creative endeavors: skyscrapers/cityscapes edition.

for the past couple weeks skyscrapers and cityscapes pretty much took hold of my studies, my artwork, everything, so I thought it would be fun to put some of it together and show you what I've been up to. (admittedly a bit after the fact. recent stuff is soon to come.)

first up I'll show you my transparency design color project. it was pretty time consuming and frustrating and I think it's fair to say that everyone involved had hesitations as to whether it would come out. however, I think it did and it went over very well so I'm okay with all the work that went into it.


next is my wood drawing. this one I was equal parts excited and frustrated with. it went through many stages, with the initial study, the first stopping point, and then this, the final product. I'm pretty attached to it now though.



in the midst of all of this I came across this on little things, and it just made me smile.


AND if all that wasn't enough, I was also writing about this work Apartment Hill by Wayne Theibaud. it's really a pretty terrific piece, and fit in nicely with all my studies of skyscrapers in art history. bam.


and that's all folks.

creative endeavors.

as crazy as it sounds, I think I'm finally bonding with my classes this semester. it's gotten to the point where I actually have enjoyed a project or two. what in the world haha.
anyways here is one of the last design projects I did. we had to take a section of our reference picture and mix pigments to match the colors in it, and then we had to take a section and create four different color harmonies.





then here are the last two drawing projects I finished. the first one with the masks may be one of my favorite works of the whole semester. it's just so bright and fun.



that's all for now.

the one where she shows she's still being creative.

admittedly it's been a while since I've done a creative endeavors post. there's a bit to catch up on, but thankfully I don't even have pictures of it all so this post can't be TOO obscenely long.
first, some of the last few design projects we've worked on, including the finished color temp design. woot!
then the last three drawings I have pictures of.

mounting in progress.

finished! (the colors are off in the picture though, sadly)


then some tedious gouache work.





then the drawings. check out what happens when the sunlight hits a cd and bounces onto a drawing!


and now we're on to pastels!


till next time folks. . .

the day doug cancelled class.

yesterday a terrific thing happened. yep, drawing class was cancelled. it's not that I don't like that class, it's just fantastic to get a break. I still worked on my drawing, and I still went to the lecture that we would have probably gone to as a class, but the pressure was off and it felt great.

here's how my day went:

I spent the morning and some of the afternoon working on my drawing/painting while listening to Les Mis (best).


then I went to a lecture by a sculptor from Paris.


after that we ate dinner on the back porch because it was so nice outside.
and then I spent the evening making my first-ever stencil. it turned out a little messy so I think I'll remake it, but I liked this one enough to cover it in brightly colored dots made with a nerf dart. genius? why yes. basically it was just a lot of fun.




it was a wonderful day.

creative endeavors.

here are a couple of projects I've been working on lately in my studio classes.

first up is the design work. this one is one I showed a peek of before. it's the simultaneous contrast project.
the goal was to: column 1. make one value (dark/light) look like two, column 2. make one hue (color) look like two, and column 3. make one intensity (bright/dull) look like two. the middle square on each column is the same, but changes its appearance based on what it's placed on.



this was a contrast of extension project. we were given four colors and had to create a design where no color had more importance than another using stripes of each.



next is a drawing project I just turned in today. we had to make a structural line drawing on a blueprint. blueprints are fun.
basically we were to use the structure lines as a graphic element in our composition.

creative endeavors.

this first drawing was a "G drawing." we all needed to create a work using only elements that start with G, and it had to be a line drawing. I kinda LOVE how it turned out. especially the golden snitch. =)



the second in this series we got to choose a letter and then create a drawing based on it. I chose B, and it still needed to be a line drawing. I struggled more with this, but I do like how it turned out.
I also have a few pictures to show a couple of it's stages, which I think is fun.

the initial sketch for scale.


filling the lines in dark.


finishing touches to give a more layered effect.


also, 50th post!!

creative endeavors.

one thing I will say for studio classes is that I do enjoy having new artwork every week. I'm not always so motivated on my own, but during the semester, whether I like it or not, I have to make a lot. I'm also terribly happy that even when I hate drawing homework the most, it's still not math or writing stuff. =)

here are some of the things I've been working on recently. . .

this is some still life work we did to work on dynamic line quality:


this is the first drawing we did.
we each got a section of a Durer print to copy, and then in the last half hour we had to make it our own:

this was our first homework drawing. we had to do a diagrammatic drawing of a trap:

this piece is currently being graded, but here's the prelim sketch as a sneak peak:

annnd that's all for now.