This is Part 3. Wait, wait what happened to Part 2? Why have we suddenly skipped to Part 3 as if it never happened?
Well Part 2 of the class was on drawing. I have no problem with drawing I'm even pretty OK at it, but no one needs to see my blind contour drawing. Other than that the primary project was that we were given a 1.5x1.5 section of a photograph and used grids to enlarge it to a 8x8 and then we put them together and pinned them all up and they made a whole picture. It was kind of interesting, but out of context the image doesn't mean much.
Part 3 however was a lot of fun. Part 3 was an introduction to color. For this we did two self-portraits (acrylic on canvas). This assignment was supposed to have a pop art inspirations. The professor took each individuals photo, put it on the computer and increased the contrast, and printed it off. The assignment was to take our photo and draw out shapes to simplify the face. We then transferred this to the canvas.
The first part was to do a monochromatic piece. I chose a bright orangey-red as my base color and was able to get a very good range from a light pinkish color for the skin tones and a deep reddish brown for the background and shadows. i had a lot of fun creating the hair texture. I added some contrast by doing a very dark background and then painting the borders with the true color. The true color also makes an appearance a little bit in the hair and then with my glasses.
The second part of the assignment was to do the same thing except where she said she normally has students use a complementary palette we each chose a painting and used colors from that painting for our second painting. Where my first piece had more dimension and used much softer color variations I decided to get way into the pop art inspiration and chose very bright colors and lots of contrast. Another girl in my class gave me the idea of leaving the glasses white on this peice. I think it is a nice touch.
I thought both of these were pretty good and a lot of fun to do. I did not realize how much of a focal point the glasses are until someone pointed it out to me. I can't really argue the point; I think I look really strange without them.