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Final Post of The Semester

“Mend the Bond”

Digital Painting from Procreate

Art Series Title: Blue Period— After Post-Anxiety

Artist Statement:

Shape and color build up an emotional language that can speak about anything in the existence of life as we know it. In this series, “Blue Period—After Post-Anxiety”, I have made oil paintings that are made up of irregular shapes and monochromatic tones of two primary colors blue and yellow. In comparison with Picasso’s Cubist work and his “Blue Period” series, I adapted the influence of his style to create an expressional connection towards my use of color and shape. Blue and yellow, theoretically, have many meanings that mentally define our emotions throughout life; blue means sadness and sorrow while yellow means joy and excitement. But for my series, blue would mean hope while yellow would mean serenity. Irregular shapes, on the other hand, stands as the subject matter that connects with the colors blue and yellow. In addition to the form of organic and irregular shapes, they form womanly figures and pair of eyes as representing the presence of myself within the paintings. A presence where a pair eyes are shown under moments of depression and anxious melt away within the painted figure is what it means to see what post-anxiety looks like.

LAST POST

Experiment Painting #3 (Loose Painting)

In these following round canvases, I somehow managed to try something that actually made me less anxious and less stressed about what had been going on with this week and from the last (trust me, sadness is really a waste of time and so as the distressing moments of whatever little thing that had me overthinking from the past timing). So, with this kind of technique painting I’m sure not new of, I tied myself to try out loose hand painting where I used only black acrylic and either 1 or 2 brushes to start my painting and thus, “Squid Ink” was born! I may THINK OF doing a series of so for next Fall so let’s hope this’ll pass by sooner ;)

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Pharaoh Tutankhamun in oil

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Ayoooo artist reblog cheeeeckkkk

I simply just really like you blending and designed skills for the hieroglyphs you added onto your painting. I look forward to see more on your final. Good luck 🍀

EXPERIMENT PAINTINGS (PART 2)

One Line Drawings (Automatic Drawing)

Simply, a One Line Drawing means an art piece based of a drawing drawn either in pencil or ink with only just one direction of one line. Simple, as it sounded, I thought I would give it a try and make only two drawings that seemed as though in forms of both 19th century with a hint of jazzy feel in a way— one is almost like a self portrait and the other is just a at random but also good for experimentation of one line drawing.

I kinda called it automatism’s1 and 2 but imma just keep it that way for now lol

RESEARCH POST

Post-Impressionism (Abstract wise)— Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter who lived in France as not only a painter but also an art theorist that brought his abstracted thought and theories within his usage of color and art style within the post-impressionistic era. Famous from few of his pieces, Kandinsky believed that geometric forms, lines, and colors express inner life of an artist (along side an influence from music as well). He literally saw colors when he heard music while he painted; having to believe music had artists like Kandinsky during that period explore the sensations through artistic ways and methods not only through color but also through the use of line work and geometric forms of shape.

“Composition VI” - Wassily Kandinsky (1913)

- The meaning behind it, simply, is prominent towards the line work but resembling the neck of a guitar and yet a biblical story of Noah at the same time. This painting also shares emotional, psychological, and spiritual essence of the story along with fear and hope as visual exploration of balance and harmony.

RESEARCH POST

Abstract Expressionism

The love of Abstract Expressionism is everlasting in my opinion. Based of the greatest artists who have directed and introduced the era in post-WWII in American painting, Abstract Expressionism was an aesthetic movement that brought valued personal expression of freedom and action/color field painting as its characteristics. Their influences were aspired by Dada, Cubism, Modernism, and Surrealism.

“Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)” - Jackson Pollock (1950)

An example of abstract expressionism that introduced his updated art style after his regular abstract artwork and produced a poured-painted style that later contributed through his works through 1947-52. His piece is significant through size but assumes it’s scale of an environment as a record of its process of coming-into-being.

(https://www.jackson-pollock.org/autumn-rhythm.jsp)

Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950 by Jackson Pollock

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Medusa 2.0

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Ayoooo Artist Reblog Cheeeeckkkk! ❤️

Seeing progressive artwork like this is such an aesthetic and yet very blue color themed. 👌🌟

FINALS

EXPERIMENT PAINTINGS (PART 1)

Acrylic on 9x12

For the following experiment paintings you are looking at, these two were just samples or yet abstracted works to represent “transitioned thought” while going with the flow of what was on my mind, poetically. I only had to put a piece of poetry onto the piece on the left while I let the other piece on the right stand alone as just a painting of abstract thought process of nature in general.

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I’ve been studying a lot of Romare Bearden’s work lately for another class but also for my own personal pleasure. A few months ago, my great-grandma sent over a bunch of photo albums and amongst them was a picture of my grandma and her brother——they had to have been around the ages four or five.

Then I thought back on old cartoons we used to watch growing up and within the home life of those cartoons, there would be family portraits in the background. Even though those framed figures weren’t painted in much detail, as a viewer you could tell just by the shapes and colors which character it was.

Think I might play around with these concepts for my final works. (pic of my sweet little grandma & uncle below)

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AYO, ARTIST REBLOG CHEEECCCK ❤️🌟

POST #3

Nothing much left to reblog buuuut instead here are two of my last artwork of the series so I will spare time to post my experimental works later on. Thank you! :)

1) “Oh Starlight, Take Me With You” 2) “Untitled”

oil on 9x12 canvas oil on 18x18 primed canvas.

POST #2

RESEARCH PRESENTATION (SUMMARY)

In concluding through my recent research presentation, I have prepared the fulfillment to embrace the subject matter of taking space onto a canvas where shape and color intertwine. (whether through expression or art based material that would form through art terms and use of tools)

POST #1

“Excuse Me, Miss?”

Oil on 12x16 primed canvas

POST #1

“Sisterhood”

Oil on primed 9x12 canvas

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Left Column : Firsts & works I consider to be failures . Or not necessarily my best works .

Right Column : Things I consider my best or shows the most progress w/in my creative journey .

Row 1 - Oil Paintings

Row 2 - Resin Earrings

Row 3 - Oil Pastel

Row 4 & 5 - Digital Work

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POST #3 (PART II)

AYOO! ARTIST REBLOG CHECKKKKK!

I am in love with these! Kinda gave me a jazzy but Jean-Michael Basquiat merged onto Row 4 & 5 (mostly 4). I look forward seeing more of your colorful and anatomical artwork. This is incredible. 👌❤️

POST #2 (PART II)

RESEARCH (2)

Henry Matisse’s “Portrait de Marguerite” (1906-7–oil on 65x54 canvas-Paris, France)

Just like Picasso and Gris, Matisse. Brings an exceptional way in providing clearness or clarity with color and shape together. However, I find Matisse loose with his way of painting portraits similar to this one. I saw few more paintings that Matisse composed as a sign or symbolic way to leave his imprinted mark making of shapely figures works to also a certain way to loosen up a bit with making few landscape paintings that define his nature by shape and color as well as Picasso did with his portraits.

POST #1 (PART II)

“City Girl By The Night”

Oil on double primed on 16x12 inch canvas

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