Turner Studio Assignment

Media Used
Photoshop 
Pictures from the internet

Idea
I have always found space scenes that have been edited in Photoshop with a landscape and I decided since we were doing landscapes to go and try to make my own. I feel like I did a good job, it looks fairly good, of course as the artist I can see the mistakes that others can't. I like it though.
Technique
I had the original image of a simple landscape and just cut out the sky and added in a stary background along with a planet. There is water on the bottom and I just duplicated the planet and stars so I could mess with the transparency and make them look as if they were reflections. I also gave the planet kinda of a glow from behind it.

Jackson Pollock Splatter Painting

"Twirls & Stripes" 

 By: Riio 

2015 

Media

House paint, liquid acrylic paint on particle board

Artistic Vision

I originally thought that this was just going to end up a big mess and not really be as cool as it turned out to be. It was fun being covered in paint and just splattering it everywhere. I was excited about doing this since I have never threw paint around like that! It was a really fun experience, my work has no focal points whatsoever so its just based on what catches your eye first! :)

Techniques

I prepared the board before the painting stage by coating the board in Gesso which is a primer for painting. We laid out the tarps and then I went crazy with the paint.

I had started out by pouring out whatever paint I had access to, then i started using a ruler and twirling it around to create the circular lines that are on my work, I had also stepped on mine a couple times.

Pollock's Artistic Practice

Pollock did a lot of his work by using how he felt as a way to get the paint on the canvas, he used a lot of splattering of paint on the canvas as well as pouring, some people though Pollock was crazy because he was the first person to ever attempt to do anything such as what he has, using Pollock's methods were fun and new, it was really interesting to apply new methods to the ones I already knew which were painting with precision this is painting without precision. It was a really fun and new experience for me I enjoyed it a lot. 

 Becoming a human paint wipe :p

During the process of all the painting, I became the quickest way to get rid of paint on your hands, the other students started to wipe their hands all over me and I turned into a Pollock painting myself! :p As you can see from the other photo posted! 

Life Drawing's

Georgia O' Keeffe Art Assignment

"Tiger Lilies" 

 

June, 10th 2015

Media: Acrylic Paint on Canvas Paper

Artistic Vision 

My vision was to draw a great picture of Tiger Lilies, I wanted to have a great painting to look at and create a painting that has a calming effect on the viewer. I wanted to be able to work with the color in a way where it wouldn't be to hard to mix the colors and get them right. 

 

Techniques  

I used a lot of color mixing techniques and brush stroke techniques in order to be able to paint the flower accurately and with great shading techniques as well. I used a monochrome color scheme for the Lily it self, i mixed a lot of pink and reds in order to make the colors that I did, but I also threw in a very cool blue background to make the flower stand out. 

 

Georgia's Art Practice 

My art is similar to Georgia's because my work is of a flower like many of Georgia's are, it is also a close up of a flower which is what she mainly did. She did close up paintings to make people focus on the smaller details of something without them even knowing that they are, to the viewer, Georgia's work looks like a bunch of colors but it is actually a flower that is just zoomed in on. 

 

Torture

During the production of this piece there was a lot of torture and suffering that I went through because I didn't really like how the colors were turning out and how the shading was all weird and looked funny, so I really did frown upon my own work only because it was an unfinished piece of work, I doubted myself before I was even done, I just went with what I felt was going to work and I ended up with this piece of art. 

 

"Viva le revolution" by: Réal Smith

"Viva le revolution" 

Media

I used photoshop and a canvas with the dimensions of 11x17, there were also some pictures from the internet that are used.

Vision or Idea

I wanted to portray the view of an uprising of the people, symbolized by the hand rising up with the lightning bolt in hand along with the fire in the background. The Cuban revolutionary poster that had the hand that looked like it was flying upwards is what made me want to use a fist in mine as the fist is also a really powerful symbol. The text "viva le revolution" is what everyone recognizes as the start of a revolution, I also like the way it sounds, it makes you feel powerful. 

Elements & Techniques 

When I made this I was really into making pop out pictures, a simple way of explaining these is that it makes the picture look like is popping out of the picture.. The white border you see around the hand was manually made and had a perspective edit to make it look like the fist is coming out of the picture. The lightning bolt was also a beige color and I had to change it to make it stand out and give it an empowering feeling in the poster. I decided to do the pop out because it was what I was practicing at the time, and because it gives it a more powerful meaning if it looks 3D and is going upwards. 

Connecting to Revolutionary Posters

We looked at Cuban, Russian, Chinese, Palestinian and Canadian and American  revolutionary posters and a few of them had used the fist as a symbol of an uprising, and they used the fist in a way that can empower the people. That's why the fist is used in my poster, it is one of the most common but yet still one of the most powerful symbols.

"The Agera" by Rèal Smith

The Agera

Media: Acrylic paint on canvas

Artistic Vision/Idea

The Dragon Eye idea came from a video game, and something about it just appealed to me. I've been drawing it ever since and I always keep coming up with different ways to draw it. I chose black white and red for the main colors because they are colors that just compliment each other very well. The green was just the perfect color to make the actual eye pop out of the painting. 

Techniques

To make the blood drip and make the color as real as it is, I used water to make it thin my not to thin, just enough o make it be able to drip down the canvas. I held it up and it rolled down the painting so beautifully and allowed me to created the perfect blood.

The Connection to Basquiat

I was looking at Basquiat's painting "Year of the Boar" which has the same colors as you see here except for the green. Basquiat inspired me because he has such a unique art style and I tried to use the same style when  I was painting the blood as I mix the red with water and made it drip! The eye is just what I incorporated to make in interesting.