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Project #5 Process Post
For this piece, I kept my themes of reflection and light but changed my content. Instead of painting candy, I moved to painting crystal and glass. My reference photo was of a chandelier, and I liked it because it had a lot of depth. I am able to draw focus to the crystals in the foreground by making them very crisp while leaving the background soft and out of focus. I also liked how it had some ambiguity, and the blend of the crystals moves the eye around the piece. Because o
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Feb 41 min read
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Project #4 Process Post
For this project I was continuing my focus on colorful shadows. Unlike my last project, I put the objects on a light background to see if it would make the shadows stand out more. I struggled picking the right color because I wanted to complement the candy well but also not take away from it. I ultimately decided on a light purple because the low saturation was still pleasing to look at while being subtle. I though it was a good choice as it is the complementary color to yell
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Jan 41 min read
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Q2 Awareness Post - Hilary Pecis
Background : She is a painter and drawer who uses bold color, geometric shapes, and overlapping techniques to showcase her still lifes. Her love for art started at a young age when she would watch PBS art shows. She attended the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and was awarded the San Francisco Arts Commission's Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship. She is also a founder of Binder of Women, which is a group of Los Angeles female artists. She started her career making
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Jan 32 min read
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Awareness Post - Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter who paints still lifes of common objects such as pie, lipstick, cake, and ice cream. He also explored with landscapes that merged the line between reality and memory. His work depicts themes of American consumer culture and nostalgia. Light, texture, and color are common themes throughout his paintings. https://waynethiebaudfoundation.org/ Background: 1942-1945: serve in the US army in the Special Services Division as a cartoonist 1949: w
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Oct 15, 20251 min read
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Project #2 Process Post
This project I am painting an assembly of candies to evoke feelings of nostalgia. I chose candy that reminds me of my grandparents and...
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Sep 24, 20251 min read
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Figure Drawing Reflection
This was my fourth time doing figure drawing and I definitely saw improvement. From the start, my gesture drawings had much more...
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Sep 15, 20251 min read
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Summer Project Process Post - August
This month I finished the background objects. I painted the container and some of the objects that were in the back of the piece. These...
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Aug 17, 20251 min read
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Summer Project Process Post - July
This month I started painting my piece. First I applied a layer of paint in blocks to get the generic color and value down. Then I...
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Aug 17, 20251 min read
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Summer Project Process Post - June
For my summer project, I wanted to make a painting that continued my theme of collections. When deciding what items to use, I was really...
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Aug 17, 20251 min read
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Project 8 Process Post
I am doing another car painting that is part of a series with my project 7. The previous project was a zoomed in toy car, that focused on...
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May 1, 20251 min read
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Experience Post - Oura Sananikone
I though it was interesting that he did five murals last year, which isn't his typical medium and he also used spray paint for the first...
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Feb 6, 20252 min read
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Q2 Career Post
I found a curator to be a very interesting art related job. Curators find art piece for collections and exhibitions in museums. They...
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Dec 17, 20242 min read
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Q2 project 4 process post
` So far for this painting I have finished my underpainting. I did a grissaille and I plan to glaze over certain spots to create little...
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Dec 16, 20241 min read
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Awareness Post - Natasha Junmanee
Glorious Mandarin Oil on Canvas This piece is by Natasha Junmanee who is an Australian oil painter who focuses on photorealism and still...
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Dec 9, 20242 min read
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Home Project Process Post
For the home project I originally wanted to do the challenge assignment and make two pieces based off different prompts. After I finished...
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Oct 20, 20241 min read
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Q1 process Post #2
Since the last process post I have been working on the other sections of the circle. I decided on doing an eye in the top left section...
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Oct 6, 20241 min read
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Career Blog Post
I found the art conservator to be very interesting. This job repairs and preserves work of art. They sometimes apply treatments to art to...
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Oct 6, 20241 min read
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Q1 Project Process Post
For my quarter one project I picked a new theme from my summer projects and worked on creating more conceptual depth in my piece. I...
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Sep 29, 20241 min read
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Figure Drawing Reflection
I really enjoyed this unity because I built on the skills that I learned last year. I really got to practice techniques I already knew...
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Sep 19, 20241 min read
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Head Project
For this project I focused on a subject and that was human facial features. For the final four project I made a sculpture of an eye using...
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Aug 18, 20241 min read
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