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Art Exhibit Review

Today my father and I went to an exhibit by Ashley Holt at the Chapman Cultural Center. It was was presented by The Artist's Guild of Spartanburg and was in a room right in the front room of the biulding. Down the halls, which lead to two other exhibits in a larger back room, were covered with large portraits of foster children. The two exhibits in the back room were an exhibit on local printmakers and an exhibit by a woodworker named Michael McDunn.
     I really liked Ashley Holt's style. Many of his pieces were humorous or had a very comic book look to them. He had many pieces that were about his memories, like a scene of a cashier with a gumball-machine head and quarters everywhere, which was influenced by his many previous jobs at stores. I thought the foster-children portraits were a very good way to spread the word about these needy kids. In the last room I visited, the prints were what immediately caught my eye. They were all very detailed and many looked like drawings. My favorite was a screenprint by Andrew Blanchard called Dixie Totem I. I thought it was really interesting how he caught the "American Gothic" style he described in the caption of his pictures. I really think looking at how he focuses on the "American Gothic" in all of his pieces gave me an idea of what our theme for the 12 pieces we will create this year is supposed to be. The last exhibit by the woodworker was very interesting because it was a bunch of tables. Some of them were made out of scrap wood, and some had very intricate details. I liked how this exhibit gave a very different idea of what art is.

Art Gallery Review

I chose to go to Greenville County Museum of Art (I think it was last month? Not sure exactly what day I went but it was this summer). I hope it's okay that I'm doing this review on most of the exhibits in the museum rather than just one, it's a small museum.
Website- http://greenvillemuseum.org/

The Greenville County Museum of Art has an assortment of galleries, full of different artists of different styles. Almost all pieces are paintings or drawings, there are a couple of sculptures, and the artwork of Winifred Rembert is made using leather and dyes. The artwork found in this museum is mostly realistic, some are impressionistic. The two exceptions would be the art of Helen DuPre Moseley and Winifred Rembert, their works are in simpler, abstract, almost cartoonish styles. Most the artwork there is from the 1800s or the 1900s, but there were a couple of paintings of parts of the cities/towns around Greenville or Spartanburg by Andrew Lenaghan that were from the 2000s.
My favorite gallery from this museum was the Andrew Wyeth gallery. I really like his style, it's realistic but not so much that it looks like a photo. His snowy landscape paintings are so peaceful and beautiful, his painting entitled "Bonfire" is dramatic and incredible. I enjoyed some of the pieces from the Alfred Hutty gallery, for some of his work looks somewhat like impressionism, which is an art style I like. His drawings and paintings of buildings were great and full of detail. Some works of his I found a bit boring, but still very well done. The gallery I disliked most was the Helen DuPre Mosely gallery. I usually find things that are slightly creepy interesting, but her work was a whole different kind of messed up. Her paintings were of these fantasy animal-human-creature things that were just disturbing to me. I remember one painting had something in it that resembled a fetus on a plate or something. Her work was very simple, and in my opinion her art was just not good. It looked a bit too childish, and I'm not just saying that because her paintings gave me the creeps. I will say that some of the coloring was nice. Overall, I enjoyed this museum, it had a very nice selection of artwork. It would be nicer if it was larger and had even more art, but it is still a fantastic museum.

Second Blog Post Assignment

Sorry this is a couple of days late, it slipped my mind!
My last two pieces are not yet done, i've been working on other art projects and they also slipped my mind, but no worries! They shall be done by the time we are back in your classroom, Mrs. Telleri.

Portrait:
I decided to do a self portrait, a picture of myself i snapped with my iphone that i happened to like. I will probably do some sort of color splash with it once i'm done with the pencil work. Something with the eyes.

Water:

I will be using watercolor for this picture. the sketching phase is pretty much done, just gotta paint it. Her hair is the ocean, there will be a night sky with a moon, seeing as the moon controls the tides. I will be starting a different water-themed oil painting soon hopefully, but it most likely won't be done in time for school.

Second Assignment

Portrait

Boat on the Ocean

First Assignment

A Collection of buttons in the shape of the Solar system

MISS TELLERI MY INTERNET DOESN'T SUPPORT BLOGGER SO YOU GOTTA GIVE ME A BREAK IF I CANT FIND A COMPATIBLE INTERNET IN TIME.

Ight so i've had very very little free time (work, eat, work, eat, sleep, work, etc.) but on the two free days ive had i've drawn these. The first two are Graphite sketches on 8.5 by 11. The third one is Graphite and colored pencils on one of those waxy poster boards people find in the store (worst thing ever to try and draw on, thats why the color sucks, the graphite just slides around ontop of the waxy surface) im not sure the size it might be 24 by 36 or something.

First AP Art summer assignment- Heather H

I think i might be the first one to post summer work. Yay for me. Anyway, I finished my first assignment for AP Art today so i figured I'd go ahead and post it since I'll be on vacation the day it's actually due. This is my take on the "Food for thought" assignment. I like sweets, so here you go. If you couldn't tell (and hopefully you could) it is a mouth in which all the teeth are candy/sweets. A rainbow lollipop, a ring pop, broken m&m's, a gummy worm, a cupcake, jolly ranchers, etc. It's done in acrylic paint, which I'm not very used to, but hey, i gotta get out of my box. It was done on 12x12 canvas. I enjoyed painting the lips most, it was a lot simpler than painting small little candies and trying to find the right shade of color for the skin on the face. I used a photo of my mouth for reference. I'm still not a big fan of acrylic paint, I'm going to try out oil paint next, i hear it's more blendy.