Critique Post: I got a lot of good advice from Emi and Rhona from the last critique. One thing that they said that really stood out to me what that my photos need to have more meaning to them. Right now they are just images with lines drawn over them. I am trying to add a little bit more meaning into the pieces that I am making. A majority of this semester has been working towards trying to figure out what I can do with the line work I have been working with. The first piece that I made for this critique is of a cigarette that I found on the ground laying across some flowers. I manipulated the flowers with the line work and I decided to darken the flowers, so that it looks like the flowers are soaking up the toxins from the cigarette. The second piece goes back to what I was doing with my original Fox image. I simplified the buffalo into lines and then made certain areas glow within the animal. The glowing spots are where the buffalo’s heart and brain are. Something that is a little different in this piece is that I softened the line work. It is not a bright white that stands out and takes a majority of the focal point of the piece. The third piece is using the same line work as the others, but instead of doing the glowing lights or keeping the main subject black, I decided to slowly bring the image back into the piece. I did this by working with the layers in Photoshop and changing the levels. I also tried to give it a darker feel, by darkening the levels and shadows. The original image is much brighter and livelier. Artist Post:
I am doing my artist post over Gretchen Burns. We have been in the art department together for a while now, and it has been so much fun seeing her grow as an artist. We are both in a life drawing class this semester and she has come so far from where she was last semester with drawing figures. I really enjoy the work that she has done with illustrating birds and especially the gif that she made of the bug and the magnifying glass. I can’t wait to see what she has in store for this upcoming critique and next semester! Check out her blog! http://gretchenburns.blogspot.com/
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Critique Post: For this critique I am still working with the line technique that I came up with at the beginning of the semester. I feel that I am starting to get the hang of it more now. These pieces are all still work in progresses because I am still working with this technique and seeing where I can take. During the last critique we talked about how I could use the black base with the white line work on top of it, like I did with the hummingbird, as a symbol of death or that something is no longer. While I was creating the hummingbird piece for the last critique I did think of it symbolizing death in some way. I have decided to try and work with this and see what I can create with it. I decided to use an image of my horseback riding team standing in front of our old barn, Hilltop Stables. A majority of us grew up running around this barn and it holds a very special place in each of our hearts. I basically lived at this barn for half of my life and I learned how to ride horses here. The barn was torn down about two years ago, because the land was sold to realtors who wanted to develop it into a strip mall of some sorts. It may sound silly to be so emotionally attached to a piece of land and especially a hole-in-the-wall barn, but it was hard and heartbreaking having to move out of this barn, when I had spent so much time there and basically considered it my home. There is a great sense of loss that is shown with this image, which is why I thought it would be perfect to use for this critique. I am planning on creating more pieces that represent loss or death in my life for the next critique using this style. The other two images that I have for this critique are also using the line work, but I have kept the whole photograph more the most part in the piece. I was really happy with how the flowers turned out for my last critique so I decided to do another one that is similar. I used a thinner line, which I feel adds a little more detail to the image as a whole. I wrestled back and forth with the chipmunk image, because I couldn’t decide it I wanted to show it how it is now or with the chipmunk in black with only the white line-work showing. I decided to keep the image of the chipmunk present, because I like the stylized and the flatness feel that is given off when looking at it. Another reason why did decided not to make the chipmunk black is because the chipmunk is not dead, at least not to my knowledge, so it wouldn’t make much since to make it black when it is still alive. Artist Post:
I am have chosen to write about Sylvia Schultze this time! Through out the semester she has been showing us the progress that she has made on her fruitful forms. I think that is awesome that she is making pieces like these. Pittsburg needs a little enlightenment in this area of the art world. Her pieces are not extremely in your face, but they are still able to get the point across very well. I can’t wait to see them all set up for her senior show. I am also looking forward to seeing how her hands turn out that she is working on that will hold the fruits. Here is her blog: http://sschultze3.wix.com/sylviaschultze Today I went to Ariel Bowmen’s artist lecture and it was very well done. She talked with so much passion about her work and her artistic career that I hope I can talk about my work with that much passion one day. When I first walked through the gallery and saw her work, I thought that the animals she sculpted were made up and from her own imagination. I never would have thought that all of the animals represented were alive at some point. At one point in her lecture she spoke about why she chose to sculpt prehistoric mammals. Her response was that the prehistoric mammals are not represented very well and that most people don’t know that there are so many different types. I would have never guessed that each elephant in the gallery was alive at some point and that they were each alive at different time periods throughout the Earth’s history. Her dedication and attention to detail is inspirational and I am very envious of it. She puts so much of herself into her work and it is clearly visible to anyone who looks at it. I am happy that I went to her lecture and got to hear her speak, because it makes me appreciate her artwork even more now after knowing the amount of work that she puts into each and every piece that she shows. |
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