Art showcase by Steven Petersen

Steven Petersen's Sub-Framing Project ART 131 Image 1

swp2934 — 2024-02-08 23:09:49 UTC

This picture shows sub-framing through the lens of looking through a plastic jug. The chopsticks also trap the object to create an additional form of subframe. I also tried to make the object off-center to create a more dynamic pose. What could also be interpreted is that the bottom of the jug helps guide the viewer into directing their view to the object with the upward bump. The chopsticks ontop of the object also center the eye to understand what the object is.

Steven Petersen's Sub-Framing Project ART 131 Image 2

swp2934 — 2024-02-08 23:14:27 UTC

My phone couldn't take a better quality picture, but I name this piece: 'Racoon Studies'. The piece shows the raccoon sub-framing, reading from a book, or sketching something in a sketchbook. The point of this piece is to show subframing and I tried to increase the visual appeal by not playing the raccoon in the exact center of the screen. I can imagine this scene at the beginning of a TV show episode, or a movie, where the main point is for the raccoon to read something fascinating in the book and then articulate what the raccoon discovers to his friends. I hope this meets the criteria for the sub-framing assignment.

Steven Petersen's Sub-Framing Project ART 131 Image 3

swp2934 — 2024-02-08 23:15:09 UTC

I wanted to take a picture using a simple form of sub-framing of a character shown through some frame. My backpack straps create the sub-framing that could lead the eye to more easily see characters peaking through the door. The triangle aspect of the bag's framing could also be interpreted as a downward arrow, leading the eye to look diagonally down to see the character peaking through the door.

Steven Petersen's Marks and Lines Submission

swp2934 — 2024-02-14 23:53:26 UTC

I wanted to create a gumball machine with different gumballs inside of the gumball machine, but when I wanted to create the design with the micron pen, I realized how difficult it would be with my skills. Most of the strokes on the right section, within the big circle, were done with a micron pen. I decided to utilize different tools within each row. The first line was mostly created with a regular #2 pencil. The second line was mostly made with the 6B pencil. The third line was mostly made with the 8B pencil. The 4th line was made with the micron pen, which I didn't have much experience using. I wanted to make the last line have the light HB pencil, so the second-to-last line used the normal #2 pencil. The bottom right corner of the paper, underneath the glass of the gumball machine, was done with an artist's brush dipped into ink. Each of the lines that I stated is mostly used outside the gumball machine, but inside the gumball machine, I combined some strokes with the micron pen and the rest of the strokes with the given tool.

Overall, I tried to experiment with the different kinds of brushes and pencils that I had available. In each box, I tried to use a different kind of line stroke, and I tried to vary the different values made with the strokes from light to dark. It was hard to do that with the micron pen, so I tried my best to at least give the illusion that I was using less force to make my strokes, as evidenced by the gaps that were present when making lines with a micron pen.

I was completely new to using the micron pen and the use of ink, so I tried to do a tiny bit of experimenting before I committed to putting down my strokes on the paper.

I hope this picture is enough to show the quality of what I created within each box. I tried my best to vary each box with a different stroke, or at least try to learn how to use my artist tool.

Steven Petersen's Module 4 - Grayscale Assignment

swp2934 — 2024-02-23 21:49:52 UTC

When doing this assignment, I tried my best to use different techniques. With the ink, I tried to make each value by starting super dark, then dabbing the paintbrush to make a box of hatches, and then dabbing the paintbrush back into the water. I couldn't get the values any lighter than what was on the leftmost hatch-marked box because the water gave a texture to the hue of the marks.

The last line, with the paint, may not seem like it, but I tried to do a technique where I would use the black and then add in some white. The white that I used didn't seem to give off the illusion of very vibrantly changing the color from black to white, but I tried my best to use as much white on the left side as I could to give the illusion of pure right. When working with the paint, I tried the method of mixing in more or less white to give the illusion of values. The paint that I used didn't execute the color white very well.

This was also the first time I used paint in my whole life. I hope to improve the more I use paint, throughout the semester.

Steven Petersen Grisaille, Part 2

swp2934 — 2024-03-01 19:43:03 UTC

I didn't know how bright I should make the image, so I compromised and tried not to make the picture too bright.

This picture is a grid-grayscale version of a drawing of myself. The reference is posted in another post. I hope this image shows enough of part 2 of the Grisaille project.

Steven Petersen Grisaille, Part 1

swp2934 — 2024-03-01 19:45:12 UTC

Steven Petersen's Submission of Grisaille, Part 3, Completed Painting

swp2934 — 2024-03-14 00:59:49 UTC

I tried my best on the project. Before doing the project, I was unfamiliar with paint, so I thought I could use a technique of layering colors together. That technique did work for a few hours, but then I realized a better technique could be to combine colors instead of layering. While I was doing that, I found that when I mixed the paint on the cardboard, the paint had less usage instead of layering the color over time, so I switched to combining both of the techniques of layering and combing colors when necessary. If I had access to infinite paint then I would mix the colors before putting them down on the paper and not have to worry about conserving the paint.

Another technique I used was combining the techniques of copying what was on the screen with a bit of improvisation in my prior knowledge of lighting and shadows. The main reason why I tried not to fully copy the picture is because I wanted to incorporate aspects of the techniques I learned about lighting and shadow to give the art piece a more natural look. Since my underlying drawing was never exactly like the picture, I had to find ways of counterbalancing the reference with what I had drawn to create a believable image. With the amount of time I spent on this piece and my skill level at painting, I felt I did a pretty decent job on this piece.

This project took super long for me—more than 9 hours—and I spent some of the free time that I had to work on it, but in doing so, I strengthened my understanding of how to use paint. This picture helped me better understand how to work with paint, and I definitely felt like I improved.

One thing I would like to point out is that I tried to make the line that runs across my sweater, but then realized how advanced it would be to create a line through my whole art piece with a medium that made it hard to undo any mistakes. I did try to incorporate the sweater line across the sweater, but how low the sweater line was in proportion to the sweater's logo, so I tried to leave out the line to not ruin my art piece, with the little experience I had with paint.

Overall, I improved my understanding of painting immensely. I learned many different techniques and had to pull in some prior understanding to create a finished piece. Though this piece felt like it took forever to complete, at least I spent some time understanding the medium. I would like to note that I tried to budget my time wisely, knowing that I could spend forever on this piece, if I wanted, to finish this artwork.

Steven Petersen's Color Wheel, Part 1

swp2934 — 2024-03-21 20:13:01 UTC

While working on setting up my color wheel, I gained a better appreciation for people who try to come up with perfect shapes within their artwork. While I was working with the circular shapes, I found that it was somewhat impossible to get exactly the right circles that evenly divided the color wheel.

While watching the video, I couldn't see any of the writing that the person did, but I tried my best to use some of the visual cues, like when the person's hands would move up and down, to determine where hues and tints would go. I figured that since the presenter's finished color wheel, shown as an example, has lighter colors at the top and darker colors at the bottom, and since that would make sense to have lighter colors on the outside, I put the tints facing more outward and the shades facing more inward. I also never knew that tints were just a lighter version of the selected color, and shades were a darker of a given color. I always thought that shades were just an increase or decrease in the lights and darks of the colors, but watching this video made me realize that tints are opposites to shades. It made lots of sense that shades are the darker portion when I considered that being in a shaded area is just being in an area blocked by an object.

Steven petersen's Color Wheel Part 2: Painting the Wheel submission

swp2934 — 2024-03-29 13:05:54 UTC

When planning the assignment, I thought I would have enough time to finish it early. When the day came for me to do the assignment, I had to struggle with some life stuff that lessened the time I had to do this assignment.

As I did the assignment, I tried my best to at least add in the tints and shades and not worry so much as if there was a harmony between the colors, given that I didn't have a lot of time to do the assignment. I tried to follow what the person said in the videos by making the tints and shades a completely different color, but sometimes, like with yellow or purple, it seemed harder to get the color to change. I also tried to conserve the acrylic paint so I had each color, tint, and/or hue depending on how much black I had left over from all my other assignments.

I hope I did a good job conveying a color change, at least. I also tried to make the image have the words be at least readable, and not be too bright where the words are smudged.

Steven Petersen's Color Relationships: Monochromatic submission

swp2934 — 2024-04-08 17:31:02 UTC

I thought of drawing a hippo and making the picture into a comic, but I thought since all the other color relationships will end up having different colors, that wouldn't make sense as four consecutive images.

Steven Petersen's Color Relationships Complementary: submission

swp2934 — 2024-04-08 17:33:13 UTC

The first idea that came into my head was to show the character holding an object. Then I looked at the color yellow and thought, 'Maybe I could also include the sun, as it is yellow and always floating in the sky.'. I tried my best to include lighting without going insane and getting every shade and tint that light creates on a character.

Steven Petersen's Color Relationships: Analogous submission

swp2934 — 2024-04-08 17:36:39 UTC

My comic idea consisted of the character standing, holding an object, an avil falling, and the character getting crushed by the anvil, but then I considered how each of the different color relationships used vastly different colors, so instead of doing that, I thought of what things I could make the character do. The inclusion of shades and some tints is merely to addressthe fact that the character is being impacted by his/her surroundings.

Steven Petersen's Color Relationships: Triadic submission

swp2934 — 2024-04-08 17:40:55 UTC

This one was simple for me to figure out. I would take the character and incorporate the elements of green, orange, and purple. I didn't think this one would take the longest, but I ended up using some of my free time to complete this picture.

The first thing that popped into my head was the color green for grass, and the object that the character has next to him/her is orange, but then I saw all the white spaces above the grass and thought, 'Why not add a sunset or something to add an atmospheric atmosphere to making the ground feel like ground?'. I also decided to just put an orange ball on the corner to better emphasize the color orange than just one object. I also never realized the character's hands were different until after I finished the assignment.