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Alessandra Galvan-Flores - Drawing & Painting II
Alessandra Galvan-Flores - Drawing & Painting II
Stuck
My goal with this art piece is to contribute to and highlight the Mental Health Awareness movement by showing what it means to struggle emotionally. Our world can be full of beauty and wonder, but also with matters that people do not like to speak of. Only recently have we seen a spread of Mental Health Awareness and what that means to each individual. Now is the perfect time for anyone and everyone to open up to help reduce stigma in every way possible. I wanted specifically to focus on what it means to be stuck in a way that everyone can relate to, thus coming up with the name "Stuck".
Allison Kubas- Drawing and Painting I
Brandon Chenowith - Drawing & Painting II
Tori Tessmer- Drawing and Painting I
Emma Williams - Drawing & Painting II
Isabella Chrismar- Drawing and Painting 1
Patrick Brunecz - Drawing & Painting II
Elemental Wolf
Starting this piece I didn't really know what I wanted to create. All I knew was that I wanted to dive into a more fantastical version of a Wold since I had to come up with a colour scheme. My colour scheme of choice was different shades of blue, or monochromatic.
One of the most enjoyable parts of the project was adding the colour and seeing the work come together. I also had great fun with the eyes.
Emma Volle- Drawing and Painting 1
Lilijana Kotar- Drawing and Painting I
Emma Bunjevac- Drawing and Painting 1
Ella Hruschak - Drawing & Painting II
Ambivalence of Beauty
I have been enthralled by the emotional discrepancies of the moment. What started out as a mission, soon fragmented into a manifesto of lust, leaving only a sense of pandemonium and the possibility of a new understanding.
Dehlia Radcliffe - Drawing & Painting II
For my charcoal chiaroscuro project, I chose to draw Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies. The movies take place largely on spaceships and outposts with only emergency lights, so they make for good lighting studies. I used the charcoal to create contrast by layering across the paper and erasing large sections with a brick eraser. I used my fingers to blend the charcoal, went back in with a mechanical pencil eraser for details and hard edges, then repeated the process until most of it was done. The hair texture is done with mechanical pencil as well, moving in the same directions as the highlights in the source pictures rather than trying to over-emphasize shadows against the dark background (a technique that I tried and failed to use earlier in the process). Towards the end, I used a 2.3 mm elastomer eraser to do detailing on the nose and eyes. On the left side of her face, I tried to create the effect of sweat by using the same eraser in small scribbling motions, along with small dots of charcoal instead of large swipes. Overall, the project was a good opportunity to get better acquainted with charcoal and more comfortable with intense highlight and shadow.
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