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Journals - Painting
For: Professor Bruce Allen

Painting - Week 15

Last week, so what did I do. Well let's go through some things huh?

I did a lot of final work and touches on my oil painting Amelie piece. She is and was more or less done, but I wanted to work on the shading some more and get some of the lines a little better. Really, it is hard to do in painting form. The promotional poster (the standard one where she is wearing all of the white make-up) is really hard to recreate with paint. The way the poster was done is a photographic masterpiece, and a make-up work of art. So it was a great photo and I am sure that if I were a better painter, I would have been able to do it better, but I am not. But I tried really hard for a really long time, and the end result is something that I am proud of. Even if the painting were not that great, the colors are just wonderful to look at. Complimentary colors, great contrasts of light and dark. Like I was saying, it was a photographic masterpiece that I was trying to reproduce. I tried.

I also worked on some more on the big, black glass piece. I worked on the figure in the middle and I worked on the side some more. What I did was cut up a bunch of papers from the phone books and then taped them all to the glass. After that I pained a pretty vibrant green all over it to cover up the paper on the back side. What I actually like the most about this part is the way the scotch tape looks when you see it through the front side. It makes a perfect squared-off border around all of the paint and paper. But like I said before, I am not turning this piece in, at least not this year. But so you know I have been working on it a lot, and anyone who wants to take a look at it can come by my room and take a gander when I have it set up properly for viewing.

So other than those things, I have made one last piece. When I had that mini little art show with Sara and Curt, I had some prints made at Ridgeways. I told them to have all my pieces mounted on foamcore. Well I guess they forgot this for a little while and the first print that they made was on regular paper. Since this is not what I wanted and they certainly had no use for it, they gave me this frint that they could not do anything with. I figured that I had no use for it as well, but lo and behold comes this idea that I can use it for something. Well I take this sign that is make of something or other, like carboard or whatever sign material is made of, and taped this long paper print onto the front of it. After doing that I painted over the tape and over other parts of the sign as solid colors. Then I painted colors bars over the paper (this is all acrylic by the way) like they are in the background of the picture. It is a fun and colorful piece, and I don't think anyone will recognize the color pattern so I will go ahead and say that the pattern is the exact order of a TV color bars test pattern. I just thought it would be a neat little tribute to my love of television shows and film in general. In the end, it is an interesting piece, and I suppose that it counts as mixed media.

Either way those are my last pieces. Enjoy them please BRUCE.