Rising Son, Ikey Chafkin, 2009

This picture is of when I was little living in Tokyo and how i was a little red head boy all the girls loved me. The hardest part of this picture is the beans of red light coming from the little boy in the middle and having to spend hours on the hands. The Most succsesful part of the picture has to be the hands coming up looking like its a rock concert and the castles to the side which bring out the rest of the drawing.

Shading Picture

Ball made of Sun- Ikey Chafkin, 2009

The story that is going on in this picture is when I played little league baseball in California, this pirticular scene is when I caught a ball and i was staring right into the sun. the most challenging part was when I was trying to make the light look like sun and not a flood light. What I felt was done best was the player himself with the shading in the jersey and the shadow so little deatails on the player.

Telling a Story through Art

Nighthawks-1942- Edward Hopper

I Think- it portrays a hard working America during the Second World War. I think its about just people just coming to relax after a long day. The art work is very nice too. He makes you focus on what is going on in the dinner with bright colors and shading.

What the Real Story is- The painting refers to a term "Night Owl" who is someone that stays up late. It takes place in his hometown of Manhattan. Hopper painted it after Pearl Harbor which was a glommy time in American history, so Hopper shows these sad people just sitting and thinking.

Shades in art

Morning Sun by Edward hopper

i think: I enjoy this picture very much. it has this person in a lonely bedroom looking out onto the city and its very poetic because its like one spot of light coming through window like a light at the end of the tunnel.

what is really going on: It is about New york city Hoppers home and place of death. And it is also bout love hopper explained where the women is as "the lonely hearts hotel."

Shape Art

Sorrows of the King, 1952 by Henri Matisse

What i think: I feel this painting is very cool it uses the colors in a very interesting way. The green and yellow are used as light colors to show what i believe to be light or hope and then you see the musican in black and the strange lizard thing in black which both seem very dark.

What it is Really About: it is actually about a song biblical hero named David and he plays Music to get the King Saul out of his sorrow and grief.