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.

First oil painting :o

Well, for christmas I got a set of oil paints and linseed oil, finally. But on the back it says "Oil soaked rags and other oily waste will ignite sponteously!" which freaked my mom out of course and told me that I can only oil paint outside- this is impossible since it's winter. So I just went for it and painted for about two hours and got this...

Winter Break!

Something significant this winter break could be our three day long christmas. Yeah! everyones' dream. Also significant... AP art. For my concentration I'm just doing storms and excluding the "emotion" part. This break I've worked on one with lightning and one on paper lunch bags. Here is a before picutres for the lightning, though it may not show up well...

AP Poster

One of the sponsors I got was Whipper Snippers (hair cuts for kids, and adults sometimes). The owners live in our neighborhood so here I am with the daughter holding up our pirate poster!

Kinda freaking out

So I'm kinda freaking out about the "Ten, ten times" work of art. 100 is a lot. Not so sure if it was a good idea to sign up for thursday to meet Mrs. McBride with the photos. I was thinking that I could take a ton at Thanksgiving, so I did but my family is not the most photogenic.
so I took a lot when they were they were unaware...

and then I ended up just taking pictures of my hand and the bathroom mirror :)

Acrylic?

Last year I did all my concentration peices in acrylic, but this year I wan't to try to used more of a variety and mixes of media hopefully. I just got oil (a cheap set), and I found some water colors, artsy colored pencils and pen.

I tried using pen and colored pencils and I got...