Book Project

 Sometimes I wish I could see in black and white

 My bucket list

 Places I want to travel 

{Australia, Ireland, etc.}

 {The Louvre, New York City, etc.}

 Quotes

 More quotes

 Projects I want to do

 Books I want to read 

{Screwtape letters, the Help, Anna Karenina, etc.}

 I collect movie stubs

 I love vintage

 Art that inspires me

 Crazy cool installations

 Dream home inspiration

 More dream home inspiration

Photography inspiration

For this project we were supposed to make a book of some kind. I have always wanted to make a smash book. It's a different way of scrap-booking. It's basically just throwing all your ideas into a book and making it crazy! I had a lot of fun with this project even if it wasn't your typical "art" piece. 

Working within a series

 White charcoal on black charcoal

 Cross hatching with fine tip sharpie

 Cross hatching with graphite

 markers

 Colored Pencils

 Graphite

 Water colored pencils

 Stippling with sharpie

 Black charcoal

 Black pen

 Highlighters

 Pastels

 Analogous Colored Pencils

Blue pen

For this project we had to pick an object to draw and had to make twenty different drawings. We also had to use different mediums. I chose a turtle clock from Hawaii. I posted my best attempts above. Working in a series makes everything feel cohesive.

Claude Monet is one artist that works in a series. Here he has two scenes one done with warmer colors and one with cooler colors.

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.