- Artists Communicate Through Their Work:
- For the style project, I took inspiration from the artist Francois Boucher. Francois Boucher was an artist who was born on September 29th, 1703. He was a French painter who was known to paint classical themes and decorative allegories. He was largely known to be a the biggest decorative artist of the 18th century. In the beginning of his art career, he was a lot on painting landscapes and nature, but eventually he started painting portraits. A lot of his paintings depicted passion and intimacy. I chose the painting of the Young Woman who is holding a little flower. The expression of this painting was very peaceful, innocent, and beautiful. I personally enjoy doing drawings which depict some kind of expression on the face of a woman. I had something new added onto this sketch, which was the hand holding onto the flower. It was interesting how I learned to draw this, since I only looked at the painting and pretty much copied the orientation of the hand and flower. Boucher's paintings also show a lot of realism which looks very organic. He painted a lot of human figures, which I like doing instead of abstract art. This is why Francois Boucher was my inspiration for the style project.
For the style project, I was using the basic skills of how to draw realistic eyes, lips, and nose. I focused a lot on the eyes of the woman since that's where the feeling of "innocence" comes from. I made sure I kept the highlight in the eye which keeps the eye to look realistic. I also kept minimal detail for her make up since it could ruin the effect of what Boucher's painting gave, which was naturally beautiful.The nose was the feature that had more shading and highlight. The tip of the nose shows the highlight, while the surrounding of the nose has shading, as well as the top of the nose leading up to the eyebrows. The lips just had a darker lining around the lips compared to the shading within. Something I did different was do some shading on the face of the drawing. I kept most of the shading on the cheeks and on the corner of her forehead. Even on the side of her arm, I did some light shading on the top. Her hair was the "decorative" part of the drawing, and so was the flower. So I did a lot of shading in the corners of where the hair was being pulled back; and for the flower I gave it color so it could be different from the normal black and white sketching. That's where I decided not to do much shading for the flower, since I was going to color it pink.
I painted a picture of teeth biting onto a stem that has thorns on it. I also depicted my feeling through the blood coming from the thorn going into the lip. I chose this idea/visual because I wanted to express the feeling of pain. I mainly wanted to focus on the outside visual of really pretty lips, but then suddenly seeing blood to the pretty lips making it seem sad; I wanted to do this for the color project because it shows a contrast in the painting's effect. In other words it shows irony since the beautiful lips make you feel nice, yet the blood on the lips completely changes that feeling into shock. To really make the blood show a strong effect, I had to put a lot of paint on that one spot where the lip was hurt so it was obvious for the viewer. But in general, I basically just wanted to show how something so nice can turn ugly very quickly. As I explained before, pain was the feeling expressed since the blood ruins the beautiful effect of the luscious lips.
-Artists Have a Global Awareness of Artmaking
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| Original painting: Francois Boucher |
- For the style project, I took inspiration from the artist Francois Boucher. Francois Boucher was an artist who was born on September 29th, 1703. He was a French painter who was known to paint classical themes and decorative allegories. He was largely known to be a the biggest decorative artist of the 18th century. In the beginning of his art career, he was a lot on painting landscapes and nature, but eventually he started painting portraits. A lot of his paintings depicted passion and intimacy. I chose the painting of the Young Woman who is holding a little flower. The expression of this painting was very peaceful, innocent, and beautiful. I personally enjoy doing drawings which depict some kind of expression on the face of a woman. I had something new added onto this sketch, which was the hand holding onto the flower. It was interesting how I learned to draw this, since I only looked at the painting and pretty much copied the orientation of the hand and flower. Boucher's paintings also show a lot of realism which looks very organic. He painted a lot of human figures, which I like doing instead of abstract art. This is why Francois Boucher was my inspiration for the style project.
-Artists Develop Art Making Skills
For the style project, I was using the basic skills of how to draw realistic eyes, lips, and nose. I focused a lot on the eyes of the woman since that's where the feeling of "innocence" comes from. I made sure I kept the highlight in the eye which keeps the eye to look realistic. I also kept minimal detail for her make up since it could ruin the effect of what Boucher's painting gave, which was naturally beautiful.The nose was the feature that had more shading and highlight. The tip of the nose shows the highlight, while the surrounding of the nose has shading, as well as the top of the nose leading up to the eyebrows. The lips just had a darker lining around the lips compared to the shading within. Something I did different was do some shading on the face of the drawing. I kept most of the shading on the cheeks and on the corner of her forehead. Even on the side of her arm, I did some light shading on the top. Her hair was the "decorative" part of the drawing, and so was the flower. So I did a lot of shading in the corners of where the hair was being pulled back; and for the flower I gave it color so it could be different from the normal black and white sketching. That's where I decided not to do much shading for the flower, since I was going to color it pink.