In order of the pictures shown, these are the media...
1. rice noodles from our Thai dinner 2. lavender in a jar (we grow lavender at the house) 3. feathers (most of them are peacock feathers) 4. a plant from the living room called Creeping Jenny 5. drawing in sand 6. a head massager 7. water on my desk 8. acrylic on canvas 9. my hair 10. wires from around the house
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Week 2: I have started adding highlights and resolving the background. I like how the newton's cradle looks, and I think I nailed the Buddha pretty well, although I may add more detail later. I am goin to start working on the rocks and background more next class. The background to the left of the tall crystal need to come up a bit more, and the crystal should be more integrated with the background.
Pt. 2: The second day of the week, I continued on adding more highlights. I think everything got better except for the newton's cradle because I had to work on the back ground near it and the paint kept getting smudged. I will add in crisper highlights later. I worked mostly on the background today and getting the rocks to feel like they're in the same space as the background. I have learned that using my finger sometimes works best when I'm bending something stubborn. Born in Henrico, Louis Draper was an influential photographer during the civil rights movement. He traveled to New York in 1957 and studied under another experienced photographer. He met many influential people such as Martin Luther King, and Langston Hughes. He formed a group called Kamoinge who were photographers that were capturing the African American culture. His work is particularly interesting because of the way he creates meaning out of his compositions and how he manipulates the photos with only the use of a dark room. My favorite phot of his is the one listed below, of Malcolm X.
The first picture listed here is my preliminary sketch for the painting. I then have a picture of my first layer of raw umber for my darks. For reference, I added a picture of my composition that I am painting from.
Week 1: This week, I drew the outline of the piece, and started the Brunei underpainting. I'm enjoying this so far, and I wanted to make the composition more interesting, so I put some pink cellophane up to reflect some interesting light onto the objects. I really like working with oil paint because it is very smooth and pigmented. I have figured out that the turpentine cuts down on the drying time of the paint as well, but will take off the last coat of paint it you let it. |