Scientific Enough For Ya?

      My first thumbnail for my Fibonacci Sequence panel. Quite honestly, this came to me as I was falling asleep one night and I just had to sketch it out before I forgot. I'm pretty happy with it but it doesn't quite display the Microcosm feature that it needs. I tried to show the transition in values with the amount of shading. I stylized water and tried to incorporate the spiral for Fibonacci's Sequence within the wave on the left as well as the vines that wrap around the tree. The finished product is going to be 8x21", so pretty narrow. Its definitely no Fire & Water panel (I miss that :'(  ), but we'll  give painting a try.

Completed Concept Boards

Concept board displaying the inspirations and work of artist Beatriz Milhaze. She draws most of her inspirations from Carnival in Brazil so I thought it was important to include that. This is my absolute favorite :)

Up close samples of textures from nature including wings of birds and flower petals. I need to make one slight modification to this and then its finished.

The simplest of them all but sometimes it doesn't take very much. My Architectural textile quadrant (way to throw it back there lol!), with color added is in the background which creates a little depth and unifies the composition.

Making Waves

"When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath." 

-Salvador Dali

I think that this allows you to get to know the true Dali. It is a bit humorous because it shows you what Dali thought of the other artists of his time. While he was exploring the realms of Surrealism, others weren't as ambitious. We should take a lesson from Dali and find a way to think outside the confines of reality to create something different no matter what everyone else is doing. 

Carrying a Full Plate Now!

As of Thursday's Design class, I've really been feeling the pressure of everything that's due. I got another digital surrealism assignment that has to be "mostly done" for Tuesday. I have somewhat of an idea of what I want to do. Even after this though, there's going to be another painting project that the class will be starting. As long as I stay organized I'm prrrretty sure I'll be ok (just give me some dark chocolate and I got dis ;) )

Here's the bit of progress I've made:

Here's the first painting of my combination lock. Looking back at it I like it but I still think it could be better by far. After I get the other 2 out the way, I'll go back and add more detail to show that it's a reflective surface.

The wall in class with everyone's concept boards and abstract paintings. It's refreshing to FINALLY see some color omg lol! I see some really good ones up there :)

My Maria! I've been longing to see her, when she's around she takes mah bluuuues awayyy lol ;)

Now excuse me while I work on my 2 essays :P....

Kinda D r r r r r raa a a a gging Along

Something about this weather, man. Getting out of bed is seems to be taking more of an excruciating effort as the days get shorter along with my attention span at times lol!

This is how I'm getting through the day today. Chocolate milk, chocolate energy and good ole' Blue :)

  

Don't worry though, I did get something done today...

Finished the rest of my Concept Boards for Design I class. I really like how the one on Symmetry turned out. The third board is on the artist Beatriz Milhaze (it's in my bookbag...and no I'm not getting it out right now...I'm too zzzzzzzzzz...)

 

Studio Work: The Last 2 Weeks

The point of this project is to show Actual and implied textures. I don't particularly like this portion of it too much. Drawing with the Elmer's glue was pretty cool, I'll admit. Otherwise, I like to work flat.

This turned out pretty cool though. Its a shame that I'll I have to cover it with tissue paper because it won't take nicely to the paint :/

Here's our new project (yet again). We're going to be working with Grayscale which I'm kinda happy about. Eventually we're going to have 3 different painted pieces of an abstracted object like you see on the wall there. But like everything.....there's a whole process lol

After sketching out my object (I picked my combination lock from my locker), in an 8x8" square then I had to pick a certain section that I liked. I was looking for negative space so I focused on the latch. Drew a grid over top...

NAYO! Her blog here X)

...then darkened the lines up from underneath. After reducing it, it has to be blown up to the full 8x8" again (argh)...

Afterwards I....(UNDER CONSTRUCTION: will get the other pics up really soon :) )

Nice Bod ;)

I know that before I was really loathing my drawing class. It took about 2 months and just one class to change my mind. Since we've started figure drawing, everything is so much easier for me. I'm learning so much in Jeff's class and I find myself drawing figures for fun. Just yesterday, we had our first nude model. I'm not sure about the rest of the class, but I didn't find it strange or uncomfortable at all. She was really able to hold a nice pose which made it easier to translate everything onto paper. After doing our 4 quarter turn positions, our model did more pose where Jeff then let us use any medium of our choosing. Not quite finished that one yet but I will put it up as soon as I am. But for now, here's some of the smaller scale figures I had been working on for homework.

These are the different views of the statue on The Parkway in front of the cathedral. Not much detail yet but Jeff said it was nice :)

Don't ask me what they're doing. Entirely random lol!

Homework 4

Vocabulary

Chapter 9: Texture

Texture: the suggested quality of a surface

Tactile Texture: the usage of actual materials to portray a certain texture

Impasto: the layering on of paint to create a built up three dimensional surface.

Value: a scale the measures different weights of light and dark color

Collage: the arrangement of overlapped pieces of mixed media; often paper

Visual Texture: the use of various colors that intermingle and imply a certain texture even

   though a surface is flat

Trompe l’oeil “fool to the eye”: the main idea of using visual texture

Pattern: a motif that repeats itself over and over again

Chapter 12: Value

Value: the artistic term to describe lights and darks

Achromatic: used to describe grays when they are strictly a mixture of black and white

Value-Contrast: the relationship between spaces that are light and dark

Chromatic: gray that can be produced by two colors that counter act each other to a gray neutral

Value Pattern: the selective placement and variation of certain lights and darks regardless of the colors used

Chiaroscuro: the usage of light s and darks to suggest the depth/volume of an object or space

Aerial Perspective: the usage of light s and darks to depict less distinct objects in the distance

Atmospheric Perspective: see Aerial Perspective

Shading: a visual effect with value to imply a texture

Cross-Hatching: black lines of various thicknesses to going in opposing directions on a white surface to give the implication of grays

Applying Concepts

Chapter 9

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2. Using a grid to create a pattern aids an artist in making a design more unified. A grid ensures the proper measurements to make various motifs equal distances apart.

3. A pattern is a precise repetition of a design. While a texture does have repetition, the arrangement is much more randomized than the carefully thought out placement of a pattern.

4. A texture can be used to create visual interest because it would give an object a different quality as opposed to if it was just kept a plain two dimensional surface; a “feast for the eyes”

5. An actual texture is a literal material that has form that protrudes from a 2 dimensional surface. An implied texture is simply a flat surface that by way of value, that suggests a three dimensional texture.

6. A collage is the arrangement of various pieces of media that is most often believed to be random.

7. Trompe l’oeil is the concept of using texture to add visual interest and dimension to an otherwise two dimensional surface

Chapter 12

1. Value is the manipulation of various lights and darks to create depth. A value scale is a gradual progression or grays to measure how dark or light a value is.

2.Achromatic Gray is a hue that is purely made of blacks and whites

3. Value contrast is the interaction of light and dark areas in a single composition

4. Balance can be created with value in a composition based upon a particular placement the various values are arranged. However, unity can also be achieved through a gradual transition

5. Emphasis can be created with value by making a single section of a composition darker/lighter than the rest of it. This will draw the viewer’s eye in to make a focal point

6. Chiaroscuro was use during the Renaissance Period to portray certain depths. For example, on objects with a darker value could be perceived as being closer up with more detail, or as being lower (such as a shadow)

7. Aerial and Atmospheric perspective is the idea that objects that are further away are seen as a lighter value with little to no detail (such as a landscape)