Big Engine English Rhyme

I am not sure how Felix found it but he watches it almost every time he has my tablet.

Drawing 1

The second in my art class series of posts

This was actually something I did for 2D We took a photograph then cut lines out of coloring books and recreated the photograph. 

This was my final project for class The teacher gave us a set of rules and three instruments to draw from.  The projects from class were very fun! I was having a hard time so I chose to breakdown the elements and morph and use them to create something new. Felix also helped he erased one of my favorite parts and took an 8b and drew a line. Anyways it was a fun playful project.

a closer view 

preliminary sketch for my final project. 

more sketches for final project. One of my friends from class was talking about gas masks  and it inspired me to experiment with them. I also wanted to make something a little creepy looking. 

This was also from 2d. A negative line drawing. 

The egg. It was a fun project. Eggs are a pain to draw. They play tricks on your eyes. 

I think it would be fun for UVU to have an art show of things students have done using UVU  as inspiration. 

I like this project we went to the technology building and drew. Most people chose hallways or looking up. I chose looking down. The floor is very fun and I wanted to show it.  

I feel like at this point in class I was getting better. My shading is not great. I still need to work on it. 

My Weekend

This is the still life that took me to the emergency room. Justin was an awesome husband and got me a nexus 7. Which is the black box on the bottom. The white box is one of my awesome knives, Which Calvin took out of the box and cut himself on. He bled everywhere. The little mega block was on the floor from where the kids were playing. I love the shading on the black box. That is my favorite part.

The next few are all class projects. most of them I did not finish.

Our first day of class. 

This was a fun two days of class. We drew a different persons eye nose & mouth. Eyes are really fun to draw.  This was probably my favorite day.

Probably my favorite class project. It is one I wish I had more time to finish. 

I learned a lot in this class. It is one I would not mind taking again. mostly to practice and get better. 

2D design

This is part one of a two part post. For those that are interested I am going to post some of the art that I have been doing in class and what not. You don't have to read all the captions they are mostly for me so I have a record of what I was thinking:) 

Anyways hope you enjoy it!

Sorry some of them are not great pictures and are totally pointed at the wrong direction. 

Adventure collage So for class one day we took pictures all over campus.  This is my Asymmetrical piece. I was inspired by two things. Our neighbors baby died over the weekend. which was sad and depressing.  I wanted to give it the feeling of the world falling apart. And the Series of Unfortunate events.
Our teacher said it was like the collage just gave up. I liked that. 

Adventure Collage part 2 So this I really like. But the style it totally copied from an artist we looked at in class.  

Bits and pieces
literally bits and pieces I didn't use in my adventure collage.

Cardnal

So we were supposed to used the golden ratio to compose two different works. I just used the squares and rectangles to fracture the colors. I liked the effect.

Vacation with Great Grandma and Aunt Mona

When my great Aunt Mona died I was able to get these super cool vacation books and several  postcards. I used the golden rectangle to organize each piece. In class I could feel the eyes rolling when I put this up. It is totally a scrap book page right!  So I had to defend it. I really like it.

Reaganing

For our final project we had to pick an old master and do something in their style.  Compositionally or  whatever. Warhol is not really a old master, but I got permission. I was trying to give the same idea as what was done with Marilyn Monroe. The idea that she was no longer a person but an object that is manufactured for the masses. I feel like the same thing is happening with Reagan's identity. His image and identity has been romanticized and restructured taking away his humanity. I also liked Warhols use of gold, like the old Christian religious icons. I felt the gold background was appropriate. I really wish I could have done it on a more monumental scale, and actually used silk screen, But I didn't have money to go buy a huge board, silk screen and paint. 

Cubisim

These images all come from National geographic. Those photographers are amazing!! This looks way better bigger. This size makes it a bit busy. And it is a bad picture.
Just imagine the green and reds super vibrant.

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Line drawing adventure!  So we took those same photographs and made line drawings of them. I had a lot of fun with the project. I would have made more if I had more time. This is the best one. I tried things out on 2 and 51. I can not take credit for the look of these ones either. We looked at another artist in class and I took several things that I really liked from what we saw. These ones you also need to open up and see closer to see the lighter colors. 

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Cubist 2

So while making my cubist collage I came upon these images. and I had to put them together.  It really visualises the question "What is the cost of our American lifestyle?"
Also, I don't hate Natile Portman or anything.
I really would like to do a whole series of these. 

Concentric lines.
So I love doing this I did this lots in high school on lots of papers. It is very hypnotic to make and look at.   I would love to do a floor like this. It would be so cool.

Negative Space drawing

I literally dumped out my craft drawer and drew it. It is playful.

The second in the series
This one makes me feel like crying. I love how the colors vibrate and it is hard to focus on one image.  Justin told me about the chocolate industry a while ago. How lots of harvesters use child slave labor to get the chocolate. Heartbreaking.

I am not finished with this one yet, But I like how the coloring flattens out the detailed line drawing.  

100,000 marks

For class we were to make over 100,000 marks on a page.  I had been wanting to do something food related for class, and got the inspiration when Justin was testing the Ph in the fish tank. What I did was make litmus paper and then spray and flung stuff at it. The colors were so brilliant and it was super fun to make!  I wish I had taken batter pictures of them because the colors are all faded, well really they are decomposing. Which I like the idea of as well. 

 That was 2D design. 

Next up drawing1

Tracy Aviary

We took a trip with Justin's sister and her husband to the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake!