My painting has been coming along slowly. I still have a lot of work to do and not much time to do it! But I like how it is looking so far.
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I haven't made much progress on my in-class project yet, but I'm working hard to get the angle on the railing and patio right so that the image will make sense.
I finished my home project! I actually really like the way this one turned out. I did it in just a couple hours, in only two sittings. It took so little time because I loosened up and just got the essence of the detail without working as precisely as I did in my last painting.
Awareness: Photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen Seamlessly Integrates His Body with the Natural World11/6/2015 Article Link: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/arno-rafael-minkkinen-portraits/ I love his photos, especially "Oulujärvi Afternoon," the photo of his back peaking above the surface of the water. I think these photos have a lot of tension and paint a story way beyond themselves, along with being beautifully done. The compositions are so nice, including enough of the body parts so that you can tell what they are, but leaving enough out of the photograph to make you wander what's going on. The reflections in the photos with water are beautiful, probably enhanced a little but not enough that it looks unnatural.
Article link: http://notable.ca/a-photographer-is-removing-phones-from-his-images-to-show-how-addicted-we-are/ I thought this was a really clever project, and one that people should look at and pay attention to. I think it was smart to take the pictures with multiple people in the shot, all on phones or ipads, because it shows how the technology replaces the moments they could be sharing together. The photos I posted above were the ones that I thought to be the strongest because Pickersgill captured moments that really shouldn't involve people looking at their individual devices--a wedding day, a family dinner, a boat-ride, and a play-date with three little boys (or maybe they're brothers). These are times that people should be interacting, enjoying each other's company. The black and white also makes it seem like the photos were old-fashioned, when phones didn't exist, leaving their hands empty and showing how unnatural it is for people to be so cut off like that.I thought Hoss Haley's work was neat! His style isn't my favorite type of art in the world just because it doesn't really move me that much, but there were some things that I thought were pretty cool. My favorite thing was the Gray Scale (top picture) because I liked the texture and spherical shape of the sculptures. I like how each sphere is very separate, but they're all necessary to create the interesting whole. I really like how Haley uses industrial materials to create his work because it gives them kind of a rough quality. I would be interested to find out more about where he draws his inspiration from and how this show fits into his body of work as a whole!
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AuthorMy Name is Willa King, I am a sophomore at Maggie Walker Governor's school, and I am an Art 3 Student. Archives
June 2016
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