My Painting

The painting that I'm currently working on is a close up of a elephants face. I wanted to show people what I'm able to do by the using different colors and using a lot of detail to try to make my painting look as real as I can get it. The items that I'm using to complete my painting is pastil paints. I want to be able to show people what I'm capable of doing.

                                      
                                      

  

Elephant Painting

Elephant Painting

I am currently creating a painting of a elephant, the picture that I chose to paint was one of it really close with a lot of detail in the picture. I'm going to try to capture all of those details of the picture in my painting.

I don't think that there really is a meaning in my painting. I would say the only reason that I pick to do this is to get the feeling of painting again because its been a while since I have painted. I just need to get use to painting fast and using different colors in my painting and practice on detailing the best I can. I want to practice this, so that when I actually start painting my actually painting they will be filled with many different colors and a lot of detail. 

At the time there isn't much I have so far with this picture. Some of the steps that I have took with my painting were trying to get the right colors to use to make look as close as I could to the picture that I am using. The things I have done in the painting are the outline of the elephant and get sorta of a idea of where things are going to go in my painting. 

I figured that I would use one of the most common and most thing that I enjoy to use and I'm comfortable with. The things that I'm using are acrylic paints and canvas. I wanted to focus on using these things, is because I like using and I feel really comfortable with when it comes to using those types of materials. 

I would say that for my goals for this piece of art work that I'm doing is to get use to the type of painting form that I'm using on this painting. I want to focus on actually trying to capture the actual picture in my painting. I want to give people the feeling of how realistic the picture is. I want to add a ton of detail in the picture to make it as real as I can make it. 

 

Artists I Admire

Artists I Admire

There are many things that I have learned from the past couple years in my art classes. At the same time I have been inspired by many artists but, the ones that I picked inspired me the most out of any artists that I have ever reached. I like the different techniques and different but, amazing ways that they paint and I would like to base my art projects on some of the ways that I paint. 

Salvador Dali

The reason that I enjoy and admire Dali painting is because he doesn’t care what people think about them.  He has learned that from his paintings he could express himself and his inner thoughts. That’s what on planning of doing with my paintings, being able to express myself with my paintings. I want to create art that would matter to me and be able to tell people about me from the different things that I would paint.
http://thedali.org/home.php

John William Hill

I picked John William Hill because at the time, 1850’s, he was a very popular artist for his advanced landscape paintings. He was able to capture many difficult and advanced details for the landscape that he would paint. I want to try to paint landscape that most people aren’t use to seeing around here in the U.S. I want to be able to capture different cultures and terrains that other people live in. I want to be able to be very detailed too, so I could make people feel like they’re in the painting.

http://whitemountainart.com/Biographies/bio_jwh.htm

George Bellows

George Bellow is known as an American realist painter. He would paint things from his life or childhood that he witnessed while he lived in urban New York City. I want to be able to show people of historical events or experiences that I had in my life.  I want to be able to show the hardships that I had to through in order for me to get where I am now. I would also want to practice realism painting to make people feel and see what actually happened that day.
http://www.georgebellows.com/

Sara Paloma

Sara makes vases, but not like normal ones that you will usually see at normal store. She adds a little twist to them and makes the fat and short with a narrow neck and each vase that she makes are different from one other. That’s how I want to make vases and each one is different. I want to be able to make vases and from the start not sure how its going to look so that each vase is quince. I don’t want any one my vases that I make to be totally different then the one before.

 http://www.sarapaloma.com/SaraWebSite/home.html

Yoichiro Kamei

Kamel makes very different types of sculptures that are made out of clay. He makes like 3D models type things with just clay. Most of them are like cubes and prisms. I want to try new things and challenge myself with the things that I make things that most people wouldn’t think are made or would be able to be made out of clay. I want to show that with skill, time, and trying new things that anything that you put your mind to it, anything is possible.

 http://www.ceramicsnow.org/yoichirokamei

Roxanne Jackson

Jackson is a very dark sculpture that likes doing things that most people think are weird and scary. For example she would make heads of animals, dead animals, and even animals struggling to survive. I think it would be cool to make models of animals or animal parts that will be able to tell a story by the things that I sculpt. For example like a beached whale or an animal that couldn’t reach food that is needed. I want to be able to show every day life for an animal and the hardships that animals go through everyday.

 http://roxannejackson.com/

Mood Board

This is my mood board. I included things that have to do in my life but at the same time describe me. Like for example I made a football which I played for 5 years and I love to play it! Then most of my life has to do with music and thats what my I pod and speakers and CDs have to do with, I would say that music is a big part of my life. It's a way that I can express my self with the type of music that I enjoy to listen to.