Drawing/ painting 2. These turned out well, but I left out the writing on the bird one. We had to practice replicating images from woodblocks to get used to the style for the final project which was a woodblock picture that incorporated something modern. I don't know where my final went, but it was a Mt. Fuji landscape with cranes and fog- I painted in a train for the modern part.
Drawing/ painting 3 final project. Stencil, spay paint, acrylic paint. It started so well with the stencils, then I got to the right side and it just turned into blah. Thank you David, Darin, Juvi, Kelani, and Collin for letting me stencil you.
Yes, it is a lemur. Drawing/ painting 3 cubism project. I think I was a little too constructive with all the shapes, but I really like how it came out. It took a lot of time to shade each individual part. The background is somewhat down scaled compared to the lemur- I think I would do more shading if I could redo it.
Directive studies project. Stencil, spray paint, acrylic paint and ink. I had fun with this project. I liked making the face and using a straw to blow paint across the canvas although it was quite tiring. I originally planned to paint hands on the instrument, but ran out of time and opted to leave them out.
Expressionism project for drawing/ painting 3. I kept bouncing from one idea to another for this. I think I spent more time on the smoky swirly things in the background than anything and could have done better with the anatomy of the girl. The body looks a bit weird.
Drawing/ painting 1 sketch book project. I still didn't understand that there were different types of pencils at that time and ended up doing the whole thing with an HB pencil. I think this is good for one of my first sketchbooks, but if you've seen the actual bag I used for the subject matter, then you'd notice a glaring mistake- the bag is black. I don't know how I drew it as an entirely different shade, but it worked somehow.
Directive studies project- acrylic paint, color pencil, ink, and water color. This project was such a disaster. It started out pretty well and I had a few ideas that I knew I wanted to incorporate like the gold fish plant and music box, but the execution got sloppy. I think there's just a few too many random things on it. Stop looking at it.
This was done a few years ago, I think for drawing/painting 1 or 2. It's an ink painting of speed skater Krysia (original photo taken by Ted Szukalski). I was so thrilled at how well it turned out especially after running into a few problems while working on it. For instance, while I was painting in the faint shadow on the ice, I accidentally dropped a dark splotch of ink. I tried water it out which kinda helped, but it was still too dark. I then resorted to white ink to cover it up, but the white ink was whiter than the paper, so I painted in all the ice with white ink.
Directive studies project. Acrylic painting on paper board thing. I wanted to do something different so I tried to use a softer palette of pastel colors this time. The tree is a bit squished up at the top, but I think it alright overall. I can't remember why I even chose to do this- maybe just to experiment.
