Multiple Panel

Blending Burst

Size: 5’x 6’

Medium: White Paper, Acrylic Paint, Tracing paper, Gesso

Artist Statement:

After many failed attempts in creating a concept for this piece (around 4 ideas) I final figured out what I was going to do. Apparently I work well with large spaces, even though I have little experience working with large surfaces, and color is what I do best so why not combine them.  Another thing I do best is blending even though it takes forever I believed it was worth it. The line work I was leaning towards the feeling of energetic yet calmness, something that corresponds to the color background. I used tracing paper around the edges to create texture, being that I’ve been told I lack texture in my previous project, but the paper I used was not entirely the best quality so the entire piece looks wrinkly but I think it works.

Research/Inspiration:

Artist - Luiza Vizoli https://www.etsy.com/people/LUIZAVIZOLI?ref=pr_profile

Artist- http://www.osnatfineart.com/about-the-artist

artist- https://ravirajartgallery.wordpress.com/home/about-artists/

Drawing Collection

Experimental Color Chart

Size: 6 ½’  x  3 ½’

                Medium: White Paper, 100% Cotton Sheet, Hot Glue, Mixed Media (Acrylic Paint, Watercolor Paint, String, Shaving Cream, Food Coloring, Sugar, Tea)

Artist Statement: At first it was just 22 experimental drawings, then another 22 drawings and another 22 drawings. So many of these were made differently but they all had the same theme in mind: COLOR. Few of drawings actually paired well together so I made the decision to pair 4-5 drawings in groups and assemble them into rows, make it seem almost like a color chart. I still wanted to stick to the theme of being a color chart, the top begins in cool colors then proceeds down into the warm colors.

Research/ Inspiration:

 William Kentridge- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/524176844109011501/

Maria Carluccio - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/524176844103541631/

Akiko Masker - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/524176844108977474/

Transformation

Transformation- Weeks of Emotion

Base

Transformation 1

Transformation 2

Transformation 3

Transformation 4

Transformation 5

Size: 42"x 36"

Medium: White Paper, ArtGraf Disc, Yarka Willow Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Gesso, Acrylic Paint, Tracing Paper

Artist Statement: This piece required being change at least five times in a five weeks period, and ninety percent had to be changed from the week before. For me it depended on how I was feeling that week or whatever inspired me to draw. I tried to do something completely different each week, whether it would be a certian color or technique. Some techniques I used were water drips, mask tape, and layering tracing paper. Color did reflect on the mood I was in when I was making marks on this assignment. For example: Transformation 2 – dullness with monochrome colors and Transformation 3 – stress with reds, yellows, and white in a gestural movement.

Research/ Inspiration:

Diana Cooper, Layer- http://www.dianacooper.net/docs/paper.php

Mask Tape- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/83879611783400683/

Paint Drips - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/158189005637403622/

Response Drawing and Memory Drawing

Reaction to “House on Loon Lake”

Size: 21” x 24”

Medium: White Paper, Tracing Paper, String, Pencil, Yarka Willow Charcoal, Rembrandt Black Pastel

Artist Statement: At first, this was an in class assignment that required us to listen to the audio track “House on Loon Lake” (Link to audio track - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/199/house-on-loon-lake ). While listening in class I just begin drawing the first thing that heard and so on. When I listen to the type the second time and I began to think that this entire house was just one all big mystery and there were so many clue come from it. For the second drawing I went with the theme of a detective board with having the drawing of the house outline in white string and having recreated pictures drawn on tracing paper on top of the house, that way you can still see the it’s all about this mysterious house. Originally I did want to burn the edges of the tracing paper with the pictures on them to give it more of an old and rustic feel to them but I came to find out that tracing paper burns quicker than regular paper.

Colorful House

Size: Approx. 21”x24”

Medium: White Paper, Shaving Cream, Food Coloring, Rembrandt Black Pastel

Artist Statement: This was another in class assignment in the beginning, for ten minutes (although it felt like an hour for me) was to draw our house based on memory. This meant we were in complete darkness, not allowed to look down at the paper and not to lift you pencil off of the paper. I ended up making more of a blue print of my house rather than walking though it in first perspective. Then we had to take that same drawing and redo it but using non-traditional art materials. The nontraditional method I went with was marble with shaving cream (DIY Tutorial- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6dfkTIqCqo). Each piece of paper represents a certain area in the house such as the big one in the center is the living room and the smaller one on the left are the bedrooms.

Eraser Drawings

All Seeing Eye

Size: 21" x 12"

Medium: Yarka Willow Charcoal, White Eraser

Artist Statement: For this drawing assignment, I was only allowed to work with work with Yarka Willow Charcoal and a white eraser. First I had to cover the entire paper surface with these charcoal stick and use an eraser to create marks in this drawing, a method of give and take one would say. I have worked with these types of charcoal before and I find them weak and really fragile, I at least broke about 12 charcoal sticks while doing this drawing. The reason why I chose to do an eye is because it had been a while since I have done anything basic and I wanted to clearly show that the eraser was mostly used in mark making.

Living and Dying Rose

Size: 21" x 12"

Medium: Rembrandt Black Pastel, White Eraser

Artist Statement: For this drawing assignment, I was only allowed to work with Rembrandt Black Pastel and a white eraser. Same as the previous drawing in covering the entire surface with only this medium and then use an eraser to create marks.  Lucky for me I have worked with black pastel and I it very smooth to work with especially when it comes to blending, which is the reason why I decided to do a rose as my subject for this piece. Roses require the right amount of shading and blending to make it seem more real. Plus they are also beautiful to draw.

Cityscape

 Size: 21" x 12"

Medium: Yarka Willow Charcoal, Rembrandt Black Pastel, White Eraser

Artist Statement: For this drawing the materials I could only use were the willow charcoal and the black pastel while still using the eraser to still make marks. I first layered the surface with both willow charcoal and the black pastel then used the eraser to create a sunrise backdrop. Then I went back in the pastel to layout the shape of the builds of a city, outline the edges and shade in some sides. I also went back in the willow charcoal to add more shading into the buildings and a few more skyscrapers in the distances. Then final went back in with the eraser and erased out the sides were a light source would hit on a building. I don’t know what it is with cityscapes and sunrises I find interest, considering I’m neither a city girl nor a morning person, but this is by far my favorite.

The Willow Tree

Size: 21" x 12"

Medium: Yarka Willow Charcoal, Rembrandt Black Pastel, Water

Artist Statement: This drawing required creating my own method of erasing and the only thing I could come up with is using water in erasing the charcoal. After layering the surface of the paper with the charcoal, I took a plain brush with some water and in back and forth scrubbing motion, I erased the area I want the most white. The reason for the willow tree is because I thought it would fit the theme of smooth and flowing much like the water used to make these marks.