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Ask a family member what to paint, high saturation, no particular paint application style – Paint something your grandmother would love/hate, complementary colours, glazing
Model Studies 2
Portal to Narnia: Analogous Harmony, Impasto, A painting of a wall with a photo or painting on it.
Paint something that includes letters, words, numbers or instructions, Neutrals with accents of saturation, wet on wet
Model Studies 3
Paint an ending, All Dark Values (mostly), 2-inch brush – Paint the edge of something, Split Complementary Harmony, Dry Brushing
Screen-Print-Reflectionregistering paperfinished cutting out stencilchecking values of design with greyscale photocutting rubylithemulsionexposingfirst stencilstencil 2finalfinal
I painted rectangles of the possible background colours on paper and then painted little versions of my main objects in the piece. Then I cut them out and tried a variety of combinations. These were the three that I photographed, but I tried a few other variations as well. I wanted to stay within the criteria of the assignment while not compromising value and creating an interesting piece. Since red and blue are “darker” in terms of value, They usually worked best as shadows or base colours. But the yellow background offers a nice contrast, especially right against the blue.
I ended up going with the yellow-background composition, though it was a close call between that and the red background. I didn’t want to accidentally make a McDonald’s promo with the colours though, so the yellow background worked better.
took a surprisingly long time to figure out the composition for this one
I had a bunch of ideas for this assignment, but I knew that I wanted to make something 3D. I’d seen a picture of a geometric sphere mask made out of paper recently, and I thought it might look really cool with my abstracts as the pieces. I still have lots of paper left over, so I’ll probably make another collage sometime soon from the scraps. I never want to throw out art!
This helmet accidentally inspired a character that I named Mina (after a really good book). I made a whole brainstorming page in my sketchbook for them while I was trying to come up with ideas for photographing the helmet in interesting ways. And believe it or not, those scribbles are actually my handwriting. :p It can get pretty illegible if I let it!
I was trying to figure out the “why” of the helmet- why was I making it? Was there a story to tell here? So in trying to justify my work, I came up with a character.
The details were more difficult because although I brainstormed on my computer previously, I still wasn’t 100% convinced that I had the best composition possible. Still, I thought it would be better to just try rather than sit in limbo forever debating with myself. The first one I made was a little more like a collage, but I actually like it better than the second one I made, which follows the criteria better. I like how the geometric lines make the image so minimalist and abstract, but I am also in love with circles, so I do like the composition of the paint on the second piece.
Greyscale Absract Work & Detail
I wanted to explore a few options for detail pieces of my abstract grayscale paintings, but I didn’t want to accidentally cut something out that I wasn’t sure I liked. So instead, I took photos of all my paintings and loaded them into Krita, which is basically a mix of Procreate, Illustrator, and Photoshop, and I edited them there. I tried cutting out different shapes and ended up with a few that I really liked, which I saved and are presented here. 🙂
I really like the way some of the circles turned out, but I actually love the entire composition of some of the more angular ones that aren’t separated into individual details. The triangles were an experiment, and I think I’ll leave them as such. :p
