Virtual Studio for Senior Painting Spring 2021

 

Three main points:  My non-western landscape painting transformed into a perspective painting Humor is pretty, when talking about death humor is now "dark humor" BUGS, bugs' life but not the movie, giving bugs a life similar to humans     

Im still thinking how i feel about it  

  My finished loud painting (bottom image), a long with more progress photos for reference. (Acrylic Paint, 18x24 stretched canvas)

  progress on project #2, sorry for the tape!. i completely forgot to do an underpainting for painting #2 so leaving it blank wasn’t intentional. 

 I am reimagining the Mona Lisa; I've researched sfumato and the techniques used in the Mona Lisa and after this wet layer dries, I'll do several more layers to create a sfumato effect. 

  This is my current progress on both of my paintings.  Top: This painting will be under the prompt of a flower as a metaphor. I'm using images and items I personally have and trying to connect them by using the same color palette and painting style.  Bottom: This one will represent a loud painting. I had a different painting before but after some advice, I decided to scrap that portrait all together and do a new one. Hopefully it was the right move but i think this one will be more effective than the original.

  A wip it was gonna be a left handed painting, but I forgot, so its gonna be really loud now

  Sketches and progress for paintings #1 and #2. I became very interested (almost obsessed) in this little window on the ceiling in the first floor of the FA building. It's an opening on the ceiling which i believe is for maintenance, but it's very strange because it looks pitch black inside. Then the other day a sink was out of order in the restroom and the janitor ladies put a bag over it but it fell down. I ended up taking a picture of this bag filled with dirty water because i thought it looked quite interesting. So overall, i'm doing an aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in UH's FA building. 

  I'm painting the Mona Lisa and reimagining her with a modern twist. I'm going to substitute her facial features with mine as a sort of self portrait, and contextualize her in our contemporary time period. 

 

 

 

12x16 canvas 24x36 canvas board 14x16 canvas board 12x16 canvas

  My theme for project one is "witching hour". I wanted to create a story of a woman being harassed by an unknown force. Witching hour is usually categorized as the "devil's hour" where supernatural events take place. However, the entity in my story appears to be a hybrid between a human and a demon/ghost. I hid certain details throughout my paintings that suggest the presence of this entity which at first glance are easy to miss. All four paintings are 16x20 in. and painted with acrylic. The sequence of events is reflected on the order in which i posted the paintings. 

 Non Dominant Hand POV Portrait from 15 ft away

Look at a complex photograph,  put it away and start painting.  Paint a quiet or a loud painting. Paint a rejection.  Left hand painting.