Blog Post 3-artistic behaviors

Artists Communicate Through their Art:

This was the original sketch I was referring off of.

-For the color project I painted a picture of a woman's lip biting the stem of a rose. The stem has thorns on it, and the thorns bite her lip, causing dripping blood. With this painting, I tried to communicate with the feeling of jealousy or hate. For me, I feel like letting out my anger through hurting myself allows my pain to release. This is depicted through the thorns from the stem which hurt her lips. I also felt that jealousy could be another perception of this expression. Jealousy tends to make people (girls especially :P) do something that causes even more pain for them. It can also make someone feel worthless and therefore punish themself for being who they are. Her way of putting the stem on her mouth, knowing that her lips will bleed, shows how she wants to feel the pain. That's why I chose to do an unexpected action for the focus of my painting. This made it easier for me to display the expression of my painting clearly.

Artists Develop Art Techniques

I learned through some of the warm-ups on how to sketch in comparison to what you see in real life; for example, the perspective of what you're looking at should be the same as what your drawing on your paper.

* the orange came from the chalk pastel that
smeared onto the sketch from another next page*

In the hand sketches I really focused on what I was looking at, almost like contour drawing where I just followed the object without taking the pencil off the paper. This helped me in getting a good base off of what I was trying to draw, and it turned out to look the same as my own hand! I had to add in some value to make the hand look somewhat realistic; along with the lines and curves which had to be in detail so it didn't look fake. What I did as something different was color behind the hand all black so the drawing could really pop out in contrast with the background. I also tried to focus on the orientation of the hand; since the position wasn't straight, I made it a little slanted so it was the same as how my own hand looked. These techniques really helped me in making the sketch look realistic. 

Artists Create Original Art

-For the land/sky project I wanted to have a difference in what art materials I used as well as what effect to give from the drawing. For the land project, I used oil pastels to burnish/blend the bright colors of the drawing. The concept of my land drawing was very simple, I tried to make it look peaceful by adding just colors that really stand out to you. For the trees, I enjoyed making the bushels of leaves look combined by swerving the oil pastels continuously. The trunk of the tree also had some value, because I wanted the details of the bark to be darker than the local color (brown). With the sky project, I had a choice of doing the night sky or a bright sky with the sun; I stuck with the night, since there's a lot of blending involved with it. The effect of the night sky is quite dark, and mysterious since the moon shines alone with dark clouds scattered randomly. The original aspect of these drawings were that I made these based on my own ideas/visuals.

Artists Communicate -3/12/14

Artistic Behaviors: Artists Communicate Through Work

This was a drawing I did just as something to do after finishing my project; a girl hiding behind a curtain with half of her face showing. In this sketch, I kept a very calm expression on her face to make it very pleasant yet expressive. I made her eyes look up, almost as if she's looking at someone right in front of her. The curtain was something new that I added so viewers could see that the girl was shy. For the features on the face, I really tried to highlight the makeup surrounding her eye so it could be the main focus of the picture. I used proportional lines to make the face centered and relative in comparison, along with value added to the inside of her eye to darken the pupil. I always keep some sort of caption to go along with what I want to express through my drawings; and I labeled her as "Too Shy...".

Artists Develop Art Making Skills-3/12/14

Artistic Behaviors- Artists develop art making skills:

Oil pastels were something new for me to learn since I hadn't used it as much before. Learning the way to color the local color, highlight, cast shadow, etc. was interesting to see because oil pastels since made the object look so realistic.  Although oil pastels are very messy, whenever I finished my project after using them, I felt like it payed off. One of the starting warm-ups was the apple that had to be colored with all the aspects of art (highlight, shadow, local color,etc.). This exercise helped me understand where to really press down hard on the pastel and when to be soft . Blending was also another technique that required not your finger, but a different color that could build onto your local color. The space project was something I had wanted to do for a long time with pastels, since they make art really stand out. I had drawn Buddha, inspired by the cover picture on my phone, where the features of his face was white, while the rest was pitch black. I had also taken a risk by covering the whole page with the darkest pastel (black) that could have easily been smeared on the white spaces.

Artists Create Original art - 3/12/14

Artistic Behaviors- Artists create original art 3/12/14

The two in one project was one of the new themes
 we had a couple of weeks ago. I had decided to do a tree combined with a woman. This was original art for me because I had no inspiration, it was more of just my own idea on taking these two visuals to make it look like one. The way I did this was basically make the trunk of the tree be a long dress for a woman. Her back was showing, with only a side profile. At first, I stuck with just showing her regular arms on the side of her hips, but as I kept working, I figured if I made her arms form into branches  it would really emphasize the tree effect. The part of this project that I got appreciated for was adding in the pink and green for the flowers and leaves on her arms (branches). I improvised my project gradually by making it have a contrast with color and adding the common similarities of both visuals.