For the past week and a half, my art class has been working on a project entitled 'Artists Observe'. In this project, we spent about five class periods on a single observation project. I chose to use charcoal again, as it turned out very well when I drew the pear (see a couple entries down). While I was working, I came across a lot of problems. For example, the first problem I came across was that I got fingerprints all over the paper where I had wanted it to be white. I coped with this by giving the artwork a much more free and casual feel, rather than strong contrasts between the white and dark grays as I was originally hoping for.However, I actually like this possibly better than how I had envisioned my first idea. I still think that I probably could have gotten a bit darker in places, especially the pear on the bottom right. Another problem I came across was the shading of the apple. I discovered very quickly that an apple is shaded very differently than a pear, and instead of a linear shading, it was much more random. I ended up fixing so many mistakes on the apple, that it looks more like the side of the apple I wasn't drawing! One of the last problems I ran into was that I had forgotten to leave highlights in the fruits, and pencil erasers did not work on charcoal, and gum erasers barely had any effect. Therefore, instead of lightening the highlights, I darkened the areas around the highlights to give the illusion that it was a light color, rather than it being surrounded by dark areas. Nonetheless, I think the final product turned out really good, and I am proud of what I made.
For a few weeks, on and off, my class was working on a partner project in which we made "interactive" art. This would be something taped to the wall that would not make full sense until someone was in a certain position in front of it. My partner (his blog is www.blake-apex-2018.weebly.com) and I made a joke about how the NSA is always watching you. Included below are the actual work and the project with people in front of it. This project was inspired by a street artist in the Manhattan area, Color Me Katie. She has done similar artworks throughout the city using thought bubbles, shadows, and many other ideas.
We did one, two and three point perspective drawings in class today. One point is used when you just want to show depth when looking almost straight at something. Two point is when you are looking at, say, a street corner and you need two vanishing points. Three-point perspective is used for three vanishing points, for example, looking up at a tall building.
We drew objects in class. These included bottles, kettles, plants and even a plastic pear. We used a variety of mediums, of which were pencil, pen, charcoal and charcoal pencil.
I have no idea why you spent so much time digging down to the bottom of my posts (unless your a stalker) but, as promised by the top of the page, here are some rainbow potatoes.
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January 2015
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