FINALly done.

Our final for the class was a composition of all the 9 media we explored, with some kind of unifying theme.

I don't have a digital image of my mixed media, which ties all the body parts and flies together...if that makes sense. but I'll work on getting that. soon!




acrylic:



colored pencil:

monochromatic marker:

high contrast marker:

line drawing:

watercolor:

graphite:

mixed media

newspaper + water color + pen + charcoal

A mixed-media experiment? I really wanted all the values in the face to be made up of bold-ed words from the paper, but had to add lines in the eyes and other details cause you couldn't tell what was going on. Still interesting, though, and might be the basis for my final presentation.

photorealism from 09-09

This project was to recreate a photo of an interior space of our choice, using graphite pencils and powder.


I chose Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka, Japan, built in '89. This small Christian church amazes me. The play of light (hense the name) creates an intense, dramatic affect in the church's main interior space, and Osaka continues to play with light penetration and perception throughout the rest of the building. Check it out sometime if you get a chance.





Here's my rendering - this particular angular view of the main interior space intrigued me. I loved working on this project...even if it did take forever.

These are other views of the Church, obviously not taken by me.

watercolors.

A few more feeble attempts at watercolor. More experiments to come I'm sure.



I thought the half-face was going to make a much more interesting composition than it actually did. I think it feels a little odd/incomplete?










I love the contrast going on in this one. I think I may do a series of larger ones with hands in different positions...we shall see.



I also bought a small ceramic egg with legs at Hobby Lobby the other day. Paintings of him in acrylic to come. :)

birdies.

My first little dabble in watercolor. The birds I freehanded on top with charcoal. I'm really pleased with how they turned out as a composition. Simple, but I love it.

acrylics.

So, this was basically my first im ever painting. I never really had the opportunity to experiment since I didn't take art classes in high school. It was a little intimidating, but I definitely enjoyed learning. Here are a few based on some of my photos from before. The green backgrounds on both didn't read well on the scan. Oh well. Enjoy :)

colored pencil.

I fell in love with colored pencils recently. I had no idea that something I associated with the 5th grade could produce such realistic renderings. It takes a lot of time...slowly layering and burnishing (a fancy term for slowly shading until the waxes and pigments mix and form a solid layer on the paper) for about 4 hours each drawing...but completely worth it. I hope to do some more soon, but here are my first few.

I really wanted to capture the dramatic lighting from the orgininal photo in this one, so I decided to use just white on gray. His right arm was getting lost though, So I added the block of color...I love how it turned out.

This one was based off of a photo of my friend, Newell. She has some of the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen and I wanted to capture one close-up.

photography from 8-09

Our first assignment of the year - we were set loose to explore the world through a camera lense. The class is structured such that the images we produced during this week then became the basis of our subjects for the explorations of different media - graphite, charcoal colored pencil, acrylics, water colors, markers, etc.

It was open ended, but suggested that we take pictures of people and the human body,

natural and manmade still life scenes,

architectural elements,

and nature.

I had a great time playing around with the things I could achieve with a camera for a week...I wish I had the time to do it regularly.