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Final Project

For my final project, I decided to represent the 3 sins envy, wrath, and greed. I got the inspiration from the movies American Psycho and Scoop. most of the final is in colored pencil and pen. In the first panel, there is a man in the background who stares enviously at the couple at the cafe. He can be seen as envious of either the man or the woman, it still shows envy. The second piece shows a gunfight take place in a dark alleyway. This picture is creepy yet interesting. This one is obviously wrath. The third panel shows a businessman at work fingering through his giant wad of cash. Greed is self explanatory. I can only hope this is acceptable for my final.

Color Project

For this week, I chose the artist Maurice de Vlaminck as my inspiration for a color picture. Even though his work sometimes looks very simple and childlike, I love it for the amount of color he puts in his work. A lot of his work consists of primary and secondary colors, and they're not blended finely. He does mainly scenery of nature. I tried to do a picture on the computer similar to his style, but not copy it.

Collage Project

This week I created a collage with a lot of magazine cut outs from fashion books. I tried to make a display of the city buildings looking like they were decaying and falling apart. The background I put many buildings, whereas in the foreground I put more people. I thought it would be interesting to display the fact that when a city constantly changes and receives new people and trends, the original buildings still stay, but slowly wither away.

Value

The song I chose to do my CD cover for was the song "Moonlight" by Kamelot. I thought it would be cool to do the theme where someone turns into a werewolf during full moon, at least. that's what the song made me think of. I love this group. The music is categorized as heavy metal, and the instruments are heavy metal-ish. However, unlike most metal groups, this group actually sings. The lyrics are beautiful, and the music is wonderful in how each song represents an epic journey. For this piece, I decided to draw a woman screaming as she transforms into a werewolf, as her ears, jaw, and limbs grow bigger. Far off to the right, I decided to draw a man who has already transformed into a werewolf, as he looks on to the woman. Obviously the first one is just a sketch.

ICA Assignment

Last Friday, at the ICA, I was completely mesmerized by all of the works there. It was hard to choose just to choose two favorite works, but lukily I found two to talk about. The first piece I really liked was titled "Hanging Fire/Suspended Arson" by Cornelia Parker. I've seen this piece before at the ICA when I had to go during Pre-Semester, and it's still a breathtaking piece every time I see it. This piece is composed of charcoal pieces individually tied on strings that form a rectangle. The charcoal pieces acually come from a woodshop that burned down under mysterious circumstances. I love this piece how when it's strung up, it resembles crackling fire, and the nails in the wood give it an even eerier quality. Cornelia herself says "If you lie this charcoal on the ground, it starts to look like a morgue, but once you reanimate it, once it's in the air, it becomes reactivated." It's just a stunning piece to look at, and how eerie it appears as it resembles the flames that took it down. It has such a commanding presence, looking as if the piece was compacted for such a long time, and that it just burst, and floats wildely.
The other piece that I found interesting is a claymation from the PIXAR film "Ratatouille". The piece I found interesting was the one of the character Linguini, holding Remy the rat, close to him, protecting him from other humans. If you've already seen this movie, you'd know that Linguini's character is very shy, nervous, and easily intimidated by other people. I love how the pixar people just captured the character's personality in just one sculpture. And I love how the shape of this piece contradicts the mood and form of the first one. The second piece is so shy and scrunched up, whereas the first one is just so free-floating, alive, and free-spirited. I just love how the mood of both pieces just contracdict each other. There were so many pieces I liked, but unfortunately, I didn't have the time, or a camera! I've seen a lot of these works before some of them are new, like the clay figurines.There are just so many talented artists out there that it's just a great thing to see other pieces, to give you great inspiration for your own work.

Space Project

The drawing I did for this week is actually my assignment I had for Drawing 1. We were studying Anatomy and I chose to draw a group of skeletons dancing. My teacher kept emphasizing how my drawing really reflected space and perspective, so I chose to use it for space as well. I used charcoal as my medium, and the actual size is 18 x 24.

Shape Project

Shape Project

I decided to do shapes to create my image. The one thing I really love about this drawing is how the pen-drawn crystals flow around the pecil-drawn hand. I could've used a little more pen and pencil. Next time, I'll have to blend the two mediums together a little better.

Line Project 2

This time, I tried to draw a picture of my own in the style of the artist. I decided to draw a picture of my friend as a princess. She is drawn in the middle of the picture in an elegant pose holding a scepter. I know some of the lines are not as strong as they should be, but in the future, I'll have to make my lines a little bit darker.

Line project

I may have done this wrong, but I did a line version of the picture I researched for my story project. It was a bit difficult at first, but I tried my best to draw with just lines. If I have to do this over, I might try to draw someone as a symbol of royalty.

Finding the Story

The piece I chose to use for this project was entitled "Don Boltazar Carlos with a Dwarf" by Velosquez. This is more like a Renaissance painting. At first, I thought the two characters were both girls, and that the one in front was the king's heir, but they are both boys and the taller blonde child is the heir. I love how the background is displayed almost as a photographer's shoot. I think it's a possibility that the artist is displayed as the dwarf in the painting, because he was a loyal servant to Philip IV and his family.

Guerilla Art

The Piece I did for my first project was a message in the form of several arrows. I thought this would be a good way to spread a positive message on solving a problem. This is a tip for anyone who gets stressed, especially college students!