Year 8 Art 🎨

Term 1

Artist reaserch - Gary Miller

Gary Miller

Gary Miller paints distorted self portraits. The word distorted means to be pulled or twisted out of shape / giving a misleading of false account or impression. The equipment Gary Miller uses for this art work ( the photo on the right side ) were pencil, pen, arcylic, and oil paint on paper mounted on canvas with applique.

My opinion about his artwork:

I think what really stood out were the glittering things on the back his hands and the colors that he choose really give out the similar mood.

Taking photos

Fae against glass

In this photo I have my face pressed against the glass which is a way of making a distorted portrait because our face is being altered by the glass which we can see in the image at the top.

Weird angles

Weird angles is another way of taking a distorted photo. In the picture/example above the bottom half of my body is smaller than the top part of my body. So it makes me look both small and big in the same time.

Hiding face

The image above is me covering/hiding a part of my face which was my mouth and my nose. In my opnion I don't thing this photo is really distorted but it is a nice piture.

Cut out

In the photo you see my eye behind a piece of paper cut out in a heart shape. It's supposed to look like another layer of paper with my face on it is behind and I think it looks exactly like that...

Comparing my photo with my friend's (Ivy)

I'm in the top photo and Ivy is in the bottom box. Ivy also did a picture covering her face so I decided to add her's to compare it to mines. I really like her pose and it's very obvious that she is looking at the camera and in the original photo I can see that her face was taken closer than her body which is really smart because it shows two distorted features. Meanwhile mines was just taken normally without the weird angles so it's not as interesting but in my picture I cover a lot more part of my face (which is a good or bad thing - I don't know) and my photo is taken further away so my face's visibility isn't as good. Ivy's image is really clear meanwhile mines is quite blurry maybe because the person who took my image (Rin) did not tap on the screen so that the camera would focus on me. Another thing is that her background is just white which makes her picture really neat and lean but my image's background is full of paintings and papers, even the lamp!

Distorted portraits (digital)

These two are my distorted photos in black and white. I accidentally made it look funny. I think the second photo is not really recognizable so I'll have to redo that photo. There are lots of tools I used on procreate to sucessfully have these image outcomes. I went to the Adjustments settings in procreate whiched opened up a new menu and then I selected the liquify tool. After I opened the liquify tool my screen looked liked this,

This is what it looked like. To be able to know what it's used for you'd have to play around and test it first. So on the bottom of my screen it says Push, Twirl Right, Twirl Left, Pinch, Expand, Crystals, Edge and Reconstruct, these does exactly what it says in its name. E.g. If you finished testing on what each tools does and you want the drawing/image to be back like how it was from the start you just have to press the reconstruct button and then move your finger around your screen like you're coloring and then it'd turn back to it's original drawing/image.

Distorted portraits (not digitally)

(Collage) distorted portrait

In this photo I had to use the normal image of myself and either fold it or cut it (or any way just make it a distorted portrait). After cutting out a picture of me out in weird shapes and angles with a cutting knife (which was really hard to use) I suck them on so that some parts looked like it was poppping out more (although you can't see because I took this photo from the top). Then I doodled accessories and then I outlined the little drawings so that it was clearly visible, I did that because I wanted the person looking at it to know that that is a seprate drawing that makes my distorted portrait looks a little unreal.

Normal photo (black&white)

I took a normal photo of myself outside the art room behind the white wall but now you can't see the wall and colors anymore because I made my photo black and white by selecting the monotone settings in the 'Photos' app and using the edit tool. After that I copied and pasted myself into proreate and made the background white. I used this photo to make distorted portraits digitally and Mrs Salter printed out about three of the same image so if we made a mistake or we need more than one of something we ould grab another paper of ourselves.

Drawing distorted portraits.

Here is a sped up video of how to do grid drawing :

Tools I used

I used HB pencils which are not a dark or soft shade whih is good because if the pencil lead is too soft we won't able to see the pencil lines but if it's too dark it would be difficult to rub out if we make a mistake.

I used paper clips to keep the big grid and the card paper that I drew on together (so that they don't move). I also used tape to stick the smaller grid onto my iPad so that the grid won't shift around if I accidentally touched my device.

I stuck the small grid on my device's screen and in my iPad I opened a photo of what I'm going to draw (reference photo). I used the picture of me hiding a part of my face behind my hands (The image is at the top of my art website, title: Taking Photos).

The big grid is used for enlarging the image in our device (by drawing). There is a quick video above if you don't know how to use the grid. you should start from the left hand corner if you are right handed and the opposite if you are left handed so you don't smudge your work.

My finished outcome of the work. I think the hands were really fun to draw and the most tricky part would probably be the eyes. I had trouble drawing the eyes and so Khun Mai had to come help me. The part that confused me the most was the ear, it looks like someone cut out the edge of my ear off and now I look like a vampire but it was actually supposed to look like there was hair covering half my ear. Furthermore you might be wondering why the middle part between my hands are just blank. As you can see, in the picture there was just a black gap caused by the shadows of my hands which made made my face not exactly visible, and I wanted to include that.

TERM 2

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