I decided on my drawing! Below are pictures of the final pieces (excuse my broken camera) followed by a slide show of some of the progress. I loved getting back into drawing and I know it may not be the most realistic or perfect drawing of a plant but it was a fun experiment. I honestly love plants as a subject and might continue to draw them in my free time. I had just as much fun with the other piece as well. However, I had a lot of technical issues with the resin, such as my canvas being warped and it pooling in a weird way, which was a bummer because it looks pretty sloppy. With art assignments I feel as though the goal is to experiment and practice with materials or subject matter you have not used in the past and I feel like I accomplished that. While these pieces aren't a part of my body of work (or don't fit in with it) I am still happy and satisfied with what I made and I hope I get more chances to play around and experiment in the future.
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I sadly forgot to take a picture of the canvas before the white and black layer, but I wanted to make a piece that look very worked. So I took a canvas that I already had a somewhat texture and colorful painting on (it was an abstract piece from middle school) and added a few more bold colors and slightly thicker paint layers just so you could tell it was a worked canvas. Then I layered on top of it with white and black mixed paint that I scraped so the layers underneath partially peak through. I decided to go with the same process as my other piece and outline the shape with a darker color because that was super appealing to me. I then added some blue and then went back over with white which ended up a little crazy and I'm hoping I can pull it together!
I have been scrolling through some artists for inspiration, and mixing a few paint colors to decide what route to take. Picking the first color is always the hardest for me, and I know I tend to work with the same cool colors and I want to branch out but when I do I never end up liking the piece. After a lot of mixing I settled on a deep blue color, and mixed in touches of black with a wet palette knife. I then mixed up a white-gray color that had a touch of blue in it just to make it a cool gray. I added that on top to break up the composition of the piece. I also made sure I covered all of the blank canvas with white and cool gray. The blues were still wet so it all mixed together and I'm pretty happy with it. I really need to clean off my palette though because its making it so hard to mix colors!
I finished the painting for my Guerilla Girls art assignment and added the resin. I'm not sure if it is because my resin is old or simply because I did not add enough, but I was not as successful with resin today as I have been in the past. The concept is to have the black canvases act as mirrors with the words blocking you from seeing yourself. The two canvases plays into the text saying we should not compare ourselves to others (two mirrors). I think this piece was mostly successful, nothing too crazy but a fun experiment with typography.
My second piece is still slightly in the works. I am going back and forth between painting and drawing because I cannot decide what I want to do. I settled on drawing a healthy houseplant for the prompt "something that exists that you will never see". It is more of a sarcastic response because the joke is that my family can never keep plants alive. I haven't drawn in a long time but I am not a great 'realistic' painter so I'm not sure where this is going to go. |
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