Art 3

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Figure Painting

For this assignment we drew our classmates with sharpie on the paper and then painted over with watercolors. I really enjoyed this assignment, its a bit more whimsical than the others we've done because of the freedom with the colors and lines.

Self Portrait

So this was our self portrait assignment. This is a textured finger painting with unreal colors of my face. This was a particularly difficult assignment for me, I got very frustrated with it multiple times. Part of the project was to use a medium, which tints the colors underneath it with whatever color you mix with your medium. The thing is, I had a awesome skin color going on but ended up tinting it yellow because we were supposed to change the colors up. Lets just say the yellow looked really busy with the purple hair and I ended up repainting it. However I didn't learn my lesson because to try to enhance the picture I added a purple tint to parts of the face. Completely hated it, painted over the face AGAIN. But then a classmate convinced me to try the purple tint again...painted over face again. So this assignment was a pain in the butt...but at least the finger painting part was fun!

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Scratch Board

So this assignment was to make a image out of scratch board. White is pretty much a board made of layers of ink and when you scratch into it the ink is removed to make a image. I did mine into a picture of Swarovski crystals. The second part of the assignment is to color it in photoshop, colored version showed in the picture below (sorry for the shiny part, this is a picture of the printed out copy):

Museum Assignment

A while ago my class went to a near by art Museum to look at sculptures and busts to help prepare us to make our own bust. The assignments were to look at the shadows, movement, lines and balance of 4 different sculptures at the museum. These are 3 of the drawings I did:

Scanography

This assignment was to use a scanner to compose a image like you would when using a camera. So I took some fake flowers, my camera, some paperclips and other stuff and composed this image:

Calligraphy

One of our first assignments was to do calligraphy, each letter multiple times across a page. This was my attempt at the assignment:

Then what we had to do with what we learned from doing the calligraphy is make our own type of letter that had a theme that could be done through the whole alphabet:

The color and edit it in photoshop:

Monday, January 14, 2013

My Altered Book

Front cover of my altered book.

So we're going through our final exams now in Art 3, and one of our assignments that we've had the whole semester is our Altered books. It's pretty much where you take a book and do your art in it. I picked a book called "Welcome to My Studio" by Helen Van Wyk. I was drawn to the book because it teaches you how to paint better and how to pay attention to light and shadows in your painting, a weakness of mine in my opinion. I can't say I've gotten any better at painting since getting this book (probably cause I read all of one paragraph in the whole thing...), but I'm sure it was very informative. But anyway...here are some of the artistic things I've done with my altered book!

Back cover of my altered book.

First opening page of book, sorry it's sideways.

Water color blob

Skull poem.

Stuff with ink and in the right hand corner is a old sketch of mine.

Again, sorry for it being sideways, that's a old sketch and poem of mine that I glued in.

Drawing people assignment, it was a warm up for a bigger assignment in class.

Octopus thingy

I drew this with crappy markers my mom bought me, it was a drawing of a picture I made in photoshop for a chalk fest that was going on a while ago. Complicated enough?

I shall name this poop painting, and it shall be my poop painting. (Don't worry, its just acrylic paint!)

Random sharpie sketches, started out as body formation planning. I was going to do a big sculpture out of wire, but I don't have money for that type of stuffs.