7 Sins

Updates in Color

Thursday

      I think I need to make a choice... dark/dingey, uneasy, over exaggerated, clearly made up/staged -or- 'normal', inviting, a place you have seen yourself in, yet sometimes maybe a little more luxurious. I'm not sure where the happy medium would lie with some of them while others could go either way. Some may be more successfull one way rather than the other. I feel like I should decide which was to go because thats going to be one of the main ways to connect the pieces.

Should I stick with all inside scenes? At first I thought this could get boring/repetitive for the viewer, but now that I think about it, that may help unite the series with a coherent flow if placed side by side.

Sins

-I can't find the Kitchen scene I made for Gluttony or the new street scene I had made for Lust. Maybe on my computer at home? I'll check asap and upload them once I find them.

...I just found these last three on my hard drive. They're very rough pieces I was working with before turning towards the direction I'm in now.

Artists

3 I like and 1 I'm not too fond of

Karen Davie, Painter/Sculptor, Early 1990’s – present

-I find her work to be very visually pleasing. I love the way that she uses line and color to create optical illusions.

-I like seeing the way that her use of the line creates a lot of depth.

-She is not afraid to stray away from a square or rectangular canvas. Some of her canvases are lop sided or tapered at the top. (Unless it just appears that way because of the way that the images were cropped in the book.)

-I love how clean many of her lines are. Her pieces feel very organized and well thought out. I do not think you could create a piece like the ones that she creates by just winging it.

-If you look at many of her pieces from far away, it looks like something that you could just give a once over and be done with it. But if you decide to investigate further you find that there is much more to look at. That not all of her lines are as clean as they appear from afar, there is some paint dribbling down through other lines and other imperfections that can be found in the smooth lines.

-One thing that I don’t like about her work is that while yes, the pieces are meant to be repetitive, they are after all a series of lines on a canvas, I think she takes the length or size of the series of pieces a little too far. Some of her series have more than 20 paintings in them, and the only thing that is different about them is it’s a different color stripe (same movement in the stripe though) on a white background.

Some pieces I Liked:

-In and Out (Charcoal)

-Chris 1&2

-Before you, Before me

-Pushed, pulled, depleted & duplicated

-Umm… 1&2

-Something like this

-Hysteric

-Slip Up

-Arrest

-Liar III

A few I don’t like (or that I find to be just so-so):

-Between my eye and heart series

            (I don’t like the unorganized chaotic feel of this series)

-Hearts guest, No. 25

-Untitled, No 7

-Interior Ghosts

  

 

 

Alan Fletcher, Painting, Drawing, Graphic Design

-I absolutely love his color palette. Especially in his water color pieces. I am very drawn to artists that use brighter colors that ‘pop’, and think that he is just my guy.

-I love his crafty ways of recreating something that is so simple into something much more interesting. He often does this through the use of a simple line. (Aries the Ram, Designers Saturday poster, London Transport poster.)

-He uses a very graphic approach to his paintings. I feel like many of them could be used in advertisements. (Some have, but many others that I see that could be used as well.)

-I am drawn to the simplicity and cleanliness of his pieces. Nothing seems out of place of unnecessary. He is not afraid to be more simple when creating his pieces, he realizes that he does not need to have a busy piece that is jam packed with info to look at in order for it to be effective.

A cpl works I like:

-Hysterical Sunset

-Field of blue flowers

-Easter Chick

-A boquet of colors

-Way Finding (A greeting card maze)

-Pig Button

*Domus magazine, Chair, De gustibus non est disputandum

 

 

 

Robert Risko, Cartoonist/ Caricaturist to the stars

-I like his use of a realistic color palette. As well as his use of clean lines and the graphic appeal to his work.

-I like that his work is exaggerated yet still realistic. They are recognizeable portrayals of people.

-He is able to create an image without a background or a lot of color over all, but the objects don’t feel as though they are floating. (Julia Roberts)

-Not afraid to ‘go there’.

-Many different styles/ approaches to his work (Prince, Charlie Rose, Martha Stewart)

A few ones I liked:

_Vanna White

-Lucielle Ball

-Warhol and friends

-Prince

-Edward Scissorhands

-Goldie Hawn

-White water

-Pee Wee Herman

-J Edgar Hoover

 

 

 

Don’t Like: Joan Miro

-I think I don’t like him because I just don’t ‘get’ his work. A lot of his pieces seem unorganized to me. I’m just not sure I understand his meaning behind the placement of certain objects unless its to be asthetically pleasing, which I don’t personally find it to be.

-I do like some of the backgrounds and shapes that he creates in his pieces, but not his use of them together.

-I’m not fond of his subject matter, design or layout.

-His color palette is ‘OK’, but I’m not sure if I like his use of colors together. (personages attracted by the forms of a mountain)

Pieces:

-Two Women

-Two personages

-Painting, Plate 104

-Figures in front of a volcano

-The farmers meal

-Person in the presence of nature

-Woman (the opera singer)