Charcoal Self Portraits Self portraits
The techniques I tried were blending in the harsh lines how the interactions of two colors create a new variety of blends. I struggled drawing what I saw at first. The guiding of the spaces withing your eyes, nose, mouth, forehead, and any other face features were a struggle for sure. I didn't have an artist in particular but I did have my brother help me identify the features ones has in reality and know not to exaggerate the spaces between your life features in a drawing. At first when I started my drawing, I didn't realize that my face features were being drawn on wrong and my hair was being shaded in going the unnatural position, as in shading/drawing it down from the root of head down. What I would consider doing over would be the way I started off my self portrait, by not jumping into the sketch without figuring out exactly what parts go where. Contribute the principles and elements of design and use the right methods. Sketching, drawing, and shading in the texture of the shades aren't done as easily when the color isn't being balanced out. |
Landscape Drawing
It's Earth's nature we all admire truly and landscapes tell stories every time a picture is captured. Within the sound of a click, a whole moment is captured but do we value the colors, textures, and gradations contained in that single picture. I used chalk, oil pastels, and color pencils to recreate my landscape. On a daily we capture images with our own eyes, we’re living cameras, and we view the mid-grounds, backgrounds, and for-grounds. As seen, there’s a lot that we evaluate and when one draws or paints an image of a landscape, the elements of design are well evaluated.
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Complimentary Color DrawingWe see colors at all times, we know what color compliments another color, weather it's our clothing, makeup, hair dye, etc we value what suits our fit. Society understands that colors are what catches everyone's attention, the art itself. Complimentary colors are well used around us, from blue and orange being our Broncos colors, red and green, Christmas colors, and yellow and purple being the Minnesota Vikings colors. They're colors that compliment one another. For my art piece I chose green and red. Why? Well because the coordination of the different shades of green being used in my art work shows exactly how it perfectly compliments the little red used in my piece. The lady bugs are the centerpiece of my work and the green surrounding the two small lady bugs is what's giving them their value. The tones of each shade demonstrates from what angle the image was capture from. The underlining of each water bubble from the leaves shows texture and the linings between the water and base itself. The black added in the drawing gives the whole piece a significance. The whole piece was drawn and shaded in with color pencils.
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Final Eye ProjectFor my final eye project, I used different type of materials. I used a wood block, different techniques of paint such as water color and pencil. I blended in some colors around the eye and the background to add more contact, I use different types of shades and colors to make my painting a multicolor expression. Each color also expresses different mood/emotions for each individual eye. In my art I drew three eyes, and the reason I chose to use three different and not pair of eyes is because I wanted to show how easy it is to express it through the look or face textures an eye itself can do. As human we know that our eyes and eyebrows, any feature around our eyes, too show the emotion we tempt to show. Our faces themselves are the piece of art.
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Zentangle Mandala WatercolorMandalas are geometric figures/designs that represent symbols in a dream capturing one’s self unity. My mándala design represents my purpose of overthinking creativity. What I mean by overthinking, is the ideas that build up on me by the design but slowly created itself in my head once I started designing. The significance of the watercolor covering the flower mandala exposes the value of mixture of spring colors. For the water colors I used different methods to add the color onto the mandala. I used dry on wet where I put water first and let the color expand into the paper creating its own design with the expansion of the color volume onto the water. For the small features I used the color right onto the design only using the boldness of one color and overlaying it with a lighter color adding more water so the color can lighten up. The other layer is contrasted with blue and pink, and the inside layer pedals are mixed colors with pink, yellow, orange, and a bit of green. For each outer pedal I used 2 different techniques. I wanted the colors to bled instead of being simple colors next to another. The colors are defining the value of the mandala itself. Watercolors work in mysterious ways, exactly why I wanted colors to collide to give definition to the whole meaning of a mandala.
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Tempera Batik ProjectWhen I first started off the project, I had no idea what to draw and I knew that the black ink was the highlight of the drawing. Flowers was the answer. I started of with creating the image, the flowers, on watercolor paper with pencil and then tracing it with a black permanent sharpie. Then the entire painting is painted with several layers of tempera paint. Throughout the layers of tempera paint the painting is to dry thoroughly. Also the paint is not to touch the lines of the lining of the sharpie marker because it’s what will make the image stand out and capture every value. Once the painting is dry and coated with several layers of tempera paint, the entire painting is covered with drawing ink and then it’s to be dried thoroughly. The ink is then rinsed off the painting and while it’s being rinsed off I noticed that some of the paint comes off as well, exactly why it’s necessary to do several layers of tempera paint. The painting is then to be completely dry. The final piece is well presented.
Meaning to life: we're all covered of layers and as humans every time we encounter an obstacle, we unleash a layer of us that helps us heal and improve. The tempera batik project showed how everything can be covered in black, be dull and empty, and once finally healed, washed off, it shows our true colors; highlighting our true selves. |
Print MakingThe art of print making was honestly a work of patience and commitment. Carving a piece like mine or any other with small details is hard and stressful, however you realize how easy it can be to fix a mistake. When I started my work, I started carving the negative space, everything that was not outlined in black sharpie. The need of reheating the base to be easier to carve was always the tricky part because the base was much smoother and easier to make a mistake. When it was hard, it was easier for one to carve into their skin. Once again it was all in the patience and persistence. After two weeks or even more to be honest, the work was finally ready to print and that's what shows on the left, (two salty and three non-salty prints). Putting the ink onto the work waste hard part because you either put too much and gets to sticky or too little where the ink doesn't grip onto the paper. It's the amount and the way of directions it was being put onto te work that matter.
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