I am finishing the girl I started painting before my last project. I'm going to add some drips and maybe some lines to this painting after I finished up the basic layout (fixing her mouth which is crooked and makes her face look scary) and colors I want on her face. It took forever, but I think I finished the abstraction of the model Winnie Harlow. I thought about adding color to the white, but i feel that that would take away from the dark purples, blues and red of the water color. I spent roughly two hours today adding harsher lines and the middle piece to split the picture somewhat, but the spots on the painting stuck out too much so I covered them up slightly before deciding to go back in and finish it up. I have two projects going on because I forgot the other at home, but that is great because now I am kind of ahead. Through they are kind off different in execution, they both feature a person who has some part of them taken and abstracted to some degree.
In the first piece I plan to pixelate the parts of the picture that the viewer would not notice at first glance, while keeping detail on what stands out on the person. On the second piece I have taken a signature part of a models identity [which is her very symmetrical vitiligo(a disease which destroys the melanin)], did on outline filled it in with watercolors. While I am still working on the first idea I finished TJ: 18 months old. I did the entire piece in colored pencil. Work Time: all together about 4 hours Update 11-16-15: I showed it to his parents
His MOM was so happy and wanted the picture saying it looked just like him (because he also is always eating or drinking something) His DAD said it didn't look like him, and that he looked more like his mom than he actually does. I have completely changed my plan as my clay broke into pieces ( and every time I glued it together it fell a part even more) when I moved it, but I still plan to follow with my original plan, but with a spin. I want to ask people what about society makes them angry and why. While I have some pictures already drawn, I will have more little drawings of different things, while still exploring culture appropriation and inequalities within our country.
11-11-2015 I'm going to continue to document TJ as he gets older. I still plan to use the first idea for my project to make a bigger and more throughout out in class project or second home project. So for this project I never took a process shot of it because I was rushing to do it and forgot, however I do recall the process I went to to finish the Untitled piece.
I started out and end with just streaks and drips of acrylic paint on the last studio day with no idea what else to do with it. I also had done the painting on a scrap of mat board I repainted black so it began to warp as I added more paint to it. I began working on the face towards the end of class and decided to take it home to try and clean it up. When I got it home I added more mixed colors in the background before added much warmer brown colors to the face. I also added more contrast to the face and put a highlight around where the shoulders would have been. I then blended the streaks of paint into the face and called it a day, put the painting down stairs so I would not leave it. Then I got to school and realized I had left it on the critique day and had to call my mom. So, I think I finished this painting Wednesday. The color was a red and brownish/burgundy that I really did not like last week, but it was just something to put done, and joint compound was spread across the bottom. Over the weekend I thought about colors I wanted to do that were not turquoise or salmon before I realized I wanted something really dark. I finally brought my paints from home and made a lot of progress on Monday by changing the color over to a pink and purple mixture and painting over the joint compound.
This year in art has been very interesting and I am glad that I decided to continue to take this class this year. Throughout the year I have learned so many things revolving around art that I had never realized I needed to know in order to improve my overall technique. I have been able to form a deeper connection with my art work, as well as form a better approach to creating my art such as attempting to take more risk instead of staying confined to drawing just cartoons and portraits, through my interest in just drawing quick gesture drawings as well as experimenting in watercolor and the many images you can create by simply allowing the pigment to do as it pleases from time to create an interesting image.
I believe has significantly improved has been my proportions and how I compose my art work. In the beginning of the year it was clear that I only truly used a center and linear view in my sketchbook, and when drawing figures I almost completely distorted the face and figure into a flat, cartoony person. With more and more practice with Shelia and gesture drawings I was able to use all of my paper while also positioning the figure in an interesting way that engages the eyes more than before. Given that I greatly enjoy drawing people and with this I while be able to greatly improve the quality of many of my works through using these skills. However, while my paintings have definitely improved as well as creating abstract art these are things I feel I need more improvement. There is always room for growth, and I do still need significant growth in all aspects, abstract and paintings are a problem area. I enjoy creating these and hope to see that after researching and more experimentation that I will be able to create the art that I want to create without having to go back and forth and building upon my art work and still feel that it is not complete. As I move into art 4, I really hope that I will be able to uses my newly developed skills and the skills that I am slowly learning to create my artwork were I am able to convey a variety of feelings and messages. Update: After posting this a tragedy occurred. (The Irony, you know, because "Loss and Desire") Little Skull (March 30 2015-April 30, 2015)So I found the teeth and glued them in, thus completing this treacherous journey of loss and desire
Will I ever finish? Will the skull ever be fired? Will the teeth ever be glued in? (probably not because I lost them)
After adding details I was almost done until I could not carve the teeth, so I casted the teeth in plaster. Bad decision because you can not heat plaster with clay, so I made a plaster mold to cast clay in and that wouldn't dry. Then the jaw fell off so those two holes had to go. A lot has to be done if I want this to go as plan
In my abstract expressionist painting, I can definitely see that I have pulled some elements from my mono-print while also trying to explore newer color schemes. While I like the green background, I can see how the loose brushstrokes have started to become somewhat of a problem as I layer onto the painting, and it is also hard to find a working color scheme without including blues and pinks. So while I wanted this green color as something new, now I somewhat see why when mono printing I stayed more on the safer side of color scheming and choice different shades of blue which could co along with multiple colors. I also can have used a better layout in the last few steps as it looks like nothing is really falling together which is really messing up the composition that I was going for, however I am enjoy the painting process.
I was able to add something to the print that made me feel a lot better about it, however the triangle moved off the spot I intended it to be, but I was still able to turn the print in a way that I felt like suited it after this mistake in the process.
After finishing up my final mono-print I got home and looked at it and while I feel confident in the print, it also appears unfinished in a way. I can add more color to it however the composition I created seems more effective in conveying the mage I want to show, however I also feel like I should continue to add onto it. The swirls I created in the middle are something I want to keep within the image, but I also feel that the center of the piece is the part that is missing something. I shouldn't let this fear of messing the objects and orientation up, however I think that I will have to overcome this if I want to be satisfied with this piece.
These two mono-prints are two of my first prints and my favorites out of my the first day. They were very simple, free, and accidental, however I enjoyed my last few prints which were fun to create and were something that I wanted to make rather than me mixing ink and putting it on the paper.
This past week I was able to finish sketching out my drawing, tinting my paper and I began coloring my drawing with conté after I was able to learn Parmigianino's art stroke.
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