Art Gallery 2011 Descriptions
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Male Sketch
Date: College Freshman, January, 2011
Materials: Mechanical 0.7 Pencil
Description: Sketches of the human male. One is a person bending forwards in a sort of applause-seeking bow with his arms out and his head staring at the viewer; he has no hair. Another is a side view of a male head with hair. Another is the face, with eyes that look somewhat realistic with artist’s pencil shading techniques. And another one was just to show a sleeveless shirt and how it would fit on the upper body.
Artist’s Comments: I felt like practicing the human figure a little more, and why not try to draw someone in a position that I found entertaining?
Cat Design
Date: College Freshman, January 18th, 2011
Materials: Mechanical 0.7 Pencil
Description: Drawing of a cat head with different cartoon-like designs on its face and ears. Black around the eyes, spike-like designs with some sticking out of the face. Looks somewhat like a mask, but the cat eyes look realistic.
Artist’s Comments: I love cats! Since I haven’t drawn very many cats, as much as I love them, I figured I should start working on more art besides dragons.
Water Creature
Date: College Freshman, March 7th, 2011
Materials: Mechanical 0.9 Pencil
Description: A picture of a creature flowing in the water with it’s head peeking above the water. There are webbed spikes and spins along it’s back and arms, some on its head. It has flippers on hands and feet and a long tail.
Artist’s Comments: The creature doesn’t look like its’ swimming, but in my mind, its tail is doing most of the work to keep it afloat and the arms and legs are for coordination. I imagined it to be ready to push itself backwards in the water with its hands and legs at any threat. The legs are close up to the body because it is cautious and scared. Its arms are out to position the head above the water without sinking backwards. I got the idea of this creature from a dream I had, where I was the creature, travelling from pool to pool in the city because I needed water, but I could survive outside of it for a day or two at most.
Chalk Art In Progress:
Chalk Art
Date: College Freshman, April 4th, 2011
Time: 3 hours
Materials: Chalk, pavement, fingers (for blending)
Description: Chalk Art Drawing on the pavement. Bright colors, dolphins, dragon, sunset, ocean, horizon, clouds, psychedelic, colorful, rainbow sherbet colors, sun, pop out of picture frame, blending, shading, fantasy,
Artist’s Comments: I did this collaboration with Natalie Luna. She did the dolphins, drew the cloud outlines, colored one, and colored the water and we both decided on the design together. I decided most of the colors and drew the dragon, sunset, and cloud colorings. We blended and smudged with our fingers because there were no other materials available. This was for a chalk art contest in which we earned 2nd place. (though as a side note, one of the people who tied for first place said we should have won first place, but anyway…)
I’ve never drawn a serious art piece with chalk before. I’ve worked with chalk when I was a little kid but only to draw hopscotch or some silly kid thing that wasn’t intended for art. This was a way to experiment with another form of art making. I really enjoyed the many color options that we had, it was very interesting creating a new color scheme out of colors I do not normally use in my art and I believe it turned out pretty amazing. I also experimented with a new technique of having things “pop out of the page”-- having a border but having things go outside of the border.
Chalk Art (Warped)
Sunset 2
Date: College Freshman, May 2011
Time: 1-2 hours
Materials: Canvas, Oil paint, Acrylic paint.
Description: Sunset, red, orange, yellow sky, golden sun, green, purple, blue ocean with some yellow reflections, water, sea. Colorful, bright.
Artist Comments: I made this during a “Free canvas” event, where they provided a canvas and free paints. At first, I used acrylic on the top part of the sky and then I realized they had no yellow acrylic paint! At that point, I switched to oils and tried to blend as well as I could. This was my first oil painting and I realized I like using oil paints.
Dragon 32
Date: College Freshman, May 2011
Time: 1 hour
Materials: Oil paints, long printer paper. Some PhotoShop touch-ups (see description).
Description: Red, orange, yellow snake-like dragon/wyvern with wings spread out, flying.
Artist Comments: The second painting I did at the “Free canvas” event. They only gave out one free canvas per person, but the paint was free to use and so was the paper. Since I had more time, I painted a dragon, but I was the last one there and the event holders were packing up so I did not get a chance to do a background.
Also, this did not completely fit in my scanner; I had to scan it twice and then merge the pictures together in PhotoShop.
Dragon 33
Date: College Freshman, May 20th, 2011
Time: 4 or more hours, on and off
Materials: Mechanical 9.0 Pencil, Crayola Colored Pencils, 8x11” White Printer Paper. Some PhotoShop touch-ups (see description).
Description: Green dragon with black eyes. Cute baby dragon. Spikes, yellow belly, small claws. Big head, big forehead, big eyes, small body.
Artist Comments: I made this for my great aunt who had cancer at the time. Thankfully, I got it to her before she passed away. She didn’t know what it was at first, but after she found out it was a baby dragon she thought it was cute. ^-^
Originally, I colored the eyes in a blend of light blue and purple, but it looked strange to me, so I the eyes in PhotoShop to be black instead. To edit, I merely changed the color of the eyes to grayscale and then darkened them instead of redrawing them entirely in PhotoShop.
_Floating Checkered Abstract
_Date: College Sophomore, August 2011
Time: Several Hours
Materials: 0.9 Mechanical Pencil
Description: Warped checkered patterns scattered across the art piece with patterned lines expanding out from a common point in the painting, and with gray orbs floating around randomly. Black and white, spheres, balls, chess.
Artist Comments: I drew this to touch up on my pencil shading skills. Originally, this was also supposed to have a background that was white in the common point and turned to black as it got farther away from the common point, but when I got this far in the art piece, I decided to scan it because it looked good as is. Later, I added in the background as I had originally planned it, this is shown below.
Time: Several Hours
Materials: 0.9 Mechanical Pencil
Description: Warped checkered patterns scattered across the art piece with patterned lines expanding out from a common point in the painting, and with gray orbs floating around randomly. Black and white, spheres, balls, chess.
Artist Comments: I drew this to touch up on my pencil shading skills. Originally, this was also supposed to have a background that was white in the common point and turned to black as it got farther away from the common point, but when I got this far in the art piece, I decided to scan it because it looked good as is. Later, I added in the background as I had originally planned it, this is shown below.
_Floating Checkered Abstract with Background
Pumpkin Carving of Dragon
Date: College Sophomore, October 27th, 2011
Time: Three and a half hours
Materials: Pumpkin, pumpkin carving knife, the scooper for scooping out pumpkin insides
Description: Pumpkin carving of a dragon, it is like a long, curvy snake with large scrawny wings coming out of it. It has spikes on it, a long horn on it’s head going backwards, and looks somewhat bone-like. Jack-o-lantern, wings, snake-like, wyvern, orange, halloween theme, evil, dark, scary, lit-up pumpkin.
Artist Comments: There was a pumpkin carving event so I went to it and tried to carve out the pumpkin. There were limited carving knives, and on top of that, the one at our table broke. Most people resorted to using keys, but I ended up using the knife with the handle broken off because it would be more accurate and I did not want my keys to get sticky. After three hours of carving with this knife, my finger began to hurt and the next day, it was swollen. Ah, the things I do for art…
Shining a light through the pumpkin so that it shined on a wall looked rather impressive, however, I could not duplicate this and take a picture of it so you’ll just have to imagine that.
Dragon 34
_Date: College Sophomore, August, 2011
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paint, brushes, 20x20 canvas
Description: A blue dragon flying on a red, orange, and yellow background. Painted, shading, colorful, light blue dark blue, sky, sunset.
Artist Comments: A friend gave me a canvas that was 20x20, but at the time, I didn’t know what to paint. This looks really simple to me, and I might go back later and edit it to make it more interesting. Also, I believe this was a little brighter in real life, but the camera dimmed the colors.
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paint, brushes, 20x20 canvas
Description: A blue dragon flying on a red, orange, and yellow background. Painted, shading, colorful, light blue dark blue, sky, sunset.
Artist Comments: A friend gave me a canvas that was 20x20, but at the time, I didn’t know what to paint. This looks really simple to me, and I might go back later and edit it to make it more interesting. Also, I believe this was a little brighter in real life, but the camera dimmed the colors.
Colorful Explosion
_Date: College Sophomore, August, 2011
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 14x11 canvas
Description: Five colorful, curvy lines coming out of a common center, along with five white lines expanding from the center. Five solid colored lines (with different colors each) randomly put across the edges of the painting, and three colorful spheres (one red-orange-yellow, another blue-light blue, and another green-yellow) of different shapes scattered about and with a bright background of circles of color starting in the common center: yellow-orange-red-purple-dark blue-light blue-green. Balls, orbs, light, shining, explosion, abstract.
Artist Comments: This was the second of my four canvases that I was experimenting with in the summer of 2011. I still haven’t had that much experience with oil paints, so I was experimenting with things that were familiar, like spheres, lines, and blending colors. I realized that it is rather hard to keep blending colors to try to get the right color that you need. I went over this several times, trying to get everything with the right colors.
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 14x11 canvas
Description: Five colorful, curvy lines coming out of a common center, along with five white lines expanding from the center. Five solid colored lines (with different colors each) randomly put across the edges of the painting, and three colorful spheres (one red-orange-yellow, another blue-light blue, and another green-yellow) of different shapes scattered about and with a bright background of circles of color starting in the common center: yellow-orange-red-purple-dark blue-light blue-green. Balls, orbs, light, shining, explosion, abstract.
Artist Comments: This was the second of my four canvases that I was experimenting with in the summer of 2011. I still haven’t had that much experience with oil paints, so I was experimenting with things that were familiar, like spheres, lines, and blending colors. I realized that it is rather hard to keep blending colors to try to get the right color that you need. I went over this several times, trying to get everything with the right colors.
Burning Moonrise
_Date: : College Sophomore, August, 2011
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 12x9 canvas
Description: A horizon over the ocean/sea at night time with a large moon resting on the horizon. The waves reflect the moon and give them shape. The sky is a dark blue, which contrasts with the lighter blue sea that is lit up by the moon. A black dragon with red wings is in the sky, forming an S pattern while it blows fire that seemingly envelopes the moon, making it turn slightly yellow in spots. Burning, fire, flames, red orange yellow, evil dragon, dark, nighttime, moonrise, moonset, lit up, water, waves, stars, sky, shine.
Artist Comments: This is the third canvas out of my four canvases in the summer of 2011. After getting practice with oil paints on the first two canvases, I decided to draw something with a little more feeling, and more artistic than just random shapes and colors. I really like the ocean and drawing water and waves (they are fascinating to watch and I always want to know how they work and how to draw them) and I also really like the moon and dragons, so I decided to connect them together, with the dragon setting the moon on fire to add a little more flare to the painting.
I think the best part of this painting is the waves, I’m rather impressed at myself that I did them so well.
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 12x9 canvas
Description: A horizon over the ocean/sea at night time with a large moon resting on the horizon. The waves reflect the moon and give them shape. The sky is a dark blue, which contrasts with the lighter blue sea that is lit up by the moon. A black dragon with red wings is in the sky, forming an S pattern while it blows fire that seemingly envelopes the moon, making it turn slightly yellow in spots. Burning, fire, flames, red orange yellow, evil dragon, dark, nighttime, moonrise, moonset, lit up, water, waves, stars, sky, shine.
Artist Comments: This is the third canvas out of my four canvases in the summer of 2011. After getting practice with oil paints on the first two canvases, I decided to draw something with a little more feeling, and more artistic than just random shapes and colors. I really like the ocean and drawing water and waves (they are fascinating to watch and I always want to know how they work and how to draw them) and I also really like the moon and dragons, so I decided to connect them together, with the dragon setting the moon on fire to add a little more flare to the painting.
I think the best part of this painting is the waves, I’m rather impressed at myself that I did them so well.
Volcanic Dragon
_Date: : College Sophomore, August, 2011
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 12x9 canvas
Description: A detailed dragon head with white/gray teeth and spikes, brown scales of different sizes and shapes, light brown/tan scales on the top of the dragon with red and black scales on the bottom of the dragon. Spines along its back in red, and white spines lining the sides of the top of the dragon. The background is a barren empty wasteland with a volcano erupting in the distance behind the dragon. The sky is gray except for the red and brown smoke from the volcano eruption. The dragon matches the colors of the background.
Artist Comments: This is the fourth and final canvas of summer 2011. After having practice with oil paints on three different canvases, I was able to set out to do one of my goals in life, to draw a detailed dragon head with scales and everything. It took a lot of planning to draw it, first I drew it in pencil on another paper, and then I had to transfer that drawing to the canvas, which is rather hard as I do not usually draw the same thing twice. Then I had to paint each individual scale and that took quite a bit of concentration and experimentation. I painted new scales over the old scales quite a bit as I couldn’t quite get them right in some areas. Finally, I was satisfied with it (except for a few parts which would take a lot more effort to change so I figured I would leave them for photoshop or something). Then I started on the background. At first I just placed a few rocks here and there, but it looked a little boring so I added a few canyons and cracks. I made the volcano and the sky was originally all red. Later, I changed it to gray to bring my dragon out a little more and give a bit more contrast to the picture. It took several tries and paint-overs to get the lava spouting from the volcano just the way I wanted it.
After doing the background, I also had to go back over the edges of the dragon again so I could get them in straight lines so that the dragon popped out more. I took a long time to get the bottom red/black scales of the dragon with the right consistency.
Time: Many hours of painting, separated by several days waiting for paint to dry between painting sessions.
Materials: Oil paints, brushes, 12x9 canvas
Description: A detailed dragon head with white/gray teeth and spikes, brown scales of different sizes and shapes, light brown/tan scales on the top of the dragon with red and black scales on the bottom of the dragon. Spines along its back in red, and white spines lining the sides of the top of the dragon. The background is a barren empty wasteland with a volcano erupting in the distance behind the dragon. The sky is gray except for the red and brown smoke from the volcano eruption. The dragon matches the colors of the background.
Artist Comments: This is the fourth and final canvas of summer 2011. After having practice with oil paints on three different canvases, I was able to set out to do one of my goals in life, to draw a detailed dragon head with scales and everything. It took a lot of planning to draw it, first I drew it in pencil on another paper, and then I had to transfer that drawing to the canvas, which is rather hard as I do not usually draw the same thing twice. Then I had to paint each individual scale and that took quite a bit of concentration and experimentation. I painted new scales over the old scales quite a bit as I couldn’t quite get them right in some areas. Finally, I was satisfied with it (except for a few parts which would take a lot more effort to change so I figured I would leave them for photoshop or something). Then I started on the background. At first I just placed a few rocks here and there, but it looked a little boring so I added a few canyons and cracks. I made the volcano and the sky was originally all red. Later, I changed it to gray to bring my dragon out a little more and give a bit more contrast to the picture. It took several tries and paint-overs to get the lava spouting from the volcano just the way I wanted it.
After doing the background, I also had to go back over the edges of the dragon again so I could get them in straight lines so that the dragon popped out more. I took a long time to get the bottom red/black scales of the dragon with the right consistency.
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