Breadth 11: Self Portrait in Oil

We were studying expressive self portraits at the time, so our assignment was to make one. I did mine on canvas with oil paint. I really love to use oil , because I feel like the piece becomes more personal, especially when doing a self portrait. When I do oil I like to use a palette knife to create texture. I really love this piece, it's my favorite piece that I've done this year.

Breadth 10 : Still Life in Chalk Pastel

During this set I had time to do both my pieces in class so I did another still life. The still life is of cow skulls, and it was interesting to draw. I drew on gessoed matt board, with chalk pastels. It was my first time using chalk pastels, but it was fun. I'm really liking these mini labs because I feel like the quality of them is MUCH better than my larger pieces because I have time to work slowly and then go back and fix things.

Breadth 9: Still life in oil

For this pair of assignments we did still life's. This one is of 3 apples and a banana. I did it on a piece of canvas, and in oil paint. It is a small breath piece.I think I did pretty well on it. I really like to paint in oil. Even though most people like oil because it can make a painting look smooth, I perfer it because I can make things look texturized. I like Everything except the Apple on the right , I began to burn out when I was doing it . Over all I think that it was preety sucessful.

Research for Breadth 9 and 10

For our 5th in class assignment we are painting a still life in oil paints with an underpainting in acrylic. I experimented over the summer with oil paint and I really enjoy painting with it. We have been using gamasol and linseed oil to speed the drying of things. I actually really like how it makes the paint thinner and easier to spread out, and quicker to dry on the upper layers. I love using a palette knife to put texture into the piece.I have been looking at Trisha Lamoreaux http://emptyeasel.com/2008/02/26/the-art-of-texture-impasto-oil-paintings-by-trisha-lamoreaux/) .

I have been looking at Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin http://www.lib-art.com/artgallery/10081-portrait-of-giovanni-arnolfini-and-jan-van-eyck.html).

Breadth 8 : Conceal and Reveal

For this assignment The concept was "Conceal and Reveal". I had a hard time getting started on this one. I thought about how I am different, based on where I am and who I'm with. At school I go and work on my things and look cheerful on the outside, but when I get home I'm usually stressed and worn out. The front figure is the "me at school", while the further one is the "me at home". I used Yellow and blue as symbolism for cheerful and depressed. I know that the table is warped and off . I used Acrylic paint and colored pencil, on purple charcoal paper. I Love how colored pencil looks with acrylic, and I will defiantly use them together again.

Breadth 7 : Vantage Point

For this project we had to draw a broken bottle from two distinct vantage points. I broke a couple of bottles then i decided just to reconstruct a broken bottle in a way I liked. I chose to draw on black matt board, because I really like how charcoal looks on it. I also used red and brown conte crayons, and whit and black charcoal pencils.

Breadth 6 :Recipe Sheet

This is at home assignment number 3. For this project we could do any thing we wanted using the recipe sheet. I really enjoy doing landscapes. This was done in watercolor and colored pencil. I really love how the colored pencil adds to the watercolor paints, they really complete each other. I think I need to go back in and make things a bit cleaner. I've gotten better at watercolor, but it is very hard to use and requires a lot of layers. The back round also needs to be made less prominent.