that makes me happy as the subject
Painstaking, but rewarding. This oil pastel features multiple folds and overlapping creating depth and drama. The subject was a piece of fabric in the fashion art supply box.
This oil pastel is of my mother when she was twenty-two and went for her first modeling photoshoot.
