Art 2017

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Below are all of my pages from my art book this year. It includes planning and ideas from throughout the year. 

This is my brainstorm page. This is where I wrote down all the possible themes I could have for my folio. 










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My first idea this year was something to do with animals. I came up with the idea of having my theme about the four seasons. I didn't end up doing this theme, obviously, but I think it would have been really cool if I had proceeded with it. Although I feel like it would have been a lot more work than my actual theme (poaching in Africa). To the side, you can see some of my planning for this theme. I was going to take a photo of the same tree each season and see how it changed and put the pictures on my folio.








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These are my ideas of when I wanted to do my board about surrealism animals. I wish I had done some surrealism art pieces for my folio.

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These are my first ideas of when I decided my folio was going to be about poaching in Africa. 



At first, my theme was just going to be about poaching of zebras. I even made up a story that the folio was going to be about. The theme was going to be about a poacher that kills a zebra and is turned into a zebra and has to see the world through the zebra's eyes. Although I decided to have a story as my theme might be difficult because I would have to have my pictures in a certain order and I might not have enough ideas for pieces. 




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This was my first idea of how my board was going to start. It is a flower blooming, signifying new & precious life. This 'new life' was representing the zebra's new life and how precious it was.  










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These are all my ideas for pieces of art after I decided my board would be about the poaching of Zebras, Rhinos, and Elephants. 




































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These are the images of the planning of the layout of my folio. At first, I drew a quick sketch of each image on the layout plan, but I found that this took too much time. I later just numbered each of my ideas so that when placing them on a layout plan I could just insert the number. I also colour coded each piece, orange being a rhino piece, green being a zebra piece and blue being an elephant piece. I also added a tally chart so I could keep up with the amount of pieces I was completing.

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For my first three pieces on my folio, the zebra, rhino and elephant faces, I planned put which colours I would use. For these pieces, I used watercolour pencils. Originally, I was going to make a stencil of a crosshair and spraypaint it onto each piece, but I ended up not proceeding with it because I liked the way they looked without it. 
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This is my planning for piece 6 (fourth piece on board). I tried out different shades of black watercolour paint. I also tried out some black charcoal.
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This is the first drawing of piece 9. 



















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This is the woodcut that I did. At first, I put it through the press but I didn't like how dark it was. So I did it again but this time I didn't put it through the press. Instead, I used a spoon. To the lef, you can see how it turned out through the press. _____________________________________________________________________________
These are my lino cuts. I really like how these turned out. I found that cutting onto lino was a lot easier than wood. The pieces in the image below were complted with a spoon. I did do some pieces with the press but again they were too dark.




















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This is my first and only drawing of piece 4. As you can see it is not completed and did not go onto my board. I don't like this piece. Drawing the zebra was difficult and no matter what I did it looked very bad. Although even though I hated this piece, the only reason I didn't put it on my folio was to make room for my two lino cuts. I am very pleased with myself for replacing it with the lino cuts. The lino cuts really suit the board. 


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This is the planning for the backgrounds of pieces 21 and 19.


























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Here is my planning for piece 11. 


















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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Folio complete

Today I completed my folio!!! I glued every piece down with spray glue. My favourite panel is the first one. 


















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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
New piece

Today I replaced a piece that I didn't like. I replaced it with a poacher holding a rhino horn. I coloured the man with watercolour paint. I made the background the same style as the elephant piece that a redid. It's shades of blue ar the top and it fades into shades of red. I put a blur of charcoal over his face. 
















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Thursday, October 12, 2017
Background added

Today I added a background to one of my elephant pieces. I used different shades of blue. I was going to use red but I thought it would take away the effect of the red blood down the trunk. Also blue suited the colour theme on the second board. 




































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Friday, October 6, 2017
Two new linocuts complete

Today I completed two linocuts. One is a zebra with rhino horns strapped to its head. This was more of a rhino piece because the message of it was "nothing we do will bring them back". But since it consisted more of a zebra I included it in the zebra section of my board. When I first did the print I used the printing press. The printing press made the ink too dark. So I tried again with a spoon. It turned out much better. My other linocut was a zebra and a baby zebra. I also used a spoon for this one. Ultimately I like how these turned out.
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Piece Finished
I've been a bit slack on my art blog lately, but I've created some new pieces since I last posted. 

This piece I started and completed in one day. It is of five rhino horns. The horns have been painted with a range of brown watercolour paints. I liked how the shading turned out on the horns. I was initially going to leave the background white, but it though it looked rather plain. So I decided to paint around the horns with red Indian ink. I really like how this turned out. I was going to continue filling in the white with the red Indian ink but I thought it looked really good not filled in. 

This piece is of a rhino from bird's eye view. The rhino has just had its horn cut off. The rhino's shadow has been filled in with charcoal, but I think I'll have to go over it again to make it darker. The rhino has been painted with grey, white and black acrylics. The rhino was originally a dark brown but I didn't like the way it looked, so I went over it with grey. 
The blood of the rhino has been done with red Indian ink and some black charcoal. The background, which I kind of hate, has been painted with dark green watercolour paint. 

My next piece consists of two poachers holding an elephant tusk. After I drew this piece I played around on some scrap paper of how I was going to colour this. I decided on using black charcoal to colour it. I wanted to try something different so I put the picture into three sections. I then coloured the background of the first section with charcoal. In the second section, I coloured first man and half of the second man and also the middle of the tusk. In the third section, I did the same thing I did with the first section. When I had finished all the charcoal I wasn't sure if I should leave it or not. Now believe me I wish I had just left it, but I added some red Indian ink to the tusk, the Indian ink being blood. I hate how this looks and I need to fix it somehow. 
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Friday, August 18, 2017
Tenth Piece Finished

While I was on holiday I completed my tenth piece, which is a young elephant and its dead mother. I did the elephants with grey and black pastels and the background with charcoal. 

I also started on 3 new pieces. 

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Saturday, August 8, 2017
Ninth Piece Finished
The other day I completed a piece in just 2 daYyyys!! Definitely my fastest piece. The piece is an elephant that has lost its tusks. The elephant has blood running down its trunk from the wound of the tusk being removed. I coloured the elephant in with charcoal which I reallyyyyyy liked!:) The blood is red Indian ink, I also like the look of that a lot too. 

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Eighth Piece Finished
I hate this piece. 

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Thursday, July 27, 2017
Seventh Piece Finished
Today I completed my seventh piece for my board. It is a part of a series, there are two other pieces that go with it. It is a zebra eye and the other two pieces are of an elephant and rhino eye. It's kind of like a close up of my first pieces that I did. I painted it with water colour paint and water colour pencil. These pieces will be the last pieces in my folio. They'll go at the bottom of the second panel. 

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Friday, July 21, 2017
Sixth Piece Finished
Today I finished painting my sixth piece which will go on my second panel when I get back to school. I used acrylic paints, except for when I painted the elephant i decided to switch to watercolour paint as I though it would look better and be easier to do.

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Monday, July 17, 2017
New Piece of Work
I have recently started on my sixth piece for my board. I got sick of doing pieces about zebras, so I moved on to one of my pieces that are about an elephant. This piece will go on my second panel. The piece is of an elephant, there is a line down the middle which is showing that the animal is in two different places. On the left, the elephant is in his natural habitat the savannah in Africa. On the right side, he is in a regular human city. You can see on the right side that the elephant is missing his tusks, well half of his tusks. This gives the idea that people (poachers) from the human city have cut off the elephants tusks and have bought them from the elephant's natural habitat into the human city. I began to paint the piece with acrylic paints. 

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Monday, July 3, 2017
Fifth Piece on Board
The past few weeks I have been creating my 5th piece of artwork for my folio. It is my 3rd piece that consists of a zebra. It is of two poachers holding up zebra skin. This piece took me longer than I would have anticipated. Although as of late I have began drawing my art for my folio at home and this has been really helpful, as I am getting more work done. 


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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Fourth Piece on Board
I've stuck my fourth piece of art work on my board, its of the Zebra that I talked about last week. I completed it the other day. I painted it with black watercolour. I wasn't totally happy with the outcome of the zebra's face after I painted it with the watercolour, but I really liked the look of the stripes on the right of the page. 

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Friday, June 9, 2017
New piece of work
I have started on my fourth piece of work. It is of a zebra with only half of its stripes drawn on and its other stripes are drawn next to him. The concept is that the zebra is losing its stripes, like when a zebra is poached for its skin. 

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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
First Work on Folio
Today I put my first pieces of work onto my folio 

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Tuesday, May, 9, 2017
Planning board

Today I planned how my folio would potentially look. I drew up the two sides and chose from my drawings of animal poaching and inserted them where I best thought they suited. I numbered each drawing first so that I could just put the number down while planning the board instead of redrawing it. I also colour coded the pieces of work on the board plan so that I could easily tell what each piece was about (either zebras, rhinos or elephants). A picture of the plan is on the right >

I've also done a full page of ideas for drawings, 3 of which I have almost completed which I spoke about in my last post. 

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Friday, March 31, 2017

First Piece of Work

I've been working on my very first pieces of artwork for the beginning of my folio for the past 2 weeks. My theme is poaching in Africa, so my folio is going to be a series of works that show what endangered animals in Africa go through. My first pieces (shown above), are introducing the three main animals I'll be focusing on in my folio. First I drew the animals then I painted them with watercolour pencils. My next step is to create a stencil which is the crosshairs of a gun. I'm going to apply this stencil to each of these 3 pieces with either paint or spray paint, to show that they are being targeted.

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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Art History

Pablo Picasso

Mediterranean Landscape 1953

Mediterranean Landscape is a cubism style, oil on panel artwork, created by Pablo Picasso, in 1953. It is 125 x 81 cm. The painting represents a place he visited, and the vibrant and bold colours like green, blue, yellow and red, portray how he felt being in this place; happy. I think that these bright colours set a scene of happiness and summertime. The high vitality of diagonal lines allows your eyes to keep moving along the composition. The oil paints were a good choice for this piece, as the colours are so eye-catching and powerful. The use of shadows can be seen a bit, using a rather dramatic black or a contrasting colour, the shadows make the scene with the houses more bright. The dark blue in the background makes it seem as so it's a hot late evening. 

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Theme Thought Process

I've had a lot of change in my ideas for my art this year, at first it was just going to be about animals, but like I obviously need more meaning to it than 'just animals'. So I then spoke to my mum she gave me the idea of doing it about the 4 seasons, which I did like at the time, but I honestly wasn't really feeling it, so I talked to Mrs Clemence and she told me that I should check out some surrealism art and surrealism artists, so I did and I really enjoyed the looks of the art, it was so outgoing, and not plain and ordinary like a lot of art.I then began to draw surrealistic pictures of animals (to the left).Although still wasn't sure what my art was going to be about. I still wanted it to include animals, cos' animals are great dah. So I spoke to another teacher, Mrs Cairns, I told her how I wanted it to be about animals, and she gave me the idea of poaching in Africa. I researched animals in Africa that were being deeply affected by the poaching, and I began to think of how I could make the art (ideas below)

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Artist Research 

Pablo Picasso Research

I've done some research on the profound artist, Pablo Picasso. I actually looked at a few surreal artists, but Picasso's work really popped out to me. Picasso has the most distinct style and eye for creation. Picasso used many colours in his work, with not only warmer colours such as beige and pink but also greater dimensions. This is what I'd like to do in my work throughout the year, use many colours and make my pieces of art come off as warm, except for the more darker pieces, with a meaning of sadness behind them, these will not include as much colour. I also like the way Picasso puts his art together, with all the shapes and different angles, such as the way the eyes in both of the drawings to the left are positioned. 

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Year 11 Art Ideas

At first, I wanted my portfolio to have something to do with animals, as I am rather passionate about the well being of animals, I even want to be a vet when I finish high school. But I had to adapt to that idea, build more to it, have a better concept. So I came up with the idea of making my portfolio about the seasons (e.g winter, summer), including the changes within animals and nature. I spoke with the teacher about my ideas, and she suggested I do surrealism, and gave me the artists Rene Magritte and Frida Kahlo to research. I'm pretty confident in this idea, I'm going to make surrealism art about animals and nature 

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