Before I changed my concentration idea for the millionth time I decided to do a pair of old combat boots that I found at the flea market. I really love looking at the old antique collectibles and items; therefore I thought revolving my concentration around antiques would be fun (but we all know this changes once again). Drawing with just good 'ol pencil is probably my favorite drawing medium. At first I was going to use charcoal but I'm really glad I didn't! Overall I am really pleased with the outcome of this piece.
The hardest part of drawing the boots was the background. In the original picture there was a black table and a blurred out tree and building. My original idea was to place a flag underneath the boots. Then I learned that placing the boots on top of the flag is highly disrespectful. I knew I wanted to incorporate the flag in some way so I decided to stick it inside the boot. I am very pleased with the outcome of my project!
The hardest part of drawing the boots was the background. In the original picture there was a black table and a blurred out tree and building. My original idea was to place a flag underneath the boots. Then I learned that placing the boots on top of the flag is highly disrespectful. I knew I wanted to incorporate the flag in some way so I decided to stick it inside the boot. I am very pleased with the outcome of my project!
As our first art project to kick off the year we were assigned to draw with Prismas. Although Prismas aren't my favorite they make portraying reflections extremely easy. For me the most difficult part of this project was picking a place to start.I took the original picture of the bubble on accident! I didn't mean for it to come out like a peace sign but two bubbles joined and made a streak of suds down the middle. So I added the two lines on the sides to make a peace sign.
There is so much going on as far as the colors go that I decided to start with the suds. I used the "scrumbling" technique throughout all of the white bubbles. The suds were actually very tedious and took the most time, It took me longer to do the suds than the actual reflections. For the reflections I started with the outer part of the bubble and worked my way in. The hardest part of the reflections was getting the very vague kind of "see-through" effect on the inner part of the bubble.
As one of our projects we were assigned to draw/paint an interesting interior. I decided to paint my messy dresser. I was having a really tough time trying to figure out what to do. One day I looked at my dresser, mostly because I was about to clean it, and thought it would be so fun to paint. Instead of sticking to regular color pallette I decided to go with a monochromatic color scheme and only use pink. Only using pink was extremely challenging. I had to mix up a bunch of different tints of pink in order to get all the values of the dresser, plus nothing on my dresser was even pink. I think that only using pink gives the painting a really cool effect. The most challenging part of this painting was choosing a background color. At first I went with yellow, and it looked absolutely awful. I think that when I softened it up with light blue it worked really complimented the pink.
Doing something that isn't necessarily realistic is very difficult for me. I like to be able to go off of sight not imagination. At first I was going to do a mechanical giraffe, but I realized I'm not good at drawing giraffes. This project probably took me a solid fifteen hours to complete. Over Thanksgiving break I would work on it almost everyday while watching tv. The most difficult part of drawing the mechanical butterfly was the body. I chose to work on the wood because I thought it would be cool to add a very natural feel to an unnatural drawing. I absolutely love drawing with charcoal on wood! Last year I worked on wood for the first time and now it is my favorite material to work on.
This painting was the first time I had ever used oil paints. I absolutely love working with them due to the fact that they can be blended so easily. For this project we were asked to choose an everyday object and paint it. I choose fruit because of the extremely bright colors that this palette could potentially have. The most difficult part of this painting was getting the highlights just right. Since oils take longer to dry my bright highlights would always blend in with their background. This is my favorite painting I have ever done. It took me forever to finish, but the time I invested in it was all worth it!
Self portraits are definitely not something I would not voluntarily choose to do; however, having the option to do a zombie self portrait was so exciting! I am a huge fan of The Walking Dead, and making something look gory was really intrigued me because then it doesn't have to look perfect. At first I was going to do it all black and white using just pencil. I don't know why I thought that just having a few pops of color in the hair, headband, and lips would completely capture what I was trying to create. After I began to put in color the rotting flesh really popped out more than when it was just black and white. The most difficult part of this project was the delay I had due to a cast on my dominant hand.
My favorite part of this project is the very vague beauty behind the zombie. Although she is slowly disintegrating, she still cares about about her appearace. I purposely put lively flowers on the dying body resembling the desire for life. Overall I love the outcome of this drawing.
My favorite part of this project is the very vague beauty behind the zombie. Although she is slowly disintegrating, she still cares about about her appearace. I purposely put lively flowers on the dying body resembling the desire for life. Overall I love the outcome of this drawing.
I had never worked with scratch board before this project and I absolutely loved it. The most difficult part of this project was choosing an idea. There is an endless amount of possibilities for such a cool material to draw on. I chose a lion because I love drawing hair. The most tedious part of the lion was the small bristles of hair on the face. It was difficult for me to get the right angle for the small hair on the face, but the scariest part of this project was the eye. I had completed everything and left the eye for last. This project took me a solid 2 weeks of persistent work. I am so glad that I put the time that I did in because this is probably one of my favorite pieces I have ever done.
SCULPTURES
My most successful sculpture was definitely my spoon fish. I started off by making the body with the heads of the spoons. The body shape was formed by news paper, burlap, and gesso. The fins of the fish were formed by the handles of the spoons. I used over 350 spoons; by layering them over and over I eventually got the shapes that I wanted. I chose spoons because the heads of the spoons reminded me of scales, and I wanted to do something different. At first I didn't mean for the fish to be so big but the more layers I added the more I liked it just kept increasing in size
In the process of making this octopus I had to learn how to mold the head and also make each suction cup for the tentacles. I believe I learned how to work with the clay more carefully and also introduced to new techniques for making the eyes and tentacles. The biggest challenge in making this octopus was having to start over! My original octopus rotted after several of our snowcations. Having to start over really affected the time I had to put into the project and also the size of the octopus had to decrease inorder for me to finish in time.
My most successful sculpture was definitely my spoon fish. I started off by making the body with the heads of the spoons. The body shape was formed by news paper, burlap, and gesso. The fins of the fish were formed by the handles of the spoons. I used over 350 spoons; by layering them over and over I eventually got the shapes that I wanted. I chose spoons because the heads of the spoons reminded me of scales, and I wanted to do something different. At first I didn't mean for the fish to be so big but the more layers I added the more I liked it just kept increasing in size
In the process of making this octopus I had to learn how to mold the head and also make each suction cup for the tentacles. I believe I learned how to work with the clay more carefully and also introduced to new techniques for making the eyes and tentacles. The biggest challenge in making this octopus was having to start over! My original octopus rotted after several of our snowcations. Having to start over really affected the time I had to put into the project and also the size of the octopus had to decrease inorder for me to finish in time.
This was my first successful self portrait! I knew that if I went big it would probably be easier to get all the proportions right. I decided to draw on wood for the first time ever because I loved the texture of if and I thought it would make an awesome background. I used charcoal and pastel for this wood drawing. The most difficult part of this project was getting the eyes and mouth in the right spot I had to redraw the eye at least 7 times! But over all I am extremely pleased with this piece it was the first of many more wood pieces!