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Project 6: Human Menagerie

This assignment required me to make a painting using animals to represent myself symbolically. I’m someone who gets tired very easily due to an iron deficiency so the sheep’s association with sleep represents that exhaustion and call to be. My eyes and mouth are meant to resemble that of an owl, because I myself am […]

Project 5: Watercolor and Gouache Practice

Another group of paintings with a wider assortment of topics. Here I was trying to practice adding more texture and stylization to the paintings. #douglysiumart #traditionalart #gouache 1: A torn piece of paper that is trisected into 3 “frames” by masking tape. The leftmost painting is a blue gem with a diamond cut between two […]

Project 4: Gouache Practice

Some pieces I did for a painting and watercolor class last fall semester. #douglysiumart #traditionalart #gouache 1: A torn piece of paper that is trisected into 3 “frames” by masking tape. The leftmost painting has a plant’s stem / branches against a blue background. The plant itself has leaves of some sort and is painted […]

Project 3: Macro and Vista View

Some pieces I did for a painting and watercolor class last fall semester. #douglysiumart #watercolor #traditionalart 1: A painting of a close-up of a bunch of leaves and branches of a bush. 2: A vista watercolor painting of a park. At the center of the drawing is the park’s waterfall with a wall behind it. […]

Pokemon Trainer Lily / ポケモントレーナーリリー / Lily el Entrenador de Pokémon

3 years ago

Demon Saber: Yasuke / 魔人セイバー: 弥助(ファンの設計) / Sable de Demonio: Yasuke

5 years ago

1: A symbolic self portrait of me at a table drawing something. My mouth is replaced with a beak holding a pencil with a bee at its tip, and my eyes are large with sclera made pink from lack of sleep. I’m wearing glasses and the top of my head has a large crack revealing my brain amongst my receding hairline and black hair, a bit of blood drips out of said crack. Around my shoulders is the gray wool of a sheep, with my right shoulder having a tired looking sheep’s head. My red sleeved left arm is erasing something on the drawing while my blue sleeved right arm is steadying me against the table, with its palm flat against it. On my left arm is a squawking parrot. On the left portion of the table I’m drawing on is a laptop and balls of crumpled paper. The actual drawing has two ravens with a lantern above the two of them. At the bottom right corner of the paper is the roman numeral for 9 (IX). Under the table is a black poodle on my right and a yellow poodle on my left representing my two pet dogs. Between them is a glowing screen of some sort. Behind me are two open curtains, a red one to my right, and blue one to my left, revealing a window that looks like it’s made of 4 Ipads. From the viewer’s left and top to bottom there is: the capricorn constellation, a crescent moon, stars, and the symbol for capricorn.

Project 6: Human Menagerie

5 hours ago

1: A torn piece of paper that is trisected into 3 “frames” by masking tape. The leftmost painting is a blue gem with a diamond cut between two branches. Around it there is an area with no paint which, thanks to the white paper, gives the illusion of a glowing effect against the blue background within the picture. The center image depicts a cotton plant. While the stem and sky are depicted using green and blue paint respectively, the cotton of the plant is rendered using the white space of the paper (by leaving the area blank). The rightmost drawing is upside down but depicts a sun rising over a green landscape in a blue sky. The sun’s shape is implied by simply using the white of the paper to create a shape with no paint.

Project 5: Watercolor and Gouache Practice

5 days ago

1: A torn piece of paper that is trisected into 3 “frames” by masking tape. The leftmost painting has a plant’s stem / branches against a blue background. The plant itself has leaves of some sort and is painted a combination of green and blue. Its center is more blue while its edges are more green. The center image depicts a yellow sun and blue clouds in a green sky. The rightmost image is that of grass and red butterflies with a blue sky.

Project 4: Gouache Practice

3 weeks ago

1: A painting of a close-up of a bunch of leaves and branches of a bush.

Project 3: Macro and Vista View

3 weeks ago

1: A torn piece of paper that is trisected into 3 “frames” by masking tape. The leftmost piece is a simple watercolor painting of a glowing gem with an emerald. The gem is a shade of pink with its lines of its cut painted with green. The gem is giving off a pink glow and the background is green. The center image is a painting of a gem with a brilliant cut. The background is pink while the gem, and the sparkles around it, are green. The lines of the gem’s cut are done in pink. The right most image is two pink spheres hurdling in some direction. The background is orange and the two spheres have a green trail, similar to a comment, to imply their trajectory.

Project 2: Watercolor Practice

4 weeks ago

1: A picture made using pastel, crayons and watercolor depicting an assortment of objects stacked on each other. (From bottom to top) a yellow Japanese workbook, an orange Japanese textbook, a blue Ipad, a blue and white box of unopened gloves turned on its side, and a white and blue apple pencil box. They stack sits on a brown table with a green wall covered in stains of some sort behind it.

Project 1: Stacked Objects

2 months ago

1: An image etched onto a plate of copper. Although hard to make out, it is supposed to be a cauldron with the letters CU emblazoned on it along with the number 29. Within the cauldron is a spool of wires wound around something containing bubbling molten metal releasing smoke. From this pool something that resembles a cross between a tree and wires is sprouting out, at the end of which are various forms of electronics. Leaning on the cauldron is a pickaxe and at the bottom of the cauldron there is a crack from which molten metal resembling the shape of roots leaks into the ground, or metal ore being sucked into the cauldron from the ore in the stratified ground. On either side of the cauldron there are waves resembling depictions of signals radiating outward. In the background there are poles holding up power cables.

Project 3: “Coppered Forge”

3 months ago

1: An image of a building with a skeleton from the torso up with cross arms in the reflection of its windows, or inside the building looking out through the windows depending on the perspective, emerging from an explosion that also mimics a cotton plant. The explosion itself has a stem leading to a bomb that is split open like a seed embedded in some sort of filled with bodies of human silhouettes that is spilling blood. The image is roughly colored with ink, while black ink forms lines. The building is blue, the explosion red, yellow and orange, while the bomb, and area surrounding it, is red. The blood leaking out of the area containing the bomb is also red.

Project 2: “Violent Growth”

3 months ago

1: Ink in a linocut carving depicting a modern building being constructed around an older Greek inspired building that itself has an old mountain jutting through it. The structures all sit on an island and are all being eroded by wind and water. Cranes and structures depict the modern building constantly being built up and repaired as it is eroded by time. The sky has the clouds of a storm and streaks meant to resemble stars quickly moving through a night sky, as if you are watching footage being sped up.

Project 1: “Weathering Fabrication”

4 months ago

$1: A pencil drawing with inked lines of Zimone Wola from Magic the Gathering (a short Black woman with glasses, and curly hair tied into a ponytail, looking at a strange fractal creature orbiting a strange geometric shape as lightning shoots from the orb surrounding the two in every direction. Zimone’s expression is that of surprise with a geometric exclamation mark above her head.$

Blacktober 6 (2021): Growth with Quandrix Zimone Wola

4 months ago