Allison Bennetts - Resume
Objective: Personal Assistant internship in Illustration, Environments, and/or Story Boards.
Skills:
- Able to convey ideas visually, kinesthetically, and verbally.
- Language of Art
- Digital media
- Adobe Photoshop; CS3
- Flash
- Maya
- iMovie
- Fine Arts and work done in traditional media
- Clay modeling
- Pencil and pen illustration
Relevant Coursework:
- Studio Drawing: Charcoal, Graphite, Pencil, Oil Pastel bars, and Color Pencils
- Digital Layout and Design
- Digital Art in:
- Adobe Photoshop; CS1-3
- Adobe Illustrator CS1-3
- Adobe InDesign CS
- Quark Express
- Macromedia Flash MX 200
- Digital Photography
- Digital Film, iMovie 3.0.3
- Flash Animation
- Digital 3D Modeling, Maya
- Multi Media Sculpture
- 3D Clay
- Photography in Black and White
- Life Drawing
- Oil Painting
- Metal and Lost Wax Sculpture
Education:
- Dominican University of California, San Rafael. 2008 BA, Majoring in Digital Arts with in an emphasis in illustration
- California College of Arts, Oakland, 2001. Summer units in metal work shop
- Notre Dame High School, Salinas, CA. Received Award for art
Exhibitions:
- 2008 Spring Senior Thesis show. Archbishop Alemany Library
- 2007 June Art Nouveau poster art, “Estival” and “Legs and Teddy’s” shows at Galerie Plein Aire. Carmel, CA
- 2006 Phil Levine Workshop Inc. Paris, France
Experience:
- Recently worked under a mentor, in running an art gallery, at Galerie Plein Aire, Carmel Ca, 93921
Relevant Bodies of work:
- “Ralph and the Nacho”: 2005 Flash animation 12 minutes long. I feel was an amazing show of humor and fun.
- “Have Gun Will Travel”: 2004 film edited in iMovie, partner project
- “Our Child”: 2006 film edited in iMovie, partner project
- “Advanced Digital Drawing Illustrations”: 2005-2007 Adobe Photoshop on 8X10 paper, 2006. The Wacom Tablet was easy to adjust to; it was like drawing on regular paper, and developed my hand eye coordination.
- “Violet’s Book of Stories”: 2005-2008 Children’s book made from “The Violets” and a written story.
- “The Violets”: 2005-2007 22 pieces done in oil pastel sticks and paint bars on 38X50 Lennox paper, Series based on storybook illustrations. Digitized and reworked in Adobe Photoshop.
- “The Teddy Bear Violet”: 2005-2006 six pieces done in oil Pastel sticks on 20X30 BFK paper. I developed them using my character as a fine art piece like Art Nouveau.
- “Legs and Teddy’s”: 2006 show at Galerie Plein Aire; 6 pieces including “Catfish: Must love cookies” from the series Catfish. Oil pastel on Lennox and BFK Paper. I absolutely love this series because it shows how I have mixed Fashion, Paris culture, color, design, and cartoon together.
- “Plein Aire Work”: 2006 Series of 20 paintings at 8x10 on canvas. Done with Art Nouveau esq. and Plein Aire painting outdoors along with freestyle concepts of cartoon and design.
