Annabelle Harper: October 2014

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Lam Truong Art Project Reflection

Lam Truong recreated the artwork "High Heels Abstraction Dripping" by Pierre Kenal Luois. The first thing that stands out in the paintings is the shoes are melting. I would never think of painting a pair of shoes that are melting. The way the shoes are designed and drawn are funky and makes me turn me head sideways. Also the fact that the shoe is melting caught my attention and made me think why the artist was trying to say when making this artwork. When I look at the artwork it makes me think cocky, wealthy, and self-centered. Wealth Melts would be what I would name the artwork. Lam used yellow as the background, Blue as the show color, and Orange as the legs. I think the blue means that the person is sad because the persons wealth is melting. I think the shoes represent wealth. I know his family owns a shoe factory and it reminds him of his family who is not which him because he is an international student and his family is in a different country. I really like to message he was trying to send when he painted this painting. It shows happiness in the midst of despair. What I'm trying to say is that he misses his family so drawing this painting made him happy because it reminded him of them.

School Related Art Journal

Class Notes

Art Color Testing

What's Your Future?

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Artist Statement

Six Project Sketches

Half-Way Sketch

Finished Project

Original Artwork

Artist Statement

I don’t have any information about the artist. I chose to recreate this artwork because it is a sunset and I love sunsets. This artwork intrigued me more then the other because of how they used and egg and made a sunset over an ocean. I love oceans and sunsets, so I thought it would be fun to recreate this artwork. The artwork symbolizes to me joy. I find joy in looking at the sun. The sun makes me think and sitting at quite location, which I don’t do often makes me have peace when I’m stressed or just need some comfort. It also reminds me of the line “They rode off into the sunset” which makes me think of happy ending and joy. The motion that sense in the colors used in the artwork are joy that comes form the yellow in the sun or “yoke of the egg”. I did not change the color of the sun because I still wanted to display joy in my painting as well. I did change the water to grass and chafed the color to green. I wanted it to be a road leading into the sunset, instead of a stream leading into the ocean. I used the color pallets primary, secondary colors, and tertiary colors. I used acrylic colors because of the texture it has. Its thicker then regular paint but thinner then pastels. I used a paintbrush and canvas. If this were a group project I would make the sun, because I find the sun the most important part of this painting. I feel very successful on this painting because of how mush effort I put into it. I think that the sky worked out really good because that was not my original idea for the sky but it ended to be cool and unique. If I were to do the project again i would add something to the grass to make it a little more unique then it is already. The most difficult part of this project was not mixing up the paint in the process. i learned that when you make a mistake it may not turn out the way you want it to but if you go with it and don’t start over you will see how one mistake can lead to a better painting then you ever imagined.