Oil Painting

I finally finished my oil painting of my still life. I originally wanted to do one that involved some intense fabric rolls and a magnifying glass, but I didn't want to blow myself away on the first painting. This is what I ended up doing, and it turned out fairly well. The setting includes a plaster cast of lips and a museum postcard featuring a painting entitled Silence by the French painter Odilon Redon. The assignment was to make a painting using a limited palette of warm and cool primary colors. It was a difficult project to face simply because of this limitation, but it was a good learning experience in the end.

UT Portfolio

I now know the true meaning of "the grind". Staying up until 1a.m. to finish these drawings the day before they had to be finished made me hate drawing for a brief second, but I was then overcome with relief that I had finished my most difficult college application.

Artist Study!!!!

For this project  I chose to do a study of Jasper Johns's Flag, applying the gestural techniques he used to add movement and value to iconography to an objective still life of a shell on a pedestal. I was thoroughly intimidated at first since I used a full sheet of drawing paper. The sheet was at least twice as big as any other piece I had ever done, but once I got to drawing the product came quickly. This was one of the most fun pieces that I've done in a long time. Horrible grammar, I know.

iTunes finally loves me!!!!

Ok!!! I am so stoked today! The album art I made for a friend of mine is finally up on iTunes. I encourage everyone to go check out the CD titled "With All Due Respect" by Bright Lights. We have been waiting for this release for at least a month now and I'm incredibly glad that it has come out.

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Patience, Childrenz

We have just begun another project in AP Art. It should end up pretty sweet. The previous project will be up shortly.

Summer

The one piece I did over the summer. At least it was worthwhile.

AP Work

These are the most recent works I have done in AP Studio Art.

The assignment for this piece was to show the relation between objects in the still life usingonly positive and negative space along with surface quality and directional movement. For this piece it was necessary to leave a darker border around the edge of the piece to keep the eye of the viewer from wandering off the page.

This piece was a close-up study of surface quality on a piece by Henry Moore. The section I chose was originally a few jagged lines from a boulder in a mine. The composition seemed uninteresting and unfinished. I employed a technique I learned in a workshop with Frank Shelton, adding and covering what I had done with numerous layers and washes until an image popped out at me.

Workshops!!!!!!

These are pieces that I made in weekend workshops hosted by Frank Shelton and Andy Saftel. The print is from Andy's and the painting/drawing is from Frank's.

I wish I had pictures of my other works from these workshops. Anyway, the first is pastel, pencil, and I'm sure there's paint somewhere. The print is a photo-etched plate with an image from the depths of my twisted mind.

Painting

From Painting I've found that I don't like acrylic paints as much as I used to. This came from my discovery of the magical medium of oil paint.

• The first image is a watercolor of spheres hanging in the air from strings. The text are stanzas of song lyrics from Coheed and Cambria's "The Running Free". I found the song appropriate since the sphere on the right is snapping off of its string and in a sense "running free".
  


• The second is a still life project that didn't exactly turn out how I wished it would've. The inset is fron the same still life just a different section that I did not have in my original frame of reference.

• A ribbon captured in its purest essence. Just kidding. I felt like being pseudo-intellectual for a moment. But it is a still life of a ribbon of paper painted in complementary colors using acrylic... This was before my point of revelation...now I'm sounding religious.


• The third is oil on acrylic. I used acrylic for the sunset and oil for the black and white ducks. the aim of this project was simply to use images of an object from our childhood. I think I succeeded.


• The last one is a piece I did at the end of the year painting/cookie party. I used a self portrait of myself and imagery of a car crash and a bottle pouring over it as a sort of anti- drunk driving statement.

Printmaking

I've got a bit more stuff from my printmaking class. We experimented with block printing, photo etching, monoprints, and collage. The last seems random, I know, but you'll see.

This is a block print that is used later on in one of the big prints. This is the first print of the class.

This next print is the first of the two large mono print projects I did. These two monoprints had a common theme. The theme was the intercultural meshing that my Chinese roommate, Ben Yang, and I underwent last year. I learned of the Chinese culture and he partook of the American culture, because he had already lived here for four or five years. I used a background that hinted at an American flag and used imagery of the Great Wall and the previous eagle.

Drawing

These are my pieces from drawing class.

This is a conte crayon still life of an assortment of vases and small ceramics. This is one of my better studies of fabric all though there is very little. I found it tricky to get appropriate value in the dropcloth in back while still hinting at the pattern on the cloth.

At the right is a vine charcoal still life of the head of Dionysus. This is one of the more difficult assignments from the class due to the intricacies of each individual lock of hair in the beard and top of the head.

Art Foundations

This is one of my pieces from the prerequisite course Art Foundations. Just a still life of geometric shapes.

Senior Art for AP Studio

This is my blog dedicated to documenting my work of past years ranging from Art foundations to the current work I am doing in the AP studio.