User:Ashley Chapman

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

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 * Research Component

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 * week 1

Search for canvas suitable to my needs.
 * week 2

Think of picture wanted to be painted, search for inspiration. Start anatomical study.
 * week 3

Go to library. Search on history of painting in oils and acrylics(mostly acrylics)
 * week 4

Start sketching on canvas/finish sketch. Keep reasearch up using internet. Start thinking of colors.
 * week 5

Finish most of canvas in acrylics using fabric and other object to give depth, if time use oils for detail.
 * week 6

Finish reasearch(mostly) and start power point of drawing process/reasearch found.
 * week 7

Catchup on any work, go back and fix mistakes seen/add more detail in painting. Varnish painting.
 * week 8

Go back on anything missed in reasearch, finish power point.

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen were the creatures of the large sculpture resembling a typewriter eraser. At first when I looked at it I wasn’t too sure what the hell it was. Was it a pizza cutter, fishing lure, or maybe something out of someone’s whimsical imagination? Whatever it was I didn’t like it at all. It appalled my sense of sight because of the clash of colors and just by the overall look of the sculpture. When I went searching for other creations by the two artists I was amazed at what they actually did. Giant replicas of tubes of lipstick, shovels used in the garden, garden hoses, clothes pins, baseball bats, golf balls, umbrellas, and all other types of amazing sculptures; most of which were fabricated using stainless steel and some type of polyurethane or painted fiberglass. One of their sculptures I have grown to love. It is a giant spoon lain over a marsh of some sorts with a large cherry balancing on the end where the spoon dips. The description of the sculpture (which I wish to see in person some day) said that in the winter it looks as if there is ice cream in the spoon with a cherry on top. I still do not like their sculpture Typewriter Eraser Scale X, but I have a new found respect for it because of the time and type of materials used to make this giant creation. Maybe one day I can grow to like it, but for the time being I will just sit back and respect the ugly thing.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
Bandwagon and applepolishing

Truth through humor

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
I had a lot of trouble figuring out what I wanted to paint. I searched and search until I settled on an angel picture that I used as an anatomy study and figured out the pose. I only just reciently finished my final drawing on the canvas, still needing to refine the hands and other small objects. This weekend I start painting and will be finished by next week on the picture if all goes as planned(which it hasn't so I'm crossing my fingers). I don't think I will have any trouble painting in acrylics and finishing in time, but I decided to leave the oils out unless I feel that I will be able to have it done and let them dry for a week or so. Insead of the oils, I am not using fabrics and feathers to make my picture come alive more with texture. I will change my schedule on my main page to fit this now, but I think the rest of this will go along smoothly, the reasearch included.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: "Tips on Painting Hair." Fanaticus -- Virtual Community for DBA Gamers. Web. 02 Dec. 2009. .
 * 2) Book: Hogarth, Burne. Dynamic Wrinkles and Drapery Solutions for Drawing the Clothed Figure (Practical Art Books). New York: Watson-Guptill, 1995. Print.
 * 3) Scholarly Journal: Lombardo, Daniel. "Art Instruction." Art Instruction (2009). Library Journal. Reed Buisiness, 15 Nov. 2009. Web. 7 Dec. 2009. .
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): Parramon, Jose Maria. Painting Figures in Oil and Acrylic (Watson-Guptill Painting Library). New York: Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1991. Print.


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

<> I reached my goal by starting the painting and finishing it within a four day time frame throughout the weeks. The research did not really help me that much until it came to anatomy and folds in drapery and clothing.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well: The final painting and how all the shading came together and it didn't fall flat like I assumed. There is depth(to me) and I'm happy with the results.
 * 2)What went poorly: Realizing too late that I didn't have all the colors I needed and having to mix them with primary and secondary colors...pain in ass.
 * 3)Future strategies: Start the subject finding earlier. It took me a long time to find out what I really wanted to paint, and then it only took me a short time to paint where I should have taken a little more time on that. I almost might try a different medium instead of just Acrylics. Possibly use fabric or integrate a different material using liquid cement or some other adhesive.

Self-Assessment
When I first learned I was going to take this class I had no idea what to think besides "god I hope there is no math". After the second week I was glad to be in the class because I was actually learning different things I didn't know before, good resources on the internet, and ways to find others not on the internet. There were a few things I knew already, but that is with every class so it was understandable. If I get the chance I will defiantly take another class like this the projects were interesting, and enticed me to learn; overall a great class that taught me a lot.