Monday, September 29, 2008

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. 

Thursday, September 25, 2008

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

Friday, September 19, 2008

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. 

Sunday, September 14, 2008


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

  • Color Mixing