4 New Artists/Week 5 Progress

Peter Terrin

This is an artist who creates an image through various specs, dots, rough strokes. His work always has bold colors that create life and immediately captures your attention.

Dan Panosian

Dan Panosian is another illustrator whose work can be found in famous comics like Marvel. His work is gritty and very rough. His outlines are accentuated by bold marker strokes. Also sometimes he will take away color in certain parts of his work to create a Sin City sort of atmosphere.

Erik Jones

His work is a mixture of line work and realism. The mixture creates a refreshing look at a mix of old styles and the new styles of abstraction. Sometimes Jones has the lines or blocky pieces of his work go through the realistic part making them look very involved with each other. His illustrations are just as interesting as his other works as well.

Yis Goodwin

Saved the best for last in my opinion. This artists work is comprised of images that are somewhat surreal and have a trippy look to it with whimsical distortions of the subject. If you evaluate most of his art, the subject is usually opened up with (instead of regular insides) they have random things coming out of their bodies...very creative!

Progress:

So far for my progress nothing too much different from the last time we were evaluated. Just more strips to choose from. I created one comic strip where he dreams about how he his powers were created by his selfish father. Also I have come up with new concepts for cover art and I am working on a name for this character. I have debated using a childhood name I created when writing a story, this name was "Nebix" but it seems to corny and I would prefer to use a name other than mine to push my creativity. I have photos coming up soon....

Progress Week 5

I have made significant progress on Val. I hope to have her done soon so that I may finish Sarah.

I have also completed work on my third lithography. The edition was printed today.

I began work on the next image.  I am still in the process of determining how to create surreal and humorous narrative images. This next image of my twin sister is especially difficult. I cannot imagine her image without me in it somehow. So, I have drawn my hands reflected in a mirror. The reflection of my left hand will become my sister's hand. The mirror will depict my sister's structured and isolated world.  The space outside of the mirror--my world--will be open and free of any structure at all. 

INSPIRING ARTISTS:

Andrea Bowers is a feminist artist who specializes in drawing. The following are two examples of the type of work she creates. She is very direct in her work but presents her images in a unique fashion. In particular, her colored pencil drawings depicting small women at the bottom of a bare page within a frame. The subject is made to seem insignificant, yet at the same time the focus is solely on her making her very important.

Andrea Bowers, Feminist Health Collective, 2011. Graphite on paper. 30 inches x 22 1/4 inches.

Andrea Bowers, Mother and Daughter (May Day March 2011), 2011. Colored pencil on paper. 30 inches x 22 1/4 inches.

Frida Kahlo

I was not particularly thrilled by the female impressionist painters I researched.  When I think of historical female painters I admire, I tend to stop at Frida Kahlo. I love the personal content of her work and the symbolism. 

Artemisia Gentileschi

 I just discovered this artist so I am in the process of learning more about her. She was an Italian Baroque Artist who was inspired by Michelangelo and employed his painting technique of chiaroscuro. She achieved entry into the painting world--unheard of by women during the 1600s. Despite her talent, she was largely forgotten after her death.  

I enjoy the drama and the grandeur of her women.  Gentileschi - The Image of The Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art. I am interested in this idea of "the female hero" and how it relates to my painting series. 

This week Progress

Progress
This week I really had to think deeply about what I'm doing.  I know what I want, but how to execute it is the question.  I looked to the brothers grim fairy tales for guidance and inspiration.  I have decided to do a spin off of their tales and come up with my own unique twist.  On top of alternating my project I have continued working on my props.  I was able to hand paint the shell bra and received nearly all of my pieces for the first three sets.  I have been sketching a few of my sets out on paper in hopes of pulling it together.

Artist of inspiration
Thomas Kinkade he has inspired me to want to create saturated bright colors.  His paintings are beautiful and bring so much joy to others.

weekly report

I am currently working on my tree project. I've cut my tree stump and have started putting my tree project together to figure out measurements. I have also been brainstorming assemblage artists so that has been inspiring me to start working on another project, since my clay still hasn't come in at Jerry's. Apparently my clay might not even come in at all from what the woman over the phone had told me.

Marina Abramovic
I love how powerful her work is, something as simple as having people come to sit in front of her for a staring contest.

Leo Sewell
He has a great collection of assemblage art, he mostly makes animals out of junk. He had been making art out of junk for 50 years now.

Fifth week

I seem to be moving along when it comes to my series of work. I have finished up my first project for the show which was the clock and gears print. I have also came up with another concept which can be successfully produced, which brings my work up to three projects for right now. For one of my other drawings I have been working with my camera(s) to work on side views of my face in order to make an illustration that deals with Phrenology. Phrenology is the study of the human skull in pseudoscience terms that studies the person's interests and emotions and how it allows for the brain to function. It was mostly popular in the 19th century. Since it looks like I have human anatomy on the mind, my third project will be in a form of a drawing which consist of a human heart but with a twist, on having an array of different colors. It seems random but I recently saw an article that explained on how scientists studied the body heat of humans when it comes to emotions and I felt this can help with part of my work. But instead of being in a body form, it'll be in the human heart. This project I'm laying out deals with my relationships and I'm using the emotion body heat concept to illustrate it more. Here's a link if anybody's interested:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/mapping-how-emotions-manifest-in-the-body/282713/

An artist I have always been a fan of is a cartoonist named Aaron Mcgruder. Mcgruder is known for making the popular and controversial comic strip and television show called 'The Boondocks' which utilizes anime style drawing while dealing with issues in not just the African American community but in the entire nation.

Week 5

Chris Marker

Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée, A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soleil and AK, an essay film on the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Many of his subjects were social commentaries reflecting on historical context. Mostly staged, he draws from portrait type painting to create a unique almost unclassifiable work.

Lewis Hine

I've always been drawn to Lewis Hine's work. This early 20th century photographer was very concerned with the social issue of the day including child labor. When he wasn't following the "breaker boys" in the coal mines his other passion was to record history of daring construction workers in New York.

Edward Curtis

I had almost forgotten about this photographer until Gretta and I were talking after class last week. The rich legacy of Edward Curtis is too great to try to sum up in a blog post except to say that his greatest concern was the disappearance of native cultures of North America. Though highly praised for his work, he also received some criticism for his portrayals of the Native American as not being able to adapt to western society which was not entirely true. By reinforcing the native identity as the noble savage and a tragic vanishing race, some believe Curtis detracted attention from the true plight of American natives at the time when he was witnessing their squalid conditions on reservations first-hand and their attempt to find their place in Western culture and adapt to their changing world.

My Progress:

I keep thinking about our last critique and something someone said keeps playing back in my mind. If a person sees my work and immediately dismisses it as 'religious' and moves on, all I have to say then is that's on them. I know we have a hard time breaking from our own prejudices, or a more politically correct term would be 'preferences', there's really nothing I can do about it. It is my work and if they can't respect me as a person long enough to see past the its initial connotation of the work, then there's really nothing I can do about it and apparently I didn't make the work for them. It's something I wanted to express and if they can't identify with it, so be it. That being said, I've been playing with transitions, and color and saturation to try to make it more cohesive and set a rhythm within the work. I think it's coming together nicely.

More progress

I have continued to draw more onto the second canvas and continuing to research artists.

















Art Brut- Kunst Von Innen

Art Brut-

Week 5

Progress

This week I have photographed two more scenes and worked on them in photoshop. I am hoping to start doing test prints soon. I incorporated some of the ideas you all gave me as a class, such as using my wedding dress. I also set up a scene in the kitchen and took advantage of using different lighting. My next scene that I am hoping to photography will be at a restaurant. I am still trying to think of any situations where there are only couples are involved and placing me in the scene by myself.

Lisa Sarfati

Lisa Sarfati is a french photographer. She is known for her photos of young adults in the Untied States. Her subjects usually have a lack of emotion and the photos themselves are very clean and strip down so there is nothing to distract the viewers eye. I feel as if our styles are somewhat similar in the fact that there is a narrative that we have created in these simple scenes. I myself try to make the scene around the subject simple and guide the viewer a certain way. 

     

Brandi Rhodes - Week 5 post

This week was kind of a transitional week for me...upon having my epiphany of a new concept for my body of work for the show, to having a 1-on-1 conversation with Greta establishing such, to rewriting, preparing, and planning a new body of work to remedy my epiphany, to our presentations of artist's talks which led me to my final destination of senior show: commercial design and artistry. I'm more than ecstatic that Greta and the class came to this conclusion and were willing to accept my unconventional views and wishes within the usually conventional environment which is fine arts, that we are in. As much as I have struggled, to say the least, to find myself and the meaning of my existence within this field throughout the course of this semester thus far, so I'm sure you can imagine the extent of my relief when I could define such feelings of "unconceptual art" with the appropriate title that is "commercial art". With that being said, I have not succeeded in putting in my full 6 to 8 hours of work this week. I have however, succeeded in coming up with a few concrete ideas to pursue in order to branch off of my new found purpose. Some of which will hopefully be at a point to present by next class review. On another note, I'm not certain what conclusion Greta and I came to about using lithography toward my 6-8 hour requirement but since we did conclude that I could now use these pieces as part of my senior show, I'm hoping such restrictions have been revoked and with the extensive time I've put in to these pieces, they can, in fact, be used toward my requirements. Without further a due here's what I have accomplished this week...

 

6-9 hours easily, of drawing, shading, etching, and scraping with a variety of grease pencils and an exacto knife.

To begin the natural etching process of the limestone, we then were required to rub a series of different powdered chemicals over the images on our stone with a cheesecloth for a series of minutes depending on your extent of light and dark areas.

Immediately following the powdered chemicals, we added a series of liquid chemicals, spreading them by hand into a thick, pasty layer over the image, removing excess greases and oils from the surface. The reaction between the powdered chemicals and the liquid chemicals naturally begins the etching process on the surface of the stone.

 

 

Once the paste had sat for a few minutes, we removed it completely with a clean cheesecloth. This process will continue to work away at the image on the stone for the duration of the weekend, where it will be ready for proof printing first thing Monday morning! Exciting :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This weeks progress

After meeting with the class on monday and presenting my series to the class I have thought about the suggestions that you all have given me. I have photographed more seens this past weekend. I am continuing to research more ways to set up my photos and looking at other photographers. Also in the next few weeks I am going to start my budget for the cost of printing and framing the work for the show.

Progress

I haven't made any more progress past the discussion of ideas on last Wednesday afternoon (due to my going out of town for research purposes) but I have been able to secure a handful of willing models for my series.  I am still debating on the number of pieces that I'd like to create but I have one in mind that I intend to begin this week just to get the ideas flowing and to have work started.

Forging ahead, I have made strides on my first large scale painting and began additional work on the second. I hope to have both completed by the first painting critique on Sep 29, well all but final glazes. This will allow me about a month for each of the next two paintings. As far as the drawings/lithos are concerned I have made considerable progress on the litho. I should have the drawing completed by tomorrow or Tuesday, ready to etch and proof on wednesday. I have also spent a considerable amount of time researching feminist art so that I may understand exactly what it is I want to say with my art and to help me present a unique view.

Progress

From the last class session to the weekend, I have been having a lot of luck with brainstorming and putting down concepts for my other projects. The clock and gears plate is all carved out and ready to print; so that will mean that my first project will be done! As far as my other projects, I have been researching images of bones for possibly two (or three) ideas which will be drawings. Two of these drawings have already drafted so now I'm thinking of how they should look as far as being in color, black and white, or both.

Progress Update

I considered some of the suggestions from the last critique and I'm working on a remake of the video. It a long way from being done but I think the result will be good. It certainly hits a chord with me and I feel more deeply about this direction than I did before. Not sure how long I want to make this. It's already 3 minutes. I think at some point, even if the material is compelling, people will grow impatient and will want to move on to other things. I guess if I make more than one chapter in the video, people would have something to come back to later if they want.

Progress

This past week I have ordered my items to create my staged narrative scenes.  I have received a few of my props in the mail so far.  This past weekend I searched for one of my scenes and located where I will be doing my mermaid shoot. I did a couple of practice shots and tried on the tail.  With in the next week or two I will be shooting my three staged narratives.  As for the other two to three I will be planing them based on how well the first three turn out.

Progress

This week I was on a mission to find cheap/free copper. I ended up going to Gutterman's where the owner ended up giving me insulated copper for free! This week I spent my time on cutting and unwrapping the copper, along with cleaning all of it. I will soon be able to make decisions on how large I will be able to make the tree!

Progress Update

I have been working a lot on  a group statement that describes us as a unit and how we are part of The Reveal. I am excited to share my ideas and the final product of every one's hard work. I am still going back and forth about my project; sometimes I get new ideas and it prolongs my progress because I don't want to set anything in stone. The next few weeks I will crack down on drawing on all of the canvases and starting the final stages of my project. I am always on Pinterest and discovered more influences (some don't have names).

Yellena James

Progress in Concept and Artists

In working on the last assignment for my Drawing as Illustration class, I was able to do a lot of thinking in reference to what I'd like to display for the Senior Show.  In my last post I briefly considered painting end-of-the-world scenarios but critique of my most recent art piece has got me thinking:  How do I show the "end of the world" without being too literal?

In questioning myself, I decided to do research on possible end of the world scenarios.  Results were mainly based on disease, the influx or decrease of temperature, or zombies.  I wasn't satisfied so I began to think more on the after effects rather than on the how-tos of the apocalypse.

How do we rebuild from apocalyptic events, whether they be caused by man or nature?  This is the thought process that I'm working with now.  Sketches to come later.  I plan to sketch out each image (a task that always takes a while to accomplish) before I begin full-scale works of them.

Charles Vess is a contemporary artist who has often worked with comic book artists.  Many of his images are of fantasy scenes but in relation to my own artwork Vess's illustrations are muted in color.  I tend to work using muted earth tones, as well.

Svetlana Ihsanova is a contemporary fashion artist but the linework of her illustrations reminds me of drawings that I've done in the past and a style that I'd like to revisit for this new series.

Robert Weaver's method of painting with loose brushstrokes is something that has always attracted me.

Progress and Artist

Progress

My progress on my work has been progressive. I have researched several Graphic Artists to come up with my style of work for this piece. I have created the basis of two of my pieces which will go in-between the center piece. The two pieces I have been working on are going to be the story line for the center which will be the "cover page" or "movie poster." I haven't started on the center piece yet but here on my sketches for my two side pieces.

Artist

Jaime Hewlett

Elliot has brought to my attention that I have illustrator qualities that I feel need to be more refined. I have looked up several illustrators and the ones that speak to me more have a traditional quality with radical perspectives including Jaime Hewlett. He has created the animated band The Gorillaz and also worked on a graphic novel called Tank Girl.

Filipe Andrade

Andrade is another graphic novelist with a whimsical style. He has created several pieces for Marvel, and is somewhat like Jaime but his work contains more of an animated vibe giving off a very fast pace look.

Week 3 Progress and Inspiration

This week has been more of getting my ideas written down for what I want to photograph. I have come up with six drifferent seens in my head that I would like to make pictures of. I have been going back and forth on locations that would be best for the photos. I have reshot the rooftop photo but it is not quite there yet. I need to spend a few more hours at the location and keep in mind gestures of the model and I, what type of clothing we are wearing and the over all composition.

   

Nancy Newberry

I am drawn to Newberry's photographs because she does tableaus that are centered around a unique custom virtually unknown outside of her home state of Texas. She also questions the relationship between the past and present. Her style is a mix between tableaus and documentation.

Elena Chernyshova

   

Chernyshova is more of a document photographer but her Days of night/Nights of days really caught my eye. The way she sets up her compositions are simple yet very dramatic. She steps away from her subject of focus and allows the viewer to explore what is going in there surroundings.

Nina Roeder

In Roeder's photos I am more attracted to the story behind her series. She has taking three generations of her family and blend all of their memories together by placing them in the same setting and clothing.