Color still life

As a class studying colors we were asked to bring a bag full of colorful objects. We made a very large still life and picked one small part of it to paint. Of course I pick the hardest thing possible. These Christmas ornaments were bright metallic colors that were hard to match. I did the best I could. I think I captured the reflective qualities pretty well. Some of my feedback from my class was that I should have not placed the still life in the exact middle of the page. I think that would have made it more interesting. I tried to make the canvas backdrop more interesting by capturing the different folds the fabric as making.

50 colors

As a class we are studying color. One of our projects was to mix 50 different colors without using paint straight from the tube. What I did was gradually added white to a bunch of my paint colors I had. If I had to do 100 I would probably add black gradually to all those colors.

This project reminds me of a piece by Damien Hirst entitled Ellipticine. He has 108 different colors and instead of rectangles he used small circles.

Joseph Cornell inspired box part 2

 I have made a few changes to my box since last time. 

 I made a desert type landscape for my armadillo

 

I made my sloth a tree and vine

 

I made a river and a dam for my beaver.

It still needs some work. I think I need more cables of course. Do you have any suggestions for me? I would love to hear them. In case you missed my previous post I am trying to make a landscape where it looks as if technology has taken over and the animals are learning to adapt to it and making it part of their home now. What do you guys think of the natural wood? Does that add or take away? I would love to hear any suggestions. Please leave a comment.

Analogous Colors

For class we were asked to come dressed in analogous colors. I came dressed in different shades of blue. We were asked to walk around campus and find a color that was next to the colors we were wearing on the color wheel. I found a green room on campus. We took pictures and were then asked to paint our picture. Here is how mine turned out.

I found this painting. I am not sure who the artist is, but they also used similar colors to what I used. Their painting has more detail which makes it more interesting to me. 

photo credit: http://www.birthrightearth.org/analogous-artwork.htm

Drawing a word

As a class we drew words and were supposed to draw something that represented our word. Can you guess what mine is? I went pretty literal with my representation.