And these are all the pieces I made! I've been off my game and forgot to take progress pictures for two of them, but I will be better about it next time. I love the texture and mark making I have going on in the first two, and the second two I'm not a huge fan of. I want to work bigger and accentuate the texture with my mark making (like adding acrylic medium). I also think I'm gonna go to a hardware store to see if I can find something to use as a big palette knife because I already own the biggest one plaza has. Overall I feel like I was pretty successful with my goals of adding more color and creating interesting compositions and I hope my next piece is even better.
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The lighting on these pieces do not do them justice, but I will go into my process. For the first class of the week I worked on the other canvases that are not at my house, and as I am writing this I do not have them with me but I will make more posts before our critique to go over the process with those pieces. On the second class of the week I spent some time mixing colors and holding them up to the canvas to see what I wanted. I like doing this because then I'm left with a lot of colors that I can put on my knife all at once to make things for interesting. I settling on reds and blues for the white piece, trying to bring some of that blue back up to the top. The picture does not do it justice, but there are a lot more blues going on than it looks like it. However I HATE the way the white is looking, and I'm gonna try to solve that with some cool grays mixed with some other colors (yet to be determined). I added some hints of a light green at the end to mix with the rest of the colors just to add some character. On the other piece I just started with some small strokes of red and brining that center color back up to the top.
So I started with one blank canvas, and one gray canvas that had a started but incompleted piece. The incompleted one was just plain gray so I decided to not work with it and just go over it. The colors I put on it were a lot of blues and greens that I mixed that ended up way brighter than I intended, so I layered white on top. I think I was hoping that the white would mix more with the blues and it would be less of a stark white, but it kind of failed so I know I'm going to be layering over that one a lot more. The other piece (pictured on the left) I painted with browns and whites as a worked layer to start with. I then mixed a few different colors (sage green, navy blue, dark blue, still some browns) and wanted to make the shape that I normally start with. I remember Coach Hall telling me to try to make that figure but used the wet paint and multiple colors on my palette knife to make everything more interesting. This is what I have going for these two pieces and disclaimer!!!! I have two more pieces that are not pictured because I accidentally left them at my Dad's house (: So I will have at least four canvases to turn in, maybe more, we will see! I'm just working on as many as I can at once and then revisiting to see what happens.
With my first piece, I am pretty happy with it. To start with the things I like: I love the composition of the dark outline with the white worked back on top of it. With the drips I think the composition is very interesting and unique, and I like how I worked in all of my colors back into the center with a wet palette knife. I also thing I made good choices with adding the paint skins. Now for the one thing I really don't like! I don't like the smooth edge on the top of the white shape, I feel like it catches my eye and makes the piece less interesting.
I feel like I had some fun with my second piece. I played a lotttt with the wet paint, texture, and scraping paint up. I wouldn't say it was a super successful piece but it has some components that I really want to carry into my next pieces. I think it's funny to look at them next to each other because one is so rough while the other is so clean For all of my pieces, I feel slightly stuck compositionally. I am so attached to this general form that I can't seem to let go of it because I feel like if I do then I will be taking steps backwards from all the progress I have made! I don't think I succeeded very well in my mission of using the negative space but I'm not sure, I just want to get more creative with my compositions. I didn't use many washes or play with paint thickness as I wanted because I got attached to focusing on the negative space goal that I was given rather than my own goal, maybe that is something I will concentrate on next time and it will make my pieces more interesting. I added a few different colors to the piece, which took a long time because I couldn't decide what I wanted to add. I ended up piecing together some paint skins that you can see in the bottom left and right corners. I took some of the color from my paint skins and incorporated them into the rest of my painting. I might touch it up and add some more colors to make it more interesting but we will see! I also went through and added some drips. I added white drips on top of the blue layer that you cannot really see anymore, and I added dark blue drips to break up the composition of the white shape.
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.
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. I finished! I don't hate them. I want to incorporate different elements more in my next piece such as washes, drips, and paint skins. My goals were to make more pieces and use different techniques which I feel like I did successfully. Not really sure where to go from here though! Sorry for the bad quality on the first picture, my phone camera is cracked and for some reason the photo uploaded blurry.
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Julianne
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