last critique with images and set up for final opening show
Week 9 work
The final of my pieces and a update to my portrait of my husband
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week 9 work
base coats before carving
my final piece has me getting ready for the end of this quarter. I wish i had started it sooner so each layer could dry, something i will try again in the future. all that is left is to carve in the bubbles. I will spend most of the day Tuesday doing this and Wednesday will be spent trying to get everything to the studio and putting a final edit on my paper. some time on Wednesday and Thursday I will be holding a editing session in the studio. I’m all set to finish this project out and take a break before I get back into my main medium, watercolor.
I’m looking forward to winter break and trying out some new things as well as updating my YouTube channel and my etsy shop. I didn’t think I would actually miss making my weekly video and making jewelry for my shop while taking this class but I actually did. I look forward to this piece the most out of all five of the pieces for this project. It probably will take me the same amount of time and concentration as the other four did. I really feel like all five will be in conversation with each other and I look forward to uploading my paper as will as all the pieces displayed as a final post when this is all said and done.
so the process of this piece is slow layering. I have the gesso, then a yellow, white, and phalo blue under painting as well as then layering more white over the blue before proceeding to this step.
personal research on this is so far that I have a final image in mind and I hope that I can find a way to lose myself in the process of painting this final painting one last time.
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thanksgiving break work
at this point in my project i’m not only battling severe anxiety but also some depression. I’m finding it hard to even make myself paint and it just seems like no matter what i do the paintings don’t look right and i don’t have the energy to try and go back in and fix them.
my personal research is getting hindered by my lack of motivation to do anything. I feel like i’m going to end up with two paintings that look like shit.
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thanksgiving break work
this piece i under painted black and white acrylic and then put a cream coat glaze on it with a blue brown shadowing done. the photo was slightly blue toned. I didn’t think this looked good but when I took the photo of it i realized it was very close to the original and it does look different up close. You can see my brush strokes and smudges and from far away It could still look like the photo.
This took a little over a hour to paint and I eventually had to switch to my fingers for smudging instead of my brush.
I mounted it on some foam board before painting the top coat and it seems to have wrinkled over night which it had not done that while the glue was drying which is slightly disappointing.
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week 8 work
Im still working on this one I think it needs a few more layers of glaze.
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week 8 work painting
This is the underpainting. this took around a hour and a half.
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week 7 work
this weekend i worked on two of my paintings both 5×6″. the 5th painting is near finished a 5″ x 6″ microscopic view of staph infection. I other painting this week was a close up in the underside of a mushroom also a 5″ x 6″. I only have the under painting done on this one so far, because I don’t have a brown I like for it yet.
The staph infection i under painted with a Quinacridone Violet and then went square by square until I had it the way I wanted it. I like the depth I created in the muscle by using different values of the quinacridone violet and the thalo blue. I enjoyed the repetitive limited color palette and the dept this painting took but haven’t yet gotten lost unless you count 4 hours spent painting it. It really felt like no time at all.
I look forward to trying again but with a different technique of painting on the mushroom piece.
Plan for this week is to paint and sketch out more paintings and work on my creative paper.
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week 7 studio plan
This weekend I’ll be spending the majority of two days in the studio and then I will take advantage of the fact that we don’t have school Monday to sketch out my next two paintings and write the rough draft of my creative essay.
I’m thinking a painting a day this weekend and then a day of reflection and writing will get me out of my funk. I haven’t painted in a week and I would like to do something creative so much, I just can’t seem to get myself to do it.
The feedback I got today on the format for my academic statement was super helpful. I look forward to implementing the changes while they are fresh in my mind. Changes I wanted, to use less of the same word over and over again, to cut out the part about coming to evergreen and make it more about my decision to become a teacher, and relate the examples from my classes to that future teaching. No lists.
Critique was helpful in that several people were interested in seeing what it will finally look like, wondering the color scheme and size of the final pieces, and wondering the context. Since I’m mostly researching the process of getting lost in painting a lot of my research will be personal and looking at other artistic practices as well as looking into psychology of disorientation, imagination, and disassociation. How that works into the images I picked is a process to explain. I picked the images because they are microscopic images, and that they have structure and show another world we cant normally see but is there. Also one of them is a nod to oil and watercolor painting, and still has that structure present. They are in conversation with each other and my background with art and science classes leads me to pick something that I’m familiar with and understand. I don’t have much background in psychology and that’s how I am branching out and understanding process is important for me. I want to be a art teacher in the future at some point and teaching art isn’t just about how to paint, or sculpt, or weld, it’s about everything, its the whole process from start to finish. It’s the emotion, the distancing, the pain staking process of a project start to finish and knowing the meaning behind what you made. So this is important for me to know.
I’m going to spend Tuesday trying out one the first of my second biggest paintings for the set and seeing if I want to glaze that piece over a acrylic or oil background. I’ll also be finishing up with the sanding and gessoing of my final and largest painting Tuesday. With critique on Wednesday and the drawing studio after I probably won’t be back to working and painting until Saturday of that next week.
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Progress on paintings for week 7
Sketches for paintings 1 and 5. These are the smallest of the paintings for this project at 5 x6″. I suspect they will take the least amount of time. I’m currently in a funk of not wanting to paint. So, I’m hoping these smaller paintings can help me get to the root of my question for this project, How do you get lost, (in process)?
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