In Progress PhotosFinal PieceI really dreaded these pieces, I put off finishing it, correcting it, blogging about it. Basically everything I could to avoid acknowledging the existence of these paintings. I believe they looked rushed and sloppy. I did not clearly get my point across and they do not really fit in with my other projects. The story was one of a man who grew up during heavy racial segregation. He had to deny entrance of a young African American boy and his brother into the pool he was working at, only to find the boy would sneak in and drown the following night. I failed to make a conceptual approach to this because there was not much to it besides the overdone topic of racial issues, which is a very important topic, it is just difficult to make non cliche art about it.
I would love to take a different approach to this piece or idea in the future, but right now I am pretty done with it. I do plan on eventually cleaning up the backgrounds and making everything look a little more tidy. I do like how a added cut paper to the piece, I do believe I could have executed it better. Moral of the story, oil paint on a small scale piece sucks.
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In Progress and SketchesFinal PieceBOOBS.
For this concentration piece, I decided to tell the story I was given in a more literal manner. The previous two had a lot of metaphorical components so I wanted to make this one a more "in your face interpretation." Granted, art is interpreted differently by everyone, this one is pretty blatant. I was given the story of an eating disorder so I decided to create a body digression piece. The first figure is full and plump, but then each one after shows a noticeably large amount of weight loss. Unfortunately, in our society skinny is perceived as beauty and to show that, I juxtaposed the colors to the actual subject matter in the later figures. Especially in the last two. A viewer would perceive green, blue, yellow, and pink as positive. However the hint of grey suggests otherwise. Paying close attention to the piece, another play on color I incorporated was the use of pink. In the figures, the large one consists of a mostly pink color scheme, but as they progress I slowly take the color out. This represents the woman's "life" getting taken out of her. On a technical level, I am very proud of this piece. I created a nice color harmony with a mix of warm and cool tones. I also included complementary colors without creating brown. This piece has nice texture in both the bodies and background. I am also pleased with my proportions in this piece, I just began incorporating the human body in my pieces so I think this is a good start. Overall, I really enjoyed the processes of this piece. It took me about 5 days to complete which is SO fast for me! I also didn't deal with any roadblocks while working on it, everything went pretty smoothly. If I could change anything about this piece, it would be to make the bodies a little more centered and possibly make the writing more visible. In all, I am really proud of this piece and deem it successful. |
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