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. 

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