For my cover project I used this New Yorker cover by Jorge Colombo for a source of inspiration. A photograph of this cover is shown below. The part that I wanted to include in my piece was the gradient of light to dark in the background. Jorge Colombo is originally from Portugal and has had many pieces become the cover of New Yorker magazine. Early on in his career, he primarily used ink and watercolor, however he has since done pieces by finger painting on screens such as iPhones or iPads. http://www.jorgecolombo.com/about/index.htm My piece is still in progress, but I am happy with the way that it is coming out. I used watercolor, and began with the light to dark gradient in gray, but then wanted to add some color, which is different than the cover by Jorge Colombo. I have never done drips like this on a piece before, but I like the way they look. I need to add windows on the building on the left, and add some finishing touches, but I like the way this project looks currently.
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I really enjoyed this project, and had a lot of fun with it. For my four letter word I chose "draw" and then just did random things that began with those letters. So for D, I did dolphin, R was ribbon, A was Autumn, and W was west. It was good practice for me to use the ink, and I like the way this came out overall. I think I will eventually have to cut out the squares and mount them on something else just because my edge lines were a little messy, but I do like this piece as a whole.
I must admit, this is not one of my favorite pieces ever. I enjoyed practicing with the scratchboard some more but just didn't love the final project. I think I took it a little more literally than I should have. I am glad that I did it though, and got a ton more practice with the scratch board. It also served as great practice for differentiating between lights and darks. I also got to practice more cross-hatching that I started trying in my charcoal portrait.
During the skill building time in class, I did some practice with scratchboard. I initially wanted to try using pen and ink, but then changed my mind. I just got to practice using different tips with the scratch tool. It was fun to do some experimenting, and just to try something new. It actually served as great practice for my following project. I really enjoyed using the scratch board, and definitely want to do more with it in the future! This is one of the pieces I tried it with.
For this charcoal portrait, I wanted to do it from a different angle other than just straight on. I have not done much work with charcoal, or really portraits in general, so this was great practice for me. The main technique I focused on using was the cross-hatching, and I am not going to lie, I really didn’t like how it was looking at first. I am used to making things look more blended, but as it went on it started to look more and more realistic, and I really liked the effect this technique had on the piece as a whole. When I started going back and forth with adding charcoal and then using the eraser, it started to resemble more of what I was hoping for. The eraser really got the light spots too, so i didn’t even have to use white charcoal. I think it came out decent, so I am glad I stuck with it and gave it a chance. I definitely want to continue using charcoal and experimenting with it. My favorite part is how if you don’t like how it is coming along or the sketch is incorrect, it can so simply just be wiped away without an eraser.
For this project we first worked with a partner, and then did an individual piece. I didn't love the way mine ended up coming out, but I thought the video we watched in class on this was super cool, and very fun and different. I like how it was sort of random and did not have any rhyme or reason to it. Mine definitely were not my favorites, but some of them came out really cool. It was still good practice to not be so concerned about being exact, especially with the portraits we did, where we could just wipe it away if it was not right.
This project was really fun. I loved how I never knew how the portraits would come out, but they always looked goofy. They were funny, and just not at all stressful. The color made it seem more lively, and added to the funky look of this as a whole. I definitely want to do this again in the future, or at least incorporate something like this in future pieces. I think it would be a cool background for a piece or something.
For the videos, I watched the TED Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the Remix video. So much of what is 'invented' is built off of things that already exist. I really liked how the video showed Henry Ford's quote that stated "I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work...Progress happens when all the factors that make up for it are ready and then it is inevitable." This can totally be connected to art in that artists build off of images or sights they have seen before. Also for humor, artists have altered or changed artwork that is well known and give it a new look, which is what we did for one project in unit two. I chose the character option, and selected the Disney character Wall-e. I gave it a more updated look. For the second part, the self-portrait, I chose to draw a picture of my from when I was younger. I feel that some adjustments still need to be made with the shadowing, but I like the way it is coming along. I thought of other portrait ideas, but this seemed like a fun photo to use, and it was more interesting for me. I need more practice with faces, so I wanted to use a photo that shows the entire face.
To create a piece of artwork relating to this unit, I wanted a subject(s) that had many different shades. I chose mugs that I stacked up. I liked how they look precariously positioned, and how they are all very differently shaped. I also put a glass one on top, because I wanted practice shading with glass. I want to add more to the background, and am going to add the tile that is actually behind the mugs. I am glad I added the outlet on the wall too, because I was going to leave it out, but I like the way it ended up.
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