Favorite Art Pieces

With drawing class completed, I now have twenty pieces nearly completed and nineteen of them which I kind of like. Overall I found the course to be very inspirational and educational in the non-traditional sense. Brian Flynn is one of the best art teachers, not because of his ability to teach but rather his ability to challenge students to push their comfort zones and explore new and breaking grounds. Listed below are two of my most challenging but favored pieces from the course.

Mosaic life figure

This piece was designed around having the artist focusing on the process rather than the end result. Not only was this piece time consuming but required lots of concentration and skill in order to get the proportions of the still life correct. It paid to do contour sketches prior to starting the piece.

Dimension: 32in by 41in.
Medium: Acrylic painted paper

Moroccan Midnight

A piece designed around using the perspective points of Giorgio de Chirico's Melancholy and Mystery of a Street. Due to my lack of interest in the original I had a hard time actually starting. Near the deadline I decided just to go with what I found inspiring, Moroccan architecture, specifically the Hassan II Mosque and somehow incorporate Melancholy and Mystery of a Street. The result is below.

Dimension: 32in by 41in
Medium: Watercolor, Acrylic, and conte

Conclusion: Had a rad time painting and playing with all sorts of mediums.

Christmas Ornaments

This week's posting is dedicated to home made ornaments.
Personally, I think they add that homely touch that can truly make your Christmas tree the unique one.
Here are some home made ornaments made by myself and friends over the years.

Angel timbit ornament made from play dough, ribbon and various other things.
The present was made separately before being hot glued to the rest of the ornament.

Hohoho Santa is coming to town.

The original timbit ornament made by a neighbor who gave my family a few,
one Christmas after we talked about how much we liked them.

A nutcracker ornament made out of clothes pins.
The ornament was made by my boyfriend's mother.

Trapped

Following a discussion in drawing class relating to art pieces like Andy Warhol's "Triple Elvis", and the "Mona Lisa," my instructor gave an assignment where students were to use multiple images for a piece. Due to a class critique that occurred on that very same day, I had two things on my mind. V for Vendetta (one classmate quoted that movie),  and the treatment of string in drawing, both which shaped my idea for the assignment.

Sticking with the V for Vendetta theme I immediately began searching for propaganda posters that populated the media during WWI and WWII, especially those involved with Russia. My research brought me to  constructivism, a movement that influenced art in Russia in 1919. Among many of the posters that were influenced by constructivism I stumbled upon the Tatlin's Tower, while reading more on Guy Fawkes and the rhyme that he inspired, "Remember, Remember the fifth of November." Both eventually lead to the development of my assignment below.

Trapped- Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil. My piece was mainly an expression about how I feel with any large body of people who are expected to remain silent in order to protect the well being of the leader.  A bit heavy handed but what can I say, art imitates life in this case. The entire piece was built out of paper, straws, wire, with foam core as the base. The straws were arranged to bare resemblance to the Tatlin's Tower.

The blocks were made from the scans of several Guy Fawkes ink paintings that I did and the rhyme. Upon printing and arranging the faces to create a box, I sewed the eyes, mouth and ears with red or black string.

One ruler to rule them all the queen reigns tight control over the piece.