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Syndey Opera House
Syndey Opera House
This is a water color landscape painting of the Sydney Opera House. I used layering of the water color to get darker shades for the shadows. I also used perspective to make the city and the bridge in the background look farther away.
The Kitty
The Kitty
To explain the project, you have to carve patterns into a rubber tablet, roll ink on it, and print it on paper. The purpose of this is to teach you to incorporate texture into your artworks. I showed texture in this piece by incorporating the texture of the fur into the print. I was able to show this texture by carving it into the rubber tablet. I chose this texture because I thought it would be fun to try carving a fur texture.
To do this you have to carve into a rubber block, roll ink on it, and print it on paper. This is a reduction print by using the same block for each color and removing some parts for each print. It’s a relief print because you carve the details out. Registration is the process of using guidelines to help line up the printing process.
Learning how to correctly carve, mix the ink, and print wasn’t hard, but it wasn’t necessarily easy. The most challenging part of it was definitely mixing the right color of ink. It wasn’t hard, it was just difficult. The part I was most successful at was definitely carving the block. I feel I was able to get most of the detail in it.
The Cubist Crow
The Cubist Crow
I learned the art style of Cubism is interesting because of how it defies the rules of the traditional art style. In how some proportions aren’t traditionally correct. I also appreciate how some artists use the style of Cubism. In how a subject of a portrait can be at a side profile, but some parts at a front view. Overall, Cubism is a great style of creating pieces, and I hope more people try and use it.
I used the style of Cubism in my art by abstracting the subject and using gradients in each panel. I also added my own signature “black ink,” that I use in some of my art, in the eye and seams of each panel. In each panel is a different color gradient. Usually in most Cubist artworks there are no clear lines between each panel, but to fit my style, I used outlines in the panels.
The most challenging part of this assignment has to be making a smooth gradient in each panel. Some colors didn’t want to blend into one another, and the transitions of some colors weren't good. On the other hand, I’d say the most successful part of it was capturing the drip of the “black ink” and the overall way the subject has abstracted.
Descriptive Line Drawing
Descriptive Line Drawing
The lines that I used in the first drawing are happy, varying thickness in lines, smooth, and overlapping. The lines curve and there are no jagged lines. The lines that I used in my second drawing are anxious. They are jagged and ruff. Almost like a scribble.
“The lines in my first drawing represent ‘happy’. I wanted the lines to express a happy paint stroke. I thought a calm, happy person might be painting and therefore draw a paint-stroke like lines. The line thickness varies in places. Smooth lines also seem more calm and be more happy than a jagged energetic line. The uneven thickness of those lines represent the strokes of paint. The shape of the line also reminds me of smooth car rides which then makes me think of a newly paved road.
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