Final Project- Gestural Abstraction

Gesture 2 - Daily Gestures

These motions are my daily routine at work. Brushing, bathing, cleaning, clipping nails, and various other aspects of taking care of animals.

Gesture 1 - Art History

Gestural abstraction is using motions and your body to paint. The focus is on how you creates the lines instead of the delicate ways of painting. You can drop, smear or throw paint. The point is to use your body to create the piece.

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Gestural Artist - Neil Canning

I chose Neil Canning because I like his body of work as a whole compared to most of the other artists I came across. The colours he uses and the simple, uncluttered canvases appeal to me. The sweeping movements of the lines are almost a landscape in some of his works.

http://www.theartcurator.com/tag/gestural-abstraction/

http://www.neilcanning.com/

Blog 7 - Studio Ghibli

Text Elaboration

For this I used: warp arc tool, accented edges, water paper, outer glow, glass, and under painting.

Blog Five

Collage

For this collage I gathered various textures and patterns from around my home. The white of the clouds and the green grass are both blankets. I put a mask of a green skirt over the grass blanket for extra texture to create the underlying lines and wave like semblance. Gondor is a jewelry box and the figure riding toward it is an model of Gandalf and Pippin on horseback. The flowers surrounding the frame are all hair clips that I masked over with the textures and patterns I gathered. I also altered the brightness/contrast/saturation/vibrance/highlights and shadows for most of the objects I put into the collage. I used the clone stamp tool along the grass and clouds to blend together the areas of "rolling" clouds and grassy plains to make it more realistic. I altered the opacity on the flowers to have the petals show through the patterns. I also used the quick selection tool in order to grab all of the objects I used in the collage as well as the free transform to alter the shape.

Shape Analysis

Collage Artist- Karen Landey

The artist I chose to look into was Karen Landey. She does various types of collages. Some are mixed media and some are just digital. I found her digital collages to be very nicely blended and the colours she used appealed to me. Unfortunately, most of her images do not allow for close-ups and they can only be viewed as thumbnails.


http://www.karenlandey.com/
http://www.karenlandey.com/digitalgallery.htm

She has a blog to follow recording all of her art experiences up until the year 2011.
http://indieartvideo.wordpress.com/

Idiom Project: Crocodile Tears

Adjustment Assignment

Flower Girl