Term 2 @ Art Center Part 2 (Continued..)

Here's some work I did in my other classes.
There are from my materials class, which I took with Catherine and Yoko:

This was the first project we did, exploration of shapes using plaster. Was made using the band-saw and then smoothed out with tools.

This project was our bronze sculpture, and we could have made anything we wanted to cast into bronze from the Foundry. So I decided to break into some old Plasticine clay and work up those rusty Gnomon skills. The original concept was some kind of demonic creature bust. The final turned out pretty bad compared to these original sculpts, why I made my decision with the final piece? I don't know.. and I guess I never will.










Here's A Spoon crafted from a band-saw + wood carving tools.

Very sexy I know.

Here's the final Bronze Cast. I removed the eyes from the sculpture and the mouth. It didn't turn out very well.


















Saw that gun earlier? That was part of my final project, That gun/prop thing was made purely from wood and paint. The End result? Let me Show you.

Not sure if she would want this photo online, so I tinted
out the face.

These next couple pieces were from my Design 2 class with Bruce Claypool. Note that term 2 was the only time where I had ever experimented with any type of materials or even fine art concepts. It was pretty fun and fascinating. I've certainly come to appreciate certain aspects of fine art and just craftsmanship in general. It is a very difficult thing to achieve.

This piece was for my final. It was an exploration of the concept of "Emphasis by Hue." Do you get it? If not its okay :\. So this piece took me a while and the craftsmanship was not to the level that I wanted it (the plastic got scratched up on the car ride). But the piece plays with depth and color, that's all I can say. It is made from multiple layers of clear acrylic, and the colors were spray painted and mounted using Weld-On 16. Oh by the way, don't ever go to Plastic Depot, they will charge you 80 bucks for literally 2 ounces of plastic (got ripped off).

In the middle of the night...

Literally hours before class started

All of my pieces that I did for the class Design 2 with Bruce Claypool.

This was the gist of the work that I did in the previous term. I left out a lot of pieces just due to my personal convenience of having to photograph them or stay up even later to post them up. I will eventually get to my 3rd term work, perhaps during the long break that I will be having. Until then.

Goodbye my friends. 

Term 2 @ Art Center Composition and Painting

So my first term at Art Center was intense, as it was pretty hard to get used to the workload. However it was still a breeze compared to what I have this term (I'm in 3rd term currently). The workload definitely increased my second term, with my class of focus being Richard Houson's Composition and Painting class. We did around 40 paintings within the 14 weeks not including the 50-60 hour long color chart  we made from mixing oils together (I learned so much from that assignment).

So here are a few of the pieces that I did for Richard's Comp and Painting Class. These are all done in oil. Again, I predominately use my Instagram as my main source for uploading work, so follow me if you're interested :D (PaulC_Art). Not all of the paintings I did are included on this list.

First Few Sets of Paintings that I did in the class (both master copies and from models)

 

 

 


Rembrandt Master (Process from Black and White to Color) + More Paintings:

 

 

 


Midterm Sargent Master Copy:

This was a pretty straight forward painting, which didn't take too long around a little less than 15 hours. It's still nowhere near the quality of the original though.

 

 

More In-Class and Master copies:

Final (Portrait of a friend):

This piece took anywhere from 25 hours to 35 hours (I did not keep track). The painting size was 24x30 (I think, forgot :P) and I stretched the canvas myself. I had a lot of trouble originally while painting because the reference I used was not clear enough, and the lighting was stylized in a pre-comp on Photoshop. As a result, I was not able to paint accurately and ran into a lot of trouble with trying to fix the light in my head (which is very chaotic and I'm not nearly good enough to invent lighting). But as soon as I took new photo reference, I think things turned out better. For the record though, the lighting in the room + my terrible Samsung Galaxy S3 camera (which kept taking blurry photos btw) does not do these photos justice. The originals if I could show them to you personally, have more color in terms of saturation and overall clarity in them. But here they are.

Laying in the value and colors.

Beginning to realize how terrible and hard to fix this painting would be. 

About after 15 hours in painting, I realize that this was not going to work,
and so that is when I shot new reference images and started making changes.
The black outline was the new lay-in of the painting.

Getting there with the face, and working on lighting it better. 

The Final Image. Again this photograph is a bit blown out and changed by the
indoor lighting I took this photograph in, Plus the disgusting glare. The painting
 was a fun and nice learning experience overall.

Edit 10/9: Better Photo & Lighting

Going to Split this into a second post. To be continued...