Watercolor Studio-Further Detailing

I bought some fine graphite lubricant thats usually used to lubricate locks and things, to fill in the form of the body, it turned out to not be so difficult to use even though getting it out of the tube was a little difficult at times. The final phase is to fill in the tentacles, what will I do?!

Sculpture - Wax Figure

Here are some photos of my progress on my wax figure. Bronze casting in a couple of weeks!

Watercolor Studio - Detailing

In studio today I mostly worked on the graphite areas of the piece. I was actually happy thinking that it turned out better because of the practice I'd had over the summer doing the commissions for my co-worker. I got back in touch with my drawing skills, which hadn't been stretched since Drawing II, quite a few summers ago, heh.

I can't wait to resolve this piece, and see what develops after it!

Photoshop!

So I played around with my photos in Photoshop, I kinda liked the results and thought I'd share. This is the same pencil and watercolor, with just a few Photoshop tweaks.

Watercolor Studio - Progress

I was happy to get into the studio today to work on the new painting for a couple of hours.

Watercolor Studio

I had a photo shoot with my friend Domonique and got a lot of good pictures. During studio I flipped through them looking for something along the lines of the intense emotional work I had done last semester. I joked to my friend Effie that I missed the drama.

So I decided to paint one in which I used my sculpture I made recently and had her pretend as if he were attacking her. As I sketched out this photo and laid in the colors for the background, my professor walked by and said she thought it could be a finished work and to do a few more sketches like it, to be sure. So I did, and it was pretty fun, although I'm still not sure which one to actually use for a finished work, I like the first two. So I think I will do both of them, one as a big piece, and the other as small work.

3D Watercolor- Project 3

-Shadows, Reflected Color, and Construction-

In this project, shadows and reflected color had to be half of our overall composition, we could not use traditional painting surface (watercolor paper), and we had to represent something unseen.

I chose to depict the human aura. My original plan was to create a moving ball of transparent material and paint, and have it shine on a person, casting a shadow surrounded by color and movement. As we only had a week for this project, constructing such a machine was going to take longer than I had, so I came up with a simple solution that would convey my idea. It was more of a concept, and came out looking like a pinwheel toy which was kind of fun.

I painted on unused cd protectors, clipped them to a wooden disc, which I attached to a dowel rod, to make it spin. Below are the pictures of the protectors. I really like how they came out, but they were very fragile pieces of thin plastic and some tore during assembly. :(

Sculpture Studio-Wood

Critique went well for my wood sculpture. I think my jellyfish idea came across, one classmate said it reminded her of the Hellboy creatures. I like how it turned out for the most part. I know it would be more refined with more time, but I learned a lot about various shop tools and practices.

Below the left image is unstained, and the right is finished in semi-gloss, and stained Golden Oak color. I was going to use Red Oak, but I turned out not liking how dark it would look.

Sculpture Studio-Bronze

In Sculpture we'll be learning to make a small sculpture out of bronze. Its a lengthy process that will take about 6 weeks. I immediately knew that I wanted to do something personal for this assignment after seeing and becoming inspired by the work of Kim Obrzut. She does bronze sculptures based on her Hopi heritage. They are usually of women carrying out ancient traditions and celebrating the culture.

So my take on this will be a woman inspired by my own mother. I sketched this while I was at work thinking about what to do. It may or may not change, but I do love this sketch, and I'll admit I teared up a little while doing it. LOVE YOU MOM! Hehe. The woman carries 3 babies on her back and armfuls of corn and wheat. I can't wait to get started on this!

Watercolor Studio

So I got inspired by a surrealist artist I read about in a magazine while I sat and thought about what to do with the background in this painting. Call me crazy but I really did not want to paint what was actually there. Too mundane, too boring. I like where this could go, whether it gets there or not remains to be seen, lol. I think I have plenty to play around with and hopefully the professor will appreciate the effort, lol.