Thursday, October 25, 2012

Caravaggio piece

I started out by looking at different Caravaggio pieces and making a decision on which one to recreate. Then I started to plan how I would set up my composition by making small drawings in my sketch book. After I took the picture (using some very helpful and enthusiastic theatre students) I did some planning in my sketchbook again before starting my final piece. I'm using watercolor to do this piece. I'm not quite finished with it yet, but I will post again when I am.

Tack

I used charcoal, white paint, and pencil for this one. I looked at one of the pictures from an earlier post called white on white.

Seed drawing

This drawing was done using class time with charcoal and chalk while looking at a seed.

Monday, September 10, 2012

White on White

#1. I like the texture of this image with the straight line of grey in the left. It's interesting how the blurred right edge becomes more clear and then blurry again in the left side.
#2. The corner of the picture is overlapping with another corner, which throws a shadow on the textured wall. I like the color of the upper right hand corner.
#3. The perspective of this one interesting, and it gets blurry in the distance.
#4. I like the tack in the middle of the empty desk in this one and the shadows and light areas of the tack.
#5. The angles of the stairs are neat and the right angle of grey dividing two different shades of white looks nice.
#6. The mouse has so many shadows and reflections (the windows) because of its shape.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

This is the first time I've used a blog, so I'm not really sure how this is going to go. I've already created a post with nothing in it and gotten completely lost on the site. I'm learning.
The blog will help me keep track of my artwork throughout the year so that I can easily go back and look at pieces that I did months before.
 I am in the 11th grade at ISZL, and this is my second year of art here.