In Progress PicturesFinal PieceI'd like to start off by saying I am so incredibly proud of this piece and it is so liberating to make something that gives me the same since of accomplishment as my self portrait. Don't get me wrong, the pieces after the portrait were successful, but nothing special.
For this piece I was given a task to depict a story of a girl who lost her best friend to suicide. The scene of the door is both literal and conceptual. Literally the last confrontation between the girl and her best friend took places on opposite sides of a door. The friend locked herself in the room and would not let anyone in. This upset the girl because her best friend wasn't opening up to her physically or mentally. The next day, the friend was found dead. Any who enough with the dark details. My conceptual approach to this piece is evident in the differing moods on the outside of the door vs. the inside. According to the girl her best friend was well loved and the world viewed her in a positive light. Unfortunately, the way people are perceived on the outside is not also true to whats happening on the inside. To convey this message the scene outside the door changes from bright happy colors and blooming flowers and inside the door there is dark browns and wilting flowers I added the shower curtain and bottles inside the room because her body was found in the bathroom and she had been drinking. Wow this is sad. The process of the piece was wild, I sat down at 10am on Monday and was done by 10pm the same day. I think i consumed 5 cups of coffee and an unhealthy amount of pizza in the process. The day was draining but incredibly self rewarding. On a technical level, the piece is composed of mainly prismacolored pencil with accents of acrylic paint. I love my vibrant colors and my use of complimentary colors that accent each other. The yellow, orange, and pink colors create a pleasing scheme and I believed every color I use I carried out in the piece. Overall I am very pleased with the outcome of this concentration piece.
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In Progress Pics and SketchesFinished PieceFor my concentration I decided to experiment on conceptual art and came up with the theme "The Different Stories of Everyday People". So to do that I asked a billion people to submit a story about a big event in their life with the permission to intertwine their story with my interpretation. My first story was a little more serious than expected but made the piece fun to figure out. The person suffered from anxiety and this particular piece exemplifies their coping mechanisms of a panic attack. They found solitude in a bath and would either eat peanut butter or drink orange juice to calm down. The literal aspects of the piece is the scene of the bathroom and the food. However, my interpretation is in the the texture and the bees. When I think anxiety I think a lot of crazy pointless thoughts that go around in circles. The bees and the brush strokes represent that. I also created an unsettling composition with all the bees heavily weighted in the top left corner to push the feeling of anxiety on the viewer.
Creating this painting was a rollercoaster. I started it right after Thanksgiving break but didn't finish it until January!! I got initially stuck on the floor tiles and the perspective and took entirely too long on them. I also fell in a painting rut over this piece and lost every ounce of motivation to finish so the last half of this piece was nearly impossibly. However, now that I am seeing the finished piece I am extremely proud of myself for sticking it out. I love my color palette and the contrast between the blue and orange. The pinks and yellow also create a nice harmony in the piece. I love the texture I created in the brush work and I think my use of perspective gave my piece a higher level of maturity. I plan to later go back and add more details to the bees and the peanut butter jars, but ultimately I deem this piece successful. In Progress Piece
Final PieceIf you gave a monkey caffeine and then told it to make a piece in a day, this would be the result. I am so disappointed in myself. I created this over thanksgiving break and I had high hopes in the beginning but trying to finish this in lieu of my large southern family was almost impossible, granted that is no excuse. Anywho I am over with the self deprecation and it's time to discuss that technical aspects and overall theme of the piece.
I wanted to convey the message that the industrial world (the monocles) affects the natural world around it. Thinking back it would have made more sense to have inside the monocle black and white and outside the circles in color. That would represent how a lot of natural resources are destroyed in the making a large building. However, For aesthetic reasons I did the opposite. On a technical level I believe I created nice contrasts in the colors, however I hope to go back and push the highlights. I would also like to go back into the piece and sharpen up the circles and bugs, in my mind they look sloppy. I think this piece has a nice textural element as well. While the piece may not be something I'm necessarily proud of, I can learn from it. In the future I will slow down and be patience. When dealing with black and white contrast I will let the black layer dry before I lay down the white and when working on a smaller scale canvas go a little simpler with my design. I hope to revamp this in the future, but for now I must leave it alone. |
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