Ellen Surrey: Archive

All I want to do is draw and paint all day

I hate midterms. All I want to do is draw and paint all day :(

Feb 28th

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Feb 24th

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Feb 17th

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Jan 28th

And School Starts Up Again

Tomorrow will be the first day of my 5th term at Art Center. Let’s hope it’s a good term for me and the rest of my classmates. Good luck everyone at Art Center!

Jan 17th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 24th

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Dec 21st

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Dec 19th

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Nov 27th

Nov 24th

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Nov 11th

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Nov 4th

Nov 3rd

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Nov 1st

Oct 22nd

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Oct 14th

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Oct 14th

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Sep 26th

Peer Mentor

So tomorrow is my first day of peer mentoring at Art Center. It’s gonna be a day of craziness and excitement. Time to scare all the newbies about the reality of Art Center :)

Sep 5th

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Aug 30th

Watch

Saw this video on the last day of Steve Turk’s Image and Idea class. So so funny :)

Aug 20th

Can't Wait!

Just quit my job of 3 years and school is over in 2 weeks. And to top it off, my last day of school is my birthday. I just can’t wait!

Aug 9th

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3 More Weeks!

Only 3 more weeks till the term is OVER! I can’t wait to be free. I really missed my summer.

Jul 24th

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Jul 9th

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I wish I didn't have to do so much homework this...

I wish I didn’t have to do so much homework this weekend. There are some really cool things I would like to do but can’t or have little time for. Arg! Art Center I love you and hate you at the same time.

Jun 18th

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Ugh! Homework!

May 30th

2 New Drawings

So my first class of the summer term was canceled today but I didn’t want to be siting around my house till 7pm being bored so I went to school anyways. I ended up doing quite a bit of drawing while I was waiting and here are a couple I finished. Enjoy!

May 18th

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More Little Portraits

Still waiting for school to start so I did a few more little portraits. Enjoy!

May 18th

Summer School

First day of school tomorrow. It’s gonna be a lot of hard work, but lets hope I can kick some illustration butt :)

May 17th

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Book Signing!

Hey everybody! The book I illustrated is having a book signing. The event information is available here. Hope I’ll see you there :)

May 15th

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May 15th

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Little Portraits

So lately I’ve been doing these simple little portraits of people to pass the time until school starts up again. Here are two of my favorites. Enjoy!

May 14th

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Pink Flamingo

There was one day while I was visiting in upstate New York that I went to a K-Mart and saw a pink lawn flamingo. When I saw it I just said to myself, “I have to do a painting of one of those.” Later that day I made this. Enjoy!

May 14th

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The Little House

Did this painting/drawing while I was visiting in upstate New York during my spring break. I love all the small cottage style homes up there so I just had to draw at least one. Enjoy!

May 13th

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Tommy

Just this past term in my expressive type class I was asked to create an album cover for an already existing album. When I got this assignment there wasn’t a doubt in my mind that I wanted to redo the cover of The Who’s Tommy. I love the album and the movie is so strange and interesting that I knew this would be a fun cover to make. I made lots of thumbnails and was stuck between...

May 13th

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Sad :(

I want to post some new artwork but I’m in New York and don’t have my scanner :( Guess that will have to wait till Thursday when I’m back home.

Apr 30th

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ChapStick Ad

Just finished this ChapStick ad for my digital design class. I’m really happy with how it came out considering I don’t think I’m very good at drawing in the computer. Here are the 3 steps to the final piece. First a sketch in my sketchbook… Then I painted it in Photoshop… Finally the text was added in Illustrator… Enjoy!

Apr 21st

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angesecondperson asked: Your artwork is unreal. :) Btw, didn't get to tell you last night but you looked super cute!

Mar 21st

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Jan 10th

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Happy New Year!

Jan 2nd

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Dec 22nd

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New Paintings!

I’m still working on my Bearded Lady painting but here are 2 new paintings I did for my Design 2 class as the final. Enjoy :)

Dec 21st

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Bearded Lady Update

Hey All! Here is an update on my Bearded Lady painting. The first picture you see is a study I did on top of my drawing and the last few are the start of the actual painting, 24”x36” by the way. I hope I will have enough time to post more updates, but let me know what you think until then :)

Dec 10th

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The beginning of a truly amazing painting

So in my painting class, taught by the amazing Alex Schaefer, my final is to pretty much do whatever I want. So I thought I would create a painting I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, a painting of a Bearded Lady. Here are the beginning stages… First i did some random sketches in my sketchbook of ladies and beards Then I chose the one I liked best so I could put a beard on...

Nov 27th

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Some Recent Sketches

Nov 18th

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A Few New Paintings

Here are a few new paintings from my Design 2 class over at Art Center College of Design :)

Nov 17th

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kitahhh asked: You spilled your coffee on your homework and turned it into art... AMAZING!

Nov 14th

eyesinthewoods asked: Love your artwork

Nov 14th

Watch

I love what this guy has to say about art and education…brilliat

Nov 14th