I was working on a concentration focusing on fashion through different cultures. Recently, however, I decided to change my concentration idea. As much as I love fashion sketching, I didn't want to have my entire art focus on it and instead showcase it throughout my breadth. My new concentration will be focusing on phobias. Each piece will focus on a different phobia and be designed to evoke that phobia in the viewer. I have not yet started it but I have ideas for different phobias. At the moment, I'm working on different breadth pieces. This piece I did to showcase my work with oil paints which I haven't used much before. This is a work in progress in which I'm playing around with mixed-media. I'm transfered fashion photos onto a canvas background and soon will add embroidery.
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I made six stencils to trace for my concentration. This will make all the designs uniform and save time when completing the 24 designs. These are my first 3 out of 24 designs. From left to right they are traditional/ expected clothing from India, China, and Hawaii. For each one I will also draw an everyday outfit to show the difference between expected clothing in certain countries/places and clothing that is actually worn.
My preferred style of art is fashion sketches so that is the style I will be using in my concentration. To incorporate meaning into concentration, I want to add a cultural aspect into my sketches. I plan to use 12 countries in my 12 concentration pieces. Each piece will have the background of a watercolour wash of the shape of the country. On top of the wash will be 2 drawings - one sketch of a woman in traditional clothing from that country and one sketch of a woman in a trendy contemporary outfit. I plan to draw six stencils for body shapes and trace those before layering the clothes on top. In all, I will have 24 fashion sketches and 12 concentration pieces.This is the finished product of my mixed media contour drawing. It has a multicolour splatter paint background with contour butterflies in the foreground. I chose butterflies because you can put a lot of detail into them or just a simple outline but you still know what they are. Some of mine had detail, some didn't and they varied in size. I drew them with charcoal because it's bold and stands out. I chose not to add colour to the butterflies because I felt like the background represented the colour. Butterflies are know for their extraordinary colour and patterns. I wanted to show simple butterflies with a background of exploding colour.Holly Farrell's wine and spirits is a 14 x 36 inch oil and acrylic painting on masonite of jugs and wine bottles. I was drawn to this because I liked the rectangle shape of it instead of a square or portrait. I loved the detail in the basket-like bottle and in the labels. I liked how she made the bottles and labels look worn and old. The shadows are very well placed and so are the highlights. This painting is very common as you can see a shelf of bottles in any home or restaurant yet she captures it beautifully.This is the finished product of my prisma colour contour portrait. It is broken contour. I didn't know what the project was when I drew the nose mouth and eyes and the nose is blind contour. When I found out what the project was, I was worried that my features were too big but I decided to go with it and I'm happy with how it turned out. I used shades of of complimentary colours, green (turquoise) and red (pink) I think they complimented each other well and made it stand out.I really liked using prisma colours because they're easy to blend and they're really bright and pop on the page. I think my hair looks really good and I like the blending at the tips of my hair, I like the different shades of pink and how they mix. I think overall, this project was a success. I think I could improve with value. I wish there was more value in the eye. I found it really hard to shade the face and cheek area. Overall I really enjoyed this project.
Although I have not started yet, I'm going to draw a contour portrait of overlapping butterflies. My background is white paper splatter painted with ink. I taped strips of it before painting so that strips were left white. I was aiming for an abstract and exciting look similar to those of Jackson Pollock who experimented with splatter paint. While his splatter paint was denser than mine, I like the simplicity of it. His work uses more lines and splashes while mien is a series of dots that were splattered onto the paper. For my contour, I want to use a dark charcoal for the butterflies. The black will stand out against the bright background and will make a dramatic effect. While this project started leaning towards paper staining using water, I wanted to go in a different direction and simply use ink without water and go more into painting than staining. |
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