Friday, February 18, 2011

Of Leaves and Music

Media used: Photograph of me, Photoshop high contrast, project on canvas, pencil tracing, acrylic paint and sharpie marker.

Processes: I first started to shoot a photo of me, then imported it to my computer, then I used Photoshop to high contrast the photo. I projected it on my canvas, then I used a pencil to trace myself. I painted myself in black and white. I used the sharpie marker to make the musical notes and leaves, then I used the blue paint to fill in the left side, and the red paint to fill in the right side. I filled in the leaves with green paint, and finally I used the sharpie marker to write my signature.

Techniques: I filled in the spots carefully with black. I used a thin brush for the majority, but then I used a medium brush for the background.

Critique: The two things I liked about this was making pop art for the first time because I never done it before, and I liked painting the background. The one thing I would like to change is that I would like to change my colour from white to purple (with the exception of my eye) because I like purple.

Tom and Jerry Tribute

Media used: Sharpie marker, and acrylic paint on canvas 

Processes: I first started the picture by photo copying a photo of the characters in the logo, then I used a sharpie marker to outline the letters and characters, and then I finally paint in the letters and characters with acrylic paint. If I needed to make pink or light brown I would mix it in with two colours. For example, if I wanted to make pink I would mix both red and white to get the result. 

Techniques: I would always use small brushes to fill in small spots and not over paint the black lines. 

Critique: The two aspects I love about this is that it definitely looks like the Tom and Jerry title that Chuck Jones produced/directed from 1962 to 1967, and that it was fun drawing and painting this picture! One thing I would like to add in the background is just orange because in the Chuck Jones produced cartoons, the background is orange. 

Tom and Jerry is owned by Time Warner

Tuesday, February 1, 2011