Artworks

Printmaking

Watercolor Shoes

Shoes are a necessity of our daily life and comes in a variety of assortments. Not only is it a necessity, but also a medium in which we use to express our personality and a reflection of every individual. For me, the pair of shoes that best represents who I am are the pair of tennis shoes that I wear almost everyday. It is by far, my favorite pair of shoes that I ever owned. I positioned the shoes in a way that would best display most of the components of the shoes and all the colors. It is also the position similar to how I often find my shoes to be left on the floor. We were given the options of pointillism or watercolor. I choose watercolor because I think given the colorfulness of my shoes, pointillism will not bring out that characteristic, and plus I think watercolor would give it a more spark of life and realism. I was never very good in watercolor, so I was very timid about setting my brush on the paper, afraid that the color would turn out too dark. I started with filling in parts of the shoe with the fundamental color, then added other similar shades each time after the previous round of layering dried. Through this project, I learned that watercolor is like adding layer over layer, as if building a brick house.

Two linoleum blocks were given to everyone, and we were free to choose anything we want to carve on them, with the requirement of one being an image and the other a word, preferably with a theme. I choose the hidden leaf symbol from Naruto (anime) and a cat with the word “stealth”. Positive and negative spacing was key to this assignment. Consideration of these two elements was very important when carving because it affects the balance of the subject and it’s surrounding.

Word Profile

This is another individuality project, like the shoe, except more settling upon the theme. The words that make up the profile included lines from “I Am” poems that we created, character traits, verbs, nouns, interjections, any words, phrases, sentences that reflect who we are. As you can see, all the words seems to be all huddled together, all about the same size, none really standing out over the rest, that is because I don’t find myself to be solely any of them, instead I feel like I am made up of a little bit of each. Words are arranged to imitate the shape of the entity they are part of. The arrangement of the words was the hardest aspect of this project for me. I imagined what my profile would look like, and tried to make the words “follow” the lines and curves that I think would exist. The typography aspect was my favorite part of this project.

Catching Ribbons

For this project, the intent was to study shading and hands are a great subject for practicing shading. We began by drawing contour outlines of our hands. Then shading was applied to the hands. The contrast between light and dark and their gradual transition carries out the sense of volume. The consistency of direction in which the shading follows is very crucial. Blending through rubbing tissue against the paper was used to even out the strokes to create a more smooth texture, closing in gaps between rigid lines.

Free Time Doodles

One of my impressionistic works. It is a fairly simple piece done with by blending yellow, orange, and red to imitate a sunset scenery. Purple provides a contrast the warm colors above and also to create a hollow, ghostly atmosphere on above pastels.

This is a character from one of the first cartoons I watched. It is a replica of an internet image that I find to be very cute. I used color pencils to draw the character. Drawing her involved lots of blending of colors and emphasis between light and dark.

This is one of the relatively good ones of my free time architecture drawings. It was based another drawing, with a some changes I made. Architecture is one of the things I want to try exploring in art.

(***The calendar image on the top of this page where the heading "Artwork" resides on the left side is the work of another person. It represents a type of style in art that I like very much***)