BA Portfolio: All Work Thus Far

Painting II: Under drawing

I decided to do an under drawing for my first painting and see how that goes. It's been over a year and a half since I last tried this out and I don't remember much of how to go about it but we'll see.

I have been toying with the idea of doing a different technique with each of these and then once I run out, doing more in the techniques I like with the medium I liked the most. The next one I try will be an under painting. Then maybe all oil, then a water color, then maybe acrylic. I would also try collage, I think. I'm also keeping an open mind and going with however way I'm feeling each time I start a new one.

BA: sudden obssesion

With isolated figures and nature. I go through this phase every so often, where I will draw people with animals, with parts of animals, because nature is grounding and that is something everyone needs.

I want to incorporate mixed media or maybe digital color. I haven't decided yet.

ok I decided digitally, this time.

I also decided to color two drawings I did earlier this semester while I was already at it. Photoshop has been kind to me, tonight.

Painting II: ideas

The first major idea I had about two weeks ago was to paint portraits of the people I know as their favorite deities. I have composited a list of the people I would choose from.

• Logan as Herne
• Amraphel as Son Goku
• Kelsie and Megan as Ganesh
• Talia as Medusa
• Katherine as Demeter
• Malcolm as The Madonna

These will probably subject to change and I don't know if I'll do all of them or just some of them but that was one idea. I wanted to play with transformation and work on painting people and skin tones.

BA: DreamScape book arts idea

I remember most of my dreams and they are usually vivid and fantastical and I think about illustrating them, often. I started writing out and highlighting the ones that I always remember because they were either visually interesting, horrifically scary and anxiety-inducing, or funny in some way.

My goal is to show the world I how see in my dreams. I want to do this because I always wonder how other people see their dreams. It is one thing to explain them to someone, but everyone interprets words differently and not everyone can get across what they are trying to say. Dreams are mostly visually based, and mostly, I just want to draw them.

Recently, I learned how to make and bind books and that is something that has really stuck with me and it's information I don't want to throw away, so I was also thinking about binding these illustrations into a book. It will be like a diary, in a sense, except that I want everyone to see it. I just haven't decided if I should make it a printed book, something that looks professionally done or if I should do it all by hand, writing and illustrations alike and make it seem more personal and precious.

A thought I had before falling asleep a few nights ago, was what if I made a blank book to go with it and invited the audience to share their dreams with me. Then it would be an exchange.

dream lines thus far:

• The black wall went on forever. The ripples were static.
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• I went into the awful  house to save my mom, but he followed me into the bathroom.
• The most unsettling thing was the the pile of flea infested kittens in the corner.
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• My mom placed the axe in my hand  and told me to chop her up for dinner.
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• When the tidal wave hit, I didn't feel a thing and I was marveled by how calm the water was.
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• The one time I had a lucid dream, I remember thinking, "I was cuter in my dream last night."
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• He jumped to the second story of the gazebo and threw a trash bag over my head.
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• I flew towards the warship in the basement of the academy. The sweater my friend had given me fluttered in the wind, it was my mighty steed.
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• Every floor of this house holds a different dimension.
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• The corridors get narrower and narrower the higher I climb.

References

a link to my inspiration tag on tumblr for reference