Honoring

Our assignment was to honor someone but, the someone who we had to honor could not be a relative. i decided to honor my middle school art teacher Mrs. Warner. she played a big role in getting me into B.A.A. Mrs. Warner saved up all of my art pieces from the sixth grade to the eight. she made a portfolio for me. She pushed me to come to audition and i got in. so i believe if it was not for her i would have not made it here to Boston arts academy. for this project i decided to make a "bookframe" that held calligraphy inside because i always remembered Mrs. Warner drawing allot of calligrapher while in her class. The book is going to have layers of pictures of me growing from the 8th grade till where i am at now. so far i restarted my project by taking the piece apart. the original book that i had was done but the craft was not so neat. the book looked "plasticy" due to the hot glue that i used to glue the pages together of the book. this time when i started the project over i used the saw tool to cut into the book, using the saw tool was very annoying because the dust was constantly getting up into my nose. after an hour and a half using the saw tool FINALLY completed cutting into the book.

Blog post #7 the finals

Quonedell Brown
Since I was younger, I have always been in interested in the way the world works. I began asking my teachers questions about our enviorment. I have always been eager to learn about the people, places and things around me. One place that I was most interested in as a child was the Artic. I was always so fascinated about the cold weather, the animals and the people who live there. As a child, I knew very little about global warming. It was not till i entered the 5th grade and learned about humans impacting global warming. In my series of paintings my theme is global warming, the most impacted animals. In all of these pieces there are warm colors. The color scheme is to unify all of the pieces. The warm colors help the viewers eye move from painting to painting and within. The warm colors in the painitngs are supposed to refrence the theme of global warming. I want my viewers to look at my painting and know that they are conveying an ending.
The summer of the Polar Bear
The painting of the Polar Bear smiling, in a happy mood with a sunset in as a background is supposed to communicate the happiness of the polar bear while still here on earth. In the background is the sunsetting, the sunsetting is suopposed to convey a termanintion. A termination of the Polar Bears. While working on this piece I used two diffrent techniques when I started this piece I was just layering acrylic paint. I began to notice that layering acrylic paint was making the picture look like waves. I decided to change my technique to dry brushing the image. Dry brushing made the image look more surreal.

The Penguins who morned

The images of the two penguins on oppisite sides with their heads bowed down is suppose to convey some sense of sorrow and grief. The background of the painting is blue. Blue is to connect to the sea. The sea is home to the penguins its where the Penguins feel most comfortable. Now there home is decaying from the rising seas due to global warming. On the cheek bones of the Penguins is faded warm colors that look like a sunset. the colors on the penguins cheek bones is to connect to the theme of global warming. I used acrylic paint and applied it on thick to make texture as if it was an oil painting.

Oil Clouds

The power plant emitting Co2 into the air on the lake front. The background with a dark blue sky and the sunsetting connects the piece to the other pictures. the picture is suppposed to convey the darkness and tragedy of people emitting green house gasses. Green house gasses is the reason for global warming it continuies to heat up our athmosphere. i used the technique of layering to build up the color of the paint.

Blog post #6 part 2

for my third piece i researched. many things in global warming but one thing that i researched was burning. then i found allot of places that burn fuels like power plants. since power plants cause over 50 percent of global emissions. i haven't started any sketch's but here are some pics i found

Blog post #6

i took many hours to paint this image. i started off with finding images of penguins. i found this image in particular with penguins heads bowed down. i thought that the penguins head symbolized sadness. after i drew the image onto the canvas. after i waited to paint the image on the canvas. i decided that i wanted the picture to have texture. so i used acrylic paint and i applied it on thick. the thick acrylic gave the picture texture. i learned that you do not need oil paint to create texture on a canvas. i think that my final piece came out nice. i like my final piece (Surprisingly).  i think that it really conveys sadness and sorrow just like wanted it to.

blog post #5 part 1

when i first started this piece i experimneted alot. i started off with painting the polar bear in grey, blue, black and white mono tone color. i began to realize that i was using to much paint at once so the peice would not blend with other colors. i decieded to change the style up and dry brush the painting. i deiceded to do a background that had a dark sky with lightning in the background. i came to realize that the background did not mash up wit the piece, it was not moving people eyes around the page so i decided to turn back to my original plan and put a sunset in the background of the piece and it came out nicely.
i thinjk the final pioece moves the viewers eye around the page and also leaves the viewer questioning and wondering what the piece is about. although, the piece keeps the viewer questioning and wondering after putting two & two together (the sunset and the polar bear) the viewer will eventually see what i am trying to convey through the piece.

Blog post #4

1) In the beginning i decided to make my piece on global warming. i never had an initial piece that i wanted to specifically do. so i did research on global warming and found out the most impacted animal from global warming is polar bears. so i decided to make a piece of a polar bear that would be heart warming to the on lookers.

2) So far i have come across two main challenges. the first one was trying to make my piece look like a realistic cartoon. i was very challenged in this area i did not know how to make it looked cartoony but real. i had to get allot of help from teachers an advice from the kids in my class. my second challenge was my background, to make it look warm so i played around with two backgrounds one blue but the background did not look warm so i changed it to a sunset

Pictures will be posted as soon as i find the link.

Blog post#3 The worlds ice

my piece that i have decided to do is going to explore global warming. before i  started my painting i did research. i found many pictures, paintings and videos that helped me understand more of what global warming is. i watched the videos, studied the pieces and, came up with what i wanted my piece to look like/ deal with.
 this  one of the sites i got video footage from.>>  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/
informational documents and articles.>> http://climatechangeeducation.org/art/visual_arts/exhibits/index.html

link of pictures >>   http://www.stanford.edu/group/ccr/ccrblog/polar%20bear.jpg     http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/files/2009/12/polar-bear1.jpg     http://www.solcomhouse.com/images/792px-Polar_Bear_2004-11-15.jpg.