ART Fall '11: Digital Printmaking

Here's the art from my Digital Printmaking class:

We had to use textures to create an image for our first project.  This took me about a month and a half to complete mainly because I had to keep changing things.  It started out as just a skull.  Then it became a skeleton mashed with pieces of muscle.  Then I had to create an entire skeleton and complete the missing pieces that were behind the muscle. THEN we needed a 3rd layer so I created the skin sections.  My teacher just kept changing his mind!

For the muscle, I used an image of our blinds and colored them red.

For the skin, I used an image of cork board.

For the skeleton, I used an image of shredded paper.

Since I didn't build this all at the same time, the proportions are a little weird.  This is compiled of at least 200 layers.  I would warp, change levels, and cut the images of shredded paper to create this.  Same thing for the muscle.

This is the first printed layer - 96" long.

I then printed out 2 more layers of the muscle and then the skin. I cut them out and then glued them on top.  Its hard to see, but I curled up some pieces of the muscle so you could see the cone underneath. This was taken with my phone, I'll get a better picture later.

This was the 2nd project - wallpaper.  I scanned face cards in and cut symbols out and created this design.

This was the final wallpaper.

This was the last project.  We had to create a vector based image that would be lazer cut.  So I created this bird design in Illustrator.

feathersss

I used painted matte board as material.  I glued the blue and orange pieces on top of black matte board then glued the feathers on top of that.

This was the machine. I did take a video, I'll post that later once I figure out how to get it off my phone.

Another view.

ART Fall '11: Intro to Painting

This was my first oil painting class. I've been avoiding this like the plague. Notice we're supposed to take this class our sophomore year and I'm a senior.

Here's the art from my painting class:

Black and White - purse

Still Life - boot, belt, pillowcase

Still life - Dog stuff on a chair and 2 pillow cases

Interior painting - ceiling of our paint studio and I did alter the colors to make it more interesting than just white walls

We had to recreate a Cezanne still life painting and this was my choice. This was after Day 1

After Day 2

After Day 3

Final

This was a painting of our choice.  So I chose a picture of a cove that I took in Gloucester, MA. This was after Day 1

After Day 2

After Day 3

Final. And yes, the water was that blue. I suggest everyone visit Gloucester, MA - its gorgeous!

ART Fall '11: Drawing Approaches

At last the semester has come to an end.  I had 3 art classes: Intro to Painting, Digital Printmaking, and Drawing Approaches.

Here's the art from my Drawing Approaches class:

Blind Contour of my hands.  Basically, I'm drawing my hands without looking at the paper. I hate this technique.

Drew this from a picture I took of a bridge in Wilmington.  I then used a grid technique to copy that picture to this charcoal drawing.

For this one, we had to choose at least 3 different artworks from books and create a new juxtaposition with them.  I used Hopper's "Night Hawks" for landscape, Wyeth's pirates, and an anchient Roman precession relief. I first put them all together digitally.

 Then drew the digital image here. I call it the "Clash of the Timelines." Only thing bad about charcoal is that things smudge a lot.

This was the "whatever you want" project. I hate it when teachers do that. I don't WANT to do anything, I want them to tell me what to do! Its so hard coming up with something.  Anyways, I decided to try watercolors focusing on cloud subjects.

Note: I have never done watercolors before. Its HARD.

This was my favorite. And it only took my 15 minutes to do. The other ones took over an hour. This is one of those things where I don't think I could make again.

This was our Free Association Drawing.  This was 15feet long and 3 feet wide. 15 feet! I thought I would never finish this. My back is still hurting from working on this.

These are other students rolls just so you have an idea of the size.