The drawing below is done in oil pastels. The reference photo was taken in Key West on a family vacation. The roosters walked around there just like pidgeons do in New York. I found it strange yet compelling, and decided that I should draw them over the summer.
The painting below is done in water color and ink. The reference photo was taken at my uncle's lake house on Lake Gaston, Virginia.
At first, when I was brainstorming for a concentration idea, I was thinking of doing butterflies. Hence the many pictures of butterflies in this collage. Now, I'm not so sure I want to concentrate on butterflies, so I decided to take the pictures I had and collage them into this piece.
The collage below started out just as a collage of clothes. Then, I decided to make it about how beauty is the "art of disguise" and I added eyes, noses, and mouths. After that, I did some figure drawing on top one day in class because I felt it needed more. I still think this is an unfinished piece, but for now I'm not sure where I'm going to go with it.
I keep looking at this one and I would love to see you go back into it. I could see it split into a diptych or just painted back into really blocking out some of the silhouettes in the drawn forms. There is something really exciting about the way you layer materials. Great job keep going!
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ReplyDeleteA silhouette is basically the edge of a figure (like an I-pod commercial or shadow of any form).
ReplyDeleteIn regards to blocking out the silhouettes I am talking about changing the value within or outside of the silhouettes slightly to create a greater emphasis either inside or outside the figures.
A Diptych is when two pieces are created that are meant to go together, or in this case you could split this one image into 2 that are still displayed together but are cropped and resolved separately.
Does that make more sense?
Yes it does, thank you. I'll think about it and maybe work on it more soon.
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