doors concentration

for this concentration I will be trying to incorporate doors into all of the pieces. I wanted to do doors because I felt it allowed for the most freedom in a concentration. I didn't want to be locked into doing just drawings of a single type of physical object. Doors could be physical doors or it could delve into less physical things that doors also could represent. I think I will stay more in the physical realm and do pictures of different types of doors in different settings. Doors could also lead to the use of many interesting materials. I plan on trying charcoal and I may even try to use ink for the first time in my artistic career.

concentration #1:

For my first concentration piece I tried to incorporate some circus inspiration into a piece that could also be doors. I chose to do circus curtains. To reinforce the circus theme I added a jaguar print in the foreground. I chose to do the arch shape because a rectangular print would have wasted a lot of linoleum and it would have led to a lot of dead space.

concentration #2:

My second concentration piece was a cabinet door in the art room. I chose to just do the doors part of the first concentration piece. In future concentration pieces I will only be doing doors. I created the cabinet door using chalk pastels and fine point pen. The yellow was a paint splatter on the cabinet that I exaggerated to make the piece more interesting and less monotone.

concentration #3:

My third concentration was a porch that I made up. It had influences from different buildings I have seen. Just like my second concentration I used chalk pastels. I tried to use nontraditional colors and shade the porch relatively realistically. I was trying to make this porch seem semi realistic just with non-realistic colors. It didn't end up as a realistic as I was planning because my perspective was a little off.

concentration #4:

My fourth concentration was of a latch on a door. The latch is just a big hook that connects to the frame of the door. I also used chalk pastels for this concentration. I tried to shade this piece more realistically than my previous concentration and used colors that matched the actual colors of the door.

concentration #5:

My fifth concentration was a wall of overlapping doors. This was by far my most abstract concentration piece so far. I colored the doors on the wall with primary colors and left the door frames white. The door in the center I left white and added a little red person walking through it. I left the door white because I wanted it to stand out as the only door that was functional and being used. I chose red for the person because it was in between the blue and the yellow for looking dark so it wouldn't over power the black outline but it also would remain visible.

concentration #6:

My sixth concentration was of doors between trees. It was done in charcoal. The doors continue backwards through the picture as the forest gets darker. I began to darken the background of the image so the first trees and door would stand out more. The doors continue to get smaller the farther into the background to add depth but the perspective is a little off so it feels like the second door is right behind the first while the third is way into the background.