Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
art in haiku
there will be some work to prove this statement. Coming soon.
My area of concentration is smaller compositions focused more on the ideas that come with the picture than the technical skill of the piece. Valasaraptor
My area of concentration is smaller compositions focused more on the ideas that come with the picture than the technical skill of the piece. Valasaraptor
Monday, November 24, 2008
safe
Friday, October 3, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
some free time
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
(GUYS WHO DO STUFF I LIKE)
TOP FIVE ART HEROES
5) Winslow Homer- I'm not a fan of his famous works but the really obscure and simple ones he did are really blue.
4) Thomas Moran- I like doing the occasional landscape. This guy is good but sort of repetitive. The landscape Warhol.
3) Franz Marc- The blue silky Fauvist. I'm all about Fauvism and he does it in a jazzy way. Good use of color and movement. Sweet.
2) Frederick Church- A more recent descovery; I don't really know anything about him. Also a landscaper but his work is a lot better than Moran's.
1) Henri Matisee- number one guy; inspirer of most of my stuff. Better than Darin. When he was going blind he started cutting paper and doing art that way. Excellent.
5) Winslow Homer- I'm not a fan of his famous works but the really obscure and simple ones he did are really blue.
4) Thomas Moran- I like doing the occasional landscape. This guy is good but sort of repetitive. The landscape Warhol.
3) Franz Marc- The blue silky Fauvist. I'm all about Fauvism and he does it in a jazzy way. Good use of color and movement. Sweet.
2) Frederick Church- A more recent descovery; I don't really know anything about him. Also a landscaper but his work is a lot better than Moran's.
1) Henri Matisee- number one guy; inspirer of most of my stuff. Better than Darin. When he was going blind he started cutting paper and doing art that way. Excellent.
New Art Extranganza
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Nate Chew Err
The sky is awesome.The vivd colors work really well in this one; things get lighter and more yellow the closer they get to the sun; both the clouds and people. The sun's yellow is reflected on the water in the lower left, the coach's top, and the mountains on the right side. On the cattle, you don't quite see the sun's color, but the yellow mixes with their dark red making some kind of orange The painting's genre is classified as Romantiscm, but some people say his art style should be called Luminism.
This is one of my favorite paintings. I didn't know who painted it for a while. It was done by Albert Bierstadt, called "The Oregon Trail" and done in 1867. Oil on canvas, 31 X 49." Alby looks like a mix of Chester Allen Arthur and Santa Claus.
Attack of the Clay People
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Spirit Space
The ripples on the water are done incredibly well. They have texture and reflect the back mountains, the boat, and fisherman. Nice Homer, naice. You can't see the source of light at first and there are also no shadows that identify anything plus the sky is pretty gray. But, if you look at the water, you can see the reflection of the sun in the bottom right corner. What's weird is the sky about two thirds of the way up. it seems to mirror itself.
The Red Canoe by Winslow Homer, 1889. No website would give me the medium (apparently MET has better things do upload), presumably oil on canvas, 18 x 25
Here's Winnie:
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Powa' and Authoritay
This painting has two balanced focal points: the tree thing in the lower right and the mountain in the upper left. Purple skies and light blue clouds gives this painting a cool color scale. Plus the mountains are brown; my old art teacher at kenmore had a Thomas Moran poster that said MOUNTAINS ARE NOT BROWN. This is a landscape painting.
This one was done by thomas moran (Index Peak, Yellowstone National Park, 1914, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 1/4 inches). Tommy looks like this:
This one was done by thomas moran (Index Peak, Yellowstone National Park, 1914, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 1/4 inches). Tommy looks like this:
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Narrative Art: The Post
This painting is very "blue centred." Apart form the ocean, there is blue in the sand, blue in the shadows of the house and the sails. The focal point, the sails on the boat, is the centre of the drawing because it is the biggest thing that is the least blue. However, the dark blue and purple, used in the water to give depth, also direct you eye off the left side of the painting which may indicate that the boat is traveling around the island.
This painting is called The Long Leg by edward hopper. His usual media is oil on canvas. Here's a picture of ol' Ed:
Friday, March 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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