Here is an example of this same group playing live (I shot this video):
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Gesture Drawing to Music
Charcoal allows one to put down large areas of tone quickly and expressively. Here are some gesture drawings I made with charcoal while listening to and watching an improvisational jazz group called Adventure in Sound in Cambridge, MA:
The 2nd to last drawing was drawn with my eyes closed; just reacting to the sounds that were appearing in front of me. I would often draw in rhythm with the music. These musicians create music that is particularly fun to respond to this way as their music is very dynamic. They explore many different sonic textures, rhythms and melodies. They are constantly in the moment, responding to each other in what at times seems to be telepathy. In the future I would like to video tape myself (or someone else) drawing in this manner to live music and have the video projected behind the band while they are performing.
Here is an example of this same group playing live (I shot this video):
Here is an example of this same group playing live (I shot this video):
Wildlife as Inspiration
In 2004 I went to the Peruvian Amazon and took a lot of photographs and video footage of the animals that my group of ecotourists and I found. Our tour guides also would pay any local people who brought us interesting wildlife to see. The following year I made some pen and ink sketches from photos I had taken there:
http://chrisrenna.com/old/Wildlife_Sketches.html
I also made a watercolor painting of a Titi Monkey that a young boy had adopted as a pet:
I recently uploaded a video slideshow of the photos I took on this particular trip:
I also made a video of the trip and added some of my original music to it:
I have taken 3 different trips to Costa Rican rain forests to look for wildlife. Here is video footage I took from a day that was particularly full of wildlife:
http://chrisrenna.com/old/Wildlife_Sketches.html
I also made a watercolor painting of a Titi Monkey that a young boy had adopted as a pet:
The last ten years or so I have gotten more into video and have not been making drawings/paintings of the creatures I find in the wild, but it is an activity that I would like to return to at some point.
I have created music inspired by the sounds of wildlife. In 2008 for my master's project at Emerson College I created a musical score to video I took of wildlife in Georgia and South Carolina. Here is that project:
Some of the music incorporates actual sounds from the environment such as this piece:
Monday, March 27, 2017
4/25 Weston Town Crier interview for Senior legacy mural
Mrs. Kauffmann, former WHS photo teacher will be interviewing Seniors for the Weston Town Crier on the vision and process of the two Senior murals, PEACE AND LOVE. Come picture ready.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25th
THURSDAY, APRIL 25th
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
watercolor abstract painting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2Y_2W31j8&app=desktop
this video shows watercolor paintings within a circle. this is relevant to my project because i am using watercolor in my surrealist project.
this video shows watercolor paintings within a circle. this is relevant to my project because i am using watercolor in my surrealist project.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Paint night high school volunteers needed Tuesday March 28th from 5:30-7pm
Please let me know if you can help out with this event at Country school. Students will be given a plus 2 points for their artshare video. I am bringing my kidos to the event!
Please let me know by Friday so I can send out the email to Colleen Lucas, Country school art teacher.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Friday, March 17, 2017
Time-based art
Here are some "sound art" pieces I made a while ago and compiled on Bandcamp:
https://chromatophones.bandcamp.com/album/soundscapes-1997-2008
These pieces tend to be mainly dealing with timbre, gesture, layering/interaction of sonic colors and values, and rhythm.
https://chromatophones.bandcamp.com/album/soundscapes-1997-2008
These pieces tend to be mainly dealing with timbre, gesture, layering/interaction of sonic colors and values, and rhythm.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Art Share
http://www.ted.com/talks/alyssa_monks_how_loss_helped_one_artist_find_beauty_in_imperfection
I thought this video was super interesting how her style of art changed so dramatically throughout her life. I really also liked her message about imperfections in art and how to adjust and grow from them.
A few art-related videos I have found recently on youtube that I like:
Sumi-e painting demo:
2 different versions of a very creative Warner Brothers cartoon:
I just stumbled upon this demo of Procreate brushes being used to emulate 1950's cartoon backgrounds. I don't know anything about these brushes but apparently they are digital and can get very expressive results:
2 different versions of a very creative Warner Brothers cartoon:
Caitlin's artshare post
Hi Ms. Hom,
As I was researching through ted talks to see if any would relate to the surrealist project I was working on, I cam across a playlist of videos called, "Art Made of Unusual Stuff". Watching the videos from this playlist I was inspired by how people used things such as chocolate to create amazing unique art.
Also, during classes when I am bored I like to draw on my hands with a sharpie or black pen and I came across this video on youtube of a guy that is teaching others how to draw on his hand. But I found it interesting how he doesn't really put much time into what he was drawing and he kept the pen/sharpie moving.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Kat's artshare blog
Hi Ms.Hom,
I picked this video because I really was intrigued by the abstract painting because it reminds me of the surrealism my next project. Making things not how they would be a normal setting. Like the colors in the video electric blue hair instead of a common color for a hair.
Thanks so much,
-Kat Cummings
Mae's artshare blog
Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGUPZH596E
I chose a video of underwater time lapse because when I decided to do a ceiling tile of my own perception of underwater, I wanted inspiration. This video shows the time lapse of an underwater scene that I took into great account when making my own and was inspired by this.
Zoe's artshare blog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZks0BCCiw
This first art share video is of a pop out painter. She paints living people so that they blend in with the painting. I think it's really cool and shows that you can make anything your canvas if you really put your mind to it.
I usually don't like abstract paintings as much as realistic ones, but this speed paint video changed my mind. The abstract painting came out beautiful and really made me want to look at it.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Caroline's artshare post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emYikr6OtpE&sns=em
This is a video of someone drawing a dog. It's cool to me because of all the details in the fur and nose. It's similar to the drawing I just finished :)
This is a video of someone drawing a dog. It's cool to me because of all the details in the fur and nose. It's similar to the drawing I just finished :)
Friday, March 10, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Watercolor Mistakes
Since art 2 is working with watercolor, I thought that this video points out mistakes that we should avoid.
Color Theory
Since we are working with paint, I thought that this video shows how to correctly mix colors according to the color theory.
Brandon's artshare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIr-vtgO4D8
I like this video because of his use of color, and the transparency in the butterfly's wing.
If anyone is wondering about copics, I found this very helpful when I was first starting to use them.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Katherine's artshare post
This shows how encaustic pigments are made. It's important to understand your medium and this provides insight upon the history of it.
This is a link to a video on photo transfers to encaustic. This is a good way to incorporate collages and other mixed media pieces into encaustica.
These are all a great example of mixed media art that involves magazine collaging. What I love about this mixed media is that is can be so different depending on the use of different sizes and shapes of magazine pieces and it really defines the piece. Each of these pieces utilize a similar theme but all have such different feels to them, I think that using this media along with a paint medium could really add character to a piece and this character can easily be controlled by the tones, sizes and shapes of the magazine pieces.
Ryan's Artshare
Interesting use of modeling clay and a gerbil cage... I've been looking into different ways of carving out roots for my surrealism project, and while this would not be the ideal way to do it, this could be an interesting side project if you wanted to play around with clay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AtAzrAjp0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AtAzrAjp0w
Monday, March 6, 2017
Modern Surrealisim
Video creativity from Japanese video artist Koichiro Tsujikawa:
https://vimeo.com/12046685
And another video (this one was made for the musician Cornelius's music track):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbKFSAE4thY
https://vimeo.com/12046685
And another video (this one was made for the musician Cornelius's music track):
Juried art exhibition
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