Portraiture Painting PTTX

Chuck Close

I like this painting because its not like your normal painting it seems distorted up close, and you wouldn't know it was a portrait until you stepped back a bit and took it all in. It's amazing how good this art is and I really really like it.

Peter stitchbury.

Peter stitchburys paintings are really unique and are almost like caricatures. I like how even those features and sharped and exaggerated the painting still looks really polished and realist, they are still recognisable as the reference. 

THE PROCESS.

The process to creating a portrait is very long winded. First of all we made our canvases. This involved creating a frame using the equipment in the wood work room. Then we stretched our canvas over the frame using brute strength and a staple gun. We primed and prepped our canvases so that they were ready for paint. We got our photos taken by caroline and we cut and cropped them using photoshop and printed them out. We started off just by mixing skin tones and getting accustomed to the oils. I really can't decide whether or not I like paint with oils or not. Then we started underpainting after drawing and scaling up our canvases. 

MY EXPERIENCE.

I didn't really enjoy oil painting, it takes so long and I get impatient easily. My portrait of Kayla could have been alot better but I'm happy with the result for a first time painting with oils. I wouldn't paint the background in oil paint next time that added days onto the time this painting took. Beside all of that Kayla is happy with the result and I think I did well for a first try and portraiture and oil painting. The most important thing about painting with oils that I have learnt is not to rush because you cannot speed up the time it takes to dry you just have to work with it.

New Zealand painting PPTX

"Boy am I scared eh!" Peter Robinson.

I really like this painting, I like the font he uses because it reminds me of "where the wild things are" which is a book/movie that I love. I also enjoy the earthy tones he uses and how the text jumps out at you being the only part of the painting in a light colour. I chose this painting to create a response to, I wrote "Why are you scared?" because the artist never reveals why he is scared. I like the swirl to the right corner of the painting, it reminds me of a finger print of some kind.

Chris Heaphy.

This painting is so beautiful. I love the way the black and white brings out the rainbow colours used and creates a skull image out of random objects/silhouettes. I like how intricate it is, and how it looks like a mosaic of things, its almost hard to believe this is a painting! 

AFTER~

Painting after is a term used to describe an artists painted response to another artists work. When you paint after you are painting a painting either in reply or acknowledgement to the artists painting you are responding to.

MY AFTER~

My after painting was in response to Peter Robinson's "boy am I scared eh!". I tried to mimic his style and created a background similar to his in his painting. I then mimicked the font and wrote "Why are you scared?" in reply to his painting. I like how my painting turned and and I am happy with the outcome considering the time frame I had to create it. 

Abstraction- Creating a work that is not something of reality or is something taken out of reality and is distorted.

Figurative~ Representing by a figure, symbolism.

Manipulating the image week seven.

This week we finally started printing! Printing is tricky at first, because if you pull to light or too hard it comes out all strange, and a couple of times I worked to slow and the tacky ink ripped my paper. Its awkward to work one something at first when it continues to mess up on you, but I got there in the end. Now I really like printing, although I did put a bit too much emulsion on my screen when I was coating it for my second layer, but thats was okay because now I know next time to use more pressure when coating. I also found that sometimes your mistakes turn out really interesting when they are mis-registered, like some of my prints. On a couple of my prints I even made them a little off deliberately. I'm really proud of how they turned out. Overall this week has been fun and a big learning experience for me. 

Week 6 manipulating the image.

We started preparing for screen printing this week on monday which it really exciting and I think I'll enjoy screen printing. We prepared our screen with emulsion, and put our designs on them, the water blaster is fun to use. It was really cool to learn the basics of screen printing, and finally using photoshop and kind of enjoying it. My design is simple but I think its good, it should look good printed, especially with black on the brown paper, it'll look really organic. I also painted up so brown paper with pastel colours to make an interesting background to print on, but my paint made the paper too wrinkly so I'm not going to use it. Lesson learned: don't make your paint too watery! On tuesday Emma was absent so I attempted to make more painted backgrounds but they didn't work out very well either, oh well. Maybe I'll try again before I print next week. I was disappointed that we couldn't print on tuesday because I was really excited to but thats alright there is always next week.

Week five manipulating the image.

This week I was absent on the monday so I squashed the work from this week into one day. This week we had to design our own magazine covers. I couldn't find any ideas and I despise photoshop, so I chose to do a zombie themed/ apocalypse themed magazine by hand. It was actually simple to make, it just took awhile to come up with phrases for it like "Top Ten Tips to zombie proof your home!" etc. also the name took a long time to come up with and I'm not overall happy with the title but its better than nothing but I do wish I had thought of something better. Then at the end of the day we looked at the festival "Grounded" that it happening in June here at MIT. It's a festival of sustainable arts, and we learnt about sustainability in art and artists that create sustainable art or use sustainable products and media to create their art. I honestly thought this would be lame hippies and weird stuff like that but it actually was amazing, I really liked Andy Goldsworthy's work, it was really unique and intricate. We also watched the BCA1's runway challenge, it was epic what the could make in only a day, and cool to see what we'd be doing if we continued next year.

Week 3, manipulating the image.

This week we started off by listing adjectives to describe our art better in our blogs. I already knew about adjectives from school, but often I am too lazy to use them. Now that we have a whole list of them with easy access to thesauruses online, hopefully I will use them more often! After this week looked at graphic posters, and graphic artists like Francis Pesamino. I really liked his work, and I like working with words and I enjoy the way words look when made into an image. I decided for a poster I would make a unicorn (who doesn't love unicorns?) with words the describe it on the inside. I really liked doing this, it did take awhile but the result was worth it and I think I like working in that style. On tuesday we looked at an article about hand painted movie posters. These were kind of creepy although they look really well painted. We also did an activity on words an their meanings, which was kind of boring but I think it helped. In the afternoon we continued our posters from the day before and finished them off.