Monotypes!

I LOVE MONOTYPES HOLY COW THEY ARE SO FUN TO DO.
So what we did was used the brayer to lay down ink and then we subtracted the ink from the plexi-glass to shape our faces and show the light versus dark places on the face.
Then we ran the plexi-glass through the printmaker (with paper on top, obviously) and got our image printed onto paper woo hoo!
Like I said, I loved this activity. I had maybe 1 or 2 stand-alone pieces, but the others that are pictured here are cut-and-collaged together from other pieces. I don't have pictures of ALL of my prints, sadly, so I'll need to take pictures of those.

(This one's my favorite)

Another drawing from life

We had been doing drawings of our faces/upper body from small mirrors which we were going to go over with watercolor paint, but deer god am I AWFUL with watercolor. I cannot control the carnal rage that is the tiger of watercolor paint! But I really liked my initial sketch of myself before we put the paint on it.

Full Figure

I still need to work back into this and I fully intend on doing so before the Winter Art Show.

Medium: Gesso, Graphite stick, watercolor paint for the background

Technique: Subtraction, drawing from life

I'll post another update of this once I work back into it and make it look nicer.

I like some aspects of it, though I don't know if I'm diggin' the background, honestly...

I need to add some lighter areas, and I need to fix up my face a bit.

Ahhhhhhh update

I have not been updating my blog as diligently as I would like to. u__u So here are some posts of what we've done since, what, September??? It's November already, almost December!!

So since the cut-and-collage thing, we've done a full figure, monotypes, water color selfies, monotype mixed media stuff... Yeah we've done a lot haha and I've missed a lot of school....

So okay I will post some pictures of stuff I've been doing. They're iPhone photos from distances for some of them though, and for that I apologize. Also this is not ALL we've done. I just need to take more pictures of my work.

Illustration Friday: Together

The I-Friday for this week was "together" so I drew this yesterday when I was finished with my triad mash-up painting.

It looks better in person, scanners take away quality. -.-

Also, lyrics from Fall Out Boy's new song "Alone Together" \m/

Triad Mash-up Painting

Media used: gesso, watercolor (background), acrylic paint, india ink

^This is the very first attempt (for lack of a better word). I got critiqued for the road, as it didn't really fit with my Fletcher color scheme, and the ink just kind of looked weird.

Mr. Wertz suggested I gesso the road out and use charcoal on it, so I did, and that is what you see below.

I think it looks better with the charcoal.

And here is my finished product, matted and fancy-looking.

Final Triad

After drawing the triad with graphite, pen and India ink, and charcoal rezens(?) with subtraction, I sprayed fixative on the finished pieces, slathered a matte finish on them, and then washed them down with a blue oil and turpentine mix. Here is the finished product and close-up of each piece: