Essence James Public Feed
Final Project
Artist Statement
I created batman and used the colors red white and blue. I think I liked the contradiction; batman is known to be black but he is a variety of colors in my painting. I was hoping to show the people who view my work how you can play with colors and change the way things are “supposed” to be viewed. I think that’s exactly what my painting communicates to the viewer too. I think that I did achieve my overall goal to show the people who are viewing my work something unique that you wouldn’t see or really think about. I think it goes against what’s considered the “norm.” I think that this project did kind of relate to my first color wheel. The objective of both of these works of art were to show how you can use a few colors and get the result of several different colors that blend together differently and nicely. Looking at the website provided, I don’t believe that my work really relates to contemporary art.
It was a multiple step process in order to come up with the final result of my work. First I had to pick three colors. I chose red blue and white; I believed they would work together nicely and create a nice purple, the white white making it a more lavender color. The one only inspiration I really had for this drawing was a picture of batman I had saw. Then is when I decided that’s what I would draw. I think my art reflects in the world we live in by showing that it’s okay to be different and go against expectations to be different. People can use that idea in their life to inspire them to be themselves. There isn’t necessarily a right or wrong way to do this. You have to experiment with colors and decide what you think would work best for you as an individual. I think this project did indeed teach me how to paint better though.
Essence Artist Statement
I chose to create this art because I thought that it would be unique. I had two different pieces art and looking at them I really liked the way they worked together. I have a love for eyes and flowers, I never thought it’d look nice to combine them. I just wanted to convey an image that catches the eye and looks nice. I think it communicates that the artist has a love for eyes. I think I achieved the view I was trying to get across. I think since a lot of my pictures are of eyes this one connects to it, but it is also an improved version of my past attempts. My art kind of reminds me of Wolfgang Tilmans. I created two separate pieces of art and attached them together to make one. I first drew the flowers, then the eye. Together they worked well so I decided to make that my final project. I didn’t have any inspiration from anyone other than myself. It doesn’t really reflect the world we live in. I guess it shows how there is art and beauty in things that you wouldn’t think would make sense. Maybe my art can influence others to try to make something that doesn’t necessary makes sense, but still reflects themselves into the work. The shading was an important part of my work. It adds to the effect for me somehow. I learned a lot more about shading and texture making this. (blending as well)
Essence's Artist Statement
My Artist Statement
I created an eye, I’m not sure why I did it just appealed to me. I think it kind of shows the different colors that we see throughout the day and how they light up our eyes. I also think this painting really outlines the beauty of vision that many take for granted, and I hope that’s what people see when they view this painting. I hope they find it creative and see it how I do. In past art Ive worked on, I always hoped to outline and enhance whatever I was doing. I believe that’s what I did with this eye; I took something simple and used colors to enhance and embrace its inner beauty.
This painting fits in with contemporary art because it's showing a color wheel and how artist learn to mix different colors to make new ones. My art fits into the history of art practices because it demonstrates how the pioneers of art first learned how to mix colors. I don't feel as though my art necessarily fits into a category because my past art projects have never been with paint or anything relatively in this category. I didn't have one source of inspiration for my images, after looking through several of images online and work by different artist like
Frida Kahlo, I came up with my idea. One technique that was important for my drawing was making streaks in one direction. This was essential to keeping my paining looking neat.
Basically this was an important project for me because I learned how to manage my painting better. This project helped me notice how to capture somethings beauty and elevate it and I overall enjoyed it and learned a lot from it as a whole. Next time I have a project I hope to improve it even more.
