Weekly Challenge No.4: Portraiture

For this week, I did portraiture, and it was very helpful for English as well. This is Ophelia, one of the characters in Hamlet, which we are reading. She's a very vague character, so all of her lines from the sections that we read are on her face, either as a mask or because she lacks personality. I had a lot of fun experimenting with profiles, and hair is fun to draw! For this one, I used a regular black ballpoint pen.

20 Layers

Yeah 20 Layers Project! I started this one on a piece of cardboard. I used a lot of paper from magazines and books, including a layer on top of the cardboard and the flower-y thing on the record. For the transparency, I wrote song lyrics, painted acrylic on the back, and then hung them from the record using wire. I had a lot of fun with this one- even though I had a loose plan, mostly I just kind of went with what came to my head first.

Weekly Challenge No.3: Surrealist Landscape

I read a lot of Dr. Seuss  this weekend. This surrealist landscape piece was done on canvas with ink. I used different shades by watering it down. I used brushes and let it dry in layers for the background. The flower details were done with brushes or a quill pen.

Weekly Challenge No.2

For Weekly Challenge 2, I redid a piece from last year. For that one, I drew a scuba diver (graphite) also on a book page. I guess I really like using book paper. For this one, I again used book paper, and I was very much inspired by the movie UP. This one was done in pen and ink.

Weekly Challenge No.1

I chose to do the artist emulation one. The artist that I picked was Loui Jover. He has taken over the lovely world of Pinterest with his ink drawings on book paper. I have worked with book paper, but usually for mixed media. It was really fun, and for this one I used a picture of my sister Emerson jumping rope. I also added blue, because that was a tad bit more interesting. I also did a bear, because bears are great.

 

The Jump Roper

 

Summer Work No.2

This one was kind of on a whim, because I had this sheet of black paper. And then I found a silver pen. Perfect! Draw a bear! I would love to go back on this one and add some more solid detail to the tree right next to him, and maybe a little bit more in the fur, particularly around the eyes.

                                            

Summer Artwork No.1

This is one of the few photographs that I took over the summer (much of my art was fine) while I was in Ohio. It first caught my attention because of the different shades of white, grey and black, and also because of the texture.