Speed drawing tiger

Tiger speed painitng

Charles River museum of Industry and Innovation field trip

When: Wed. November 28th from 9:40-1:30pm Day 6(miss B,D,H block).

**Need signed permission slip and money for admission, bus and lunch no later than November 15th

Where: Charles River Industry and Innovation Museum fee and bus transportation: $10

Lunch at Margarita's: $10
Includes burrito of choice, chips, salsa and churro.

Burrito options:

Fajita Burrito- choice of marinated steak or chicken with peppers and onions, black beans, mexican rice, salsa fresca and monterey jack cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Carnitas Burrito- Pork Carnitas, black beans, mexican rice, chile con queso, and fresh chopped onions and cilantro wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Veggie Burrito- Onions, peppers, mushrooms, squash, and zucchini wrapped in a flour tortilla with mexican rice, black beans, corn salsa, montery jack cheese, and hacienda sauce.

Lichtenstein makeup

This is interesting to me because it's fairly successfully changing a detailed, three dimensional object into something that looks flat.

Faces of Paranorman

This is a bit strange but I'm very fascinated with stop motion so I thought I'd share this.

The Abstraction of Franz Kline

 My favorite part? He preferred house paint over profession grade artist's paint!

Halloween spooky hand

a pretty easy origami model

Catherine's art process

 

Catherine's inspired surrealist pen project

Cubist process work

Natalie's art process

 

Natalie's inspired beast project

Natalie's process cubist

Natalie's mixed media

James Pack's art process

I wanted to connect this piece with the larger theme of my recent work, which is the idea of wabi-sabi ( a Japanese worldview and aesthetic that is centered around the ideas of impermanence and imperfection). Through wiping out certain parts of this figure, I wanted to highlight the idea of transience. I am really interested in the interaction between the human figure and the natural world and hope to keep exploring it.

 

Woodcut in process

Sarah's art process

Throughout the beginning of this year I have been playing with shapes. From swirls to hard edges, I constantly like to play with movement and flow.  The two pieces of artwork shown on the blog represent a series of abstract movements and shapes that both portray movement and different shapes. Besides playing with different figures, playing with different materials as well has contributed to the tone and mood that I am trying to get across to the viewer.  By using china markers, ink, waters colors, pens and pencils, I am using a variety of materials that will hopefully contribute to piece that is two dimensional in tone and mood.  Later on, I hope to utilize textures and different types of surfaces in order to emphasize the message of the piece as well as enhance the appeal to essentially make my pieces contain more  depth.

 

Sarah's inspired fantasy project

My piece based on Sonja Delaunay focuses on aspect of cubism.  Not only was I inspired by her use of shapes and figures but the way she assembled them. I pieced together my geometric shapes in a way that created a sense of harmony and flow. Beyond shape I focused on colors reflecting her bright artwork that was very eye catching. By using warm and bright colors I tried to get the shapes and patterns to really pop. 

Natasha's art share

When I'm expressing myself through my art the movement of drawings is really what inspires me.  Most of the time I use colors but I like to add black pen and ink to my drawings to give it more of an edge.  Magazines and doodles inspire me because I tend to not over think what I'm drawing to successfully get my feelings across. 

 

Cubist process

For my cubism project I was inspired by the artist Sonia Delaunay. I tried to connect the shapes throughout the painting. The colors contrast each other and make the painting more exciting.

- Natasha Garlick 

Caroline's art process

My work is influenced by Arabic geometric patterns as well as Arabic calligraphy writing.  Im combining these aspects to create a piece that depicts a Burka and Eyes. The Burka starts out black and will fade into geometric patterns and calligraphy. This peices is Multi media as it combines watercolor, pencil, pens, and collaging. 

Talia's art process

Recently I am inspired by colors and textures in magazines. I've never been a collage person but I decided to try it out and I think the black paper compliments the mixture of colors very well.  I used china marker in the first work to create the outline and flow of the piece. I wanted both works to feel natural and have a sort of gracefull movement to them. In the future I would like to do more complex designs using this collage technique because I don't feel totally satisfied with what I've presented so far.

Talia, I would check out the works of these artist using text. I think they are inspirational.

Talia's inspired beast project

 

Cubist sculpture

This anchor was taken off of my boat after it caught on a chain underwater and toar one of the blades. I've wanted to design a painting on this for awhile and I decided this cubism project would offer a great oppotrunity to design an interesting geometric pattern that flows with the anchor's structure. The colors I chose are meant to go with the nautical theme. The shapes vary in size and gradiation in order to contrast the blue background and/or contrast other shapes.

James' art process

 

I decided I did not want to use paper sometime at the end of last year. I started working on discarded clay molds, metal nails, string, anything that was lying around. That was another thing. But, that led into this year, as I liked the three dimensional work, it was a new thing, so I decided to do something this year. I found an pure white bust of the Buddha, for those of you who do not know who that is, I am not going to explain it. I knew I wanted to do something to it, the whiteness, the shape, the expression, just was awesome, but it needed to be added to, built upon. 

The white was too clean. Nothing in the real world is really white. It may be off white, or grey, or some type of eggshell yellow, but not pure blinding white. What I did was take a nice green, and use that as a coat for the skin, to bring in the aspect of nature to the piece, and as another point to how the Buddha gained enlightenment underneath the leaves of the Bodhi tree, another reference to the green.

Tattoos were originally and in many cases still symbols of status, achievements, and spirituality in different cultures. I wanted to take this bust and do something along those lines, take an icon and add a new dimension, so I looked around at Maori facial tattoos to begin with, and am still inking the finer details. 

Not sure what I am going to do with the hair color, though I do want to highlight the patterns in the hair. 

Jonathan's art process

As someone who is very interested in the art of Chinese calligraphy, I feel it offers a unique component to my artwork when incorporated successfully. In this piece I am currently working on, I am experimenting with different size Chinese traditional hair brushes to achieve new strokes and streaks using black India ink. I practice my strokes with different amounts of ink, pressure, and with different brushes on rice paper, then transfer the stokes I find aesthetically pleasing to my piece.

I also am incorporating vein- like forms with the charcoal lines. I have always been interested in medicine and anatomy, and I think veins and blood vessels do more than just supply our bodies with blood and oxygen-- they offer an artistic form that is interesting and intriguing. 

Currently, I am using charcoal and India ink on this piece. Scratches are done with an x- acto blade. The medium is canvas board