Monday, February 14, 2011

I'm excited to keep going with my layering for my concentration pieces. It seems to be working out semi-well. I'm going to attempt to incorporate photo transfer in that as well, but I don't want to cross the fine line between detailed, messy organization and making my pieces too busy. I will post pictures as I make more progress. Woooo!

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Two concentration pieces

So these are my pieces that I've started most recently:



The first is supposed to represent technology... I'm going to layer tissue over the wing of the plane with a number-like pattern, but I'm having trouble deciding what the viewer should be looking at over the plane wing... some type of nature-y thing. Idea in progress/starting this was spur of the moment but I want to go with it and represent how technology and nature mesh.

The second is a watercolor. I'm working on drifting away from just using acrylic, and I want to drift towards my original idea of layering. I am going to use charcoal and pastels over this watercolor. I'm going to draw skyscrapers in charcoal to mirror the natural landscape. I was inspired by a photo in a magazine for this one. I'm also working on a similar piece right now, layering a bridge and a sunset.

Thoughts...?