Blog Post Two 2014

•Create Original Art-

I used creative thinking by choosing to paint a close up of a guitar and have the guitar half on the canvas. I used my own unique ideas in my work because I choose what colors to use. I also choose where to place the guitar on the page. I did use a source of inspiration for this piece of artwork. I found a picture on pintrest of a close up of a guitar ,but it was painted like a normal guitar like different shades of brown. I combined it with my own ideas by changing the background color to red the guitar to blue the strings to red ,and I also added yellow and light blue for some of the smaller details. 

This is a picture of my final painting as you can see I choose to change the black to yellow and some of the red to yellow. You can also see in this picture how simple the drawing was and how the colors compliment each other and how bold the colors are. It really makes everything stand out when the colors are so bold and are compliments of each other or are a shade of the same color. 

•Reflect- 

As I was working on my painting I planned it out by doing two sketches. I had one sketch of the close up of the top of the guitar with yellow and blue. Another sketch of a close up of the main part of the guitar. I ended up choosing the second sketch with the close up of the guitar body. I mainly followed that sketch besides when I got it on the canvas I decided not to use black for the hole ,but yellow. I also decided to use yellow for the strong holes. I tried it on my paper in my sketch book before I put it on the canvas. I also tested all of the colors on my sketch book paper before I used them on my canvas. 

This is a picture of my sketches I drew in my sketchbook. On the left is the drawing of the close up of the top of the guitar with blue and red. On the right is the sketch of the close up of the body of the guitar with red, blue, light blue ,and black.

•Take Risks-

I have never really liked painting so for this project I had a lot of complications.I did try something that I wasn't sure about as part of this project. I did not know know how the colors would look like together or how they would look on the canvas so I tested everything on my sketchbook paper before I put it on the canvas. I also drew lightly where everything would be on my canvas. I was supposed to use paint for this project. So yes I did choose a media I am not used to because if I got to choose I would not have choose paint. For this project we had to paint in the style are artists would have. My artist was Andy Warhol and he choose simple objects to paint and he choose solid colors and opposite colors so that is what I did by using the red, blue, yellow, and light blue. 

This is a picture of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was a part of the pop art movement that emerged in the late 1950's in the United States it started earlier in Britain. The concepts of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it. Andy Warhol was born in August on the sixth in 1928. He died on Febuary twenty second 1987. He was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. 

This is a picture of the painting "Marilyn Monroe" done by Andy Warhol in 1962. You can see in this picture how simple the drawing is. You can also see how he use basic colors and used opposite colors. He also painted several other painting like this one of Marilyn ,but of other famous people such as the "Double Elvis" Andy Warhol also painted the cambells soup can. He used the same simple drawing technique and the same bold colors with thier compliments.