Weekly Challenge 4

For this challenge I got portraiture! I was really excited for this challenge because I got to take pictures with a new model (thank you Toni <3). I worked with a plain background and just worked with the lighting to take these pictures. We both had a lot of fun with this!

 

20 Layers

For my project, I wanted to work with a body part that wouldn't be used or thought of for this project, so I decided to work with an ear. I then thought of how to portray sounds in this artwork, and to challenge myself I decided to try to use a pop art style.

 Oh, and the symbols in the speech bubble aren't necessarily supposed to be a curse word, it is just to show whatever the person said made a big impact to the person who is listening. It's up to interpretation on what they were saying. 

Weekly Challenge 3

For this weekly challenge my challenge was to create an artwork using two different medias that weren't digital. I used oil pastels and charcoal to create this piece. 

Weekly Challenge 2

For this weekly challenge I chose the conflicting emotions challenge. 

For the emotions I wanted to create a story of feeling trapped and then breaking free from that. For the first image I made it really dark to portray the feeling of unhappiness and constrained within everything you might feel you have to do; feeling stressed of all that is going on around you. The second image is more free and lighthearted, the feeling of wanderlust and wanting to travel. I made this image more fantasy-like, and dreamy to create those feelings. I also worked with over and under exposed images to create that tension of conflicting emotions in this artwork. 

Weekly Challenge 1

For this weekly challenge I decided to imitate the style of artist that inspired me. I was just researching artists and I came across Jack Whitten. He is a abstract artist and I really loved his artwork, specifically one called April's Shark, which can be found here. I haven't ever worked abstractly for any artwork so I decided to try his style of horizontal brushstrokes. I also wanted some sort of subject so I decided to paint a woman's face that is blurred by the brushstrokes. It is difficult to see the detail in the photograph, but I also carved out little strokes in the paint of the background meant to give the appearance of her hair. 

Summer Work

Over the summer I took classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology, in these classes I created a lot of artwork, both of these pieces are from the classes. 

The first piece is a mini fashion line, the first is a day look, the second is a night look, and the final is a runway look. We were asked to design looks that would be part of a real designer line. I chose Chanel, as shown in the various images I chose for my mood board. These images were picked to inspire me to create a cohesive line. I also attached the swatches of fabric on the top, and used all of them in my designs. 

The second piece is a beauty advert of sorts. The project was to show juxtaposition in an advertisement; and I added flowers on the woman's head to show that. I added the slogan as well to show that it was a beauty advertisement and I wanted it to be simple and bold. 

Both of the pieces of artwork use marker rendering and colored pencils.