Art Update

To start off, sorry I haven't posted anything new in awhile, haven't had much to show or talk about, lol.

I have three new pieces of work that I did from the last two weeks of school. However, I only have one picture right now. :/ My teacher was in the hospital, so a lady had to take them there so he could grade them. Hopefully I get those back as soon as possible, so I can post them. I really love all of them. So here is just one of them:

This one is with colored pencil. We had to pick a poem and draw a picture to represent it. I picked Petals by Amy Lowell. It says: "Life is a stream on which we strew petal by petal the flower of our heart: the end lost in a dream, they float past our view, we only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, crimonsoned with joy..." And it continues on. The bold and italized words, are the words that I used to draw the picture. I really love how bold the colors came out on it. Btw, the reason why there is shine on it, it because I put it in a frame and up on my wall :D

As you know, Christmas is drawing very near, and I've been busy coming up with ideas for gifts. I have come up with four different paintings I'm was currently working on. I couldn't share them with you until after Christmas, but now I can, so here they are!

For my Granny: The top one is a DREAM. I drew stairs leading up to the gates of heaven, then at the bottom of the stairs, I drew angel wings representing a person-- could be either my Papa Ed or Noak Mark or her. Then I drew a cloud thing around it, so it looks like a dream. The bottom left one is the saint symbol- but I used it has representing a cross, and drew that coming out of a heart for LOVE. The last one-- bottom right-- is just a plain cross and I drew tiny hearts. I drew a heart at the top were Jesuss' head was, one on each side where is hands were, and then one at the bottom where his feet were for FAITH.

This one is for my Aunt. It's kind of funny, because I call her Cheesecake, so that's why I drew a piece of cheesecake. To add something to the photo, I drew a strawberry (which looks a little funkitated-- but that's okay), a cherry, and chocolate syrup, lol.












This one is for my Nana and Papa. They love to drink wine, so I thought I'd draw grapes in a glass. I saw a picture kind of like this, and thought that would be a great idea. It was the hardest one to do, because I had to make it look like there was a glass.












Hope everyone had a great Christmas! I really enjoyed mine!! Hope you like them!!

Fruit and Burton

Btw, sorry I haven't written anything in a few days, just haven't had much to say, lol.
Today I've been working on both of my projects that are due tomorrow. For my Observational Drawing class, we had to pick an artist and use their work for inspiration. I picked Andy Warhol because his seemed easiest to me. I don't know if you've ever seen his Banana painting, but I picked that one. Since I picked a banana, I couldn't copy it, so I picked a different fruit. I picked an apple. And I drew it four times like he does with some of his work and now I'm painting each square different colors, but I'm trying to do only complementary colors-- diagonally.

I think it looks pretty good, really interesting to me because it's totally different colors than an apple would be. But that is how Andy Warhol would have done it, well something similar anyways :)

Then for my Perspective Drawing class, we're doing reflections and we could pick which ever perspective point we wanted to. I picked one point because that seemed to look the best for me. My group picked Tim Burton's movies, so we have to draw a theme in one of his movies. I picked The Nightmare Before Christmas and I drew the mountain thing with a gate, some trees, a scarecrow, and a pumpkin patch on the right side of the mountain, instead of the left like in the picture I used. I did it that way because, I'm making the left side a lake, so I can have all the stuff reflecting in the water, hince REFLECTION. I think it's gonna look pretty good, but the reflection of the mountain is kind of hard, so that's taking some time. I'm also having to do the powerpoint this time, which is only fair. And that's been kind of fun, finding pictures and such to put in it. I'm also trying to make it as short as I can, because the presentations aren't supposed to be that long and I also don't want it to be boring. I will post pictures either by tonight or tomorrow.

Another good thing is Thanksgiving is this week. I'm really excited because I'm going back to Louisiana to see my family. I'm also happy because we only have to go to classes for tomorrow and Tuesday. Also, my birthday is a week from this Tuesday, so I'm pretty excited about that. I will also probably have some work to put up when I come back from Louisiana. I'm sure I will have a lot of free time there to do some paintings and drawings, but some of them I may not put up just yet. They might be gifts to certain people who read this. ;) Have a great Thanksgiving everyone and eat lots of turkey and stuffing!!

A Heads Up

Since I started this blog later than I wanted to, I thought I would give you a heads up on my trip to B.C., Canada, what classes I took last quarter and the projects we did for that, and what my classes are this quarter. I will also tell you a little about my school, so you will know how it works, for those of you who don't know Art Institutes system.

First off, my trip to Canada was AMAZING. It was just my mom and I. We went as a graduation gift for me. It was in June and for a week. We flew from Houston to Seattle, Washington and then drove from there to Vancouver.

While we were in Seattle, we stopped at Pikes Place Market and this was some of the food we bought.

On our way into Canada, we stopped at my moms friend-- Noel's house in Bellingham, Washington. We meet them at their house and went out to dinner with Noel and Campbell. 

This is Campbell, he is so cute. He was cold, so his dad put his jacket around him, lol.

We did a lot of things while in Canada, but that would take pages, because I have a 2639783 pictures LOL.

So last quarter, I had two classes and started in mid-quarter. Just so you know, a quarter is 11 weeks, and me starting in the middle, meant I only had about 5 or 6 weeks. My two classes last quarter were: Design Fundamentals and Color Fundamentals. Here are some pics:

This was a Design projects. Used construction paper and made objects, then glued them together on a white board.

Painting project for color class. Top left box is complementary colors-- colors across from each other on the color wheel. Top right is 3 different colors-- Split complementary. Bottom left is triad-- 3 different colors. Last one is tetrad-- 4 different colors. It's hard to explain exactly how you find the colors, so you might have to look up a detailed color wheel.

Both on the left are cool colors. The top left one has some warm spots in it. Both on the right are warm colors. The top right one has some cool spots.

Final painting I did for Color class.










This quarter I have SIX classes. Monday-- Observational Drawing and Perspective Drawing.

First project we ever did in Observational Drawing class.

Painting I did for one of the projects. I'll probably get this one framed soon, because I love it so much.

Project we did last week. I drew it all free hand by copying a photo I printed out.

1 point perspective drawing. Theme was rock music.

2 point perspective drawing. Theme was anime. The girl is sitting on a rail road track. Colored with color pencils.










So now you've been caught up to date on the projects I've done so far. I have more that I could have put up, but I'm getting tired and didn't want to upload more, LOL. Hope you enjoy all the pics. Let me know what you think!

Thanks for reading and have a great night! =D

The Troubled Saturday

My first blog entry, woo! Well, being it so close to Thanksgiving. I wanted to start off by saying that, I am so thankful for my mom and dad because without them I wouldn't be going to such an amazing college. Being at an art school has changed my life. I have been able to bring out more creativity and hope. I never thought I could draw, nor paint as good as I do. It has made me realize that I can do anything I set my mind to.

Next thing is, I have been working on two projects at the same time-- both due Monday. The one for my Observational drawing class, is coming really well. I drew it out nicely and just need to shade it. I also made another copy, so I could color or paint it. The second project is for my Perspective Drawing class, and it is very hard for me. We're at 4-point right now. My group picked seasons, so I draw out four trees for the four different seasons. That was the easy part. Now, I have to come up with things to draw for each season. BUT, my teacher did not explain this one so well, so I don't know how to put the things in perspective. I've been thinking I will just go ahead and start to paint it. The backgrounds will be different for the four different seasons. Another thing is, this is our first time using watercolors. I hope it comes out well-- came out pretty well.

This is my finished 4 point perspective work. I don't really like it that much. My teacher said it was pretty good, but I could have lowered the horizon line (the sky line) down more, so that the trees would have curved more. I made an 81.

That's my one for Observational class. I really like it. All the shapes have a meaning behind them. The green thing is confusion. The fourth purple circle is beauty. The black lightening strike is anger. The blue curvy line is calmness. The box is a gift. The pink circle is love. The dark blue thing at the bottom is expression or creativity. The other blue thing is sadness. The brown thing is a chess piece for my Grandpa. The wing thing is a hand. The triangle is home. And the four things on the bottom right is my family.




Wish me luck! I'm off to my Drafting class. Yes, school on Saturday. >.> Hope you enjoy your Saturday!

Thanks for reading,
Mel