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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Clay Pieces, Hybrids & Stencils

Clay Pieces

Fist

Scissors

Hybrids

Hybrids using Hot Wheels logo, nut and hand

Stencils

Cut out stencils

Cut out stencils

Spray painted stencils

Spray painted stencils

Spray painted stencils

Spray painted stencils

Spray painted stencil design

Spray painted stencil design

Spray painted stencil design

Spray painted stencil design on t-shirt

Spray painted stencil design

Cut out stencils




Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Painted Word

 Modern styles- fauvism, futurism, cubism, expressionism, orphism, supermatism, vorticism

Georges Braque

Photo-Realism

Robert Bechtle

Richard Estes

12/3 Lecture

paints 1950s-1960

abstract expressionism

Jackson Pollock- "Jack the Dripper"

hard edge, op, pop

pop art

Andy Warhol

Marcel Duchant

Representational Form

Gesture drawings using cardboard, bolt and ink dropper.  I create a lot of gesture drawings and a lot of them are not like the picture I chose, but they represent it in some way. 

High contrast drawings using ink dropper, bolt and sharpie.  I drew these very quickly and then went threw them and made changes to make them more of a high contrast.

Silhouette drawings using sharpie and spray paint.  I spray painted the stencil on the paper as well as drew the silhouettes.  

Geometric drawings using sharpie.  I chose to draw all of these because it was simple and easiest to get a near perfect geometric shape.

Stencils using spray paint.  I cut out the stencil on transparencies then spray painted them onto paper.  I think the stencils themselves look cool with the dried paint on them.  I could get 2 marks by spraying the stencil and then flipping it over on another sheet of paper to get the inverse.  The two designs for each stencil turned out different from each other

Hybrid logos using sharpie.  I combined my hand, Hot Wheels logo and bolt to create a logo

xerox print logos 

picture logos

xerox prints of hand

xerox prints of nuts and bolt

black and white pictures

color pictures

Thursday, December 2, 2010

11/19 Lecture and Reading on Contemporary Photography

Some Photographers

Ansel Adams- 1940s classic black and white photographer

Henri Cartier-Bresson- he waited to for the right moment to capture the best photo possible

Cindy Sherman- she used self portraits and play acting for photos

Ouiji- usually first on a scene to get a tabloid type shot such as a murder scene.

Sherry Levine- took a picture of a picture and then claimed it as her own work.

Thomas Devanz- builds paper models of different scenes for his photos

Wolfgang Tillmans- took non-professional type pictures of family and friends and didn't scrap any of them.

Jeff Wall- used life size pictures of artwork to make it feel like you were actually looking at the piece.

Monday, November 29, 2010

Sontag Writing Assignment

            This picture was taken for fun in Branson, Missouri on our yearly vacation.  We went to the Landing to shop, while we were there everyone took pictures and this is probably my favorite.  Photos like these me remember the fun times I’ve had with my family.  Also how my Grandma and my girlfriends Grandma became friends.  This photo is meant to be seen by anyone and forever to remember these two people.


This photo was part of my senior pictures.  I like it because jet skiing is one of my favorite things to do with my family.  The picture will remind people of that for years.  The photographer didn’t have much of an emotional relationship with this subject since she is a professional photographer and sees many different subject matters.   I had this picture printed in a wallet size to give out to several people so they could look at it whenever and however long they want.  


This picture was taken to capture a person in flight or falling.  I am sure that there was some type of relationship between the skydivers and the photographer because they would have to trust each other to get that close to take the picture and have probably been do that together for a while.  This type of photo was probably intended to get a quick reaction from a person by the skydivers facial expressions and then move on.  

Self Portrait Representational Photos

Whole Object


Lines


Shapes


Color


Surface Texture


Depth/Space


Rhythm or Repetition


Balance


Dramatic Lights/Darks


Closure


Negative Space


Positive Space


Exaggerated Scale


Object as an Abstraction


Object in Motion