In the studio.

I worked as hard as I could today but I wasn't felling very well. I worked on fixing my mounted pieces and getting my design on Bristol board.

I found out I had a low fever when I got home. I'm feeling better now. I finished transferring design. Now I'm ready to start painting! I'm nervous.

Scientific Panel thumbnail

All my inspirations were combined to create this.
I made a lot of changes when I created the to scale drawing.

Visual Research For Scientific Panel

My panel is inspired by elements of nature and the artwork of Takato Yamamoto. My scientific panel is divided in to separate sections like the panels of a comic.

Surrealist Collage

Here is the finished version of my surrealist collage. I added a girl head and some more doves. It looks more surreal now.

Art Quote of the Week

Oscar Wilde

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” - Oscar Wilde

As we begin to create our Scientific Panels we consider surrealistic elements. A major part of surrealism is using the world elements  around you to create your own personal version. Creating artwork is not always about copy the world as you see it but shaping into your of the world vision. In this process a person become an artist.

Chapter 4: Scale and Proportion

Reading/Writing Assignment: Design Basics: Chapter 4 Scale/Proportion:

• Find a surrealistic painting form the previous guide, and describe the following about the artwork:

Dorothea Tanning
Ein klein nachtmusik
1946; "A little night music"

How is scale and proportion integrated into a surrealistic piece of art? Describe the effect?

Scale and proportion are integrated into this work by the use of the exaggerated scale of the sunflower in proportion to the girls and the interior of the house. The large scale of the sunflower give the painting a dreamlike effect.

• Discuss proportion and the notion of ideal geometry in a composition. Give an example

Proportions in art are created when the size of thing is judge against another such as in figure drawing. In figure drawing the the head is used to measure proportions of the body.
Ideal geometry are forms created that have ideal proportion they are based on mathematical ratios created by the ancient Greeks
An example of of this is the golden mean which is width is to length as length is to length plus width.
(Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue
1921; Oil on canvas)
Piet Mondrian used the golden ration within his paintings to create rectangles

• What is the golden rectangle and give an example of it’s use in a composition

The golden rectangle is an ideal rectangle created with the golden ratio,
The golden rectangle was used to create the Parthenon

• Discuss your current final project and what will be your inspiration

The current and final project is the Scientific Panel which must include a golden ration, a macrocosm and a microcosm. The main inspiration for my project was instead of creating a piece that flowed together, I wanted to create a panel separated into pannel like a comic in the within the golden rectangle.
The theme of my panel is nature along with strange surrealist juxtapositions

Write about how what you have read relates to your final project

This reading relates to my current project because I will be using the golden ratio to divide my Scientific panel. Scale and proportion will be used to create a macrocosm of a forest and small individual microcosms.

Digital Surreal Landscape Collage

Here is my Digital Surreal Landscape Collage so far. The concept of this collage is a a dreamlike desert landscape.

Featuring various stock images and a Hans Bellmer doll.

Art Quote of the Week

Francis Bacon 

Triptych, May–June 1973, 1973. Oil on canvas

Figure with Meat (1954) Oil on canvas

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

—	Francis Bacon

I choose this quote because it is translates literally to what we are learning in class. In class we are doing realistic drawings and using them to create abstracted design. In the process abstraction we create an visual mystery for the viewer.

Abstraction of an Object

The current project in design class is to abstract an realistic object to create 3 painted design which show figure and ground relationships. 

I choose a key as my object. Before making the abstracted design we did realistic drawings of the objects. 

Here is my key drawing done in my sketchbook.

Next a section of the drawing was chosen with  viewfinder.

The section was traced on a grid and enlarged by hand and transferred on 8 inch square Bristol paper.

The designs had to be painted in 3 flat values of grey, black and white using tempera paint.

I was happy to start the new project it seemed interesting  But I ran into problems right away. I had trouble using the grid to transfer my design, mixing the paint and painting the actual design. I had painted many time before in acrylic oil and watercolor but never in tempera. It's difficult getting used to this paint which made the project more complicated. 

My 3 values of grey, black, white and my paint brushes.

Me painting

my supplies

My paint was streaking.

I don't know what happened here.

Here are my design so far. I will clean them up some more later.

Next up, the implied and actual texture design!

Mistakes!!!!!!!

In the process of painting my abstraction of an object layouts I keep making mistakes. I am really struggling with this project. I feel like I am spending more time trying to fix my paintings then actually painting.

I'm trying my best and I hope my paintings turn out okay. I am going to have to be patient and careful as I continue to work.

While waiting for paint to dry I drew how I feel on my iPad in sketchbook pro in three values of grey of course.

Concept Boards

Today I finished my concept boards. The process was fairly easy and enjoyable. I am pretty happy how they turned out.
 
I choose the concepts of:

Balance 

 Gustav Klimt

Texture

Art Quote of the Week

Wonderfully beautiful and macabre painting by Francisco Goya

“The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.”

—	FRANCISCO GOYA This quote is important because it describes why an artist creates artwork. Art gives artists a purpose and a way to express feelings that could destroy them otherwise. Therefore art creates a form of salvation for many artists.