Senior Commencement Exhibition!

Here's a view of my Senior thesis show! I know it's been a bit delayed, but better late then never, right? I've been incredibly busy with post-graduation job applications and running around trying to visit as many of my MICA friends as I could before they made the trek back to each of their home states, which took up a lot of my free time!

I had an amazing time at the MICA Art Walk and managed to sell three pieces from my show- two of my pattern samples (the horse and moth ones), and my London 2012 Olympics Equestrian Poster! The rest of my pieces (except the pillows) are currently for sale, and if you are interested in one feel free to contact me at kristenacampora@gmail.com. Each one is a gallery-quality giclée print on archival paper that has been mounted and framed.

As a side note, this is my 100th post on this blog, and I don't think anything could be more fitting for such a milestone then a post about the show representing the culmination of my 4 years at MICA!

Moth Pattern.

Here's one of the final things I'm going to post from my last semester at MICA- a pattern of moths I made for my thesis! I have always loved insects, and moths are no exception- I just adore how fuzzy and cute they are. I ended up printing the first pattern out on fabric through Spoonflower and made a pillow for my thesis show, just as I had done with this pattern!

Horse Pattern.

Surprise, surprise- I made a horse pattern in thesis! I decided since today was the running of the 137th Preakness Stakes horse race that it was an apt time to post it! Each horse is accurately colored to an existing type of coat seen in the equine species! It was a lot of fun to do this pattern, though initially it was far more limited in it's scale- Initially I had only a few different colors, but a friend suggested doubling the pattern and pushing myself with it to really make it a unique surface design.

Crystal Pattern.

Here's another pattern set I made in thesis- crystals! I've always been fascinated with crystals (and rocks, oddly enough) since I was a kid, so I figured why not make a fun design with them! Experimenting with geometric shapes was quite a change of pace for me, but I had a really good time with it- might have to start incorporating them more in my work!

Feather Pattern.

Sorry once again for the delay in posting my work from the semester, but a bunch of stuff happened all at once and I was quite preoccupied- I finished all of my classes at MICA, put up my senior exhibition (expect photographs soon), and graduated! Crazy, I know. I still can't get over the fact that I'm no longer a MICA student- 4 years went by so fast!

After doing editorial work for the first half of the Spring semester I wanted to make some patterns for surface designs- these are a pair of feather patterns I made! I had a lot of fun with them, and figuring out my color combination choices was really entertaining. I ended up printing the first pattern out on fabric through Spoonflower and made a pillow for my thesis show- don't worry, I'll be posting photos!

Handlettered Pattern.

For my Hand Letters class we were asked to create a pattern based on letters/the alphabet for a contest hosted by Spoonflower. I fooled around with the entire alphabet (with some letters repeated) and am pretty happy with how it came out! It was my first official jump into true tile-ready patterning and I gotta say, I really like it. The first ones were my first color choice, the second ones are the ones being submitted to Spoonflower due to highly saturated colors and dark colors potentially having trouble being printed on to fabrics.