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I personally believe that I have grown a lot in terms of my art skills this semester. I began working with mediums other than pencil, and I've learned that oil is something I really really enjoy using on a canvas. The plethora of figure studies I completed helped me understand proportions and how the body works. I by far developed my collaging skills, and learned a lot more about composition and structure. I would love to continue with abstraction, as its always been my favorite style of art. I hope to continue working with oils, and develop more of my own style. I would also like to give water colors another try, and attempt more detail as opposed to colorful blotches.

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(Tilt your head to the left to see this correctly) (sorry! Im not sure how to change this on Padlet)
I like the contrast of the grid paper and a stark background.  The kitchen counter top/table conveniently looks like an abstract granite slab, which may be my favorite part. The blurry black figure is barred and held back by words, underneath an American flag. There is an opening "I, too, sing america" which repeats at the end, so I used a blurry red/white/blue piece in the top left which transitions to a stark version on the bottom right, after the message has been confirmed.

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(Tilting your head to the right gives the correct view of this piece) I focused primarily on the words naked, mingled, and strange perfume, which too me evoked the starkest imagery. The mingling breath of white acrylic paint on a bare background communicates really well what the poem made me envision, and the red bubbles add the contrast of this intriguing bareness with a bit of excitement that isnt overwhelmingly "cheery". This one has my favorite color scheme, as i believe it allows the energy to be communicated, without too much vibrancy.

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I tried to incorporate this idea of the world being a big, collaged apple that is a bit corrupted/brown. The knife composed of words represents communication and words allowing the poet/reader to see the truths of an un-beautiful world. The blue bottom was to further enforce the earth symbolism, as a body of water, and the grid paper was to make it more compositionally interesting.

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This was by far, in my eyes, the weakest of all of my collages.  I had a stronger image in my mind, and after completing the other ones and learning about proportions/coherence I want to give this one another shot. Originally I had intended to have a collage of hands in reds/whites/blues reaching out menacingly towards a melting pot of people,protected by a blue outline that is reminiscent of a skyline. The colors were all too faded, and next time more stark colors but blended correctly would help this seem more natural.

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I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
let us take a knife
and cut the world in two-
and see what worms are eating at the rind

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Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

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I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I’ll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody’ll dare

Say to me,

“Eat in the kitchen,”

Then.

Besides,

They’ll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

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Desire to us
was like a double death,
swift dying
of our mingled breath,
evaporation
of an unknown strange perfume
between us quickly
in a naked
room

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In what specific ways does your art show growth?  What is the most significant way you have grown as an artist?  What artistic struggles did you learn from?  Where would you like your art to go from here?

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I painted/re-angled some building frames that were painted, as well as adding the speech bubble to the astronaut

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Highlighted other doodles with bright colors and made the background black in order to fit the whole theme better.

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My first doodle was every day objects made from animals, so this is a bird lamp.

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I did the fire before Frida was added, as well as sketching over/highlighting certain aspects of the underwater scene

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One of my first sketches was the astronaut, which I drew with two planet-figures and established the pastel purple border that ended up encompassing the whole piece.

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Collaborative Mural

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I drew my right hand with my left hand which was weird practice but almost made it easier to dissociate what I knew about a hand from actually drawing. I dont have much of a connection to the left hand so I was drawing a lot of what i physically could see as opposed to softening with what I thought.

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attempted cubism kind of in the bottom right- bold shapes and weirdly angled fingers.

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My two favorite parts of this practice were the mans back and the looking-down angle, both on the left.  It was super weird to draw almost a heart shape to show someones back, as was making the head 1/4 of the body and "stacking" the shoulders onto the thighs in the angled one.

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Practice Sketches! Peep Hamlet-esque figure (sans skull) in the bottom right

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I dont mind the figure, but to me what helps with the challenging aspect of foreshortening that was included here is the stool. When I measured with my pencil his body was about the same size as the stool, and adding this element totally emphasizes the leg that is resting forward.

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This one was kind of a mess- I messed up on the proportions and had no room for the legs so I had to erase and redraw it in ~5 minutes. The proportions are defined well, but looks a bit stocky, and the model was pretty thin.

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forearm on the right arm is a bit too long, but other than that I actually really enjoy how well the proportions turned out with this drawing.

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Final Project

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I really like the way this one turned out, but I still need to work on shoes and their shape

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I really like the way this one turned out, but I still need to work on shoes and their shape

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I think it's evident that I wanted to work with perspective and the sky, which did end up happening in my final project.  However, If I were to attempt another watercolor I want to work with less of a coloring book style and more of the darker, texture filled styles.

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Watercolor ideas