My 5th concentration piece is another shot of panama doing what he loves most, eating. This is another composition I fell in love with because of how authentic, and organic the lines and shapes were. I'm developing my style for colored pencil more and more as I work with prismas. I'm enjoying them and I've been creating a structure/ pattern for how I layer and use them. I've found the most success with using variations of colors to create depth and to make the viewers eyes travel across the page. I struggled with the hair, and shading the highlights and making the picture look as natural as possible. Looking back I'm happy with the way it turned out, the folds of his skin and hair look good. The only thing I might go in and change is the highlights in the hair and push those values. I easy to see how far I've come when I look at older prisma colored pieces. Right now I'm in a good place and I feel like everything is rolling in the right direction.
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For my 4th concentration piece I went smaller than usual, and was able to recreate the ducks from another piece. In this artwork I took the same ducks I used in ordinary objects to make a concentration piece. While I was creating the piece I began to realize how quickly I can finish pieces if I put my mind to it. I’ve grown as an artist using colored pencils and I’m proud of my growth. I feel as if I can create a quality piece under pressure and under strict time constraints which resembles real life situations. I think the strict deadlines have made me push myself to become more disciplined and structured in how I work. I understand that art can be a fun class but also very challenging. I’m thankful to have a teacher like Mrs. Rossi who is able to push us because she knows how far we can go. Real life includes deadlines and stress but that is part of the process and part of being an artist. It was interesting to me how the more freedom we have, the more responsibility we must take on. We have the freedom to make more mistakes but also more freedom to develop our true style and technique because we’ve been given all the tools we just need to use them. It’s also very interesting what different pieces can teach you. Like this one didn’t teach me anything about technique but it taught me about deadlines and pressure; which is just as important as any other artistic technique. I’m happy with the overall product, it isn’t one of my favorites but it’s very simple but colorful. I need to change my palette after I created several pieces involving lots of browns.
When I took this picture I never thought that I would use it as a piece for art. Looking back on every photo I took from this summer refreshed my mind, and I realized how much I liked the picture I took. I thought it was interesting that each chicken was looking a different way. I’m glad I threw a snapchat filter on the picture as well because it brought out the black of the chicken as dark blues.
it made it easier to venture outside the comfort of creating what exactly on the page. I started with the smaller chickens in the back and once I got to the bigger chicken in the front I was tired of my piece. I’m very happy with the chickens in the back but I feel like the front chicken lacks detail in comparison to the others. I wish I took them to scale and size my piece making sure everything was in its place but I wanted to get started right away and I didn’t take the time to do that. In retrospect it the proportions aren’t completely off but I think taking the time to break my piece into section will improve the quality of my art. Overall I’m happy with the piece and glad I didn’t put in the fencing separation the chickens that was in the original picture. Without the fencing I think the viewer is able to really appreciate and absorb the chicken’s features. I also liked my usage of depth and my ability to use all parts of the page. This piece has depth because there are several chickens on different planes and the background of fencing adds even more to it. This piece might end up being one of my favorites. My second concentration piece is an up close shot of Rocky another horse on the farm I worked on. The original picture I took included the barn and a window that Rocky poked his head out of. I wanted to switch it up and use colored pencils this time around because naturally I got frustrated with using oils. I was very happy with the end result, I've gotten a lot more comfortable with colored pencils and I was able to establish my touch and style using them. I'm glad my art and style have matured over the course of this semester because it makes the creation process a lot easier and less frustrating. As I layered the colored pencil this time around I tried embracing my natural strokes of the pencil to see what texture I could create and I was happy with the result. Instead of coloring in complete circles or just lines I attempted to do a mixture of the both. As I was creating my piece a few things worried me. The first thing that I was concerned about was the color choices I was worried that they were too bold and not authentic enough to represent a horse. As I got down to the last parts of the horse I wasn't worried about my color scheme because some how I made it work. I tried taking Hannah's artistic technique of learning how to branch/ break away from the actual picture to include colors that aren't on the page. The brown in the horse's fur became a lot more vibrant, and this time around I felt as if my problems with creating depth were solved. Even though I've been using colored pencils for a while I always learn something new as I create new works of art. This time around I learned that including what's not in the original picture may create a better end result. instead of browns use deep reds, purples and yellows to bring out the brown. One thing I would like to improve upon in my art is the barn itself within the picture. I wish I was able to capture the rustic texture better. Overall I'm happy with this concentration piece and I'm excited to create more.
Before I chose my concentration I struggled like many in my class. Since I had several pictures from the farm I worked on over the summer I decided to use those to formulate a concentration and I came up with " Farm Life". All my pieces will exhibit Farm Life and the animals that traditionally live on farms. These include horses, goats, ducks and donkeys. I very excited to complete all my concentration pieces and show others what I was surrounded with this past summer. This piece includes two donkey's bubbles and roscoe. They follow each other around the farm all the time, they are best friends. They're super shy at first but as soon as you don't appear to be a threat they open right up. This painting was originally a picture I took and I fell in love with it because they're the sweetest animals and they appear to be very tough posing underneath a keep out sign. The irony of it made me want to capture the moment instantly. So far I', struggling with the trees and the ground, like my landscape. I'm having a hard time creating depth and I think the key is to be patient and allow the oils to dry so I can layer and create depth.
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