Painting my Own Picture💗: March 2017

March, 22, 2017
Hi Guys!!! I'm back after a quick break and you because this week has been crazy with a million and one tests and quizzes and projects due and BUSY WORK!!! My week has been kinda messy including the fact that I think I'm getting sick!!

#UGHHHHH welp, this week I've been in contact with one of the art teachers at Wissahickon because the famous painters I have reached out to have not answered and I thought who better to be an expert to interview than someone who has studied art for many years! So this week I have been keeping in contact with Ms.Miley!

She is the photography and Art Media teacher who has studied water color in the past! I have showed her my work and gotten feedback and also even painted with her! We spent time after school together many days! Here is my interview with her.....

Also This week is #VLOG #TIME!!! I decided to do a DIY on how to do my favorite kind of painting and Let my viewers see my process of this silhouette. Here is the embeded video of this DIY hope you #enjoytheDIY #havefuntryingthis (sorry its in two parts it would not upload in one piece!

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March, 11, 2017

OVERVIEW TIME!! This week is the week I #dive #deep and find my passion in not just the painting itself but the history and figures within it who inspire me to love the art that I am putting so much work into! I also played around with another landscape of a sunset on a beach and prepared for next week for when I delve into painting a collection for real! #PAINTING #RULES. Landscapes have been really fun for me to slowly get better at and trust me it takes a while to get it just right #perfectionist!!!!!

LOOK HOW MANY TIMES I MESSED UP... All good artists have some trouble sometimes!

Right here, Although boring I'm going to give you access to the "fun" history of water color link attachment and even though you may not read it.. it's actually kind of interesting to me.

Watercolor is paining with water water-soluble pigments on paper including different colors to add beauty and life to the art. Often the art compares to other painting techniques but it is clearly sometimes separated by more opaque colors and sometimes not. The water media works also utilize a combination of these water-based pigmented colors. In earlier cultures like Asian earlier cultures, Middle Eastern earlier cultures, and Early European cultures, the watercolor media has very deep roots. If you look past the watercolor medium watercolor goes back into many historical traditions and cultures. There is also a vast influence from early on history to the classical period of British art media to Impressionist contributions and Contemporary expressions.

Water color art can date back to the historical days of cavemen and cave art. Cave paintings Lascaux and Altamira have common themes of wild animals like bores and deer and use pigments of charcoal and dyes extracted from plants and natural minerals. Ancient Egyptians painted with water based paints and pigments on things such as tombs and temples we still see today, and with the dyes of the papyrus plant pulp, they produced some of the first works on paper. These opaque colors were also in scrolls and used materials such as ochres and siennas which came from the earth. Different minerals created different colors on these tombs and caves. They started to expand and play with water being mixed with these paints or as an agent to make the paint more transparent. They used materials such as azure to create blue dyes and cinnebare to create red pigments and orange pigments. They were also mixed with Arabic gum and egg white to find a range of color. The Egyptians created a technique using water to dilute the pigments hence the modern name “watercolor”. Also, there was the tradition of work in fresco by the Etruscans and Romans which was a technique of mural painting which was worked on upon freshly laid plaster. Water was used to merge the pigments on the plaster causing fading and ability to later include detail.

In the Far and Middle East early traditions expanded and now became more similar to modern techniques we may see today in the 21^st century. Chinese and Japanese artists painted with diluted paints on silk and on handmade paper. This was often a calligraphy and more literature-like approach but still a clear example of water color media. There was also a new found discovery for landscape observation and appreciation and portrayal of landscapes. (my favorite type of water color –landscapes and sunsets-“ This work based on the natural environment was a movement which was up against the western tradition of water color media. An art form distinctively proclaimed itself when an entire population was overwhelmed with a new popular style of art and started to pursue it. This media utilized opaque body color in the Indian subcontinent and Persia. Also part of the Islamic world was introduced similarly. Examples of this abstract and opaque art form are Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry from the 15th century and The Book of Kells. In addition, Medieval artists also worked in fresco the plaster art as I explained before, and that tradition continued into the Renaissance.

In Germany and throughout the West, Albrecht Durer was an exceptional artist who has been a role model for all modern technique water color media and opaque faded water painting. He is often considered “the father of modern watercolor painting”. He usually painted directly from scenes of nature and painting landscapes, natural resources and animals for the most part. He lead many others to paint and notice the natural beauty of nature and so without him the evolution of watercolor in Europe and the places he traveled would have been weaker and less prominent in today’s modern society.

Lastly, in the 17^th century many artists like Claude Lorraine, Poussin, and Rembrandt never used the actual medium of water color but they used washing techniques created by the evolution of watercolor. These newfound techniques include types of wash which as I’ve tried and sometimes failed at by tooooooo much water. Wash is a visual technique that results in a semi-transparent layer of pigment.

This week I really enjoyed playing with paints and making a landscape! Influenced by common online pintrest posts, I decided to paint another landscape as a stress reliever! Also I tried something new called mood splattering. When feeling stressed moods may come along with that. Picking colors to match you mood, taking a break from work and splattering to take you mind off things really seemed to help me focus in when I returned to my work! Here is an example of all the paint playing I did this week!

This week has been crazyyyy! But next week I plan to get #DownandDirty with real painting and my interview!! Thanks for viewing guys see you next week!

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