"Figure Drawing 2" Mixed media (watercolor, pastels) on paper 15.5" x 22", 2009. Drawn from life "Figure Drawing 3" Mixed media (pencil and charcoal) on paper 18" x 24", 2009. Drawn from life "Figure Drawing 1" Mixed media (watercolor, pastels) on paper, 14" x 22", 2009. Drawn from life
In the last critique, my art class and I agree on the fact that my experiementation and use of color blur the lines between in progress and finished art pieces. For my art piece, I am using this observation acrylic painting to challenge me in producing finished art piece and mixing colors to protray the still-life of the squashes.
The critique included the walnut series piece, metal drwaing, independent art piece, and 2 figure drawing. The senior visual artist agree that many of my art pieces evoke expression of movement and how the object showed energy. However, I agree that I still need to work on the experimentation part of art and try to control the use of color.
For my independent art project, I am working around the theme of foods and relating this project to my senior grant. My senior grant proposes a program that provides information about organic foods to 8 Boston Public high school student. One of the visual arts activities that the group will participate in is called Food Art. In the Food Art activity, the group will experiment with using organic produce as a medium for art making. In this project, I am applying this activity to my art project and experimenting with different produce such as coffee, tea, hibiscus flowers, turmeric, beets, and spinach. With the produce, I am changing its form in liquid to experiment in 18" x 24"painting. This project and the senior grant are ways that I am addressing environmental and health issues to a community of students who live in Boston.
The content and composition of my drawing is very successful because of the different scale of positions of the object, but in my drawing the objects duplicates too much that the details of the metal does not show as clearly.