week 16-special edition blog

For the end of the class we were required to make a trip to a local gallery, so I went to the Beverly Art Center.  Alot of the work there was very interesting and cool to know that it is local.  I took pictures of three works of art that inspired me in different ways, and here they are:

I like this one because of the simple yet 3-D style.  It inspires me to want to learn more ways of art.

This one is very interesting.  It somewhat looked like an old photograph.  The texture was also very cool and inspired me to want to learn more about paint and the effects it can create.

I also really like this.  The simplicity is what makes it intriguing.  It inspires me not to look so deep into my artwork and that it doesn't always have to be extremely perfect and detailed, but sometimes the imperfection is what makes it so artistic.

week 15-special edition blog

These are pictures that I took at the Art Museum in Chicago.  I took a few pictures, and chose these three because of the extreme detail in each work of art, which makes them intrigueing.

 

 

And this is a picture of me pouting in the rain in front of the museum to prove to Nathan that I actually went :)

week 14

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/computer-graphics-art-using-technology/8018985   :)

week 13

For my magazine cover, I chose to use pink because I like that color.  I could not think of a creative title, so I went with "Computer Graphics: Art Using Technology."  I chose some of the pictures I like the most to use on the cover, and then I wrote about which category of the magazine the images were a part of and on what pages that category could be found.

week 12

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

week 11

For these three drawings, I used the paintbrush tool for the stroke of each one.  However, for one drawing the dog is in the kitchen with a food dish because she is fat, lazy, and likes to eat.  The second drawing includes the dog and her food dish, but blown up to look even larger.  This is to emphasize just how large the dog is and how much she enjoys her food.  There is also a garbage can in the background to explain that the dog likes to get into the garbage, too.  The last drawing is of the dog lying on a blanket on someone's lap.  The concept of this drawing is to suggest that she is very lazy.  While the composition of each one of the drawings varies, there are a few similarities in the craft and concept of each illustration.  For example, the brush stroke of each drawing is the same because I like the way it looks.  Each drawing is also made up solely of black and white.  I think that color would have taken away from what I was trying to emphasize and would change the sketchy look of the illustrations.  Last, Each drawing involves the dog, which is the main thing being portrayed in each piece of work.

week 10

Teapots:

Craft:For this particular teapot illustration I used the paintbrush stroke.  To show the darker spots of the vase or teapot, I drew more black lines.

Concept: I wanted to stay away from using color because I did not like how it looked when I put color in there.

Composition:I did not put a background because I like how it looks without one and the vase is the only focus of the picture.

Craft: I started with the background and used the pen tool to illustrate everything.  I also used the fill and eyedrop tools to fill in the objects with color.

Concept: I kept everything simple so that it looked less realistic and I could get everything in the illustration faster.

Composition: For this one I put the teapot in a space and illustrated the background because that was the purpose of the assignment.

Craft: I used the paintbrush tool again and started with illustrating the teapot and then started to illustrate the rest.

Concept: I used the paintbrush tool because I like the way it makes the teapot look.  I kept it in black and white because the teapot was white and I just wanted the outline to be black.

Composition: I was not able to finish the background in time, so I left it like this,

My purse!

The three pictures of my object all have three things in common.  They are that the purse is in there, the background remains the same, and each one has the same stroke.  However I varied them by playing with and switching around the color of different objects.