The one that got away

 

Day One

 Subject- Old

                       Material: Pen, Ink, or Brush

Day Two

Subject: Sleeping

Material: Color Pencils (I have to redo the picture since I used pen)

Day Three

Subject: Toddler

Material: Pencil

 

 

It takes a lot of work to constantly think about what you need to draw, how to draw it and what to draw it with. That is probably why I like (border-line love) this project since everything is already selected for me and I just need to draw it. This relates back to a talk I had with Luke on how painting white circles are strangely soothing. There is no thought process that goes into painting a white circle; the paint is white and the shape is a circle. Fat, small, big, or oval-ish it is all down to the basics of being a circle. This project that Luke had assigned is picking out from a pile one art material and one subject to draw. As you can probably tell from my photos I had the tendency to make my subjects into people since I really need help drawing faces. Even though there are some choices that you can make, having things pick out for you make creating work a lot simpler and less mind (blog)gling. (see what I did there haha) 

 

 

The Fall (Tarsem Singh)

The Fall is a beautiful movie and not only did the locations they filmed at were beautiful but the way that Tarsem Singh had filmed it created lots of different meanings. If this movie was made directed at me the message I got from it was that the story and way you perceive it is within the mind of the beholder. This would apply to my work since the message that I may put into my art may be different than how the audience may view it. What I took away was that sometimes the effort and process adds beauty to the movie. When I found out how Tarsem took 20 years to look for locations it was incredible how many years he had dedicated to this project and it seems to be something that is very close to his heart since not only did he dedicate so many years but the way he created a certain atmosphere while filming. The most amazing thing I found out about in reading up about this movie would be the fact no one knew that Lee Pace could walk except for Tarsem and Lee himself. It was genius that no one in the crew knew because it would have had a different affect on the way people would treat him and how the little girl would have acted, which is also another amazing part finding out how she had improvised most of the scenes and was just herself. After watching this I most definitely  want to go to all of these places (in the blog below you can see where it was filmed) and especially India and I really want to find this movie to watch it again.
http://thefall-locations.blogspot.com/

Core Values

1. Balance
2. Individuality
3. Freedom

Questions 2

) How much time did you spend working?
   I spent most of Stac everyday painting with breaks to let the paint dry but spent five hours at home threading the pieces and thirty minutes gluing it to the box. 

2) How much time did you spend thinking about the work - sort of sitting there and staring at it, or listening to it over and over again, etc.?
   Ten minutes were probably spent during each break just staring at the work since after a while it doesn't begin to look like an eye and everything looked wrong. 

3) How much time did you spend doing other stuff that seems like work to that make you think you're working but you're not?
    Five minutes outside of the Stac Stac room to take a break from painting but ended up talking to Michelle on how to measure with charcoal. 

4) How much time did you spend socializing?
   Five minutes during my break

5) How did you use your community?
    I used my community to get a different view of my painting that I might not have seen. I talked to Caitlin about the colors of my work and we came to the conclusion it was to warm so I tones some areas down with blue and talk to Michelle Li about ideas on how to thread the pieces together. I also asked John his opinion and he stated that the pupil needed to be larger and he was right since it looked disproportional. 

6) Rip apart your awful project and how did such a disaster happen?
   My painting most definitely could have been a lot better if I measured out the proportions better and if the eye brow wasn't to close to the eye and to small. I should have measured out the paper instead of immediately painting to get a better idea of how large I wanted to cut it up since I ended up cutting the pieces to small and decided to thread it instead of overlapping layers. 

7) You've completed a step on your path. What is your next step?
   My next step is to research about how many different colors are in an eye since a brown eye isn't all brown. 

Questions 1

1) You've worked on a group film and on your own. In which situation are you most comfortable - group or solo? Which do you work best in?
    I am most comfortable working solo since I can make my own ideas but I also enjoy working in a group since it can be easier to get things done and it is interesting to get other people's inputs on ideas. 

 2) What did you learn that you expected to learn?
     I learned how to paint an eye but also detail and shadow the eye area with charcoal which made it more interesting to look at. 

3) What did you learn that you didn't expect to learn?  
     What I didn't expect to learn was how fish wire doesn't thread easily through water color paper if you want it to hang straight but threading surprisingly works very well. 

4) What didn't you learn that you expected to learn?
     What I didn't learn was how to make the eye more realistic.

 5) Praise your amazing achievement and explain your brilliant plan for pulling it off.
     I love how my painting turned into something that isn't just a painting but a structure. It is amazing how threading worked so well to keep the square pieces of the picture together and how it became even more interesting when attached to the box. The box give the dark lines in between the each piece since there is space and provides a puzzle feeling from all the individual pieces . It was also a good idea to get rid of some pieces to fit the box since it was not necessary to show more than the eye. 

Final day of Intensive

 Day 2                                                  

 Day 3

 Day 4  

After two days of painting and a day with charcoal and cutting my project, it is finally done. I think my final outcome came out better than I had expected it to come out but I have to admit I was scared to cut my piece and definitely made a mistake by cutting some a different length. Although it could have been executed in a better process I like my final piece. 

     

DAY ONE!! : Intensive week

A problem with my watercolor painting is that when you stare so long at the painting everything begins to looks wrong. Now that I am seeing this as a picture it didn't seem as bad as I thought it looked before. Another problem that I keep running into would be the top lid of the eye and the shadow underneath the eye. Both are very dark in the photo but when I make the color it doesn't seem to be in the within the color theme of the skin tone. Tomorrow I am willing to take the risk to go all out with charcoal and maybe add a bit of blue to the darker shadows.