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Final Project

For my final, I decided to recreate a photo I took of my dog. The first movement I used in this painting was Post-Impressionism. I used thin brush strokes, painting what I could see but not making it perfect. I was playful with my style, using the brush strokes to create depth and shape.

I also used Fauvism in this work. I was inspired by this movement, I really liked the idea of using alternate, bright colors. I chose some warm, brighter colors than he really is. I used the colors to make darker/brighter areas of his coat stand out even more than what it appears in the photo. I used light blue for some of his white hair, it's something that stands out on him because his usual breed is spotty white/brown/black, and he's just straight brown except for a few spots so it stands out to me and I wanted to express that.

The last movement I incorporated into this piece was abstract expressionism. I thought it would be a fun way to completely rework this photo to an art piece. I took some inspiration from Barnett Newman's style of vertical stripes/"zips". I put down some unique brush strokes, dashes, and splatters as well where I felt they would add some feeling and depth for the background.

djo1223

This piece is fantastic! First I love the simple fact that the main center point to this piece is a dog, two your color schemes also work great and still always the dog to remain the center point. You did a great job n using warm, brighter colors as well as using colors that were darker/brighter areas which allowed them to stand out even more than it does in the photo. Great work!

allyhebert

Final:

For my final, I incorporated Earth Art, Pop Art, and Formal Elements. Together I created what is supposed to be a butterfly.

To incorporate Earth Art, I painted my colors with a pine cone which gave an interesting look to each stroke. For the body of the butterfly I used 2 different flowers, cool and warmed toned. I also used long grass blades for the antennae and glued them on.

For my formal elements, I decided to go cool tones on the left and warmer tones on the right. I used the lightest colors I had, blue for cool and yellow for warm, around the edges to make the wing patterns stand out. I also used these colors for the butterfly’s body as I mentioned before.

Lastly, for Pop Art, I looked through magazines to find pictures of eyes that were repeated. On the left side with the cool tones, I used eyes only from dogs. On the right side with warmer tones I found eyes from humans. I decided to put the dog eyes on the cooler, brighter toned side because I feel like dogs are a light in our lives!

djo1223

For your final piece I really loved your selections of art movement. I also really loved your choice of doing a butterfly, and how creative your developed your butterfly. I think the best part about your piece would be the pop art and how you were able to shape out the butterfly with the repeating eye. Good Job!

davidod22

For my final project I chose to use Formal, Abstract, and Surrealism topics we used throughout the semester.

To start I chose formal by using warm(red) and cool(blue) colors with a fade beginning in the red and staying steady thru the blue. I liked the way it brought the attention to my art work below.

Then I used Abstract by including different shapes and used markers to color them in different ways bringing some energy to the project and something different. Which goes along with the story line behind my characters drawn below as they live eventful lives.

Lastly, I chose Surrealism by drawing two characters, Cartman and Kyle, these two are best friends who live in the same town and do tons of things together. They enjoy playing outside at their school playground and video games with their other friends.

Overall, I had an amazing time this semester learning different ways and designs of art, and I had a blast creating this masterpiece.

djo1223

David, this was my last ever assignment of college as well and it was a lot of mixed emotions finishing this up. What I enjoy about your piece is the energy that it brings and how the color scheme allows your characters to stand out.

Final

For my final art piece I used three different movements of art. It consisted of earth movement, pop art, and finally using scraps from previous pieces to create my final project. To gain the earth movement, I wanted to base my art piece around nature, seeing as my main center piece is a tree. I wanted the grass on the bottom to really pop out and make it so that the tree looked like it was in the background.

For the pop art movement, I wanted the word Food to make up what was going to be the majority of the tree. That is why you see the Food go from the bottom to the top of the tree. I also wanted different coloring and sizes of the word food to show a little mismatch but still have a repeating theme to the piece.

Finally, for the leaves, I wanted to use as many scarps of other trees that I have already used to try and make a unique blend to an already unique tree. After seeing your comment about my midterm and the possibility of improving my art work with paint, I decided for the final piece I would stem my piece off with painting the outlining of the tree and using different art styles to fill in the remainder of the tree.

For this weeks post I incorporated some flowers that were growing in my back yard. I wanted them to be the main center piece to this weeks assignment, reason being why they are located in the middle. I also wanted the bigger flower to pop out off the page, reason why I added the light blue sky in the background of it.

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For this weeks post, I did Olay body lotion and wash for my product of choice. This is a perfect product especially coming off of the colder months whether our skin is all dried out, not smoothy, itching/ashy. The reason I made my slogan hot, smoother, visibly, skin is because you simply just feel better in your own skin when it is it nourished and hydrated by these types of products. Finally for this weeks song, I did a song called "This Girl is on Fire" by Alicia Keys.

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From my midterm feed back, painting was something that was mentioned as to adding to my background. From that idea I sparked another by using spray paint and then spreading the wet spray paint to give a splattered background on it. The product that I use for this week’s piece is a tree saddle hunting stand and the word/phrase I used for it was saddle named after the product.