Uncle Juan

This is a 13.5x11 foreshorting painting of my interpretation of uncle Sam. With the very popular immigration topic, I made him Mexican and put a fence in the background to develop the story more. I did the whole thing in prismacolor and started out as a picture of me which i transformed into Uncle Juan. The one thing that I would have liked to fixed is maybe the fence because I feel it could be improved.

McCoffee

This is a 13x13 display of perspective and prisma colors. I was creative with this art peace by creating my own sheet to draw on out of a cheeseburger wrapper. So not only did I incorporate McDonald with the McCoffee, but also made my paper a McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers. What I like about this is how the light really seems to stick out which makes the perspective of the art work more believable. On the other hand, what I did not like was how the cheeseburger wrapper was very oily so the prisma colors did not work as well as I would have liked them to work.

Vote for him

This is a 9x12 creation inspired by not only image transfer, but also by Peter Max. I basically took some paper, acrylic paint, and my transfer image and had fun with it. First I created a back ground using red,blue, white, and black. Then I incorporated my image transfer to it and added even more color and pattern on top of that to create a finish art work. The art was created fast, but with passionate strokes which is what Peter Max is all about. What I didn't like was that my image transfer did get a but destroyed in the process of making it, but that was probably my inexperience with the media. Other wise I really enjoyed everything else about it.

Freedom

This is a collage inspired by Derek Gores, i titled it "freedom" and its 11x18. I am now developing the theme in my art of American symbols, so the bald eagle is the main subject of this piece. What I enjoyed the most about this work was combining the different magazines pages and putting it all together into what is now "Freedom". I feel like the text freedom is a really good additional to the work because it combines the background with the the main subject, the eagle. The process to make my art was simple cutting out magazines and laying it down on my sheet of paper using watered down glue. I also went in with acrylic paint to add some shade and definition to the eyes.

The Stage

This painting is a 12x 18, done in art nouveau style using acrylic paint and gold leaf. I started out by taking sketches of different people and feeling them up with pattern. Then I picked which colors I was going to use, and also where to place my gold leaf. My painting over all came out very good, the only thing is that the gold leaf did not work as well as I would have liked it to look. Another very small thing is I wished I would have outlined the stool with black so that it would pop out with the people as well.

My precision

This is a 12 in by 9 in painting of a computer fan using a precisions style. I painted it all with acrylic paint only, and used tape to try to paint in straight lines and keep all objects as geometrically accurate as I could. I used analogous colors to make sure the over all the art had harmony. It was mostly just take a picture that I personally took with a camara and basically tryed to emulate it using percision. What I most disliked about this work or am the best at is painting things the exact way that they look. I used my time wisely but still I think that there is something missing from the peace to tie it all together. I believe that with more time I could have made it all flow better but because there was a dead line I did the best I could.

Sidewalk Art

Now i know that our teacher said sidewalk art is not really all that cool to post but i found a site with some amazing art. Most of the sidewalk art on there has depth and 3D elements to where it seems to be almost coming to life. I thought it was pretty cool so thats why I'm posting. So I hope others can enjoy it and hopefully draw some inspiration from it, or maybe even start some sidewalk art: http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/09/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art-photos/