1.) Include a minimum of 2 pictures for each piece (clearly taken and cropped) (10 Marks)
2.) Answer the following writing prompts thoughtfully (30 Marks)
1.) Subject: what is/are your piece(s) of/about? Are you drawing from life or images
I have two in-progress pieces I will be reflecting on today. The first is of outer space. It is being painted from my imagination and inspiration for the colours of the backdrop are taken from a abstract space painting I found online. While scientifically inaccurate, my solar system will comprise of approx. five planets. I will soon add more detail to the other undeveloped canvases as well. The piece its self is an homage to the miracle of human life. Amongst so many lifeless planets is a dark universe we have been lucky to be placed at the perfect distance from the sun, and live in a world with the right chemical composition to create life. I attempted to allude to this fact with my colour choice.
My second piece is also drawn from my imagination with inspiration for the city scape taken from an online photo I found of New York's silhouette. While originally created to convey the beauty of cities at sunset, it has taken a new form. Entitled "Capitalism falling", the painting represents the greed and features a cities slowly moving towards a Hell like red colour. Moving forward, I plan on altering the size of the buildings to extend further down the canvas and adding more detail to the top portion of the painting.
2.) Inspiration: Have you come across any new inspiration since your first concentration piece? Did your first piece inspire you to take a new direction or improve/clarify on your overall concept?
Since my first concentration piece, I have not come across any new inspiration. All that has changed is the size of canvas I am currently using. For 1# and 2# I used a smaller canvas but now for #3 I am using a series of four larger canvases. I feel this will allow me to be more expressive, and present more subject matter. In a smaller canvas my work often feels to small and enclosed, now I am also able to developed my ideas further. Working on a bigger canvas has been incredibly enjoyable and I think the rest of my concentration will be done on a larger scale as well. I have also realized I do not like painting buildings and I have started to paint natural subjects.
3.) Medium/Materials: What mediums/materials didi you use (paper, acrylic paint, graphite etc,)? What were you successful with and what did you struggle with in using these materials?
So far I have just used acyclic paint and a pallet knife. I don't even use a paint pallet because I just squirt the paint straight onto my canvas. However, for my concentration #3 of planets, I used inks. I felt with just acrylic paint I wasn't able to achieve the "milky" feeling of space, so I turned to a more liquid medium. I applied this ink in four ways.
1. Dripping from the top of the page down
2. Dripping liquid on the middle of the page and spreading with a pallet knife
2. Dripping liquid on the middle of the page and spreading with blow drier
3. Flinging with a paint brush (I used this to create small white dots that create the illusion of stars)
Combing the inks with the acrylic paint base, I was able to achieve that mysterious but magical feeling I wanted my background to have. I am very happy with the end result, and mixing more mediums, wether that be magazine clippings or charcoal, will defiantly be in my radar for future concentration paintings.
4.) Concept: How does each piece fit into the overall concept of your concentration? Has creating these images made your idea more clear or forced you to move in a new direction?
My original concentration idea was exploring the relation ship between buildings and time. While painting #2 does have buildings, it purpose has slightly deviated. It was painted with the purpose of showing how cities change in a short period of time, from night to day, but it now represents the dark side of capitalism. Painting #3 is just "out of the world" in its correlation to the theme. Originally I was going to put buildings on the planets (see attached photo), however I prefer just solid spheres.
More so, I feel I have enjoyed painting space more then buildings and I feel I will be moving in a new direction, both in subject matter and size of canvas. Worst comes to worst #1 and #2 will become breathe pieces.
Moving forward I will just continue painting and trust that the dots will connect.
2.) Answer the following writing prompts thoughtfully (30 Marks)
1.) Subject: what is/are your piece(s) of/about? Are you drawing from life or images
I have two in-progress pieces I will be reflecting on today. The first is of outer space. It is being painted from my imagination and inspiration for the colours of the backdrop are taken from a abstract space painting I found online. While scientifically inaccurate, my solar system will comprise of approx. five planets. I will soon add more detail to the other undeveloped canvases as well. The piece its self is an homage to the miracle of human life. Amongst so many lifeless planets is a dark universe we have been lucky to be placed at the perfect distance from the sun, and live in a world with the right chemical composition to create life. I attempted to allude to this fact with my colour choice.
My second piece is also drawn from my imagination with inspiration for the city scape taken from an online photo I found of New York's silhouette. While originally created to convey the beauty of cities at sunset, it has taken a new form. Entitled "Capitalism falling", the painting represents the greed and features a cities slowly moving towards a Hell like red colour. Moving forward, I plan on altering the size of the buildings to extend further down the canvas and adding more detail to the top portion of the painting.
2.) Inspiration: Have you come across any new inspiration since your first concentration piece? Did your first piece inspire you to take a new direction or improve/clarify on your overall concept?
Since my first concentration piece, I have not come across any new inspiration. All that has changed is the size of canvas I am currently using. For 1# and 2# I used a smaller canvas but now for #3 I am using a series of four larger canvases. I feel this will allow me to be more expressive, and present more subject matter. In a smaller canvas my work often feels to small and enclosed, now I am also able to developed my ideas further. Working on a bigger canvas has been incredibly enjoyable and I think the rest of my concentration will be done on a larger scale as well. I have also realized I do not like painting buildings and I have started to paint natural subjects.
3.) Medium/Materials: What mediums/materials didi you use (paper, acrylic paint, graphite etc,)? What were you successful with and what did you struggle with in using these materials?
So far I have just used acyclic paint and a pallet knife. I don't even use a paint pallet because I just squirt the paint straight onto my canvas. However, for my concentration #3 of planets, I used inks. I felt with just acrylic paint I wasn't able to achieve the "milky" feeling of space, so I turned to a more liquid medium. I applied this ink in four ways.
1. Dripping from the top of the page down
2. Dripping liquid on the middle of the page and spreading with a pallet knife
2. Dripping liquid on the middle of the page and spreading with blow drier
3. Flinging with a paint brush (I used this to create small white dots that create the illusion of stars)
Combing the inks with the acrylic paint base, I was able to achieve that mysterious but magical feeling I wanted my background to have. I am very happy with the end result, and mixing more mediums, wether that be magazine clippings or charcoal, will defiantly be in my radar for future concentration paintings.
4.) Concept: How does each piece fit into the overall concept of your concentration? Has creating these images made your idea more clear or forced you to move in a new direction?
My original concentration idea was exploring the relation ship between buildings and time. While painting #2 does have buildings, it purpose has slightly deviated. It was painted with the purpose of showing how cities change in a short period of time, from night to day, but it now represents the dark side of capitalism. Painting #3 is just "out of the world" in its correlation to the theme. Originally I was going to put buildings on the planets (see attached photo), however I prefer just solid spheres.
More so, I feel I have enjoyed painting space more then buildings and I feel I will be moving in a new direction, both in subject matter and size of canvas. Worst comes to worst #1 and #2 will become breathe pieces.
Moving forward I will just continue painting and trust that the dots will connect.