My Statement:
I like to create a variety of artwork pieces focusing mainly on buildings, and organic things. I am more disposed to using graphite, ink, acrylic or watercolor depending on the subject. I'm drawn to dark art work due to being calming to the eye and reminds me of always having to use pencils in school because thats all I had to use and what I liked to use the most. Using only a few colors is also goes hand-and-hand with school and not wanting to use colors to ruin my work. Throughout the year next year Im planing to experiment on oil paints and trying other techniques of painting with both water color and oil.
I like to create a variety of artwork pieces focusing mainly on buildings, and organic things. I am more disposed to using graphite, ink, acrylic or watercolor depending on the subject. I'm drawn to dark art work due to being calming to the eye and reminds me of always having to use pencils in school because thats all I had to use and what I liked to use the most. Using only a few colors is also goes hand-and-hand with school and not wanting to use colors to ruin my work. Throughout the year next year Im planing to experiment on oil paints and trying other techniques of painting with both water color and oil.
The Sustainable Investigation
Experiment #1: I started off with messing around with acrylic paints and a clear plaster mix. To experiment with how different textures can affect an art piece and different. I found the plaster-acrylic mix made spreading out paint a lot more easier and allows for you to make a smoother surface or a more spiky one. Experiment #2: "Apples and Pears”: Moving on from testing different mixes of paint I started to work/practice on enlarged proportions of different parts of a body. Then I started to connect all the parts together just to see what I can make. Making a creature that wasn't so post to be made. Also with this experiment I was able to use a over use of shading in many parts of the body. Experiment #2.1: "Apples and Pears”: Going off of the Ogre I've created I wanted to further experiment with it. So I introduced two more Ogre/creatures with very similar facial features and bodies. This added an unwanted effect of making people laugh and question everything about it do to its randomness. I've found out about this effect that was created was the weird combination of the over use of shading of some areas and the unproportioning of parts giving off a sense of displacement to a viewer. something that I can use for later on to make people question life, why we as people do what we do, and why do we find uncommon/different funny. Experiment #3: Taking the style of the "Apples and Pears” I used the properties of being both unproportionate and random, with a black pen to further extend my exploration into this new style to see what would be made. With the more bolder pen it didn't help the piece with blending at all. It came to a unpleasant and unfinished looking creature that I need to work on for a solution. This mix did not have the same effect for the "Apples and Pears" for being to bold and not darkened enough. Experiment #4: To Improve on shading with pens, I made this Ogre/creature to work on both my shading and style of making weird creatures. Working on it provided me with a better understanding on how to use a pen, and how to be more messy with it to and a more natural/organic effect. Experiment #5: I started to sketch out a picture of a hand holding playing cards to eventually to use pointillism to take over the canvas and an effect of being realistic like one of my other creations. Final project #1: "Apples and Pears" At first "Apples and Pears" was only supposed to be my first real experiment with a new idea, but it became more than a experiment. As I expanded from the "shrek" looking ogre, peers would stop while coming by and looked in interest. My experiment with the use of wacky characters with odd faces and use of dark shading really taught me how to attract an audience. Making something that is so odd that people don't know how to process looking at the piece without laughing. with this experiment I was trying to make another weird drawing but with using black gel pen. right here I was trying to practice making clouds but then changed it into making a weird cyclops character. I was experimenting on using acrylic paints with a generally darker and very colorful mood. This experiment I was practicing on using pen and using a different type of shading, cross hatching. with cross hatching I was able to give a shape without having to use a more original type of shading of colors but instead use outlining of the ridges. I was trying to experiment by making a mountain range with graphite. I was able to practice/learn more about how to draw better mountains by the aid of a video. Since in my spanish class I had to draw a sugar skull I decided to to practice with making a skull from a picture with is the result of this creation. with this experiment I was able to understand the shape of a skull. I tried to draw a hand and didn't do the best that I could have done. going off a sugar skull I decided to make a skeleton until I ran out of time to finish the full skeleton. Overall coming out better than I thought it would have been. Here I was originally practice/try to draw a foot because I have never really drawn feet before while drawing a foot and failing, but then I was distracted by the idea of drawing a really big and buff Domo. I was also trying out a different type of pen to see what how would it be different to draw with a lower quality pen and different color. I was trying out a blue low-quality pen, and wanted to see how cross-hatching, use of blue ink, and a skull character would come out as and with making a skull I was able to experiment my idea of a darker character like i've made before. At this time I have ran out of ideas so I decided that i would make a skull from a side-angle with using cross-hatching, with sketching out the side of a bottle from observing it. i was practicing with making legs and shading in a different fashion, being really organized and different for my normal way of doing it. I took everything that I have been doing through out the year, including a wacky style and started sketching what I would mainly use in the project. this is a combination of week 4 and 5 I had a picture of week 4, but I don't know what happened to it. Nevada's last Apple; project 2: Ive put almost everyone that I have been working on together and made it different. darker due to the black ink, weirder by having a lot of shading, and so forth. After my second project I was kind of lost of what I wanted todo so I just drawing a monkey and cactuses to see if I could think of anything I still don't what todo so i keeped on drawing a random figure I thought that I could practice making mountains, cactuses, and rocks for my next project and I can think of something that I could add that would be new and original in what I've been doing. lost again I started to draw a pokemon and them thought about Iran and he was drafted. I was using two different pens to make this tree. Including I was thinking that on my 3rd project I could have some kind of tree floating in the air. while having no idea of what todo next I drew a pepper, and while i was looking around at other people to see what they were doing. I saw that they were using pencils, a lot of them were. I tried it out to see if it was something that I would be willing to experiment with it. During this week I wasnt here for 1 class period so im missing one for week 2. from the last picture I non-stop pecked and pecked at this piece of paper and still didn't change much compared to the last. |