This piece was a fantastic end to the semester. It was fun to play around with color in the background then make the black seem to pop off the page when I finally put paint to paper. I enjoyed this assignment very much.
I enjoyed creating this oil pastel piece. I thought about value and form when I was drawing. I also decided that the only drawing with a pencil that I would do would be the very light outline of my hands, which I then went over and filled in with pastels of different colors. This piece is intended to represent the memory of my best friend and I at the beach on a hot day swimming in the water. This was definitely my favorite project so far this year. I started by working on the selfie on my iPad to figure out which way my carves and hatching should go. Then, after my practice blocking, I moved on to my full sized lino block. At first I transferred the drawing of my selfie onto the block, then I started carving. I ended up carving one side of my face and the opposite side background on the back side of my block, so I could have parts of the print that were white, some were black, some were red, and some were a combination of those. Then I cut the mat with the help of Ms. H. I tried to put value into all of the carves and it really shows in my matted print. |
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January 2015
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