Landscape Final

Throughout this project while studying and creating my own landscape, I have simplified my definition of landscape. I believe that a landscape could be as basic as a large captured scene. I think this definition relates to my "artistic voice" a lot because I have noticed over the last year that I have found a particular interest in a mix of realism and abstraction when representing landscapes. This mix really showed up in my last work of the year. As I have compared realism and abstraction, I believe that I have also relied a lot on contrasting colors and textures to get across certain emotions in my works.

In terms of feedback, a lot of what my classmates had to say was about my use of strong colors. They said that the harsh difference in the building's color and the background's color really made each aspect of the work "stand out". It was also interesting to see where the viewer was brought into the painting. Everyone had a different place that their eye was drawn to. There were lots of possible "entrances" to the painting. Other comments that were added were: I maintained good brushstrokes throughout the work, I created a peaceful scene and maybe I could have added some more detail to the building. The two comments that stood out to me were about the contrasting colors and how the viewer's eyes navigated through the painting. I feel like those comments show me that I was able to get my intentions across. My whole idea at the beginning of the work was to maintain the contrast and provide an intriguing picture that movers the eyes around a lot.

I do not believe this represents all my knowledge to this point as an artist because this project was shorter and I did not have much time as I had liked. However, I was able to get across some of my development this year using formal techniques such as color, contrast and texture.

I could have pushed myself more if I had had more time. I could have refined my details a lot and worked on my background to make it less regular. I was still able to "stretch and explore" by experimenting with colors and just going for it instead of paying attention to every little detail.

Landscape

My definiton of a landscape would be a captured scene in which lies a foreground, middleground( not always necessary) and a background. To me, this seems like a traditional definition for landscape because it covers all sorts of generic landscapes that have been created throughout the history of art. So far during this project I have been working on the basics when its comes to landscape composition. As seen in my attached painting and sketches, I have tried to create a sense of three-dimentionality as well as clearly illustrate the different plains and sections of the compositions. To conclude this project, I would like to head towards refining my skills by completing either a sketch or painting that stays with the traditional forms of landscape.

Printing Final

My litho print turned out to be much simpler than I initially intended. I found that it was much easier to work and practice with the medium if I used all of my effort on it. I wound up only working with the French and American flags in order to create lots of prints. This multitude of prints offered a wide range of success and provided me with the option of choosing the ones that I liked the most. I was really intrigued at the variety of textures I wound up with after using the pronto plates more of less. No two prints were ever the same even though I kept doing the same process. Also, the red and blue colors would mix differently ever time creating a new visual each time. Overall, I was attracted to this process because if offered a wide degree of experimentation even with a simple subject.