(SW3)+Thinking+Yomna

Studio Work #3 **Thinking Yomna**

**Media:** Fiber Castel Pencil/ Water Colors, **Size:** 27.9x38.1cm, **Month of completion:** January

**Description:** This is a drawing of me thinking with my head leaning on my shoulder. Since i am continuing to use the very old art movement, Fauvism, i am using fauvist and vibrant colors. Something i thought of that would make the drawing unique and it worked, was to make the main person in the drawing colored in cool colors and then in the background i colored in warm colors. I really liked the idea and it made my drawing look better.

**Analysis:** ** What were the artistic and/or cultural influences for this project? Who/what influenced either the composition and/or the style. ** My artistic influences were done by the great artist, Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse was a french fauvist who lived during the 20th century. He and Derain were french artists who started the fauvism movement, and later a lot of artists were influenced. Matisse was known for his amazing colors and that most viewers were shocked when seeing his paintings. He have used vivid and unnatural colors in his paintings, there fore he was more famous.i was influenced by using his idea of painting. I liked the idea of an artist using vivid unnatural colors so i thought of using this idea in my studio work 3. His way of painting was very unique therefore i wanted to try his way.

** What materials/processes did you use and or experiment with, and how? ** My previous studio work was done with the same idea, which is coloring the 4 drawings with vibrant colors. I had taken a lot of pictures of me with different facial expressions and with different types of cameras. On the mac-book, there are cameras that stretches your face, make you look like cartoon, and cameras that make you look blue. The camera that makes anyone look blue and then have warm colors popping in the picture anywhere is called "The Thermal Camera". I have chosen few pictures that I've taken with the thermal camera and colored my self with cool colors such as blue, green, and purple. And then i colored the background with warm colors such as red, orange, yellow, and pale rose. I used the Fiber Castel Pencil/ Water Caolors because i used them in the previous project and now i know what to improve on and what to leave. ** How do you think you have responded to advice and criticism during this project (and during the term), both from fellow students and the teacher. Did you actively seek advice? If so, was it useful? ** My teacher and my friends gave me so much advice that i wasn't going to know what i was gonna do in this final piece. In the 25 drawing project, i had to draw my self with different facial expressions and i drew only one picture from the thermal camera and considered it one of the 25 drawings. During a discussion, a friend told me that the best one was the our i drew from the thermal image. He's the one that made me think that my four drawings should be with unrealistic colors like the one drawing i had from the 25. My teacher was also another person who helped me a lot during this project. I never knew what was the fauvism movement until she saw me interested in the vivid and unrealistic colors. Mrs. Lee was the one who explained it and she led me to this final piece,

** Explain clearly the weaknesses/areas of improvement - ** Something i didn't like about that drawing is that i can still see the pencil strokes on the hair and on the sweatshirt. I tried to blend it well with the paint blush and it did work on the whole drawing but on the hair and on the sweatshirt. Something else i don't like about that drawing and the pencil colors is that they are hard to show any shadows on the face or anywhere. These pencil colors have like 3 shades of every color which means that i can only show shadows with 3 colors which still means that it is hard. I used green and blue to show that there should be a different shades in these areas.

** Clearly explain the strengths of the piece - ** What i really like about that piece is that my face and my clothes are colored in cool color and the background is colored with warm colors. I really like that affect because it makes my face show and pop out more. I like that you can't see any pencil strokes in the background and that the orange and the red blend together in the background. This piece is very successful because the drawing looks like the image and me and anyone else can tell the face expression once looking at the picture that this girl looks like shes thinking. Thinking is a facial expression and that facial expression is expressed on my face.

** What could you take through to the next project and develop further? This could be anything, from a technique to an idea, not necessarily just the theme. ** Something that i will still move on for the future projects is using those crazy, vivid, and amazing colors. I really like that idea and i will contiue using fauvist colors. I want to start painting with acrylic and i think that is what i'm planning to do in the following project. I have been using those pencil colors for the past 2 projects and now is the time to change medias.

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