Mentor - Tess Wiegmann
Website - http://tess-apex-2017.weebly.com/art-4 Background/Interest in Art - Wanted to take art to become a better artist and thought that they should take at least one art class every year. What I'm Looking for in the Mentor Program - I would like to get better by learning some tips on adding small details that can be used to make my art pieces more realistic and dynamic or proportional.
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Two in One Pencil Drawing
I morphed a sunfish and a post-2013 penny because the shape of a sunfish is much like the shape of the shield on the tails side of a penny. I first drew a pair of concentric circles to create the outline of the penny and then fit the sunfish's outline in the same area that the shield would sit on an actual penny, but had the fins go outside of the penny's outline. After that, I put the words "United States of America" behind the sunfish and the banner with the words "one cent" in front of the sunfish to make the sunfish appear like it was on the penny yet was overlapping some parts of it to make it seem more surreal. I tried giving the penny flat shading and shaded the sunfish the way it looked on my reference. I think the most successful part of my drawing was the placement of all the parts of it and I would change the way I shaded it because the pencil smeared too much. I think I should have chosen a pen drawing as the medium for this picture because the way I shaded it with my pencil makes it look like it is unfinished in some parts and a pen would have given a more smooth texture to my drawing. Charcoal Drawing The advantages of drawing with charcoal is that it is easy to erase and change things to touch up the drawing, which makes it easy to shade. The disadvantages are that charcoal doesn't stay on the paper very well and smudges easily and it is very painful for my ears when applying charcoal to the paper. Pen Drawing Some advantages of drawing with a pen is that the drawing gets a very nice and artistic texture which can make it seem more realistic. Some disadvantages of a pen drawing are that it takes up a lot of space on the paper and needs to be very large to look good. Also, mistakes are not easy to correct and pen can't be erased. Pencil Drawing The advantages of a pencil drawing are that it erases easily and smudges to make a nice transition between shades when needed. A disadvantage of pencil drawing is that it is quite difficult to get a light shade with a standard pencil. Warm-Up The warm-up that I learned the most from was when we shaded a sphere with colored pencils, because I learned how colored pencils could be used to shade a drawing. Paco PometLocation: Granada Spain Born: 1970 in Granada, Spain Education: University of Granada and New York School of Visual Arts Material: Surreal oil paintings based on old photographs Website: pacopomet.es/en/ Paco Pomet's work inspires me because of the way he can replicate old photographs using oil painting and then add his own creative details to them. They seem so realistic and I had to look at some of them twice to see that they weren't photographs. I am also drawn in by the originality of the surreal details of that Pomet adds to the paintings. Sometimes the addition will be as subtle as a hat and a speech bubble on a duck or something out of place in the background or it may be as distinct as an oddly colored body of water or an elongated body part.
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