Figure Trial 6.1

Not sure how I feel about the change in cloth right now. Just trying to figure out how it should be. I like the use of the printed cloth, however, I don't know how I feel about the aesthetically when using the printed cloth. I don't want the top and bottom to feel completely disconnected. By using a more muted cloth, I think it keeps the piece appearing as a solid form. However, on some level, I think the disconnect works with the idea of the pieces. 

Sides

Close-ups

Changing up the Forms

My goal with these was to continue with my forms but to change them up. I did a lot of research and looking at images within the Ethiopian culture. These are mainly just sketches. There are two landscape kind of images, but other than that, they are all forms.

Materials: Color pencil on paper

Render of Form

I found this form earlier in some of my line work and was wondering what it would look if I rendered the image. From that I over laid a piece of tracing paper and extended the lines of the figure out.

This bottom image is putting both the figure and the lines on the same level.

Materials: Paper, Pencil, tissue paper, tracing paper, ink

Russian Famine of 1921

I was recently reading about the Russian Famine of 1921 and this idea came about. In the simplest explanation the Russian famine was caused by a drought in the 1920's and roughly 5 million people died.

The top image is a map of Russia, clearly not a perfect map but it was drawn from a map of Russia. Then I took a a sheet of tracing paper and drew the image of below on the left. It was this idea of the weighted atmosphere swarming the land (a.k.a. the famine). Within those lines I then found my figures, drawn on another piece of tracing paper. People who were forced to adjust to the circumstances and were affected by it. The next row down and first image on the left is another sheet of tracing paper. On that sheet, I found text within those lines. The words I found were 5 million, famine, Russia, and drought. And lastly, I took another sheet of tracing paper and over laid it on again and designed one final image, influenced by all the other layers.

Materials: paper, tracing paper, pen

Sketch Work

Most recent sketch work. Just another one of those figure forms, nothing too special...

Materials: pencil, and a little pen work.

Lines and Forms Painting

 This is still a work in progress. The bottom image is of the background I created. Those lines across the canvas are string which I gessoed on to the canvas. Then, in the top right image, I went in and threw in those lines as the environment. At this point I removed the string. And then from there, using the lines/ environment I created, I found my forms within those lines. Still all one big working idea and I wish I had used more string....

Materials: Oil paint, canvas, string

Lines and Forms Study

So playing with the same ideas of line work as the foreground and then inputing the figures. This is just a rough sketch of an idea. Sorry its pretty blurry.

Not exactly sure how I feel about this at all. It was just a working idea in drawing I tried to pull into painting.

Materials: Oil paint on wood.

Gestural Forms (1)

Just did this one... I like it a lot better than the first one I did with two figures from before. This time I did do a sketch with pencil before bringing in the charcoal.

Materials: Some type of paper (I think once again from my printmaking class), pencil, and charcoal.

Sketch Work: Gestural Forms

Trying to see different positions of the forms I can come up with... This is not very many, so I'll want to continue playing with them and seeing what I can do. I've been advised to try and physically build the forms and see what I get from that. Hopefully soon I can make a run out to Home Depot and pick up some materials and try and build a few of these. But as of right now, this is what I've been working on. These were the first few sketches. I was not particularly concerned with how the images turned out, just getting the form and position.

Materials: Newsprint and charcoal
 

Forms in Environment

Seeing where it goes still… Original sketch to the left and final painting below.

Not exactly sure what my goal here was. I was basically just playing with ideas of forms and environments... clearly. 

Oil on wood panel with wall putty (4'x5')