ART NEWS (Project #1)
After flipping through many art magazines, I found that I really liked the piece Flare (2005) by Charles DuBack. This is my take on the piece. I used oil pastels on a 12"x16" streched canvas.
PLANT AND PATTERN (Project #2)
30"x30" board of Masonite covered in an ombre rainbow done in oil pastels, the tree is made up of cut up photographs that I took of leaves and trunks and the black background is cut up pieces of paper that I painted with black gouache so it would have a matte texture as opposed to the shiny tree.
ARTIST INSPIRED SELF PORTRAIT (Project #3)
(David Hockney inspired) 16 3"x5" photographs glued down in a pattern about my face on a 26"x18" piece of cardboard that I painted with black acrylic paint I was inspired by the photography portraits done by David Hockney (http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/images/photocol_hockneymo.lg.jpg) this one has less of a pattern to it than mine but it is where I drew most of my inspiration for this piece
ART AND TEXT (Project #4)
Text: "Rose Trees Never Grow in New York City" from the song Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters by Elton John (released 1972) on a 21"x21" piece of paper
The tree and the roses are painted with watercolor and the text is in pencil then covered in black arcylic paint. Then I sketched a city skyline on the bottom of the tree trunk. I found these lyrics to be ironic and inspiring because roses grow on bushes not trees. The lyrics also state that they never grow in New York City and I have added a city skyline which I feel adds to the surrealness.
REVISION
REVISION
INTENTIONAL COLOR (Project #5)
above is a picture of the whole collection comprised of the eight pieces, each 7"x11" piece has a black and white copy of the image on top and with the knob, you can lift it up to view the color saturated version of it, each of these are images that I have taken over the past two years or so
these four pictures above are part of the whole collection when they are closed, the top left is a picture of elevators, the top right is a cathedral door in Cuernavaca Mexico, the bottom left is a view of the ocean taken from a Caribbean cruise, and the bottom right is the ceiling of one of the lobbies in the Bellagio in Las Vegas
these are the same as above when they are opened
above is the last four images in the collection when they are closed, the top left is a streetside staircase in Cozumel Mexico, the top right is the finale fireworks this past fourth of July in India Point Park in Providence Rhode Island, the bottom left is a photo of flowers in Gumbalimba Park in Roatan Honduras, and the bottom right is a photo that was originally taken with a sequential film camera which i had converted to digital of my friend jumping on the beach in Block Island Rhode Island
these above are the last four when they are open and the colored copy exposed
MAPPING (Project #6)
"Pretty Awful" (Project #7)
Right before we were assigned this project, my family had just begun to sponsor a three-year-old girl in Zambia, named Mweemba Hang'andu. She lives in a community that is highly affected by the HIV Aids virus so she provided my inspiration. I titled this piece "Wofiira Kupweteka" which means "red pain" in the native language of Zambia, Bemba.
