Rita+Willard

Q2

Behind every piece of art lies a bit of the artist's soul ~RW and probably someone else

Lately I am thinking more in depth about souls and expressing them and how they are expressed. The drawing that I am drawing and and the picture that I'm painting are symbols, in a way and how I feel, of a little bit of everyone's soul. The parts that are scary and the parts that are fun. I want to make a piece of art where maybe almost everyone can look at it and relate to it.

My first piece of art work is based off of a manga I read. I really liked the characters in there and i wanted to take the different sides of the characters and put them into a pose where it looks like there's a black side and a white side to the characters. When i knew what I wanted to draw about, an image flashed to mind of the female character shrouded in black and white which is what I tried to create when I made the art that I made. I decided on a thick paper for the outermost base because it was durable yet easily manipulable. The black on top of the white paper was chosen for the color, because they are certain black papers that have different shades. The black border and the white background of the main picture were chosen to help progress the theme of dark and light. The drawing was drawn with pencil because it was easily erasable but the black wolf and black wing was traced over with black colored pencil and over shadowed by black charcoal. The black colored pencil made the wing black and draws attention to the feathers of the wings. The charcoal made the wing and wolf look really cool and complete because I believe it makes them look like they have an aura to them.

The second piece of my art work is a childish drawing showing a persons imagination in their soul escaping from its box. I decided to do something like this after a painted a kid version of a sun with solar flares and a couple of the planets in the outer most solar system. It let me get in touch with my inter kid, which at the time, made my whole out look on things brighter. When I was painting, hand in hand, with little Rita, I wasn't worried about school, I wasn't worried about the way I looked, I wasn't worried about all the grown-up things about this world and I was happy to let my imagination run wild. My painting was about that time and how even though I had a lot of other things that should have took up my attention, it was good to get away from it a little. The paper was construction-like and the colors had no particular relevance except the yellow which I disfigured for a reason: sometimes the bright ideas that come out wont stay that way and can become ugly, its just a simple fact of life. After I made the colors come out of the box I used a little brush to add in a cloud of "worries" that swirled around but made it so that the imagination pushed through and escaped it. I also believe that if everyone contacted the "little them inside" and let their kiddish imagination run loose, that people would have a lot less stress.

my current work is a mixture or things, meaning that right now i am jumping and trying different things that will hopefully spark something that will inspire me to elaborate more of it. i am attempting to create something either a little morbid or something sad just to hit upon feelings that most people like to see in many things but dont like to create. dkdvQ3

My art work this quarter was orginally going to be a two headed snake, however my friend suggested it should be fighting a whale. I used his idea and added laser beams to make it a little more interesting and had him help me with choosing colors.

My first piece of art work this quarter is my only piece of art work this quarter because I took my time with drawing and choosing materials and painting. It also had to do with the fact that there were many snow days to interfere with my time scheduling. The materials I chose were Verse Temp paint, paint brushes, large white paper, and a canvas. I chose those materials because they were avaible and the best choices i wanted in order to try to portray my drawings. I started off my piece of art my sketching it out on the large piece of white paper then drew a grid on my paper and canvas. The grid allowed me to take my art one piece by one piece at a time to get it from the paper to the canvas. After my art was on the canvas i started experimenting with colors and shades of the paint. My friend helped me chose colors that would take the art and distinguish it apart from other art.

Q4

My piece of art work is a giant squid in the depths of the ocean. This piece of work is the only piece of work this quarter. It took all of my time to draw on paper, draw on cavas and paint the drawing on canvas. The materials I chose for this piece of work was originally going to be cavas and charcoal, however my wonderful teacher managed to get me to use paint. She also taught me some technique I could use in order to complete my goal and do it without getting frustrated and angry. I started off from one of my sketches from either the second or third quarter and drew the sizes from paper to grid then made the canvas into a grid. After the drawing was on the grid, my teacher gave me advice to use a lot of water with the paint I was using. I made a lot of mistakes before I was fully satisfied with my ending product. This project is one that I am very proud of because it was fun creating a squid out of very different shades of purple, black and blue.