Blog 3: Art Event

For my 3D Process class we were required to go to the opening night for the art exhibit by the Korean artist Kwang Young Chun. The pieces in this exhibit were large scale and made with Korean mulberry paper. In the photographs of these images the pieces appeared to have craters. However in person you can see that they're actually flat. The artist achieved this allusion through special dyes and values. These pieces were very interesting and I plan on going back to the exhibit to view the pieces again.

 http://www.towson.edu/asianarts/events/index.asp

Blog 2: My Artwork

I've always loved using people as the subject of my artwork, although until this passing summer I didn't draw realistically. So recently I've been focusing on drawing and painting portraits so I can eventually draw realistic faces without a reference. This specific picture was originally drawn in my sketchbook. I ended up liking it so much I took a picture of it and painted over it in Paint Tool Sai using my tablet. The reference I used for this was a screen cap from a music video. 

I did this piece in the beginning of my senior year. My concept for the piece was people getting their ideas through their dreams. So it would "Take Root" and grow into something else. I painted the picture in watercolors and I hot glued sticks from my backyard and fake leaves onto it. On the leaves I wrote different words like "grow" and "creation".

   

This was the most recent thing I have done. I wanted to try to do a portrait in watercolor since my tablet isn't working anymore. One I saw this picture I really wanted to paint it because of the different colors and angles in it. My reference for this was a fan-taken photo at a concert.  

Blog Intentions

I made this blog to share my own artwork and that of others in a more professional environment. I usually post my artwork to other sites on the internet, like Deviantart or Tumblr. However I feel this blog will be a more serious approach to getting my name out there. I may post my older art or even works that are still in progress. Either way, this blog will be an outlet for me to branch out as an artist.

I hope to use this blog to find other art related blogs as well. I personally get artistic inspiration from looking at the artwork of others- no matter what the medium. They could inspire something completely irrelevant as well. Often I get motivated to make something after seeing a piece that is really done well. If I see a digitally painted portrait online I'll usually want to work on a portrait of my own.