Green with Envy

I was inspired by Francis Bacon for this piece. He creates distorted faces and paints them with unique colors. I took a picture of myself and distorted it in photoshop, copied the image onto masonite, and then painted it with acrylic. I liked the risk I took in this, the idea is very abstract and I am not used to disorting things. I like the colors, and the envious look in the face. Overall I think I was sucessful at experimenting with the idea.

Stagelights

I'm really not a big fan of this at all! I used a lot of found papers to create a unique surface to draw on, so unique that I could barely draw on it with my charcoal. I had to resort to using india ink. The subject matter of the stagelights are also very vauge making it hard to determine what they are. However I did experiment with some encaustic wax on top. Least favorite of the year.

Homework Overload

This piece is a very lose interpretation of a figure drawing. I actually drew this figure from a physical model. I used sticks to draw with india ink, and soft pastel for the color outline. I like all the energy in the picture with teh ink splatters and the lines that move all across the body. This piece was a fun to create, and I would like ot make more like it.

Cathedral Study

This is one of the pieces I made over the summer. I had the most fun doing this piece because I really enjoyed re-creating the subject. I'm looking to do architecture in the future, and the photograph of this cathedral sparked my interest because it protrayed such an interesting architecture structure. I used charcoal and a blue prisma color.

Shipwreck

I used charcoal and watercolor in this piece, and I experimented with a new erasure technique. I wanted to show the movement of a small boat through the ocean. I think that the picture came out well overall, but I think I could have picked a better boat. The boat I drew from obsevation was not very detailed, it was very simple and I think that the piece would have been stronger with a more intense boat. I like the colors though :)

Seaside

This has to be my favorite piece all semester. I really got into my subject of the shell and drift wood for this piece. In my opinion the best part of this is the white hightlight on the shell and how the background looks like wood. For my background I used different textured/colored paper glued together, and then I basically stained the paper with shoe polish. For the drawing I used black and white prisma colors.

I used acryllic paint for this piece. My favorite part about this was that I actually took the picture of this train. Overall I am very happy with the outcome.