My painting originally started out as a sketch I drew outside of school.  I really liked it so I decided to make it my painting. I am not sure if I necessarily had an overall vision of how the finished product would turn out.  I think my work communicates patience and effort for my viewers.  I could only use three color and I had to shade everything correctly.  Something I feel I achieved was learning how to shade better and limit myself to all colors.  I feel this work compares to other work I have done in the past because the bright colors.  Something I like to do is paint with bright colors.  Contemporary art is ard produced in this day and age.  By doing some research I found an artist who did a similar piece to mine. She painted some lemons in a jar.http://ind5.ccio.co/PB/g6/W2/38c342a6b70dc8f200f8ee49dcc91328.jpg  

I chose this piece because they were both of fruit and had similar shadings to mine and they were both pictures of fruit.  Also thread the sketch then I traced it onto a harder canvas top colors used were similar to mine. The first thing I did was make a color chart of the three colors I used.  This showed how each color would look mixed with one another.  I then traced my drawing onto a canvas to start painting.  Then I painted, I made sure the shading was right to make it look more realistic.  I did not really have inspiration to paint this.  I just saw the pic online and tried recreating it.  I feel my work reflects the world we live in because it represents holding on to the important things.  I feel an apple can represent  It makes an impact on the world because it shows the simple beauty in everyday objects.  A technique that is really important to the work is shading.  Before I shaded my hands and apple looked weird and unrealistic.  Adding the shading really made them pop.  Something I learned was how to shade better and make things look more 3 dimensional.  I am really glad I got to do this project.  It made me explore what just three colors have to offer.  They do a lot more than you think.  Also I got to paint one of my favorite sketches and see it turn into a beautiful piece of artwork.  

Artist Statement

I created this because I’ve noticed that I like creating hard-surface models more than organic surfaces just because it’s more fun to me even if it’s less like actual sculpting. My overall vision for the piece was a take on a vic viper (a ship with two long prongs in the front and a large engine in the back.) I’d hope this is a properly conveyed science fiction ship. Through this piece I taught myself more on reflections and lighting to create interesting pieces and i’ve gotten much better at it.

The method I used to create this was the same as everything else i’ve made, but essentially I did as follows:

1. Use basic shapes, and adjust the camera for an interesting angle

2. Use primitive shapes to block out shape of vehicle

3. Delete the primitive shapes and replace them with detailed parts

4. Create shader to give it an interesting texture (I actually made this shader as a product awhile ago)

5. Experiment with lights in the scene for clean and interesting reflections

6. Fix reflections in Krita, and do final post editing there.

My piece as it stands compared to the people I look up to is just completely out classed in all fields. Things like Modeling, Texturing, Shading and lighting. The piece that I made doesn’t reflect the world i’m in or anything deep like that, nor my experiences but it’s just something i’m passionate about (Science Fiction).

I created this artwork because I wanted to do something I knew I could do, but also push my limits. I didn’t want to push my limits too much, but enough for me to learn from this art piece, creating a new perspective for myself. I hoped to create a one point perspective and a value, line texture, drawing all into one piece. I was hoping to improve as an artist, and with this piece I know I did improve. I think to the viewer they see a nice art piece that is well drawn and detailed. This art piece relates to my previous artwork because it has my style of drawing. My style is sloppy esque type of drawing where it looks sloppy, but very neat and organized. Another artist I would compare myself to is Dylan Cale Jones, his art has that same sloppy esque style of art. Yet, it’s still able to pertain the very organized feel and aspect.

To create this work I looked for how I can make my value, line, and texture drawing unique. I decided to make it a one point perspective drawing from a room. Every time I made this drawing it came out crooked or one part was too hard to make. In the end, I chose to make a hallway and the sunlight coming through the windows on the wall to create my value.

http://bengalarts.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

My work reflects on my life because you see how the hallway has two entries where light comes in and there are dark areas, that is my life basically. I have both positive and negative things going on in my life, and I think that the idea of the dark and the light really sums it up. I don’t really think that my art is good enough to impact the world, but if it did then it could start a trend of the sloppy style. The technique of lining up and making sure every line fits is very important. The rays of light have to line up with the things in the room to create the shade which also includes lines. Unfortunately I didn’t learn any new techniques while working on this piece.

I created this work to focus more on the background. I always focus on the centerpiece and never put enough dedication to the background. I thought this would be a perfect chance to be able to do such things.While creating this work, I wanted people to understand some of the things that can associate with a person without the actual face. I feel like I wanted the background to speak for itself without the help of the centerpiece for once. I will honestly admit that some people could be confused if they don’t understand the character or seen the show, so I would say it’s the clearest communication for the viewers. However, for people who do recognize the show, then they will understand. I think I achieved ( well as far as I know) blending the colors well together as well as bring das detailed as possible for the background.It relates only in terms of it having an Anime theme, but it’s still different as in how I colored it. In terms of contemporary art, I would use the image of Kay Bradner artwork called Crew of Four  because we did very similar things. For both of are images, we wanted the background to talk for itself rather than the people in it.  The background for both can also has color that is can attract the viewer due to vibrant/soothing colors. ( https://www.artsy.net/artwork/kay-bradner-crew-of-four )

Before actually making my artwork, I had searched for a character to draw and I made sure to practice on drawing the image, especially since I was drawing it on a much smaller space than I’m used to( as in size). The I took my time to draw my sketch on the canvas and I colored that part in black for the silhouette. Afterwards, I colored in the background and started to create pieces that that would represent the character and I kept going until I was satisfied. I wouldn’t really say that my work reflects the world that we live in, but in my own life it does. The reason why is because it represents a show that I really enjoy as well as a character that I enjoy a lot. The character is a person who knows what he wants and works hard for his goals and struggles to make himself better in the future, which is something that I see as important.My artwork can’t really make a big impact on the world in any way and I purposely didn’t make it for that reason. I made this work to influence to simply do better in everything, including my skills in art now. I believe that blending in a drawing is important to do especially when you are using different colors and you want the image to almost seem realistic in a way. I feel like if you can blend the colors together, it gives such a great look to the artwork when you do so.I don’t believe that there‘s something in particular that new that I experienced for this project and I sticked to things that I know well and trusted myself with. The only thing new was the strong focus on the background more than the center image.

Overall, I believe that this project that I created was enjoyable to do and I feel as though this project was more so made to be relaxing. I didn’t create something that was going to be difficult for me to do, but moreso something to just home into  basic art skills which I found soothing. I also created art that would moreso relate to me and understood by few, while other might have a difficult time to understand it, which I think is completely fine. I'll probably say that this isn’t my best work, but I believe that it’s still good art. However, I do know next time, I will truly challenge myself to do something better and hope for it to better than my previous artwork.

Links of references below

http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Renji_Abarai_vs._Byakuya_Kuchiki

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CherryBlossoms

I chose to do Limited Palette Painting project because it was a challenge for me. It was a challenge because of the thought of using only 3 colors to do a painting was different from how I usually do work with paint. When I chose to do this project I looked at examples of people's work that used only using 3 colors. I saw a pattern with people doing lots of nudes/skin tone so that kinda gave me an idea in how to make a ballerina. I know that ballerinas dresses can be a simple white . This painting was very different and fun to try out.   

My vision for my work was making a ballerina that was the  most realistic and detailed as possible. What I wanted to  communicate to the viewer was the skill of a dancer. In the painting I wanted to capture a moment of her performance when she's standing still before she continues to dance again. I believe that my creation achieved uniqueness. When I was creating this art piece I wanted to make it look its best and stand out from other artists in my classroom. I did that by of course having a different canvas (wood board)  and capturing a ballerina dancer performing  on her tippy-toes.  I believe that my current work does not relate to my previous work because  it had different directions in how I did  the artwork, for example the first art piece was on making a color wheel and the one that I just did with the ballerina was limited colors only 3. Both projects are very different.  Both art  pieces to relate on the way of using  paint. I believe that MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV and Alli te Espero, 2003  really relate to my artwork.  

In one of the paintings that MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV did called Untitled #7, 2008 is this beautiful simple painting. I has nice mix of grays and blacks and browns that I believe relate to my artwork. I believe that he really captured the movement of the dancer and my art peace didn't really show movement but it should a women in mid air dancing. I really wanted to capture her silhouette and her dance routine in a moment.  In my painting I did not find that the face was important but I wanted expres the body and the movement, you can see she's stopping from a spin. I believe  that this connects to MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV because he doesn't really have her face in the painting at all. In BERNARDO TORRENS art work called Alli te Espero, 2003 , the artwork I think it relates to my art work because in how he has the  same materials that I use such as wood canvas. The naked women has the same hairstyle as my ballerina dancer which is a bun. He uses a women as his artpeace like mine and he focused on skin tone like I had to in my drawing. My process for doing this art piece was starting of the background. I didn't want to use to dark of colors so I decided to do a light gray that would later become dark gray. Then I started to do the wood floors in which the ballerina dancer would later dance in. When I was done with the background I started right away on her dress. I had to experiment a lot on her dress. I noted then that the background was clashing with her white dress so then that's when I changed the background to medium gray. After I changed the background I started to only use the fat pointy brushes for the bottom part of the dress and for the to of her dress I did a small brush that would culet the white paint more and would make it less transparent and much more solid

I looked at lots of examples of artist that did beautiful ballerinas that inspired me to make a balerna, the following link is what I used for my research.https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fimage.shutterstock.com%2Fz%2Fstock-photo-oil-painting-girl-ballerina-drawn-cute-ballerina-dancing-251591584.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shutterstock.com%2Fpic-251591584%2Fstock-photo-oil-painting-girl-ballerina-drawn-cute-ballerina-dancing.html&docid=oOF9IKZhW7khGM&tbnid=LOVuF6YrfCqZ8M%3A&vet=1&w=1500&h=1596&safe=active&bih=631&biw=1366&q=ballerinas%20dancing%20in%20a%20painting%5C&ved=0ahUKEwjcncOhxLbRAhUPelAKHSnsDV0QMwgmKAswCw&iact=mrc&uact=8 and https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fb9%2F04%2F85%2Fb90485527e6a903cf3615f8fee710c2d.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2FKatDoyle1%2Fballet%2F&docid=RuwrmFclv3KEIM&tbnid=NC9h1Y2ya0iyAM%3A&vet=1&w=392&h=550&safe=active&bih=631&biw=1366&q=ballerinas%20dancing%20in%20a%20painting%5C&ved=0ahUKEwjcncOhxLbRAhUPelAKHSnsDV0QMwgpKA4wDg&iact=mrc&uact=8 and https://flamencopaintings.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/irinaw.jpg

How does your work reflect the world you live in? Your own life? Your experiences?

What I enjoyed in doing this art piece was the fact that when I was drawing and painting there was skills that I learned . I had lots of fun with the process and how it would look in the end and I must say that I wasn't completely thrilled with the end result but the experience and the rules for this painting made it worthwhile to me. I went to the Barnes Foundation  this weekend for my dad's birthday and so many paintings that have influenced artist and tourist. I found that people that were looking at the artwork at the Barnes Foundation we're really happy to be there and be surrounded by art. When I should my mom my art work she was very happy with it and I hope to make more art work that later in the future influence people. If the ballerinas tutu was heavy she wouldn't have looked like a ballerina. I learned how to make fabric feel light and fluffy on the wood canvas.

I created this work because I thought it would be a challenge and also because I saw a sandwich in my lunchbox. It ended up being a challenge for sure because I could only mix three starting colors. An example of this is the crust of the sandwich. I couldn’t make a brown, so I had to be creative with which colors I mixed. My overall vision for the work is to make people have more of an appetite when they look at it. I accomplished this with my peer critique partner. My work communicates that food is a necessity to life, so why shouldn’t we make it look and taste good? By doing this, I became more thankful and grateful that I have access to food. I learned how to mix colors when I painted my color triangle. This taught me how to look at the three colors that I started with, white, red, and yellow, with a different light. I am now familiar with more colors as a result.

My work fits in with contemporary art because it is based on a realistic thing, but it is somewhat abstract. I can compare my painting to “Éclair” by Derrick Guild. Some similarities are that both paintings are of food, and both are of something sandwiched between bread. A difference is that his is more realistic and he has cream in the center instead of turkey and cheese. In order to create my artwork, I started with sketching. Then, I painted over the pencil with paint, and I used really light yellow for cheese, yellow for mustard, light pink for turkey, and a really light tan color for the bread. The crust was the most challenging part to come up with a color for, so I used orange primarily, but some red in some spots. This work reflects my own life because I like food, and I like sandwiches. Therefore, painting a sandwich accurately reflects a part of my life.

  In Art 2, I have designed a color wheel with creativity. I decided to turn my color wheel into a girl holding an umbrella. I decided to name it Purple Rain in relations to the late singer, Prince. I thought that would be a really cool idea along with a relative poem. I really did not have a vision I just made decisions as I went. I know that my outline of the wheel could have been neater, that would be the only thing I know I could have fixed and been more careful on. Other than that, based off of my table presentations I think my project was creative. Art is a way of self expression it goes as it comes to mind.

             Contemporary art is basically what today is. My project relates to that by illustrating one of the best late singers death and cooperating it into a project, whom was my inspiration. In these past few years of art, I have experienced using color wheels, but this time I got to put my own creativity into my project including using a different technique. The technique I use was using paint with a knife to create a different pattern.Using techniques is important because when doing art you have to know how and what you are going to use in order to make your project successful.