Know Thyself
Block Print
Dry Point
Mixed Media / MIAD Collabertion
Outside Expierences (First Semester)
Artist, Artist in the City, City in the Artist
PINK! Photography Series (Choice Piece)
Industrial Vs. Organic
Sacred Vessel
Outside Experiences (Semester Two)
Dark Feel
To integrate my thought-process at the time of gloom, I decided to experiment with color and texture through different mediums. I went with the approach of using items I've never necessarily worked with and just went at it. I created a "stencil" with the simple shapes of a rectangle and square to create an overlay with the medium. This caught my attention quickly because the negative space that was left behind conveyed the idea of emptiness. The palette I decided to use was an interesting combination of a sand-brown color, an unsaturated sky blue and of course black and white. It was surprising that this colors worked together because of the textures that were mixed into the palette.
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The movement throughout this piece was inspired by the dark expressionism movement where black was especially used as a way to express a lonesome feeling. Using a dark and depressing palette, I create a sense of empty and never-ending space. The movement was inspired by the dark expressionism with a carefree yet constricted sense of placement.
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In the process of creating this piece, I started with a base coat using spray paint. This would in turn mark the movement I wanted to convey through each panel in the "t" shape. This shape was an instant idea I had which come from my interest in architecture. The idea that I could create a structure through this 2D panels was a concept I really wanted to explore to create a sense of dimension. I then applied layers onto the canvas using different colors of spray paint and as well as acrylic paint to add diversity in the mediums I used. This stage is where I created the sense of movement as I marks and strokes were immediate and little thinking was made on my part when I was applying them. As I continued to show this movement, I then proceed on using a texture medium along with sand to form an interesting rough textured that was applied onto a square to create negative space.
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Tangled View
Focusing on architecture was a goal I had in mind through the planning of this piece. Yet, I didn't just want to create a building rendering and call it a day. I want to fuse my ongoing interest in surrealism to create an illusion using 2-point perspective as a format. A surrealist will using create a dream-like setting to convey illusion and that is exactly what I want to do with this piece. I wanted to use a black-to-white scheme to create an empty environment with a focus on the architectural aspects to the "building". It was interesting to work with white charcoal because it was using a technique much like chiaroscuro and adding only highlights to the black paper. Working backwards in this process to time ass the charcoal would tend to no smudge as fluently as I wanted to to create a sense of depth through the edge of the structure.
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In my mind, as I was creating the structure, I saw that I was heavily influence by a tree house. I wanted to expand on that idea of creating a "tree house" but at the same-time using a surrealist approach to it. I made a quick and light movement when placing the tree to have a contrast against the smooth and hard surface I create along the tree house. The stairs were placed along side the buildings as a never end path that leads into no where. These stairs were tricking at first to make because of the perspective I created would look a little bit off but was more stair were added, it made sense.
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Sense of Time
Still Lifes from Nature
I had the opportunity of attending a pre-college program at local art institute and took a gouache painting class. The focus of this class was in introduction the learning basic skills with this medium. The class also paid attention to aspects in nature and how we are able to capture a moment through gouache. I decided to do varies studies on fruits as well as decaying skulls and shells. Gouache is a thicker watercolor to me and I really enjoyed that aspect and allowing the water to create movement in the still-life. Oranges were a huge step-stone for me as they contain a wide range of technique aspects I could learn from. My biggest lesson I got was the affect of a was of blue tone along the darkest part of the orange. This create a tone that made it much more realistic and create a sense of a rough sphere.
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