Alphabet soup

Found one more letter that I liked "x"

Too Tired To Get Up

This is one of my favorite charcoal drawings I did in my figure drawing class. There was not enough time in class to finish it, but I think that is what give the drawing some interest. I love the dark background in contrast to the light color of his skin.

Alphabet Soup

"e"

"Q"

"F"

"W"

"M"

"T"

"i"

"V"

Hands...again

So as stated in a previous post...I am fascinated with hands. I found this American artist named Josh Keyes who uses urban and environmental elements in his art. In each of his pieces he is trying convey environmental awareness...

"and the common space we share with different cultures and organisms, is the backbone that supports the different themes and ideas I explore in my work. It is in places in the world where the human touch encroaches on the natural environment are of great interest to me. Areas where rain forests collide with the logging industry or the fracture in our own back yards where a sidewalk or street ends and an ecosystem or biome emerges. Areas where cement meets rugged soil and grass, or a displaced bear roams far from their natural habitat. It is in the ever-growing human fingerprint that calls into question the value and importance or lack thereof that we assign to the natural surroundings."

I believe this one is called Guardian 1

Childhood play

There are many times in my life that I want to go back to my childhood days. Days that were full of imagination and play. My second collage deals with the wonderment of childhood imagination. When I started it, there was a lot of color and I wanted to simplify it to black and white. To me, black and white represent the past and the blast of color in the magnifying glass is me remembering. As a child, I had an amazing imagination and as I grew up I lost some of that wonderment. It helps me to remember that child in me and use it as often as I can.

Hands...

I have a strange fascination with hands. I find that they can be very expressive. I found an image online a year ago and did this drawing with a ballpoint pen. Hands can be aggressive, loving or comforting without any words. I am a fan of this style of drawing (squiggly, I would say). There is a lot of emotion in every stroke which brings up the emotion of the picture as a whole. This is an up close view.

Strength in Image

I am currently writing a short paper on the issue of political artwork. This is a piece that my art history class has been studying by Jacques-Louis David called the Oath of the Horatii. This is considered political in content and style. The man in the middle is the father holding three swords up to his three sons as they take an oath to fight for family honor as well as for their country. This painting I consider to be strong not only in content but of placement of the images on the picture plane. If you notice, three is a reoccurring statement. There are three swords, three brothers, three arches, three distinct triangle and so on. Three is a strong element, for example if you have a bicycle (which is two wheels) it can easily be pushed over, but if you have a tricycle (as you know has three wheels) it cannot be done as easily. The triangle, in it's self, is a strong image because there is a good foundation to it. So in the painting it could be referring to the foundation of their family.
This summer, I saw this piece in Paris at the Louvre and I didn't know what it was about. I am anxious to get back and see it again.

Posters 2

The computer lab was closing down so that last post was a little short. Both of the posters as I stated earlier use vertical elements to keep your eye focused on the center of the poster. The themes of each are just silly. There is no hidden meaning behind them, they are just for fun. I have one more collage to go. It will be up shortly.

Posters

I made two posters and I am still struggling. I was looking at both of my images and I realized that I liked using vertical elements in each piece.

Collage

So this whole digital thing is a lot of fun, but I am struggling with concepts and ideas. I am having a difficult time putting images together from the web. I am used to using images from magazines, but the Internet has endless possibilities. For one of my collage projects I took a theme of lost and lonely children. If children are our future then how can we expect them to be strong and independent if they don't have a good foundation to start on. They need to be showed that they are loved and appreciated. We need to let them know that they have a future.

The letter "o"

Still trying to figure out photoshop. Still need more practice.

Sisters

My sister and I are your typical siblings. Growing up together we fought over stupid things like the remote control and who barrowed whose clothing. Today she is my best friend. She is someone I look up to and care for very much. I love to paint and when I needed a topic for an art show, I knew what it was going to be. Sisters. This is just one of the many watercolor paintings I did of us, but this is my favorite. This was the first time I used a toothbrush in order to create wood grains. My mom loves every piece and owns a majority of this show (of course she probably was the one who took the photographs).

The letter "e"

This is my first attempt at photoshop and I think I could have done better, but there is always next time. This is for my DMF class where we had to take a letter and make a composition out of it. I, of course, used the letter e because I am a little biased to that letter. There will be more to come.

Serenity

I was surfing the Internet today and I came across this image and immediately I wanted to be there. It might have been the serenity of the picture that was enticing, I'm not sure. My initial thought was of adventure. For me, I wanted to be there and get lost in an adventure. Maybe it wasn't the adventure that excited me, but the thought of peace. The sound of nature in my ear and not the loud neighbor next door. A place to just be.

New Sight

Everyday I walk by this window to get to my room. The window is huge and has an amazing view. The only thing is I never look out the window because I am so taken by the sunlight coming in. The last couple of days my classes have been taking about space. Not as in outer space, but as in negative space. These windows create interesting shapes that are known as negative space. I want to stand there and look at all the forms it creates, but I'm sure I would get weird stares by people passing by. So instead I took a picture. When a person starts looking at the world through negative space they can see it in a whole new way.