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Update.
My progress is minor. But it’s progress none the less. I know that “glazing” in white is not a thing and if it is- it’s a challenging thing. So I decided to do a mini experiment first just to test the waters. My pigmentation was too much for the yellow and the white… still a mess! Lol. To be continued.
Progress… I’m skeptical about the petals!
I’m attempting another glaze art piece. But I’m not sure if to do it in oil glaze or an acrylic glaze.
Help! 😭
I need advice. I don’t know why this doesn’t look good to me.
Here’s the reference..
This isn’t really class related but do you guys remember I reposted an artist by the name of Laura Berger? Well, I can’t afford her actually painting but I did just buy one of her limited prints and I am so excited!!! My first art purchase. 🥺🤗
Alice In Wonderland: Through the Plexiglass
And she is complete.
This was a fun and very interesting project. Learning to paint in reverse was much more of a challenge than I thought it would be. I chose Alice because I when thinking of plexiglass, I kept thing about Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and I thought about how I could incorporate her with how we have been using plexiglass during the pandemic. I painted the outside of the keyhole to make it look like the outdoors as if she is locked on the inside of the keyhole to depict the quarantine situation.
I am showing the first image because I caught the reflection of the outdoors and behind the painting is the inside of my house, so it goes with the theme.
The second image just has a white poster board behind it so you can’t really see the transparency or any reflection of light making it appear less glossy.
I like this! Alice looks great. Personally, I think you should have left the keyhole transparent, like how the first image is. The transparency gives the whole Alice vibes more depth. Because the keyhole view changes with its background, like the rabbit hole- an endless abyss of options! But that’s just my opinion. Overall, it looks good!
Plexi Glass Painting
Soooo... remember the first assignment we did, where we had to pick out favorite vocabulary term? Well I chose Alla Prima. Here's why.
I work well under pressure. My brain goes into panic mode and thats when I get some of my best ideas.
I was inspired by my laptop case, and it got me thinking about sea creatures and such.
So I found some images, provided by my good friend, Google, and did sort of a compilation. Ill see an image and start rearranging it in my mind, adding and taking away things until I'm satisfied. Here's the sketch:
The painting process was very trial-and-error. I probably had to wipe off and restart about 3 times before I figured out what worked. I started painting around 9PM and I didn't finish until 1AM. I was very focused and I thoroughly enjoyed the problem-solving I had to do, especially regarding the waves, and making it read well.
I feel as though I identify with the Kraken. This year was so... crazy to say the least but surprisingly enough it has awoken a determination in me to be the best I can be, and to devour anything that's blocking my path!!! Muahahauaaaa
Oh my gosh!! I love this. You’re really good at this painting thing. I love your ability to compile images that just work so well! I’m a bit jealous! Lol. Great job!
WIP of my collage painting
I love this!! I think you nailed the warm and cool colour combination. Kudos!! If this isn’t the final form, I can’t wait to see it completed.
END OF TERM SHOWCASE
For the second half of the semester, we worked on 4 different projects.
Colour Wheel and Albers Colour Mixing. This assignment was fun and a great interlude into the second half of the class. I am still in shock over the Albers exercises. I did the 2 appears as 1 (yellow) and 1 appears as 2 (red) on one canvas. I then did the ugly colour combination. My colour wheel came out great and was a great reminder of colour mixing, in my opinion.
Warm and Cool Colour Painting. This painting was fun but also a little unsettling. My original colour scheme wasn't my favourite. BUT I did realize something just look at the two versions again. The purple Medusa appears farther away than the green Medusa. I don’t think I changed their sizes much but I went from a warmer colour to a cooler colour. I like both version but I think my eyes appreciate the yellow/green Medusa more than the purple Medusa.
Abstract Discordant Painting. This painting didn’t come out how I imaged and that is okay. Discords was easy when it was on a small scale just mixing enough to test the discord quality. Mixing discords on a larger scale is honestly the hardest or one of the harder things we did this semester. Once I got out of my head, this painting was less stressful and I got at least one true discord set of colours.
Reverse Plexi Painting. This is my favourite project from the second half of the class. I honestly finished this painting in less than 24 hours over the course of 3-4 days. That’s kind of how excited I got. But I would stay up back 1am and it kind of messed up my sleep patterns. I would painting in reverse on plexiglass again but I would have to get a better handle on creating thin lines with paint brushes. (Really struggled to get a good picture of this! After multiple attempts, I think these are the best three that shows the painting the best!)
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I love these miniatures! Reminds me of my days in drafting using CAD and doing actually renderings.
All semester, I’ve been using this canvas as my trash can. Little ends of left over paint? Add it to the the canvas. I actually like how it came out. I haven’t added anything since the oil paintings because A lot of the green and all the white is oil. The umber was from the drapery painting. The figure reminds me of the sloth from Ice Age! Ha. Now you can’t unsee it! 😂☺️
Reverse esreveR
I forgot to post the reasoning behind my Plexiglass painting! @annasfall2020painting, thank you for reminding me to post the meaning. Here it is.
THOUGHT PROCESS: There was a few things that I wanted to include. First, I found an image on Google that I genuinely wanted to use and that is the paper bag on the woman’s body. Then I wanted to still try and in corporate some graffiti, hence my words. I chose words that can all be used to describe women and what they represent. Ironically, the green and purple/periwinkle background colors are lighter shades of my ugly combo assignment. I don’t know if I did this subconsciously or if it was a genius mistake.
THE MEANING
No mask, No entry! - Looking at the painting, it can be about our current times since it is one the paper bag head. BUT also, it could mean 2 other things. Earlier in the course, we talked about how media affects us. Nudes are always being leaked. On social media, there is a saying “No face, No case” and in this instance the “No mask, No entry” could signify that. The other possible meaning is about birth control. “No glove, no love” Even though the last two wasn’t my initial thoughts, they work for the current/social events. The birth control/abortion topic is always around. Body image issues for women is also always talked about on social media. And the sign on every building/business establishment “No mask, No entry!”.
Female body - As I mentioned before, body image is a problem in society. from fat shaming to the need to be look a certain way to telling skinny people to eat more. I was trying to get asymmetric boobs. I used different size X’s for the nipples to also show asymmetry. The panty is a dark green but its so opaque that its looks black and I put the emoji as red for the classic “red light, green light” analogy.
Graffiti styled words - I like words/penmanship. Graffiti to me is a sign of rebellion and bending rules. I chose words like “beast”, “love”, “yolo”, et cetera because to be these are words that I can describe myself and other women in my life. I added the word chaos because “not everything that shines is gold”. Just because things looks one way does not mean it is that way. Also, the opposite of chaos is order. Looks like can be very deceiving.
Green/Periwinkle - Ugly is subjective. when I look at the colours in one part is looks good and as my eye travels the colour combo starts to look ugly. I think this was a genius mistake.
Black strips - there’s simplicity in black and white. It looks like jail bars or the old school prison outfits. And I wanted to to insinuate being held back but in reality the strips add a classic edgy vide to my “chaotically” coloured painting.
FINAL THOUGHTS
As much as the green/periwinkle works, that is the one thing that I would change. But it does add the chaotic feel. I made a large mistake. the side of the paper bag wasn’t suppose to look like that. I learned the hard way about having patience with this kind of exercise. I thought the yellow was thick enough so I added brown to make it darker to add to the 3-D look. But the yellow was too thin and the umber filled in the areas that were thinner. In the end, it works.
Well, there is a lot in this painting that is open to interpretation. Professor mentioned in discussion/research post about Hans Arp that because we search for meaning in things that art is viewed as elitist. Honestly speaking, there are times where I would make analogies using starving artists because some (NOT ALL) do give off elitist vibes. BUT I do know that isn’t the case always. And this painting kind of shed light on that view of art. Even though I love this painting, there is so much that I could have done differently. Does this make me elitist for liking the painting despite the room for improvement? Does it make me elitist for not accepting it 100% because there is room for improvement? I might have mentioned before that I am fueled by logic and by having these thoughts I hope that it improves my view on things. Life is about growth and if art improves my life, then why would I continue to view it as elitist.
Reverse esreveR
Final Result.
So guys, I have completed my final painting and I am so excited!! I only have 2 regrets in this painting. One of them worked in my favour. The other isn’t bad just not ideal.
First, the back.. I put it on a white background to take the picture.
I will take better pictures when I post all the final results together. But here is the front. The two beams you see in the reflection of my ceiling. I’m calling this “Imperfect Chaos 2020”.
Discussion Post.
I was swamped with completing the discord painting and getting a jump start on the plexi painting that I didn’t get to do the research I planned to.
But I want to talk more on a struggle I had and the thought process. This plexi glass painting is honestly turning out to be my favorite of the semester. BUT I am struggling because I am doing that perfectionist thing again. My dad stopped giving me advice because he realised I was still going to fuss over the little details.
The irony in this is that painting in reverse seems more forgiving and to some extent this is true. BUT I think it requires more attention to detail than any other painting we did this entire semester. Since your foreground is done first you don’t have much room for improvement or to have a change of heart. That’s very daunting!
Yet, looking at Nutt’s work, the details look perfect. Listening to Nutt’s interview, he seems thorough and concise. So I am wonder if his mannerism allowed him to succeed in painting in reverse on plexi?
Can you imagine if all artist’s mannerism is secretly reflected in their art?? Does that make surrealist artist mad? What about Picasso’s cubism... was he a square? (I was feeling that pun a lot, no regrets!) My favorite paintings this semester is the glazing and this plexi glass. I enjoyed my Medusa collage one also. Those 3 painting required the most time and attention (for me, at least). Does that mean that, like Nutt, I can succeed at the more detailed oriented forms of art? Regardless, my perfectionist side does get annoying but it usually results in pretty amazing things.
If it helps my discussion post seem more researchy, I wanted to research Banksy and Shepard Fairey. I even planned to watch the movie “Exit Through the Gift Shop” (2010). It was directed by Banksy himself. Did he wear a mask the entire time to conceal his identity?!
It has been a great semester! And after all these years of being told to create a Tumblr, who would have thought that the painting class I take my last semester would be the reason I made one.
Plexi painting ideas
Galaxy (feels kind of basic but I think it could look cool)
Something like this (stolen off of pinterest) :
Something like the line/pen portraits I've done in the past:
Mandala/zentangle with some colored background (stolen from pinterest and my inactive Instagram page)
WOW!! All really great ideas. Personally I like the pen portraits!! Love it. I had trouble getting thin painted lines. But Vivian had some really crisp lines. So it’s possible! Looking forward to what you choose and the final result!
I am terrified to paint on it I don't want to mess it up 😭😭
Don’t be!!!! I’m super excited to see this final result. Did you decide on a colour scheme?? Also, did you use a sharpie for your outline?? Your lines look so crisp. You got this!
Discordant Colours.
Final result.
The mixing of colours was a bit tedious. Also, trying to accommodate for acrylic drying a different shade when mixing was harder than the exercise I did. Overall, I love result!!! It reminds me of a deconstructed windmill in a field out Midwest!
