I found this artist just by looking through Google, and immediately fell in love with his artwork. The use of incredibly bold colors and very accurate forms within splatter paint looks amazing, espeically with the clear skill shown in these piece. I love this artist a ton, and am really happy to have found him
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I found Srah Webb while doing some research for my Art Trends Presentation, and I really liked her artwork becuase of the soft pastel art style that she has, and also because the artwork that she does is fanart, but more in the style of dream-like landscapes than typical portrait focused forms of fanart. The work does is also very skilled, and won the Hugo Award for best fan artist in 2014 for her talents
I added a glowing effect to the body paint, and was a lot more excited with the final product. It took a few tries to get the proper effects that I wanted, but I think the biggest benefit the digital additions give is the growing darkness that emits from the room. I really didn't realize how effective that addition was until I was looking back at it, and I think it really helps the picture tell more of a story. It will be entered into the gallery soon, but I still need to think of a name and get the final print.
This week I decided to move from wall art to body paint to represent the type of work that I'm doing. I really like this work because I feel like the color choice and pose really achieved what I wanted it to. I'mn considering it becoming a group of images to tell a story, but I also want to try some other ideas I have floating around in my head. I also feel pretty confident in adding digital work to this before I present it as a final product.
Getting to see this Visual Arts Center Exhibit was really cool, and getting to see Hoss Haley's style of art was really interesting. While I don't really adore the work that he makes, I like the message that he talked about in a video the VAC had on their website that he made describing Haley's process and artist statement. I also think that the process he has, and the fact that his work comes from old trashed materials really creates a strong message that matches the very distinctive style of his artwork. I will say that I was also really disappointed not to see the machine in the back work, because that seemed to be a really art piece.
https://vimeo.com/137854790
This week I spent making the chalk drawing for my first project. The title of the project will be called Slow Burn just to speak to the posture and seething the subject's emotion is showing, and how that is represented in the chalk as well. I like the work a lot, but I feel like I want to apply some of my practice that I've been doing with the digital work as well into this piece.
The readings about protest art highlighted a number of important protests in recent history to discuss the importance of art as a vehicle for protest. They raised a lot of a questions about where and in what contexts it is appropriate to display protest artwork, especially if it is particularly provocative or controversial. The readings all were in support of protest art, and discussed art as a mechanism for social change and its relationship with civil disobedience.
The articles provided a perspective on histrorical events that highlighted the power and importance of art in protest, and helped to ask more questions about the nature, power, and driving forces of art. Art and the recording of historical protests helps to preserve and memorialize the devotion and fervor that caused the protest, and how important that preservation is for the societal good. I honestly found the analysis of the articles to be pretty weak overall. They tended to focus on reciting statistics already presented by the artists and made very surface level analyses of the artwork, focusing more on the experience of seeing the art rather than its message. The extra article made an argument, but did so in a very unconvincing manner that made their lack of understanding of fundemental political principles very clear. They also failed to tie together the aspects of protest that they discussed at all, creating a number of smaller, disjointed articles rather than a long, cohesive argument. This project is supposed to create a visual manifestation of the emotions and thoughts of an individual through chalk drawing and photo-editing. I will be making this a series, but this is the original proof of concept for the project.
This week wasn't particularly exciting, just because I spent the class time trying to figure out which idea I wanted to focus on for my project. I also got the app that I will be using for the digital portion of my art this week. It's called Art Studio for IPad and should help me make my final products more clean and closer to what I intend. This is one of the first things I did in that program.
This year has been a period of exploration into abstraction and color for me, and way for me to really discern where and how I want to focus myself in Art IV. I feel like my growth has occurred mostly in the areas of color and abstraction, which has been reflected in my increased use of both in my artwork. I have been able to better understand how and when to create and apply spectra of color into a piece, as well as the mechanics of oil painting, and proportion for the human figure.
My greatest growth has been in the use of color, but my greatest needs for improvement are in the area of realism. I find myself struggling with a lot of pretty simple tasks when trying to draw realistically, that can likely be drawn back to my difficulty maintaining interest in a lot of realistic artwork. This is something that I need to work on if I want to effectively allow my ideas for Art IV projects to successfully manifest themselves. Speaking of next year's projects, I want to focus my artwork next year into two basic groups. The first is abstract expressionism. I really enjoyed the process of creating my abstract piece in the third quarter, despite my dissatisfaction with the final result. I want to go back and really delve into that era of art, and make a lot of large pieces. The second is more complicated, and more personal, but equally if not more important. A lot of the ideas for artwork in my head involve manifesting the unseen into color and reality in my artwork. The idea of showing the flow of energy and growth and power in my art is something I've developed and tried to incorporate into my projects this year, but I want to be able to really focus in on it next year. |
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