Painting 2: Post 4

When I ran into obstacles on my 3D painting, I decided to step away and create a simple intuitive piece that would allow me to work quickly without worrying too much about concepts or imagery choice. I focused on line, shape, and color choices.

 

This is the start of a 3D canvas that I am going to be painting soon. I am working on ideas for what to put on them. I like the way architectural images look on the 3D surfaces but I also enjoy painting figures on them.



Painting 2: Post 3

After completing assignment number five where we had to modify a classmate's painting, we were set out to explore our own interests and create paintings without assigned criteria. This is both liberating, and a little but daunting due to the required creativity involved. Sometimes it is easier when given a direction to make something worth while. Coming up with a good direction is sometimes the hardest part.

Some of my interests this semester have included geometric shapes, and 3D protruding objects from the painting surface. I have made a few paintings this way for BA and did the building this way when modifying my classmate's work.

I have a start on a painting of this style but am running into some issues with painting style and how to make it all make sense. This is the started painting:

Painting 2: Post 2



Assignment 1

We Were supposed to paint a relationship in which there is a sense of tension. I decided to paint myself and my boss at work. 

 

 Assignment 2

This painting shows the ideal habitat of the tiger on the left and what the future holds on the right due to mankind.

Assignment 3

This painting is intended to have a sense of irony in the placement of advertising and article.

 

Assignment 4

Randomness was my motivation behind this painting.

 

Assignment 5

For this assignment we were to modify a classmate's painting by changing 50% of the original image. Here is a picture of what the original looked like:

 

 I added on these 3d wooden structures to give the painting a new look while staying true to the original idea.

Painting 2: Post 1

The semester is halfway through and it is time to move on to self guided assignments. This is both exciting because we now get creative freedom, and somewhat daunting because we must come up with ideas that will be fresh and innovative. The pressure to stay motivated gets raised even higher.

Recently I have been interested in geometry, the past, and family. I have really enjoyed working with old family photos and creating grids to translate them onto the canvas and not worrying about erasing the grid because it reveals the process of making the painting. I think it becomes more personal that way. I have also been really interested in creating 3D wooden surfaces to paint on. I am currently working on a few of these paintings.

For the self guided portion of Painting II I want to create a series of paintings based from old family photographs that are both meaningful to myself because of the personal connection with the images and people portrayed, and also make them meaningful and relatable to viewers who do not know the situations of figures shown. I want to do this by choosing images of common events that most people will have experienced at some point in life and be able to connect with. I will also try keeping the figures ambiguous enough to where the viewer can project their own relationships into the imagery.