Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Self portrait

My self portrait is a half and half version of me. I think of self portraits of HOWEVER you see yourself, even if no one really understands it or if they will or still won't after you explain it to them. So I have this character I draw all the time, I never notice how much it was like myself. It an alien like robotic human version of me. I added this character into my self portrait. I planned on just doing our heads but since my character had no face just a back of a head; I mad it based in the back of our heads. The character has it's brains out, so that's what that is in back of it's head but mine, I have my hair. We both have gauges but mine are smaller. The background of the images are also important. On my side, I'm looking at the day time sky from earth but on my other side I'm looking at the stars and spaceship from outer space at what seems to be night because I'm right by the moon, although there isn't really a day or night when you're in outer space. I don't have all my ideas down on paper because I always change them and confuse myself so I wrote down ideas on the bottom if my drawing so when in ready to paint I know where I am at. Here is my self portrait.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Pointillist Painting

I thought pointillist was the hardest thing i've ever did. I even got mad threw the canvas during the process and even after it was finished I felt like doing the same thing. Painting is already difficult but I was trying to give this a chance. At first i thought "how hard could it be?". It wasn't as simple as it sound. My brush wouldn't make the dots that I wanted it to make. So what this is suppose to be is, the living room entertainment center. Yea, like you could tell. I am not proud of my work, I would of put up the self port. but I think I'll post it later. I was going to give up but I rather the teacher help me out and let me know what I did wrong, becasue there is clearly something that I am doing wrong. Please help me figure this out.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Exquisite Corpse drawing/work-in-progress NY painting

For the new york drawing I got, it was a kind of hard to get out what was drawn but the person who drew it made notes on the drawing. Even though it was shirt and simple, it told the story of what was going on. "Spears of flames are falling from the orb into the ground and the place is on fire". So then I realized it was a disaster going on, that's why there was slot of red. The other quote read, "this is garden with a big rock, flowers and a happy sun". So I got out of it that it was terror coming to a peaceful place. Like what happened during 9/11. I know a child drew this so it was kind of sad to me to know that a young child though of it this way. I wouldn't want any child to have to live through that, so I decided not to change the painting too much. I wanted it to be what the little artist saw when he/she drew it. I am not much of a painter so I drew it out on the canvas first. I decided to make the terror the most part of the painting because that day no one saw the hood in it and if so it was very little. That's why there's only a small section of the happy place. Which is the flowers and the rock; I didn't make the sun happy. I didn't think a sun would be happy to look down at the world and see all of this. I let the flower shoot off happiness though with the cloud around it being it normal blue color but the top of the sky is a more grayish-blue to make it look dark and horrible. The fire balls are falling and the clouds are on fire and you can see the sun's fire from a far. Building knocked down, not much is good in this city. That was the feeling to me.