School Starts...

Tomorrow. baaaah! no, no, noooooo! I'm not ready! I want another week! But that unfortunately is not going to happen. This quarter I am taking:

-Gothic Art History
-3D Design
- Marriage and Intimacy (I have to pick 4 "Capstone" courses basically they are upperdivision general ed requirements that force you take classes outside of your major. I chose Family Studies and thus a class called Marriage and Intimacy)
-and hopefully Art in Elementary School. I was waitlisted so it's sort of a toss up between this or LifeDrawing. I guess I will find out tomorrow! :)

So, with the start of a new quarter I figured it was probably a good time to finally get up all my paintings from last quarter. I know there is at least a couple of you who want to see them still. So here they are.... I wish I were more proud of them than I am but with math and all the other time consuming classes I was taking, painting sort of fell at the end of my list of priorities. All of them are done with Acrylic and all of them are 24" x 18"

The first 3 are a set. I painted three different angles of an orange.




This was the last piece I did and I did it in about two hours while I was sick so, that explains the poor shadows etc...

This is the favorite one I did. I created a collage on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper and then scaled it up to size.

We were required to do one copy. Meaning that we find an artist that we like and copy one of their paintings with a graph and everything... This is The Bath by Mary Cassatte.
Again, one of my final pieces done while I was sick...

And this was one of the first ones I did. My teacher and I call this my experimentation. I really struggled this quarter with the idea of content... what content makes a good painting? Who decides this? How do I decide what I want to paint? This was me really experiementing and getting out some artistic frustration if you will. :)
My Final Project for 2D Design: We had to take our abstract image of a vegetable that we created (I chose an artichoke) and then apply different color harmonies to the same image. On the left (orange and green) is the split complimentary color scheme, middle is the double-split complimentary color scheme, and on the right is a complimentary color scheme. Painted with Acrylic.

I look forward to sharing with you the knowledge I gain this next quarter.
Love,
Katie