My painting environment

Ferguson

This is my social issue art piece, it is over Ferguson. The background is newspaper to symbolize how close we will get to the event. The main focal point is the "Shot Six Times" to symbolize that it all got it's start over the death of Michael Brown. It shows the black citizens standing on one side while  the white cops stand on the other.  The viewer is one of the black citizens, standing up against an overruling racist cops of Ferguson. To add more to the piece I sprinkled gun powder over the piece and added six shells and bullets to show how Michael Brown died. I painted the sides with black spray paint to also symbolize how some people would tag buildings to get their words outspoken to many. Overall I believe it is a powerful piece and has achieved what I wanted it to.

Fu*k Bob Ross

 

This is my abstract/realism background. I absolutely hate Bob Ross and I hate how he try's to show you how to make it the most beautiful landscape. I made it very abstract to stick it to Bob Ross and show that landscapes do not have to be outstanding to give the viewer the image of beauty in simplicity. If you look close, on the left and right you have a cliffs that are behind the two trees in the middle with the moon shining in the back left. Its green background shows the blackness of the trees while showing the moon shin through in a hazy light. It does have its downfalls, like the fact due to that it is a bit messy. I should of cleaned it up some but it just looked better messy and I painted back over what I tried to fix. Overall, I believe that it is a good piece.

Van Gogh portrait

This is my impressionism piece,  and I absolutely hate it. I was in a mood and I decided to keep going in that direction for it to have the same effect. There is not much I can say about it, rather than the background is the best part and I should of just left it as a drawing instead of painting the face. Overall, this is a pretty bad piece.

There could of been a lot of things done to it to make it better, but as I ventured into fixing it the worse it got. It just started going downhill and there wasn't much to do about it. Every artist has a drawing or painting that they are embarrassed of, and this one is mine. This piece has already been broken in half and going to be added in another art piece where it belongs.

The monster within us all

This piece was made during a Halloween party in class. It was a printmaking type of thing that I have never attempted. The first round, my picture turned pout bad and I ripped it off and placed my friends on it, in my place. That time it is hard to see it. When looking close at the piece you can see my friend as a pig covered in the deep background, and a bright red, upside down cross. But in the front you see a stencil and it shows light hearted things. This represents a battle for the subconscious under demonic possession. In the deep background a demon lurks, but in the front it shows socially acceptable things, childlike in nature. This in a sense shows the duality of man. Overall, this is piece is good.

Clash of Religions

 

 

 

This piece started off in the woods behind a small church. I took the "Yahweh" off their sign and painted on beezelbub on the side to show a clash of religion. It is a self-portrait that was painted blocky and I spit coke on it to make the paint run. There are some bones on the piece that I found from an old dead bird and I thought it would be cool to put them in the piece. This is one of my favorites so far, It is my style and I really enjoyed it.

O'Keef

This piece was in the style of O'keef. It is naturalism and it kind of shows simplicity in complexity. It is black and white paint with no thought, just free-flow of the brush. It was supposed to be smooth but it ended up being rough on accident, which is its biggest downfall. If it was more smooth and floating it would achieve more similarity to the real piece. There are also regions of this painting that look dirty, if I would of went back in and fixed it, it would probably look better. I think this piece is bad and should never be seen again.

Judgment

This piece is supposed to symbolize judgment. The white guy is judging the black guy upon the stereotypes laced upon him, or possibly the picture frame that says "faget" but as he thinks it he also thanks the white man acknowledging his prejudice. I used black, white and Gary to emphasize the darkness of this piece and the Gold to make the focal point. I used black paint and various thickness of black paint wash and used the white background as positive space. I wanted to show texture in this piece as well as a blocky painting style. Overall, I think this is a good piece, and I don't think I would do anything different. 

Natural indiscretion

This is an Analogs piece. It shows natural disasters happening not very far from a little home. The giant symbolizes inner demons. As he weeps bad things begin to happen. I used many colors in this piece to bring a sense of clarity, but also a feeling of chaos. Several brush strokes were used in the making of the trees to bring  them out of the piece. The piece is good, but the major things that is missing is the shading of the volcano, if there was more added to it, it would of been ten fold times better. The trees are the best part of this piece, and what I am most proud of in all of this painting, they are about the best trees I have ever done.

Drunkard lost in society

This is my minimalism piece. The concept behind this was to show how the addiction of alcohol can make a person loose touch with society. The man is shown in solid in a solid black mass, showing that he is absent or left out in the more colors of the world. That he is a black sheep, or an outcast missing out on the world due to his desires. I wanted to use rough brush strokes, because I believe that it brings the piece to the next level. I used the colors Red and White which can symbolize love or passion and painted the man black to show his hollowness.  Overall, this piece is pretty successful and if I could change anything I Would do something in the background off to the left of the man.

Body of an unknown person

This was a piece to use complementary colors. The ideals of painting a man with a toe tag is unknown. The piece shows the imagery of sickness and death with the colors portrayed it adds a more eerie feeling to the piece. Seth is on the toe tag, but the dead mans name is not Seth, we do not know who he is. Seth could be anyone, he could b walking down the street next to us, or maybe Seth means sickness and disease. Or maybe Seth could be our subconscious, telling us to do cruel things to others, and steal and lie to the point where no one around you can trust you. But then again Seth is a part of us all. In a complete Overview, this pieces achieves complementary success and displays a great well-rounded piece.

Color wheel

 

This is a color wheel. It is painted bad for a purpose. I wanted to make a stain glass window, of a church in the bad part of town to symbolize impurity or imperfectness as religion claims its self to be. Many colors were used and glitter was added to bring out the sparkle of the sun gleaming off the window. But on the other hand, this piece is bad and does not deserve to see the light of day, due to its atrocity. If this piece could be done over again I would of probably took the time to make the lines more crisp and the colors more vibrant. I think this is a bad piece, even with a good story. :p

Sinners

 

This was my first piece done in class, It shows a sinner in the pits of hell. There is no light at all in this piece. The man on the left was just judged and cast into the pits of hell, as he screams he throws his arms towards heaven pleading for a second chance. But an answer does not come to him. As he begins to curse and say he will change a demon comes out of the darkness to drag the man away and torture him. As he is dragged along jagged rocks that cut into his flesh, he screams one last time for God, and after seeing no sign of his mercy, he accepts his fate and punishment. Overall this is a great piece and has an ample amount of texture to bring it out to the viewer and put it in his or her face. In a sense it suggests something and brings a question to ones mind that may be different to all others. I believe this piece is great and achieves what it is meant to.

Woman of many faces

This is my spin on pop art. I painted it very blocky and while it was wet I spit coke on it for the paint to run. The picture frame was added to the piece to bring it a more formal feeling. The bottom two heads were painted upside down for it to kind of throw off the piece. Multiple colors were used to make it popish while it made it contemporary in a way. Overall, this piece is good, but I has its downfalls, like the parts where the paint started to fade and rids of the details of the woman's clothing. This piece is cool in my opinion and deserves to have its recognition.