This is progress on my home project (first three pictures). The next is the progress (and completion!) of my in class project.
My home project is going ok, but I didn't work on it as much as I wanted to so I could get my in class project done. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to paint the text. My in class project was...disappointing. The process was basically taking a picture of the face, drawing in pencil the general outline, inking it, watercoloring it, cutting it out, and taping up the individual parts of the faces. Cassette tape was then put up around the heads coming from the mouth, fastened with scotch tape. I was really ambitious going into it (12 portraits! amazing final product!) but in the end I feel like it's just underwhelming. I think I'm going to stick to art confined to a piece of paper (like not having sculptural elements to it) from now on; this was not fun. I hung up my piece on the 3rd floor, and I don't think I'll do that again either. The portraits took me a lot longer than I thought; my desire for them to conform to their real life inspiration prolonged the entire process a lot. In the end, I think the whole thing could have been better executed. The whole thing and the final product has a sort of rushed/half-done feel to it, even though it took so long to finish.
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Hi all, long time no see! I got to make real progress on my home project, which has gone better than I had expected.
So I'm working in a medium much larger than I'm used to. And I'm trying to challenge myself by NOT outlining and then watercoloring, which has been my signature move these past couple of months. I'm really excited to see what comes out of this! The first image is a reference photo I used in the very beginning, but you can tell I quickly abandoned that. You can kind of see the remnants of the girl on the left if you look hard enough. Everything else is what I've done so far; the earrings are inspired by earrings I saw on etsy, for those wondering. As for my other project, I think I got it. I REALLY want to pay homage to Baker v. Carr, a case that broke two justices (and broke my heart when I listened to a podcast about it). (The pics look sideways in the thumbnail, but if you enlarge them they *should* be the correct orientation. Not entirely sure, weebly is acting a bit strangely on my end.) Hi all, first post of Art 4! I'm a little behind (as you can see by the date this is being posted), but I thought I'd update y'all on what I've been up to.
This week was really tough. I was scrambling, disorganized, and stressed about a variety of other things, and I was glad I could do art (just for a little bit) to relax. I was still trying to adapt to the new rigor of my schedule, and making a post this week completely slipped my mind. I was able to do a little bit of planning, though: I was able to do some planning on my home project this week, and some brainstorming on my second in-class project. In light of the recent protest for the newest SCOTUS nominee, and calling back to some jargon I witnessed being thrown around during the 2016 election, I knew I wanted to do something personal to me and feminist-y in nature. I was always drawn to slogan "nasty woman", and one of the most memorable internet comments I saw at the end of a HuffPost article was calling Hillary "witchy". It was memorable in how jarring it was to see the word "witchy" thrown around in a non-Halloween context, and it always stuck to me. So I decided my home project would pay homage to this one internet comment from two years ago. As for my second in-class project, I was still a little lost as to what I should do. I wanted to do something political, and I wrote down a couple possibilities (Founding Fathers? Civil Rights leaders? Maybe a tribute to Jimmy Carter?) but quickly threw them out. I decided that I'd maybe do a SCOTUS case. |
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