Over the past week, I have been trying to figure out how to synthesize the four pieces I made into two original pieces that express my ideas behind my head and heart, portraiture and political apathy. For my head piece, I am going to do another portrait in pencil on paper, but hopefully at a larger scale than my past work and with some added content. I am going to do a drawing of my grandmother, who is a really important person in my family and the content can touch on family and aging. I haven't found the reference photo yet, and I am tempted to actually go and photograph her in her house to get a more candid photo.
In regards to my head piece, I think it's challenging to demonstrate political apathy, so instead I'm going to make a piece about the effects of not paying attention to issues and the effect that has on our nation. My pieces from last quarter dealt with climate change and how that effects endangered species and just not wanting to pay attention. To tie these two together i plan to do a collage over an outline of a map of the US, collaging photos of extreme weather events due to climate change in specific regions. To really touch back on the apathy part, I could do research as to where climate change is not believed and alter the saturation of the images or make them black and white.
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Sadly we will not be able to finish the oil painting, which was sort of expected, but overall Ihave really enjoyed the process. I can definitely see myself painting in the future. For this project, we used the indirect method, first painting brunaille, grisaille, and then color glazes. I only got to grisaille, but I definitely understand the method better than before. I decided to paint a clock and a lemon. A little way into it, I regretted choosing the clock due to its reflections, but good to know for next time. The first few classes, we painted the brown underpainting, brunaille, and I liked doing the grisaille and really trying to pinpoint the highlights and shadows. Overall, even in this short time, I have learned a lot about the materials and process of oil painting, and will continue to explore it in the future. The sculpture is finally done! Above is one photo, the other angles are in my gallery. Overall, I am pretty happy with the result. Putting it together was definitely one of the most difficult parts of the process. I definitely don't love working with wire, and attempting to balance all the pieces proved to be challenge. In addition, when the bar was finally together, the man wasn't steady enough to hold it up without bending, Because of this, I attached a leftover half from a previously broken part of one of the human figures. It worked in the way that the structure was stable (enough) and that was good but aesthetically, I do not like the hot glue gun in the middle. Especially considering the rest of it was done so it would be sleek and not have anything like that. Despite this, it actually turned out quite close to what I had imagined in the beginning, and I think it was an amazing process as I learned how to use the laser cutter through trial and error and that will definitely be a tool I use in the future.
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