Linear Perspective

Linear Perspective is a mathematical way of creating an illusion of space/distance on a flat surface

Horizontal Line - A horizontal line is drawn across the surface mostly represents where the sky meets the ground

Vanishing Point - A point where all parallel lines that go away from the viewer disappear to one point

Orthogonal Lines - Straight diagonal lines to connect points around the edges of a picture to create depth

Transversal Lines - Are perpendicular to orthogonal lines, parallel to horizontal line, form the close and far edges of a rectangle

One Point Perspective - Uses one vanish point to draw an object

Two Point Perspective - Uses two vanishing points to draw an object

You can show depth/perspective by the size of an object, and the shades, or light variation it has. Atmospherical/aerial perspective makes objects at a distance, (mountain in this case) have a tint more to what the atmosphere is (most of the time blue). Leonardo's rule is to paint the first object normal color, the next one back with a slightly blue tint, and get bluer as you go further back with more vague detail. At perspective, a circle is an ellipse which is formed within the confines of a rectangle. 

Perspective Drawing Strategy

Purpose:

To review the perspective strategies that you learned;

To make connections between what you learned and demonstrating your understanding by creating a drawing using one of the perspective strategies.

In this drawing I used one point perspective. I chose to have a road and a fence meet at the same vanishing point. I learned to always take looks at what I am doing before I draw the lines to ensure that I did not mess up any angles to make it look out of place. Lastly, I leaned that in order to use aerial perspective properly the objects/land marks the farthest back must be the horizon line, and objects in front of it must (start) be below the horizon line

Watercolor History

Purpose:

To become familiar with the history of watercolor;

To become familiar with various watercolor artists throughout time;

To make connections between watercolor purposes and techniques from long ago to its uses today.


On prehistoric cave paintings, temples, and tombs watercolor has been used since the beginning of painting. 
Albrecht Durer, he is from Germany, and mastered the watercolor techniques we know today. In his works he paints what he sees realistically, and does a great job capturing texture.
During the mid 1800’s watercolor was at its prime, and heavily appreciated by people. Also women looked into watercolor as a hobby partly because queen victoria took lessons and started a trend.
Partly because there are bio-friendly watercolor paints, another is that now the paintings can last longer than before. Water soluble oil paints are not coming to popularity.

alpine landscape, 1495

Frances Anne Hopkins, The Lumber Raft, 1870

She was an English artist who created works from the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s, her family consisted of many famous artists.

Anthony Van Dyck, Landscape, 1632

He was a famous painter with success in Italy and England throughout his life.

Printmaking History, Processes, and Artists

Some forms of printmaking have been used for hundreds of years to replicate designs and copy images. For example, etching has been used in europe since the 1300's. From the 1800-1900's printmaking was mostly used for advertisements, books, and for newspapers. Printmaking has also been used for t-shirt designs and other clothing designs.


Wood
Woodblock printing uses positive and negative space to determine what the image is. The wood is usually carved or chiseled. The wood block can then be used to print its image onto other surfaces and materials such as fabric.

Fabric
In fabric printmaking there are many ways to transfer images to the fabric. One way is to use a woodblock as I've already explained. Another way is to take a roller with ink and a positive/negative space image and toll it over the fabric to transfer the image.

Metal
Etching has been used for hundreds of years to make images with metal. It is done by taking the surface of some metal, and putting a strong acid on it which will rot away unprotected parts of the metal leaving an etching when it is finished.

Stone
Lithographing allows an artist who doesn't use chisels or carving tools to make a piece of art on stone that can be transfered over to paper or other surfaces. It is done by painting the stone with an oil based greasy substance to whatever design is desired. Next the artist will wet the stone, in this case where he painted will not soak up the water, then he will add ink and press paper to the stone to copy his painting.

Art Movement: Expressionism

Purpose: 

• To make connections between the Expressionist Art Movement and artists who worked in that style, including artists from our past and present;
  
• To respond visually to artists who work(ed) in the style of the Expressionist Art Movement, by creating a work of art in this style.
  

Expressionism was made to express subjective emotions rather than objective realities. It began around the early 20th century mainly in Germany and Austria. In many cases artists were expressing how an event made them feel, in the case of Germany and Austria, artists were expressing how they felt about the war. Edvard Munch's work usually included emotions such as misery, sickness, and death. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was one of the leaders of Die Brucke, a group of Expressionist artists. Lastly, Franz Marc created some very moving works of Expressionist art but died young in WW1 at the age of 36

Comparing Edvard Munch and Siri Beckman I found that Siri is much more detailed than Edvard is in his artwork. Siri depicts her artwork as it would look with very detailed lines. Edvard depicts his artwork with less detail, but enough to tell what the work of art is easily. Also Siri tends to do more works of art to do with wildlife, as where Edvard has more of a focus on people.

J.P. Fisher

Edvard Munch, ...........

In the top image the artwork seems more defined and less scratchy than the artwork done by Edward Munch. However the top piece of work looks more like a work of art from a cartoon as where the bottom picture looks like it has more feeling to it.

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   "Collection Online | Browse By Movement | Expressionism - Guggenheim Museum." Collection Online | Browse By Movement | Expressionism - Guggenheim Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2014

   The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German Artist)."Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2014.

   "Marc, Franz." WebMuseum:. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2014.

   "Munch, Edvard." WebMuseum:. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Apr. 2014.

Tahitian Landscape, Paul Guaguin

"Post Impressionism - The Roots of Modern Art." Post Impressionism. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Mar.

2014.

Purpose

To gain a basic understanding about the Post-Impressionism Art Movement and to identify Artists who work(ed) in this style.

This style of art was not very formal. This started from a few artists named, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, who rebelled against the limitations of impressionism. These artists developed more personal styles around the mid to late 1800’s catering around the emotional, structural, symbolic and spiritual elements which they believed were missing in impressionism. The art style they had developed shaped modern art for the next eighty years.

From this assignment I learned more on how to create a piece of art like this. It forced me to not focus on little aspects, but what I was drawing as a whole. It is not about detail, and exact colors. This work of art reflects how it was seen by the artist. Whether the artist is sad or happy would depend on the outcome of this type of work.

Half portrait drawing, sketchbook

Purpose:

To look closely at half of a portrait and complete the portrait by drawing similar features;

To practice drawing facial features: eyes, nose, and mouth

I overall enjoyed this assignment a lot because a regular pencil is my medium, and I enjoy drawing faces. By completing this assignment I learned how hard it can be to create one side of a face from the other. It involves more than just inverting the facial features. You have to also figure out the different shadow, or lightness of the other side of the face, while given one side to start with. All in all, this assignment opened my eyes to visualizing what I think is right, and then drawing it.

Realism, inspired drawing, sketchbook

Purpose:

To gain a basic understanding about the Realism Art Movement and to identify Artists who work(ed) in this style.

By doing this assignment I realized how hard and time consuming it is to draw realistic landscapes. The artist has to get the right color for each portion of the piece of art. Also he/she has to pay attention to very small details to make the work of art look right. One more specific thing I learned is how difficult it is to draw grassy meadows to make them look realistic, like you can actually see it blowing in the breeze.