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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Thoughts of Light in the Dark, A 20-hour drawing proposal

   While I enjoy drawing, photography is my true passion. I would like to complete a twenty-hour photographic drawing. I will document my progression with a single still of the entire hour, two hour, or thirty minute segments. I will be drawing with penlights, flashlights and ambient light within the frame of my 35mm film camera. I have been working with coating a light sensitive material onto glass plates, which creates a painterly texture in the final images. By the end of the project I hope to create a 3D “model”, giving the drawings a space of their own.
    The artists Herakut have a style that combines gestural and expressionist execution with fine detail graffiti art. I love the giant scale that they work with and wish to push my own art in this direction.  

   Ellen Berkenblit’s work reminds me that it can be good to just let go and allow the ideas to work through to the paper on its own. When it comes to placing pen to paper, there is usually a gigantic roadblock that I have to hurdle over in order to complete anything that I have set out to do. While the simplicities of Ellen’s figure work bothers me, I cannot help but appreciate her use of colors, and how she is able to embrace the sometimes halting strokes and uncontrolled drips within her work.

   Heather Hansen is a great example of throwing your whole body into the experience of creating art. Her work is large, simplistic, and feminine.


   I am looking forward to this 20 hour drawing because it will give me a chance to set aside the intensions of the eye and the hand, and let my entire body have control. This will, in a sense, give me even more expression of freedom due to the fact that I am not able to see the “lines” that I have laid down. All I can do is make a mark and move along. Yippee!

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Discovery Artist, Not-So-Admirable Artist, and FAVORITE Artist

Miranda Marie McFarland
Advance Drawing
February 25, 2014
20 Hour Proposal

An artist that I have recently discovered over the internet, goes by the name of Karla Mialynne. What I found really fascinating was how lively her drawings are--with such little and basic materials. The materials Mialynne uses are mostly color pencil--and with that she is able to create such vibrant-realistic-spacious art work. On top of it all, Karla Mialynne combines intriguing subject matter; such as the feathers of a majestic bird for the hair of a beautiful women.



It's hard to think of an artist that I dislike, because I love all artist that put forth into their own creativity--which makes me always find something to admire. But if I had to pick an artist it would be Salvator Mundi from the Byzantine Era (330-1487 AD). The reason I picked Mundi is because I come to realize his flat style, repetitive subject matter, and also the lack of depth his art work has. But you have to remember that all of the above is not his fault but the fault of the world; the flat-iconic-long-nosed style was the style of all artist in that era, the repetitive subject matter of the Christian Bible was the only subject matter that the artists could work with--considering the fact that the Churches had all the money to commission the artist, and finally most artist were actually trying to display depth and dimension into their art work, but unfortunately linear perspective wasn't discovered till the Italian Renaissance by Filippo Brunelleschi.



Strangely, I am also finding it hard to pick out my FAVORITE artist, but going back to my art history class I can always remember the impact of Joseph Mallord William Turner ( also known as J.M.W Turner). There is something about his paintings that causes great emotion for me--it's like I can feel HIS own emotion through his powerful strokes ( yet settle at the same time) and his brilliant color coordination. It is phenomenal. No artist has ever been able to cause such a cooling-effect, and this is what all artist wish to achieve, right? Well, Turner executes this perfectly with me, and don't even get me started on his self-portrait...





20 hr. Drawing Project




Billy Richardson


20 hour Drawing Proposal 

Alex Grey: Oil on linen

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David Walker: Spray paint/ Street art

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 Peter Halley: Acrylic on canvas


     While reading and studying each of these artist styles of painting, I have understood more about myself and what I like to see created with certain mediums. Alex grey pays extreme attention to detail and every piece has simple figures drawn in; mostly human bodies, then he paints them in; down to the anatomy while incorporating the visuals he has had from LSD and DMT trips. His style is very unique and it draws attention to every corner of the page. I really want to use his style of detail with patterns and possibly the anatomy as whole. David walker creates a portrait, but surrounds the images with distinct colors and patterns that make the hair of the subject in the portraits. Halley used basic shapes that didn’t create exciting images for me, they were boring. I did like the color blends he used because they can somewhat match the styles of Grey and Walker.
       My project proposal will consist of an Elderly Wizard Staff that has a lot of detail throughout the grain. At the top will be a marble with glaring reflections “subtle”.  The bottom will split into roots of a tree that will form into the hair of the Wizard. His face will be gestured forward “chin towards his chest and pupils gazing below his eye-brows” with a lot of shading and wrinkles. The negative space towards the top of the piece will be clouds. Lighting will be focusing from the marble on the staff directing towards all four corners of the page. I could possibly create some pattern in the sky. The Wizard is creating an image that your brain is still the root to any creation.
       I want to draw the image I have created on a 18inx20in area of canvas or linen after I black it out with spray paint then use light pencil gestures clarifying the image I am creating before going into detail with paint and other mediums.
  Pencil, Black-white-purple-blue spray paint, Acrylic paint, and maybe white charcoal in some areas.
       I work best with water colors but want to explore acrylic paint since the majority of the piece will detailed in with that medium. I want to work on this 8 hours a week outside of class and need to construct drafts and references for facial wrinkles.





At a very young age I became fascinated with cars and design. I would draw all sorts of sleek looking cars throughout elementary school and middle school. As I became more interested in physics I started to understand some design elements and how they would affect a cars performance. I have not drawn a car in years but I think its time to rekindle my interest. I will be using a combination of pencil, charcoal and marker to create a layering and shadowing effect. This drawing will be done on a 18x24 piece of fine toothed paper. I do not wish to add color to my drawings to maintain a simple schematic style drawing.


I have always been fascinated by the meticulous accuracy of Pinafarina's drawings. He is regarded to be the most influential car designer of all time. As a staple of Ferrari's design team, Pinafarina combined an early understanding of aerodynamics and engineering. He understood how a car would drive before it was even built. I can only hope my drawing will be as clean and methodical as his. 

Chip Foose is the one of the top car designers and custom builders of this century. He is renowned for taking classic cars and manipulating them to customize their look and stance. By doing this he creates incredible one off hot rods that perform as well as they look. His drawings start off with pencil and are finished with markers and a close attention to lighting. The detail in his lighting is what sets his drawings apart from just technical drawings. His drawings are considered art themselves.


Jason Rushforth sucks. He uses marker to depict his visions of a car project. His finished products don't have the same pop that most of the car world strives for. His drawings don't look planted and they have a floating and juvenile effect. More than likely this is what my drawing will end up looking like. 

Monday, February 24, 2014

Crystal Phan: 20 Hours Drawing Proposal

'Complex but Simple'

I will do any blank canvas what I have own with any size. I rather continue to use any materials what I have for "recycling" art. I will use any vary of medium like pencil, colors, markers, sharpies or whatever I have. I want to do collage with any kind of materials like mixed media. I also want to add the words but don't think about it yet. I often take many images without words on it before. So for this project, I like to be including my own words on my canvas.

For three artists:
  • Ashley Shaffer - She mostly do drawing with markers and sharpies. Her artworks are more likely visual art that can be including any Deaf world (culture, language, and community). For example, Chuck Baird did paint on the canvas that represents Deaf worldwide. 
  • Allison Cantrell - pencil drawing. My favorite drawing of her art and it looks almost photography.
  • Gail Devine - I dislike mostly of her artworks except collage artworks because they kind of looks little silly to me. For collage artworks, I like these in some way.
PS I put links on highlight of artists' name above.

Friday, February 21, 2014

Stephanie Campbell's Twenty Hour Drawing Proposal: My Travels

Stephanie Campbell
Drawing 411
02-20-2014
Twenty Hour Drawing Proposal: My Travels
            Incorporating my sense of place and perspective, I will draw the locations that I come across in my travels in my immediate life. I plan to highlight subjectively, by emphasizing the presence of certain aspects of that landscape and fading out the elements that I do not necessarily associate with. I will most likely be drawing from photos, some of which I may have already taken, but also some that I will initiatively go out and take in order to draw as reference. This will be an interesting experiment in terms of what I will want to draw from memory, and what the reference photo will help to reveal to me due to its objectivity.
            Enrique Martinez Celaya’s use of various mediums and atmospheric impression I feel he can present to the viewer, is a part of the installation experience that I enjoy in his work. I like the far-fetched correlations the figures have towards each other, and the tension that the various elements have on each other. These things are all coming from an interdisciplinary piece, though I really respect the energy it creates, and so I plan to invest in some of that.

            Elizabeth Murray’s use of color and line gives off a childish playfulness, and resemble maps, both of which are principles of my art. I find replicating my childhood places extremely satisfying, and am trying to fulfill this desire to grasp a fuller understanding of my life as it develops, by mapping out, or drawing the areas that have significance for me. The flatness and lack of any interesting texture or variation of color is still something that I do not find attractive in Murray’s work, and so I will stay away from that.

               Tara Donovan’s technique of accretion, repeating the same shape or piece over and over to create a new and dynamic piece that carries a little life is something that I may attempt to use. The repetition of a line or shape to forecast an image into existence in an illusion of space and weight, is something that I think I will be interested to try. I really enjoy the materials Donovan uses, too. Taking something as simple as a button is a little overwhelmingly simple, though it is able to fabricate an existence by multiplying itself into a form that buttons would never be thought to take.
  

Thursday, February 20, 2014

20 Whole Hours

For my 20 hour drawing I will be focusing on a human face. I am interested in this form right now, mostly in ceramics, but I would like to expand my use of the face in different art practices. I really enjoy being able to tweak the form of the face to fit my preference; I do not usually attempt to create a completely realistic face. For this face, I am interested in rendering a type of facial feature that can be exaggerated, for example wrinkles. I plan on making this drawing with charcoal on approximately a 20”x20” (If Not Bigger) piece of gesso covered cardboard. The human face is really interesting to me and I am excited to pursue this form and expand my knowledge of it. http://www.wesleytwright.com/#!AUTONOMOUS/zoom/c146x/image12wd http://www.tiptoland.com/2012.html http://www.etsy.com/listing/177557363/walter-white-breaking-bad-sculptural?ref=shop_home_feat_3