Inspiring Artist

On portfolio day, Trevor from MICA suggested that I look at art by Mark Tansey. This artist uses monocromatic colors and bases some of his paintings on historical events. I like the sense of light he has in his paintings and the single color tone. But something that is unique is the way he creates these peices. "He continuously photocopies stretched, rotated, and cropped images, resulting in a collage that ultimately serves as a preliminary study for a painting. Rendered in a single hue, his paintings have a precise photographic quality that is reminiscent of scientific illustration, achieved by applying gesso then washing, brushing and scraping paint into it. " (Gagosian Gallery) Collaging or re-arranging images is sort of similar to what I do, or did, esspecially last year before painting. I like the personlality and irony in peices like these...

Concentration # 3

This peice I tried to focus more on the movement of the ground and the color choice, becuase that's what the college representatives told me to do on portfolio day... so I did, or tried at least

For this one I wanted to make a series of the beach at the same time but segmet it to show the progression of the clouds. This one took the longest only becaue it's water color and it is small.