For this Choice Board I chose to start editing some of the pictures I wanted to use as references for my sustained investigation. I edited my great-grandma's photo by saturating it and adding contrast, and I am planning on using pastels like our first studio project for this work. I also went forward with my idea of using a color and b&w picture side by side. I made two versions, the bottom one being a different type of stroke style which I can maybe incorporate into my sustained investigation.
This was also a digital piece I worked on one night during Thanksgiving Break for fun. I added droplets of liquid acrylic onto black paper and used the panorama tool on my I Phone and made some up and down movements to create the background. Then, I edited it and added personal designs with the pen tool, and added layers of my brothers face to add repetition.
These are fantastic! I love your use of saturation. I think it emphasizes the bright colors, such as the turquoises in your great-grandma's portrait, or the turquoise of the roof of her house. I think you should continue to use the fusion of 2D mediums and Photoshop as you did with your brother's piece. It adds so much movement and character to your pieces!
ReplyDeleteI really love your piece that you worked over Thanksgiving! I love how it has a sense of unity from the reds, oranges, and yellows throughout the piece. The way you also edited the girl to also be red really ties the piece together. I love how you used repetition in the background as well but it also still has elements of asymmetry. Your photos that you edited are also really well done. I really love your artwork!
ReplyDeleteJocelyn, keep up your exploration of these digital drawings! Somehow they still carry forth your "signature" distinctive drawing style of units of color and expressive, charged linear elements. Your use of repetition is unexpected, and the piece holds my attention and continues to become more engaging the longer I spend looking at it. There is so much her to appreciate form a design standpoint.
ReplyDeleteThe pieces featuring the saturated and monochrome buildings are very well done, and I like that you juxtaposed them side by side, without a gap. It almost seems to suggest to em that they are still "one and the same," though different, and feel fresher and less expected than a "side by side" comparison would.
Thank you fr sharing insight into your technical and conceptual creative processes! Knowing how these pieces were made and what you were thinking about lends important value and insight to the work.