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Settling In

After working on art over the six day weekend, I think I came closer to finding a suitable concentration.  I was doing movement, but I realized that everything I liked or was tending to paint was movement in the face.  Expression seems to fit what I'm leaning towards.  The two pieces I did for this concentration check were more about deciding if "expression" is what I want to be doing.  They aren't my best pieces of work, but I think they convinced me that this is what I should be doing.

Now focusing on expression, I enjoy doing large faces.  I want to work with contortions some and get away from just smiles.  I do not want it to turn into an emotion concentration, so sticking with funnier expressions is probably a smart idea.

I started working on the pictures work of art project.  It felt like everything I took was posed to fit the prompts.  I would like to have a majority of the pictures be sparatic, so I might have to carry a camera on me more often.  I'm going to Atlanta in a week for a swim meet, so I think I will have some good photo opportunities there - I have a lot of time and can easily carry a camera on me.

Concentration Change

So, what I wanted to do before, contradiction, turned out to be way too complicated.  There is no way that I can think of 12 pieces that would be interesting enough and tie together.  McBride convinced me to just pick one of the principles of art to focus on, so I chose motion.  I have been looking through my Mom's photos (she is a rather avid photographer) and she has done a lot of stuff with motion that I would like to use - swimming / running shots of family and friends.  This topic is much more practical, and I they will all fit together well.

I fear the 100 photos woa.  That is a lot of photos to take, so I have already started messing around with a few of them.

Concentration

I want to do a concentration on contradictions.  I kind of explored this with my two of my projects this year (smiling while being slapped, crying while everyone else is happy).  Monet said I should do a little kid in a business suit holding a briefcase.  I think that would be cool, but I want to make sure all of my projects flow together (thought about just doing emotional contradictions, but need ideas).  Ideas???

New Dog

We got a new dog.  Her name is Britta.  She is a german shorthaired pointer.  She sits in my room and inspires me to do art

art trip

I like the shadowing on the bridge caused by the standing water

The sun created a cool outline of the trees.  the red sun spot needs to go though

The texture makes the close up of the leaf work

mcbride liked this one more because of the three leaves pulling your eye back.  I like how only one of the leaves is in focus

i dont know

good foreground v background action going on here

"sweet" texture

Family Portrait

I was trying to get some inspiration for my family portrait, so i started going through some google images and found some pretty weird ones.  I want to incorporate all six members of my family in some unique way.  I was thinking about using young heads on old bodies or doing some mashup of photos we already have.  Another idea is to have everyone mad and my brother laughing because he is always joking around.  I don't really have inspiration for this project yet.

This is the photo i was referencing above:

this is a piece that i did from art 3-4.  i like it

I am excited for art this year.  go art

its michael chen's bday today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHAEL