Week 14 Project 3

3 Drawings
This week, I continued my theme of reflection of light and finding reflection in/on everyday objects, and I again took pictures of things around the art room in order to demonstrate this "ordinary" setting.  I wanted to really make the light's reflections stand out and contrast with the surrounding drawing, so I focused on using a wider range of tones, with the darker tones being really dark and the lightest tones being really white so that you can understand the reflection of light in the pieces.  I also tried to make the shiny objects (the ones reflecting the light) stand out from the background in order to further highlight this reflection of light.  For example, in the first drawing, I tried to make the metal parts of the clip look shiny, smooth, and reflective, whereas I tried to make the background look less smooth and more scratchy/texturized without the reflective quality of the metal.

References/Inspiration

More Classwork

Drawings

In class, I also tried to be looser and less precise in my drawing, letting the material do the work. I also used black paper and white and black pastels, which is a combination I hadn't used before for this project, and I like the way these materials blend on the black paper. I tried to use more tones and shades, and blending the white pastel with the black in the dark paper allowed me to do so.

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Week 13 Project 3

3 Drawings
This week, I used a bit of a different style and "loosened up" more instead of trying to be more precise like I normally do in drawing what I'm looking at; instead of using a sponge and pastels in order to get the exact colors and edges that I want, I used materials like acrylic paint with paintbrushes and water, which didn't allow me to be as precise in what I was doing. I also took pictures this week and used these pictures to produce drawings that represent reflections we see in everyday life that we may go without noticing and appreciating. 

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Week 12 Project 3

3 Drawings
This week, I focused more on reflections you see every day. I took pictures of a chair, a lightbulb, and a tack, each being an everyday item, and tried to bring out these interesting reflections and shapes created by reflected light and images using charcoal, pastel, and a sponge. I also tried to work on using the whole space of the paper and making the composition with some meaning and thought put into it.

References/Inspiration

Model Drawing (Classwork) - Cut Paper

This is from the week where we used gray, black, and white paper to create spots in order to improve our ability to see spots; we were forced to find the spots because we only had three colors and couldn't really create outlines with the paper, but we could go in and use charcoal or pastel to add into the piece.

Model Drawings (Classwork)

These are drawings from model session in class, and I tried to use more middle tones in order to create shading and the give the drawing volume.  I also tried to use more layers of pastel to create a thicker texture and to add more to the pieces.

Classwork

I drew this in order to demonstrate the way light reflects off of the clear outside of a lightbulb, and also reflects images around it. It's kind of like a bubble, which I think is cool because on a bubble all you are seeing is the environmental image being reflected off of a round, clear surface.

This piece was inspired by the Rorschach ink blot idea along with Jackson Pollock's splatter paintings, so I used both ideas to create a piece that has physical reflection but also random splattered marks.

This is just a piece of paper I had behind my pieces when I was working on other drawings, but I liked the marks on it, so I am using it as possible inspiration for markmaking in another piece.

I wanted to practice using different shades while also filling in space and using the whole page for my drawing, so I took a picture of a faucet and did a quick drawing using pastels and a wet sponge. 

Week 11 Project 3

3 Drawings
This week I took pictures of objects that had reflections and drew them I n order to demonstrate the fact that reflections are everywhere and are not always what one thinks of when one thinks of a "stereotypical reflection." I used charcoal, pastel, and a wet sponge in order to creat the drawings of the faucet handle and light switch. Each of these drawings is an ordinary object that actually demonstartes either light reflecting off of it (like the faucet handle) or an object itself being reflected (like the light switch). For my other piece, I took more of an abstract approach to the idea of reflection and was inspired by the Rorschach inkblot test, so I used that as the base that unifies the piece (being a symmetrical reflection) and then took ink and added an effect of random, somewhat disorganized marks.

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Week 10 Project 3

3 Drawings
This week, I focused more on creating abstract pieces based on the idea of reflection. For the first drawing, I tried to convey the beauty of a sun's reflection on the water as it is setting, and I used really dark black for the sky and water and white to bring out the sun and its reflection. In my second piece, I thought about sound waves and their unique ability to bounce or reflect off of things, so I created an abstract piece based on the reflection of sound waves. For my third piece, I used the reflection of the moon on the water to inspire a piece with a sort of misty, unknown feeling to it, with the moon clearly outlined and its reflection barely visible as it fades away. In this project, I am aiming to explore different types of reflections and create pieces of reflection or inspired by reflection. I think the idea of reflection is incredible, and I am amazed at the fact that it can be seen anywhere and everywhere. Images can be reflected; light can be reflected; sound can be reflected, and all of these off of almost any surface. Also, reflection has multiple meanings, being an abstract concept as well, which I will also incorporate into my drawings as the project progresses.

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Week 9 Project 3

3 Drawings
For this project, the subject matter I'm exploring is the idea of reflection - reflection of light, color, images, etc. I used the picture of sunglasses as inspiration for my first drawing; I tried to make it so that you see sunglasses, and the only way you're seeing the scene is through the reflection on the sunglasses. For my second piece, I used the picture of the mountains reflecting on water as a reference for my drawing, and I tried to emulate the reflected image in the photograph using black and white and middle tones. For my third drawing, I used the reflection of light off of shiny objects as the basis of my piece, and I found a computer-generated picture of a faucet in order to accomplish this idea. My goal is to use more of a variety of tones in order to create a less stylized, more realistic version of what I'm trying to draw, even if it's just parts of the object of reference.

Reference/Inspiration

Drawings 10/7/15 and Inspiration/Reference

Drawings
I used charcoal and a dry paintbrush to achieve a more smooth look on some of these pieces, while on a couple I kept my strokes of charcoal loose and linear.

Inspiration/Reference

I found these pictures online and tried emulate the style while making some aspects my own unique style.