May2

Finger Paints

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Finger Paints

I love to finger paint when I’m bored. It’s so fascnating and fun to get your fingers all different colors from the paints. Finger painting sounds like a childish thing to do but in reality there are a lot of different finger painting paintings out there that are very popular. I have a few that I have saved by stumbling across them one day. I want to write a longer blog posts today but to be completly honest I don’t feel too well and going to head back to sleep. Here’s a select few paintings that I like to interuppt when I’m bored at home or in my room.

Kira Ayn Varszegi – Hartford

Kira Ayn Varszegi – Hartford

 

I like these finger paintings because of the abstractness of them. They have a few different textures in them which makes them all unique.

Apr24

Pinterest Involving Art?

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Pinterest Involving Art?

Last weekend my best friend Chantel introduced me to the website Pinterest. I knew of people whom have been using it from hearing about it from classes and seeing other students play with it during class but I never got an interest into it. Finally Chantel got me to sign up by telling me that there is more art and photography on it than there is on Tumblr. I’ve been using Tumblr for a significant amount of time since i’ve been away at college. It’s one of the things that keep me distracted or kill time when I’m bored. Tumblr also has given me awesome art ideas, such as photography I should take or things to create when I’m in the mood. Pinterest on the other hand though defiantly has beat it. I know that my blogs are usually all about art but this one I need to tell you all about the interesting art I’ve found on Pinterest. I’ve got a few things saved that have caught my eyes. The awesome thing about Pinterest is the commenting is a lot more easier and the repining isn’t as complicated as the Tumblr reblogging. Thats a pretty awesome plus to me.

Pinterest also lets you slim down on the searches you want. I was able to look up art that other people have created and posted with just a few key words. In Tumblr I would have to go through other peoples blogs in order to find what I was looking for. Pinterest also has a very easy navigational tool, I can make different boards on the art that I like or what kind of Art it is. The different boards I have created are paintings, photography, sketches, charcoal, pastel, and color. Color is such a broad one but it’s the one where I put fascinating stuff where I have no idea where to put it. It’s also a sweet search engine because it separates it all so I can find the thing I have pinned earlier byt just looking in the boards that I’ve made. Now that i’ve ranted too much about my new obsession with Pinterest I’ll post the pins that I have found very artistic and my favorable ones.

Paintings

I adore this painting because when she uploaded the painting it was the first one that i’ve ever seen on Pinterest. I commented on it and she said she was the one who painted it using acrylic paints and some whiter color. We got to talk back and fourth on the different paintings she has painted and give each other tips.

This one I couldn’t figure out who the artist was but I’m in love with birds and the cherry blossom tree style. Its so calm and the way this painting was painted it has a lot of different tones and shades of details going on in the background.

Photography

I’m so in love with this photography because I’ve always wanted to take a picture near a real Indian Hut. They are so fascinating and to be able to come around to real one and take  a photograph would be awesome.

This one is so interesting. It’s very confussing to what could be going on. It has different lighting and contrasts.

Since I’ve posted a few pictures of my personal favorites I suggest anyone who loves art to look through the Pinterest and see all the fascinating art that has been posted.

Apr18

Art Museums

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Art Museums

Lately i’ve been wanting to go to a art museum. The Metropolitan Museum of fine arts in NYC looks really interesting to me.  The Metropolitan has a few exhibits that look extremely intriguing.

One is the steins collect exhibit. It has Matisse, Picasso and the Avant Garde, which are really great artist that have amazing artwork. A few of the artworks that are in the exhibits are these one that are posted below.

Made by Henri Matisse

Woman in hat 1905

 

This is one of my favorite paintings that Matisse has made and it’s on display during those dates in NYC. I am trying to save enough money to go visit my roommate during summer break in order to view this work of art.

 

Still life 1922

Pablo Picasso painted this

This is another one of my favorite paintings that has been done and going to be on display at the art musem. It’s just amazing how these artist can find different ways to paint things and have a whole story behind it.

Over this summer I’m going to make it my mission to get to the metropolitan museum in NYC. If it’s during this time that would be amazing so I can see these paintings.

Apr18

Artist I enjoy

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Artist I enjoy

This blog this week I’ve decided to elaborate on the artist that I preferably like. I have a lot of them I do like but i’ll just choose one for this week.

Salvador Dali

He was one of the most eccentric artists ever. His achievements are know for surrealism art, such as methods used reflected his ideas; including paint, charcoal, film and sculpture.Dali started his artistic roots at a young age, 14 and started drawing school when he was young.Dali was influenced by Rapheal a renaissance artist and vermeer a dutch baroque artist. In 1929 Dali met Luis Buneul and they produced a short film. It was considered the surrealists ideals.Un Chien Andalou < link to the video if anyone wants to watch. When world war two came around Dali fleeted away from spain to America to avoid the war. Surrealists were mad that Dali left but Dali believed that artists shouldn’t claim their views on politics and then people claimed him to be a Hitler follower. 1982 Franco was forced out of power and the king took his thrown again. King Juan Carlos favorite artist was Dali and right before Dali passed away he gave the king away his last drawing ever made. Dali was taken away to the hospital November 1988 due to attempted sucide, dehydration. King Carlos was by his bed side when he passed away on January 23rd 1989. Salvador Dali is one of my favorite artist because the art he made was so intriguing. He also was very serious about the drawings he made. The drawings he made make you think real deeply and can confuse you.

The Persistence of Memory

1931 painting that Dali has painted. It is one of the most recognizable paintings. It now resides in Museum of Modern Art in New York City. It’s Dalis theory on softness and hardness. Soft watches are an unconscious symbol of space and time and a surrealist meditation on collapse of our notions are fixed cosmic order. I like this picture because it really makes you think. What is that thing in the middle where that clock is residing on the ground.

Elephants

Created this painting in 1948. He was inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture of an elephant carrying an obelisk on it’s back. Here’s a photo of the sculpture. I have this one hanging up in my room. The reason why I like this painting is because of the background fading into different reds and yellows. I also like that the elephants are on stilts too with an obelisk on their back. 

Apr4

Twisted Night

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Twisted Night

This weekend was my birthday weekend, and I couldn’t imagine having a better weekend here at Plymouth. I had a few friends come up and my friends on campus were with me all weekend too. On Friday night it was my birthday and like a normal PSU student I did what everyone else does on a Friday night and a few other things but that isn’t what my blog is about. I wanted to write about what my friends and I created. We were all in my room just you know, and saw a piece of poster board on the ground. The music was dubstep and the paints were right next to me. I decided to squeeze out a ton of paint and start to explore on this piece of poster that wasn’t even mine. It was all just swishing lines because I wasn’t coherant enough to know what I was drawing. The most shocking thing was my friend who isn’t into art decided to sit down next to me and said she couldn’t paint to save her life, I handed her abrush and told her to go with what she sees in her head.

After she started to do that everyone else who was in the room joined in. We all took sides and corners and started to explode on the poster of what we envisioned at that moment. It was such a beautiful moment when all our minds collabrated into the middle. No one was judging the work that was being brought out of each our minds. There was different colors being splattered on with each emtion we felt. It was the first time where i’ve had all my friends sit with eachother and feel what eachother felt. We were all one on this poster board just expressing what was floating in and out of our heads. There was nothing that could break this moment.

 

 

 

Finally when we decided this jungle of paint was finished we looked at it and was so amazed of how it came out. The painting wasn’t done until the next morning we woke up and really could look at it in fully coherncy. It was so awesome looking that it was such a shock that drunk/”outofit” college students could create such a thing. The best part was knowing that it was a contribute that everyone who visited me my birthday had involved in on. There was over ten people whom contributed and made it. Now that i’ve ranted about this artwork it’s time for you to see it.

My favorite part of this is the man who is walking in the bottom corner and the Think that is bolded in the center. I think it’s perfect because it brings in all the swirls to a point. Theres a variety of colors. Disregard the top part where the flash was making the picture look have a blurred spot. Well to sum it all up that was my weekend and this is the new addition that has been added to my room!

Mar28

Silver Center Art

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Silver Center Art

          You know I was just walking through Silver center today for my friends jazz concert and i’ve came to notice there is art always displayed in there. One week I was walking through and saw theses cool graphite color pencil sketches. It was kind of “trippy” looking if your catching my drift. Another week I noticed paintings that were very abstract and had stories behind it. Not written out stories but stories I could see through all the art. But the one that has caught my eye the most was the ones i’ve seen today. They were charcoal graphite drawings that were shaped in lion faces but you couldn’t fully see the lion figure.

 

 

 

 

It was all in your imagination to what you believed they were. The charcoal was going into swirls was able to tell a

story of its own. I think the really interesting thing is that when you can look into a painting or sketch and see the emotion put into it. Theres always a story behind the piece of art that has been created. Some examples of the art that was shown in the silver center look kind of like these ones that i’ve pulled off the internet. I can’t photograph someones else’s artwork without their permission and post it here so I figured i’d try to research some that are close to it.

 

 

made by Tracy Bezesky

 

Made by Tracy Bezesky http://dailywip.com/2012/01

 

Dan May http://vi.sualize.us/pumpkinlady/

 

VIDEO:

 

If you’re interested in the charcoal field and want to learn how to do some cool drawings heres a great beginner video for that. Also I suggest every once in a while you guys should take a walk into the Silver Center and see what they’ve got to offer for some awesome art work. D&M has art displays too which are really interesting.

Mar14

Old School photography

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Old School photography

Last night I wanted to see what my old Myspace had on it. The last time I logged onto Myspace it has been over 2 years.  When I was twelve years old I used to love to take photography on my camera. My Myspace had pictures from my past photography sessions. I was so shocked to see how well i’ve done as a twelve year old child. I saved the the most interesting pictures to my computer to upload on here. Photography is a form of art of dynamics. You need to know how to fix the ISO and control the shutter speeds. The iso’s on the pictures I have taken were fixated at a exact level so it came out very well. One of my pictures were edited with photoshop. Photoshop is really fun to tinker around with. I am not to experienced in photoshop anymore but when I was a child I used to use it all the time.

This cloud picture I got on a winter day out on my lake. I didn’t do any effects to it, it just came out like this and I found it really interesting to have the dark shadow effect with a litte blue sky shown into it. It’s about to rain in it but the sun exposure pushing through gives it a alittle white to the clouds. The iso setting on my camera was at 1200 during this picture which isn’t too high. This picture by far was my favorite one that I found.

This is a leaf I found right in my front yard. When I was younger I used to love to take close up pictures and have the background pictures distorted and have the main focus on the object. The main focus is on the leaf in this picture. I like how you can see all the textures on the leaf. It also has a cool color contrast.

This is a dandelion I snapped a picture of at my grandmothers house. It was in great condition so I had to get it. I really enjoy how the visuals of the petals really pop. I used photoshop a little bit on this picture. The only thing I adjusted on the picture was the exposure and the contrast which I dimmed a little bit. I really like how the color yellow looks in this picture.

 

Those are the pictures i’ve uploaded to my computer i’ve found. It’s just really interesting that you can find art just about anywhere. Especially I was interested in the fact how young I was when I took those photos and wonder to myself what happend. I have became determined to get more into photography again and work on my photoshop skills which I hope this class can help me with.

 

Disclaimer: If anyone likes these photos please let me know if you want to post any of them. Just please give me the credit and if anyone wants me to take more for them I am more than willing to during my free time:)

Mar7

Hidden arts of NYC

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This weekend I went away to Long Island New York. My roommate lives down there so she asked me to come with her to her home town. She brought me and my friend Adam to NYC to see what this city was all about. I arrived to Penn station and noticed that there was this art all over the walls. The art that I noticed on the wall was named Circus garden of Delights made by Eric Fishchl. The art had bears talking to each other with a rhino’s and a gazel in the background. It was very interesting because it shows the diversity that you can find in NYC. I read an article on the art. The artist quoted in the article what he was depicting after making this painting in Penn station.

“depicts a commuter being drawn into the bizarre and surprising world of the circus, meeting animals, clowns, acrobats and fire-breathers on his way to work.” – Eric Fischl

I like how he believes that its bizarre and surprising world when he is heading into work. Which I find very true because New York City you can find anything. I noticed there were people making music in Penn station and people who were dancing to music being made by their friends. People of different diversities were there and people with different styles of clothing. It was all so artistic because it’s something different in every corner. It was very interesting and I really like how artist Fischl could paint up what he viewed everyday on his way to work.

 

The painting in Penn station near West 34th

made by artist: Eric Fischl

 

Article resource:

http://scientopia.org/blogs/thisscientificlife/2008/06/26/west-34thpenn-station-subway-art-2/

 

 

 

 

Feb29

Swirling Roomies

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Swirling Roomies

The other day me and my roommate were extremely bored. I mean you’d think there would be something to do when your in college but no, we were so bored that we decided to go to the art store in Tilton. After we went there we got some acrylic paints and canvases. Me and my roommate were trying to figure out what we wanted to paint. She was looking at landscapes online while I was looking up different animals to draw. After squeezing our paints out onto our pallets we started to design a flower but messed up a little bit. After messing up we just decided to start painting diifferent directions and different colors one another. Sooner or later we came out with this work of art

To some people it may not look like art but the different variations of texture in this painting would describe a few different techniques. There is sploching and also different color patterns such as a very strict color pallet. It isn’t out of control different colors and their all neutral based to each other.

Another painting we did with each other was this one

we decided that we wanted to go another direction with this and put more emotion into it. The song that was playing while we were painting this image was first of the year by Skrillex. We wanted to try something different and move our hands with the beat with our eyes closed one on each side. She did the purple and red contrast while I did the blue and purple contrast. It was something new and interesting to us. After all that we ended up having a good time. It shows that art can be something fun not just boring as what some people would say. Especially trying out new things such as moving your hands to the music while blind.

Feb22

The Art of Graffiti

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The Art of Graffiti

Graffiti doesn’t look like it would be an art form but it is considered an art form. The definition of graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. There are four different terms used in the definition that is an art form. Firstly, scribbled is a form that is used a lot in sketches, then scratched is used on paint and clay which is also used in art. Lastly, sprayed is also used as in people spray painting paintings. Graffiti is usually mis understood as a ghetto usage that is vandalizing places and walls. The only time it is considered vandalism when people go off and spray paint buildings, bridges, and houses that aren’t allowed or private property. Graffiti goes all the way back to the ancient greek times when it was the only way for them to communicate. I have found a few photos that show great examples of artistic graffiti and then vandalizing graffiti.

Art Graffiti:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024884/Council-paints-street-artist-Banksys-graffiti-murals–worth-millions.html

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=real+graffiti+art&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1275&bih=702&tbm=

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=real+graffiti+art&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1275&bih=702&tbm=isch&tbnid=iDZ3ybvxy1KOXM:&imgrefurl=http://platinumcheese.in-the-streets-moca/&docid=mvwUv0Reiv5B4M&imgurl=\=5&tbnh=148&tbnw=181&start=76&ndsp=20&ved=0CKcDEK0DMFM

 

Vandalizing:

http://www.sodahead.com/living/graffitiart-of-vandalism/question-1998997/?link=ibaf&q=vandalizing+graffiti+/&imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/5647789_b3d4b4382d.jpg

Vandalised Scarab