This is one of the first projects that really forced me to consider how the form and content interacted. The content of the book had to make sense when folded as well as when laid out flat on a table. I chose to make several puns about guitars by monotype printing little monsters on to different sections of a transfer print of my guitar. I then used paint and ink for the monster's eyes and written puns.
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For our final painting we all joined forces once more in order to create another collaborative still life. I chose to focus on a pretty minuscule area of the still life comparatively because of how regal Nicki Minaj's head looked perched on the handle of a sword. We were also required to make a narrative for our paintings and I chose to go with a sort of authoritarian monument looming over a cityscape. I also decided to mess around with the contrast between the figure and background, making the figure highly realistic and the background blurry and abstract.
For this painting we were told to run to our dorms (or in my case my car) and grab as many interesting objects as we could and create our own still life together as a class. We all ended up gathering quite a few blue and green items so there wasn't quite the broad range of color that we were striving for initially but it was interesting none the less. I feel that I was pretty successful with rendering textures in this painting overall and the blending on the flamingo was probably the best I did all semester.
Above is the edition of blind contour drawings we did in preparation for the final painting. For this painting we made several blind contour drawings in order to pick out a feature of our faces to accentuate. The feature that stood out the most for me was my smirk so I decided to keep them very pale in order to strike a balance between the face and shirt. It also provided a nice bit of contrast and emphasis on the lips in comparison to the rest of the face. The painting style I used for this piece was completely experimental and I utilized several different techniques while working. The hair was applied with a palette knife whereas the rest of the painting was done with dry brushing and an interesting attempt at watercoloring with acrylics. For our critiques of this painting we were told to choose a song that we felt related to us and or our paintings to play while we presented our finished works. The songs I chose were Toxic- Britney Spears, which was in relation to the painting itself and Teen Idle- Marina & the Diamonds which was in relation to myself as a person. The painting as a whole made me think of the snippets in Toxic that were grabbed from an Indian soap opera and the color palette is also reminiscent of hazardous waste. I personally relate to Teen Idle because my aesthetic is very strongly the exact brand of emo/goth pop that, that particular song oozes.
Even in my sketch its way to see that I didn't make the darkest areas of the composition black. This was our first painting in Intro to Painting, requirements having been to choose one color to do the entire painting in and to use only a palette knife for the application of paint. Other than the complications associated with painting with a palette knife, I struggled the most with using dark, dark values. I tend to shy away from intense dark areas in my art and I think that really shows through in this piece.
For this assignment we created a still life town out of cardboard buildings. Each student constructed a building of different size and then placed it somewhere on our community grid. This was purely a still life drawing after the creation of the buildings and was by far my least successful piece (as well as least favorite).
The purpose of this drawing was to render a chair using negative space rather than line work. We could use any form of shading or crosshatching to fill up the background and create a high level of contrast between the figure and ground.
The second method we explored in Drawing Concepts was a contour line drawing based on various stills from the opening scene of Space Balls. We would pause the film for fifteen minutes and draw as much of the space ship that we could within the time frame without lifting our pens from the paper. We were encouraged to overlap lines and different sections of the ship and not to focus on making an image necessarily recognizable as a spaceship.
The two different expressive words I chose to focus on in this project are overgrown and decrepit. The main goal of this project was to give us experience with creating a 3-D work of art out of expressive, non representational, 2-D images. I attempted to make my shapes resemble a cluster of ruins and scrap metal, shown by the rectilinear shapes and hard edges, that has been once again overtaken by nature, shown by the multiple organic forms. While I am satisfied with the end result of this project I feel like it could be revisited with more shapes on the walls and just throughout the whole composition.
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