Illustrations & Paintings

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As your mouse travels down the gallery, you will embark on a journey backwards through my life:

Now - 2021 | I am a working professional specializing in designs, based in the Richmond, VA and Metro D.C. areas with opportunities for freelance and commission work! Send your questions or just say hi - sydney.squidart@gmail.com. I enjoy both the creative control to choose and develop my own projects AND the creative freedom to make intentional mistakes and weird choices. In my work, I endeavor to show you who I am.

2020 - 2017 | I am attending Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, majoring in Communication Arts encompassing both graphic design and illustration, and graduating as soon as physically possible with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree. Here is where most of the fine lines, wrinkles and flaws of my technique were ironed out with unrelenting practice. It, just, never relented…

2017 - Big Bang | I am a teenager with too much time on her hands and arguably not enough of a social life to make up for it, so I’m doodling, drawing or painting, and churning out dozens of Pyramid-artshow-ready pieces a month. I place at the national level of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for two years in a row, revel in the grandeur of ceremonies at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and cringe at the gold medal going to my silly, satirical drawing of a turkey pen on Thanksgiving morning. I am a child going red in the face with concentration, furiously rubbing crayons and markers on paper, covering my math worksheets with bizarre characters, and making custom paper dolls while I’m on vacation away from my “real” toys.

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