My final project "The end"

After thinking long and hard on a final project, It finally came to this. The bird symbolizes me, now grown as I am about to fly from the nest for the first time (the nest symbolizes the end of Art class) I picked the dark blue background because I wanted a color to stand out, and I thought the blue was a great choice. Its a bittersweet feeling as I will definitely miss the class, but now I have a hobby to fall back on. :) 

Extra-credit: Bodyless Art

This week Extra credit assignment was to paint a portrait that evokes the idea of body. It is “bodyless” because I can not show a human shape in it. So I've decided to paint a picture of a basketball court. I got my idea from watching my boyfriend play, and I noticed all the circles and half circles. Also the day was so perfect because the weather was warm and the fall colors on the trees were pretty. In my picture I've incorporated a basketball being thrown in the air about to land in the basket and a pair of sneakers jumping but of course NO body :)

The Werewolf gene. (Movie Poster)

In the spirit of Halloween, My movie is about a werewolf killing people in a small town of Washington. The werewolf only transforms on the full moon. Jack Michaels is a high school student who while walking in the woods one day getting home from school gets attack by a monstrous werewolf and now has the genes of turning into one himself. 

MOMA visit in the city

This week I took a trip to the MOMA museum to see Willem de Kooning's exhibit. It was my very first time in the museum and the first thing I sorta observed was the difference between MOMA ps1 in long island city and the MOMA in the city. As I walked to his section of the exhibit, the first thing that popped out at me were the bright colors of some of his work. The color he put together worked so well with each other, something that's difficult for me to do. But I loved the different color schemes he used. My cons about his work are in fact that I don't understand some of his pieces, mostly the story he's portraying in his art. Except of course his still life. 

The double Portrait/Tree of my future.

This week's project is a diptych double portrait. We were assisted to compose two painting of our inner self portrayed one as a hero and the other as a loser (due next week). I was a bit confused on how to start the painting, I didn't have a theme and it was difficult for me to think of one. But after ALOT of re-reading the assignment paper, I came up with a metaphor in my painting. I call it the tree of my future, where I have a apple tree sprouting out of my head with the apples being my future goals. I consider this project my favorite one by far.

The Pointillist way.

This week's assignment I'll say was a bit difficult. Difficult in the sense of being so tedious. I had the choice of either writing about my self portrait or my pointillist painting I created (the difficult one). The self portrait took me 10-15 minutes tops, but the pointillist was the hardest. The steps I took on completing the painting was:
1. I took a picture of my boyfriend's living room. (I did my assignment there)
2. I researched online about everything that had to with that particular style.
3. Drew the living room and got started.  
My problem was painting dot after dot which took FOREVER with my medium paint brush. But after everything was done, I loved the way it came out. My first pointillist which I'm proud of, my next one will be much better though. Enjoy!

Fitting Room art.

            Yesterday in painting class we were given an assignment. My paint professor gave the class individual pictures drawn by other art students in a different class on their view of New York. We were told to either finish the artwork or paint our interpretation including the "New York" theme. My assigned portrait (viewed at the bottom) looked like a fitting room which included clothes & hangers & the fact that it stated it was a fitting room :) I found mine to be extremely easy (thank God) because New York is known for the fabulous stores. So I painted a fitting room in a Christian Dior store. It's not an actually Dior fitting room, of course but  a girl can dream. I also put into my painting a modern looking dress with the same color red strips, and I based my painting of the store under construction due to the Sept 11 tragedy. With the cracked walls, the "Dior NY" sign on the floor and ceiling water stains. 

(My lovely portrait)