Project 3

For this series of drawings, I wanted to focus on the obsessiveness of capturing what we see. As artists, we obsess over recreating exactly what we see right onto our canvas. This, however, leads to overworking and overseeing what we are studying and ending up with something that may not be entirely realistic but is still meant to be that object. Each of my drawings involves plants and wildlife from different scenes and angles, but the constant attempt to capture them from these different viewpoints almost leaves the imagery uncertain and left up to the viewer's creativity.

Project 4 Part 3

For the final part of project four, I focused on doing simple gestural lines while still attempting to show the emotion of each person. After taking the line work to the computer to recreate it, I decided against adding any color to each portrait and instead kept them in black and white. I think this helps cause a sense of mysteriousness and lack of knowledge for each subject. Viewers are forced to guess who the person might be, what they might actually look like, what different colors they show, etc.

Project 4 Part 2

For this series, I used plants found in my garden to show the feeling of each of the phrases. I used fast, heavy strokes for the brittle feelings and wanted all the messy lines to be visible. For a softer painting on the second one, I used pastel, washed out colors in a very smooth fashion. For the creepy painting, I wanted to put emphasis on darkness combined with the color red, a color scheme typically used to instill fear. The last painting, the dramatic one, I used vibrant hues with a black overlay, using no washed out colors and letting the vibrancy take over. Each of the edits applied to the paintings is intended to bring the feeling further.