Concentration #3

Greetings. I think my concentration is the relation to one's self with their inner animal? Not quite sure still a work in progress.

Attempt I

Well I'm almost done with the mask, hopefully finishing it by tonight... We'll see how this goes

Eric Siebenthal

Eric Siebenthal - http://acrylicmind.com

Ah dis is insane in the membrane. He's an abstract artist and is crazy with his acrylic paints. He has a really good use of color and contrast. On his website he has some sort of videos that show his process and basically his art is just expressing his mind. Very nice though. Visual Coherence you ask? Well they all has the same movements in his paint strokes throughout his canvas. Although most of his paintings are quite colorful, I am more attracted to the darker stuff because maybe I'm a dark person? I don't know. Doesn't matter. Here. Enjoy.

John Kenn

John Kenn - http://johnkenn.blogspot.com

Doodles on Doodles. Damn it's like an eye orgasm. I envy John's work so much with all those details! It's crazy man. Crazy. And I know John Kenn used to (still might) do his drawings on Post-It Notes. His idea is to just capture his thoughts. He has kids and just draws as a side job which is insane. The artist has the same dark yet creaturesc feel to all his characters and usually uses children and monsters together. The elements in John's work is probably movement, but he doesn't really have a lot of them elements and said principles.

Russ Mills

Russ Mills - http://www.russellmills.com

Russell Mills is a beaut. Well he creates some damn sexy faces and then alters them and makes them have an aggressive feel to them. I actually think they're really sick and I am really crappy at human form but it seems possible to do. Like make faces but have so many brush strokes and all that jazz to make it look like some sort of creaturesc human. I would say Mr. Mills has a good sense of emphasis and line and definitely contrast with them darks against lights.

     

Fire

Well I guess this was the summer of burnings.... I had my weekly routine of going to Value Village and looking through all their weird knickknacks and buying the most flammable. Believe me, I got some really weird looks as I walk though the store and look at clothes while holding two scarecrows. Ha. Good times.

 Gerard

 Doctors in Jars. Completely normal 

Cynthia 

The Final Frontier

Well this year has come and gone oh so fast, it's been insane.
But some solid pieces have been produced...

But advice? I mean I guess they should know they should stick with it and the beginning is always rough but it totally gets easier once one gets into the swing of things. It's fun though and as the year progresses, we as a class get closer and it's good.

Looking back on this year I made so many new friendships that I will never forget. I also think my artistic talents greatly grew saying I sucked before and I actually don't know how I ever got into AP but anywho ha it's been a fun year and I'm really thankful I took AP art. I'm gonna miss everyone just a little too much.




And some wonderful friendships have been made

Con-cen-tra-tion

What is the central idea of your concentration?


Acrylic paintings of cars, focusing on the older aspects of them rather than the new


How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea? You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers.

Throughout my concentration, my paintings kept getting more zoomed, making the part of the car look somewhat indistinguishable. For each of my pieces, I chose to use only exterior parts of the cars as it shows what the car is actually made of and in my opinion, is the more artistic part of a car. The industrial aspects of cars are what interest me since they've changes so much throughout the years.  Since cars are full of different textures and reflections, I tried to use certain brush strokes to show the many surfaces, like in my newest one of the hood ornament and the biggest one I've done which showed the spokes. 

We're getting there.

Well I fell like this is the time of the year when most people are stuck on what to do next for their concentration  Could be wrong but let's hope not... Anyway about my concentration  I think I'm on a good pathway. I know where I want to go next which will just to be following my last four or five pieces because LATELY, I've been zooming up more on the photographs I've taken and painting pictures so close-up that it it sorta a struggle to figure out what it is? I'm just trying to have them abstracty.

Oh yes, and my concentration is close up images of the exterior of cars (pre-1990's), focusing on the older aspects of them, rather than the new.

So basically, I can say that I'm on good track with my concentration, my only problem is that I'm running out of pictures to use but a quick photographing spree would solve that. I just got to find old cars... hmm, whatever I'll be fine.

Oh and all my artwork is in the art room, so here's a picture of my piece from a month ago, and yes thanks to Andrea and Kelsey, I'm aware that I forgot to finish a spoke in the top right corner.