MEDIA: Watercolor on paper
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This is a collage of sorts in that the subject came from combining a number of photographs together.
MEDIA: Watercolor on paper |
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This was a class assignment in which we had to paint an abstract (although my teacher doesn't know what abstract means, since this is based on objects), so it is more expressionistic than anything else. It is supposed to represent computer art vs. fine art. A classmate of mine loved it until I told him what it was about, then he didn't like it at all. He thought it was about Dumbo, the elephant. I told him that was fine, if he saw Dumbo in there, but of course his mind had been switched to where he couldn't find Dumbo anymore. I don't think it is necessary for artists to explain their art, that whatever the viewer sees in it is what is important. MEDIA: Oil on canvas |
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My Jackson Pollock imitation. I did another one on a piece of glass, and while I was dripping
the paint, a bee landed on the glass and crawled through the paint, leaving interesting patterns.
I felt sorry for the bee, but there wasn't much I could do to save it.
I titled that one, "Death Dance of the Bumblebee."
MEDIA: Latex house paint on masonite. |
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I included this one because it is the only piece I've done with oil pastels.
I love the media, and I would like to experiment with it again sometime.
I'm more of a drawer than a painter, so I enjoy the tactile feel of using oil
pastels along with the painterly look. I saw a wonderful art opening recently
in which an artist used oil pastels, and her work looked like it had been done with oil paints.
This is a portrait of my sister . . . not a close likeness except the phone in her hand;
when we were teenagers, she would have gotten a telephone implant if it had been available.
MEDIA: Oil pastels on paper |
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If this hadn't been an art assignment, I never would have had the patience to finish it!
The assignment was to take a minute portion of a photograph and recreate that portion (in any media)
using the pointillism technique. So, this entire piece is made up a series of thousands of
individual dots of color. It wouldn't have been so bad, if I could have finished it
over a long time span, but I had only a week. It took me about 30 hours, and toward the end,
I started to place dots to the tune of Beetoven's 5th symphony, just to keep going, and I ended
up going to a physical therapist when I was done to take care of the numbness in my right
hand from creating this piece (thank you Seurat!). Later, I started another picture using
pointillism, but I didn't have the patience to finish it.
MEDIA: Pastel on paper |
| and well, this is the pointillism picture I didn't have the patience to finish,
my son Beau with bat in hand at a Little League game. As I look at it now, I'm not sure what
isn't finished about it, but at the time I was "dotting" it and finally gave up,
I felt it wasn't anywhere near completion.
MEDIA: Pastel on paper |
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