Observations on the History of Oil Painting

The people that have been major players throughout the history of oil painting were all white European men that all had a liking for painting. This is because in European people are better educated on the art of painting. With there money and materials to work with on there paintings they can prefect and make people see how amazing there artwork can come to be. 

I think that the things that are missing from the history of oil painting is that other people besides the Europeans did do paintings just the same. But without the education and better understanding of oil painting, other people aren’t shown as the best, and the most well known. This is because of there lack of education and everything that they were grown up with.

It has been said that oil painting did not start up in European it actually took place in other places near Afghanistan and around there. So the Europeans took up the idea after hearing from other places. 

All these oil painting either went into art galleries or museums showing there art work. These paintings “live” in these different places to show the history and the art of times when many important things happened. 

Critique Feedback

Use of Color: positive feedback, good color- nuetral, nice color on the "reeds"

                         critical feedback, blended (could have used dry brush) the color on the bowl, looks like a black and white globe

Illusion of volume & depth: positive feedback, looks like individual strands in the "reeds", nice texture wrinkly looking on the bag

critical feedback, mugs look a little wide, spout is going straight up, more shadow on the paper is sticking up

Composition choices: positive feedback, nothing looks bare, good use of the foreground and background

--> paper roll jar... etc. front then back very full

critical feedback, paper looks like it is sticking out

PROGRESS: "sooooooooo much better"- Brooke

-Better coloring in the last painting.

 What the Water Gave Me by Frida Kahlo addressed the concept of a portrait because in this painting all these different objects in this picture are very different and odd describing the persons qualities. It might be that he took different parts of ideas and forms of the person and changed them all into one. He is looking at the person and interpreting what he sees and creating from that ideas and parts of the person that arent really seen when looking at them.

 Librarian by Guiseppe Archimboldo is a portrait of a man, showing his face and body as books. Which can prove that he could be a writer or even a poet. Considering that I know nothing about this artist you can just see from how he paints what he is talking about, or painting about when painting a picture of this man.

Madame X by John Singer Sargent is a picture of a women in a beautiful dress, she looks like a high class women that wants to show her "good side." This portrait is showing just a women that wants to show that she is living in a high class world and she is the best.

My White Objects Painting.

In my white objects painting, I seemed to struggle a lot with making the shades of the objects more detailed and real. I really did try to make certain objects and things stand out, but it just was not my best piece of work I have made. I think I did well on the background part and the pitcher and the bowl I think I did pretty well in. But I think I could have improved on making the paper roll and the mugs. I didn't feel that I knew how to approach these objects in the painting that thats why it didn't turn out as great as I would have wanted it to be. 

A sense of Place.

It never opened.

Where are you at?

I think that the most challenging thing for me in this course is the way you have to create shadowing and texture to the object/s that your painting.

I think when I am trying to make certain colors I know exactly what colors to mix and what amount of color that is needed to be put together to make it. Also when I look at the objects that I am painting I really know how to shape the objects to look real. 

Looking at paints show us how different people can be with there ideas of what they think art is. Some are abstract others are shapes and some are even landscapes. This is giving different variety in size color and what is on the picture.

Some Famous Paintings

The persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali was a very interesting painting because it is abstract in how the clocks are dripping and bent in such ways they wouldn't in real life. I really like how they are distorted and randomly place in different areas of the painting. I don't know what he was thinking in this painting but where it is placing in this area looking like the desert is very odd. Its not a painting that you can look at just once and be like wow. You really have to take time to look at this one because its shape and color is so eye catching. 

In the picture "chair" by Vincent Van Gogh, has painted a picture of a chair on a brick floor. But the floor looks more like an illusion, because it is slanted and it looks like it is part of the wall more then a floor. The chair I am guessing is supposed to be placed in the corner of this "room" that the picture is painted in. But the corner of the room seems to be a little off centered in the picture. It is kind of cool how if you look at part of the picture and see different views. Even the objects on the chair look like there part of the chair but they seem to just be placed on the chair. All the objects in the picture have dull and murky colors in it. Making it seem bland and plain. 

Studies In Smallness:set-ups

Reflection on Studies in Smallness

I think that for this project I learned what was the highlights and the low lights of the fruits or the objects that I was creating on the paper. It was difficult to get the exact colors to match the actual object but I got pretty close to them. I think that my overall paintings that I accomplished were done pretty well and I do like the way they turned out in the end!

White Objects Thumbnail Sketches

Using Composition As a Tool

In the painting Custard Cascade, by Will Cotton of 2001. He takes deserts and pastries scattered all over the painting. I liked this one because even though its foods it also looks like abstract objects. This painting takes the every day objects and puts them in a different type of form showing you that, normal every day objects can turn into artwork. I think this one is very interesting and different because it has all different textures on it. 

my first painting.

Morandi vs. VanGogh

Vincent Van Gogh's paintings are colorful and have what seems like life in each part of the painting. The blues and browns and greens seem to stand out and catch your eye. It has my happy glow in each other the colors that are put on the paper. 

Giorgio Morandi's paintings are shown as more calm colors and bland colors. The boxes and the vases in the picture don't so much stand out as much as Vincent's pictures do they seems to bend into each other showing a more dim and gloomy coloring.

What I know..

The Primary colors are...RED BLUE YELLOW
The Secondary colors are.. PURPLE ORANGE GREEN
You can create secondary colors by mixing certain primary colors together. Like blue and red making purple and red and yellow making orange. Some complimentary colors are yellow green, blue purple, and orange red. You can emphasize colors by making the darker or brighten depending on the ways you want to express it. If making shadows you would make a darker area around the place that is the shadow. To make and illusion you would take lighter colors and show the lighter areas of the picture. To make objects on your painting far away you could either make it smaller or the father away from everything else. First you would sketch out your idea on the canvas and figure out what you want to do. Getting your ideas out first and then working your way up by doing the lighter colors of the painting first of the darker colors. Then finally finishing with your final painting something beautiful!

A painting I remember

A painting that I remember is 10 mailboxes in a row, they are in all different colors and it looks like its a cloudy sky in the background. This painting is in my Cape house, in the TV room. ts my favorite because it looks like a early morning in the summer, just as the sun is rising.

My skills as an artist

My strengths in art are how I can paint and really know how to get my ideas out on paper. I have an easy time doing this because my thoughts are really shown through my art.

In art I struggle most with starting and when to finish, I can't just sit down and get started i have to actually think about what I want to go on the paper. When my final piece is done I never know if I should finish it up or just say it is done.

Why I'm taking oil painting

I signed up for this course because I have done oil painting in the past and I really enjoyed it. I want to get better with my painting on the canvases, and using the paints in a more detailed and complex way. I think that from taking this class I will become a better painter and will be more confident in my work.