Junior Year Choice Piece -
"Untitled"
30.48 cm by 30.48 cm
Acrylic and oil paint on canvas
For my junior choice piece, I wanted to sum my year up. My inspiration was the surrealism movement for this work, and also I used culture to back up work I wanted to convey in this piece. The culture is high school and how we are meant to find ourselves, and I used the brain as a symbol for myself because I that is what I focused on toward the end of the year. A struggle I had with this was coming up with an idea to create, but a success I had was the application of the oil paint.
As stated on my eye sketch page, I wanted to use brains again. I wanted to sketch a free hand blob and add my own organic lines in order to make it look brain-like. I drew an eye once more just to get myself ready to sketch onto my canvas when the painting comes around. On the lower right hand corner, I was reflecting on freshman year art and remembered a technique called hard vs. soft. I tried this again by using harsh lines against softer lines. It was suppose to end up looking like a brain also, but to me it just looks like a drawing of hard lines against soft with no real form.
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On this page here, I was trying to capture the details of the human eye. I wanted to draw the iris and pupil separately because in this work, I want to sum my year up as a whole, and I'll do so by using some other object as my iris, such as a brain since I focused on those in the second semester. This sketch is from a number 2 wooden pencil to increase effectiveness of my blending and I also wanted to try surrealism for this project, so I need some good realistic like sketches in order to give my piece a surrealist look. This is showed in my eye sketch.
The photo is my own photo of my eye. I wanted to focus on this eye and made a chalk pastel plan of what I intend on doing on my canvas with acrylic paint. I left the iris out again to gift myself an idea of what my final product will somewhat look like. I also intend on using oil paint for my brain in the middle with different shades of red, like the city on the artist piece previously. Another aspect I wanted to sharpen my skills with was just a gradation between white and black. I wanted to do this so I again get ready to blend on my canvas and to get it right.
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