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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

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<< 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

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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   >>

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<< 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. 

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 

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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. 

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This oil pastel is of my mother when she was twenty-two and went for her first modeling photoshoot. 

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Having fun with some color

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I actually became a professional artist with this piece. My high school bought it from me to display in the art department's gallery.

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A friend referred to this as my mood ring paintings.

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