"The Lesser Hand" (top), "Releasing" (bottom), acrylics on canvas board.
I posted these two pieces for you, Olivia! My dear friend, Olivia (with such a classy fashion sense and a natural knack for photography), is working on an abstract expressionist piece, so I am posting these two pieces in honor of you! Whether these help with your assignment, or just help you procrastinate...hopefully you find them of some use. {: I created these two pieces a while ago in my free time. These two pieces are evidence that art is my way of expressing emotions, concepts, words, and many more things. I created the bottom one in a fit of anger, and, I can honestly say that I felt relieved after I created it. Sometimes, all you need to do is throw a canvas board on the ground, fling some paint, and scratch the board a little bit, and....voila! Okay, so it's not always that easy, obviously, but I can say that Art is there for you whenever you need it. (By the way, check out Olivia's art blog at http://oliviaephotography.tumblr.com/) #supportyoungartists
"Lost" Partner art; original photographs, digital effects.
I've heard that young artists often spend their early years in art creating self-portraits. I can say that I definitely have done quite a few (as I'm sure you have noticed...:P). I have just generally found that using myself as a subject for my art is convenient, for starters-because you already have consent. But, on a deeper level, self-portraits are so much more than convenient-they are a way of figuring out who I am and expressively documenting who I am at that moment in time...which seems is always changing...
"Movement", spray-paint, charcoal, paper.
This is an art piece I did for the Value Unit. This piece isn't extremely conceptual, and the beauty of its minimalism and abstractness is that you can grasp whatever meaning what you want from it. {: I wanted to achieve a clean-cut, but intriguing design with this piece. As time goes on, I continue to admire simple, clean-cut, but riveting designs. This was one of my first pieces that I intentionally explored a more clean approach to my art work. You must know,Photo credit goes to Professor Pumphrey, my design teacher. Comments? Don't be shy!
"Batman Graffiti", computer image with digital effects.
This is a picture that my boyfriend found off the internet (Where? I am not sure, but I give full credit to the original creator!). He is excited for the new Batman movie to come out, and wanted to isolate the batman symbol, so I did that for him. Just for you, RJ...:)
"Vibrant Rose", original photograph, digital effects.
This photograph was inspired by a rose that was given to me a while ago. I took many photographs of it, and decided that I would hang it to dry. I took photographs of it as it aged. I decided to go back to one of the first photographs I took of it, and use it to reflect how this rose made me feel when it was first given to me.
"A Piece of Soul Escaped with studies of Martha Alf", original photography, digital effects, original drawings.
This piece was inspired by the song, "Sleeping with Giants" by the Academy Is...There is a line, in specific, that states, "A piece of my soul escaped", and I what it would look like if a piece of my soul did escape-and this is the product! And thank you to South Park, for making this art piece strictly ironic (for those of you who do not know, South Park made an episode on Gingers, and said they do not have souls, so many people would jokingly argue that I have no soul for it to actually escape...). I love working in layers, and I decided to include a series of thumbnails that I drew in a Martha Alf study I did for drawing class. I included them because I have always loved to draw, and wanted to show that I am currently studying how to better my techniques and my dedication to art. If you look closely, you can see parts of still lives that I replicated from her drawings...more power to Martha Alf for making fruit and everyday objects interesting (because I certainly have almost no desire for capturing the essence of a tomato...:P). As for the rest of the elements in the piece...I'll leave it up to your imagination. ;)
"Simplification of Dalí's The Christ of St.John of the Cross",
canvas,spray paint, samples.
I recently created this art piece for my Design Fundamentals 2 class. The assignment was to create a replication of a "master" work, but to turn it into a value study. I used paint samples because I did this piece not long after I finished the auction item (so my hands were in the pre-carpel tunnel state...le sigh). My art teacher had mentioned doing a value study with paint samples, and I like the idea a lot (and so did my sore hands), so I went to Wal Mart and grabbed all the paint samples that consisted of values only. I honestly wished I would have spent more than one day on this project because it turned out to be more of an abstraction of the original than a replication...so it didn't meet the objectives as much as I would've like for it to. A huge positive about this piece is that this is the first canvas that I successfully spray-painted evenly (one step close to a master graffiti artist :P)I am going to do another piece soon with more paint samples...so stay tuned...and hopefully I won't get busted for taking too many free paint samples...
