Gaaahhhhh

I feel overwhelmed. Since i take FOREVER to paint, i have a fear of not being able to finish this project in time and have enough time to work and study for my other classes. The only thing getting me through this week is the thought that winter break is almost herrreeee! :DDD

Quote of the Week

"The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood."- Andre Breton 

 To think surrealistic you must think creatively like a child. If you think about it, we must have made up a million dream-like landscapes in our minds as we were kids without even knowing. To be a surrealistic artist you must channel in with your fun, playful and creative childhood.

Fondazione Bisazza_Experimental Growth, by Arik Levy

So cool! I want to live in this and make it my own cave. Its also very beautiful!

Scientific Landscape Process

Soooo... The polar bear fur wasn't workin for me so I decided to do a close up of a dog's nose instead. The thing is, I had to cut out the polar bear fur that I started to paint. I'm too scared to start painting again so I'm gonna see if I can get help fixing that area.

Surrealism Landscape

3 Concept Board

Chapter 4 Scale/Proportion

1. Love Song by Giorgio De Chirico integrates scale and proportion into this surrealistic piece of art. He creates a large scale of a head and clove and he shows that the proportions are large when put against the round ball. He also shows a small scale of a city to show distance. His use of scale and proportion creates an abnormal and dreamlike landscape with a foreground, middle ground, and background.

2. Proportion is linked to ratio in the notion of ideal geometry. If the ratios are correct then the proportions are correct. The ideal human body, for example, is seven and a half head heights. That would be considered the correct ratio of the body, therefore, that body would be considered proportional.

3. The golden rectangle is the perfectly proportioned rectangle. The Mona Lisa displays the use of the golden rectangle that creates a harmonious and proportional piece.

4.The golden ratio will be my inspiration for my final project. The golden ratio is the mathematical formula for the growth patterns in nature and humans. The idea of an embryo starting to grow into these proportional patterns influenced my project. 

Artist Reference for Surrealistic Landscape

Yves Tanguy is the artist I am using as inspiration for my surrealistic landscape. I will incorporate different objects whose shape is similar to these works. 

Surrealistic Speed Drawing: "Hand"

Two Finished Abstracted Paintings

I finished the second painting but for some reason I like the first one better. I thought turning them would make the robot less recognizable.

Quote of the Week

"The pieces chiefly focus on depicting the human form - each one pensive, still and surreal - an almost stoic quality contrasting the fragile associations connected with the artwork's ingredients."

seated glass figure', 2012
broken glass, resin by Daniel Arsham

This quote points out the irony in this piece of work. The work itself seems very hard and sturdy while the quality of the medium is fragile. It also does have a surreal mood to it. I admire the amount of work and time the artist put into this piece and how many cuts he must have gotten from the glass!

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/24760/shattered-glass-sculptures-by-daniel-arsham.html

First Abstracted Painting

I'm pretty happy the way it came out. The only thing I wish was that it was a little more abstracted because the head of the robot is still recognizable. Overall I got the colors pretty well :D

Textures

Finally finished my actual and implied textures. I really like how the actual textures came out.

Texture Without Colour by Maggie Ayres

I thought this was great to share for this week since we are working with textures in black and white. I now learned after watching this video that different lightings can create different textures.