Artist: Tamara McDougall.
2ft X 4ft plywood. Mixed medium. Mostly pastel, color pencil, and photos collaged.
Final project #4 check!
My final project was wide open with a couple of guidelines once again. It was to be a minimum 18x24, it had to involve collage and had to mix atleast 3 mediums.
In this I am the big sprite and I am at my favorite place in Calgary. It is this bend in the river Ian and I coined as the "turn around spot". It is a half hour walk from our house and I miss that bike path so much. My elfish hair lends itself to this and I don't know why but as soon as I thought of the shape and size I wanted to use I immediately saw wings coming off the picture. Then when I found the wood I wanted I saw little angels in the grain of the wood. I had wanted to use a Canada theme before and nothing fit till this. I am at the family tree and that is where my roots will always be.
I teared up when it came to life and is the most personal piece I've done. The only reason I am in it is to make it as personal as it is and that was the hard part, so please don't see vanity. If you must blame my hairdresser cause that is where the wood sprite thing came from.
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Ode To Ripley
18x24 drawing paper. Color pencil
This was my first project in my Intermediate drawing class. I had never worked with prisma color pencils before and really enjoyed working on her face. Although I think her chair translates the best and she looks a little faint in the photo it is a little different in person.
This was my first project in my Intermediate drawing class. I had never worked with prisma color pencils before and really enjoyed working on her face. Although I think her chair translates the best and she looks a little faint in the photo it is a little different in person.
Napa - Vin de terre
18x24 pastel
Project #2 check!
It was a color study to match reference pictures in a collage I created and then had to duplicate it in pastel. Matching color, shapes and composition was most of the lesson and the other part was to take a collection of pictures and form a theme that took you somewhere with pictoral references you had to duplicate.
Project #2 check!
It was a color study to match reference pictures in a collage I created and then had to duplicate it in pastel. Matching color, shapes and composition was most of the lesson and the other part was to take a collection of pictures and form a theme that took you somewhere with pictoral references you had to duplicate.
Changing Spots
22x32 watercolor paper. Watercolor and ink
Project #3 check! This was our surreal "use your imagination" project. The only stipulations was it had to be surreal and it had to be mostly about the drawing but the color was to be watercolor.
My theme was about roll reversal and the literal leopard changing his spots........ with a zebra. I could have put a ton of captions above both of their heads and thought it was pretty funny.
To further smack you with the bricks even harder the serene African Sunset is interrupted by a very angry tree.
I am opposed to deforestation but I don't want to repulse or make a viewer uncomfortable with that underlying message. If they look away in disgust where does the message go? Besides I thought it was time some trees kicked ass.
This is all about fighting rolls we have been lumped in to because I am not the average housewife and I can't help but think we all need to look a little closer.
Don't get me wrong, the zeopard still looks pretty hungry but you have to decide how it ends. What does happen when the shoe is literally on the other foot?
Project #3 check! This was our surreal "use your imagination" project. The only stipulations was it had to be surreal and it had to be mostly about the drawing but the color was to be watercolor.
My theme was about roll reversal and the literal leopard changing his spots........ with a zebra. I could have put a ton of captions above both of their heads and thought it was pretty funny.
To further smack you with the bricks even harder the serene African Sunset is interrupted by a very angry tree.
I am opposed to deforestation but I don't want to repulse or make a viewer uncomfortable with that underlying message. If they look away in disgust where does the message go? Besides I thought it was time some trees kicked ass.
This is all about fighting rolls we have been lumped in to because I am not the average housewife and I can't help but think we all need to look a little closer.
Don't get me wrong, the zeopard still looks pretty hungry but you have to decide how it ends. What does happen when the shoe is literally on the other foot?
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