Coffee and Tea Paintings

We were experimenting with painting with different types of dyes like coffee and teas.

Emulation

I had Erica's piece which is the image below of the athletic woman. She wanted me to portray a woman as a strong, independent, beautiful, human being, and so I made a continuous line drawing of Erica playing basketball. I kept the thick black lines and a single woman figure to make sure the pieces went together.

by Erica Howard

by Brenna Costello

Emulate This

This is a piece I did for a local band, Modern Suspects, that I interviewed at Not So Silent Night 2014. They have been working really hard to get their music out there and I think  there music is really awesome. I suggest you take a listen. They used to be called Claymore Disco and so you can look up there music under both names.

You should try to make this into something with photography or non digital drawing. Try to keep a black and white background and a colored foreground. Good Luck!

28 Days of Art

Day 28
Media: Photoshop

I made a continuous line drawing of John Gourley who is the lead singer and guitarist for the band Portugal. The Man.

Day 27
Media: Photoshop

Third KONGOS Poster with a little Tokoloshe in the grass.

Day 26
Media: Photoshop

My second poster for the KONGOS concert poster contest.

Day 25
Media: Photoshop

The band KONGOS was having a art contest to design a poster for their upcoming show at the Wiltern in Los Angles and this is my first entry.

Day 24
Media: Photography

Corinne taking a picture of a sculpture and the photo to prove it.

Day 23
Media: Photography

The coolest thing I saw at the art museum was this awesome cardboard installation. It was covering the walls in a small room.

Day 22
Media: Photography

A picture I took of a giraffe at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

Day 21
Media: Photoshop

Photo I made for the 5th graders we worked with today.

Day 20
Media: Photoshop

My piece for Run For The Peak logo for this year.

Day 19
Media: Photoshop

I was bummed I couldn't go to the Hozier show at the Ogden and so I listened to the album really loud and made this to try to get my fix.

Day 18
Media: Photography

A little ghost/night photography that we did today in class.

Day 17
Media: Photoshop

This is the result from the skeleton project we did as a class.

Day 16
Media: Photography

On this snowy day off  I found bird foot prints in the snow on my front porch.

Day 15
Media: Weavesilk

Weave Silk....

Day 14
Media: Photoshop

I made this for my dad for Valentines day, and I just stuck to the style I had been doing for some of my band artwork.

Day 13
Media: Photoshop

I was just messing around on Photoshop with the straight lasso tool.

Day 12
Media: Photography

The sky when I left school tonight. I know sunsets are cliche, but the sky was just so beautiful and I love the tree silhouettes.  

Day 11
Media: Marker, Pen and paper

I tried some typography, and I think I will try more of it on Photoshop.

Day 10
Media: Photoshop

Here is part six of six. This is Daniel Tichenor who plays the bass guitar, its the last of the mini series and I think it looks great all together.

These are the complete pieces put all together. I tried to think of power positions and color theory when I placed them, and I think it worked out well.

Day 9
Media: Photoshop

Part five of the mini series. This is Jared Champion and he plays the drums for Cage The Elephant. The band didn't win the Grammy which is a bummer, but at least they get to headline red rocks this summer.

Day 8
Media: Photoshop

Part four of the mini series, this is Nick Bockrath and he plays guitar for Cage the Elephant. The band was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for their album "Melophobia." Hopefully they can win the Grammy.

Day 7
Media: Photoshop

Part three of the mini series of Cage the Elephant. There are six members in the band, so expect to see three more days of this series. Today was Matthan Mister's birthday and so I made his portrait today.He plays the piano, guitar and does back up vocals for the band.

Day 6
Media: Photoshop

This is part two to my mini series of the band members of Cage the Elephant. Its Brad Shultz who plays guitar for the band and is also the older brother of Matt the lead singer.

Day 5
Media: Photoshop

I'm so excited to go see Cage the Elephant, Portugal. the Man and the Mowgli's at Red Rocks June 1st. This is of Matt Shultz, the lead singer in Cage The Elephant and he is always jumping around and being crazy on stage, so I tried to capture that in this piece.

Day 4
Media: Digital Photography

I went on a walk after I got home from school and took a few pictures of the snow around the park and pond behind my house.

Day 3
Media: Photoshop drawing

Bees? I was inspired by the card game Cards Against Humanity and my favorite response card, Bees? I made two bees reflecting each other and added a border to finish it off.

Day 2

Media: Computer drawing, Microsoft paint

I just tried drawing some simple cartoon characters and I messed around with their facial expressions. The cartoon isn't funny, I know. 

Day 1

Media: pencil and paper

I decided to do some observational drawing for the first day of the 28 days of art because it's something I know I need to practice but I'm not completely lost when it comes to certain drawing skills. I drew a moccasin that was sitting in my bedroom floor because it has interesting curves and it was one of the first things I saw.

Vivian Maier Reflection 2

      I chose this piece to reflect on because I find it really captures the era in which is was taken. It reminds my of photos my family has of my dad and his three younger brothers sitting and looking out of a car window. I love the fact that they are all wearing the same shirt and they are also looking in three different directions. I think Vivian Maier was known for taking some provocative pictures of some of the more odd characters in Chicago, and this is just of three little boys sticking their heads out of a car window. I really enjoy Vivian's work as a whole because of the diversity of her photographs and the way her mental illness isn't really easily seen through her work. Its interesting that the way she was almost fearless when it comes to taking pictures, from photographing dead animals in the streets to the oddly shaped people around the rough city and more beaten down parts of Chicago. 

Finding Vivian Maier Reflection

After watching the majority of the documentary I find Vivian Maier very inspiring and incredibly interesting. I love the era in which she lived and all of her photographs are great at representing it.

Block Printing

I really enjoyed the whole block printing process, I loved learning a new media to work on and I think they turned out awesome. The rubber block was pretty easy to work with,but not very forgiving if you made a mistake. My first print is of an axolotl which is a type of aquatic salamander and then my second is a of a peace hand.

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