Clay Bear and Lacrosse Player

Laxer and Black Bear-2009- Ikey Chafkin- U.S. of A

I feel like the Lacrosse player and the bear where both very sucessful. The bear came out great and I think the black just added to its scaryness and it also just ended up looking very nice. The lacrosse player came out very nice as well i think most of it held together well even though it was made up of so many pieces.

I think however there where problems in both of them. The detail on both failed to show after the coats of paint and if I was able to spend more time i would have like to spend more time making the indentations much more visable. The lacrosse player I feel came out worse than the bear i think that just had to do with him being so tall and being human with shapes like the helmet and the lacrosse stick also just being straight up.

Block Print

Wrestling-2009-Ikey Chafkin- U.S. of A

This picture was personally my best. I felt like better pictures would have come out. one of the big things that happened was it not all lining up even. It was not a problem at the early stages then towards the end it became harder and harder thant is why there are green and yellow spots all over the page. Other wise my color choice was very good. I think the red of the brick the blue of the mat and the gray of the mortor all came out very nicely. I am overall very happy with the end result.

personal reflection:portrait

Self Portrait- Ikey Chafkin,2009- American

In my self portrait I tryed to capture the two different sides of me. The red side of my face represent my hot headedness, my cockiness and also my competative nature. The light side shows how I am a colected person and also shy sometimes.

This was a difficult painting at many times. I had trouble making a color to light or two dark like with my blue eye the dark blue makes me look elderly. The lines on my dress shirt where also difficult, because i had to make the lines at different angles to show how my shirt is positioned on my body. and over just shadding on the red side of the face.

In the picture I would have liked to spend a little more time on it. i also think that the red side of my face there is not a lot of visible lines to distinguishe my cheeks and the rest of my body like on the blue side. Overall though I think the painting turned out great.

Sculptures and Textures

A Bronze Statue of the Hindu Deitie Ganesh,5th Century AD, Artist Unknown, India

Ganesh is the good of domestic harmony and sucsess, Ganesh is also prayed to first in all Hindu ceremonies. The artist of this particular piece seems to make his textures by using every small defined tools like a small point I do not know how do that because my back round in terra cotta. They most likely used a small pointy tool to carve out each symbol very slowly. The crown probably required the most work it does not seem all carved but molded as well the pants however are carved more.

3-D sculptures

Tom Otterness, New York- Large Covered Wagon, 2007

I like this piece the most of all the other pieces i have seen. I enjoy this peace because it looks so comical like the steer wearing boots. I think this makes the sculpture better, because I think art cannot only be flowers and sad people sometimes it needs to look like a kids book. Another thing that is appeling is the simple work that is done. It is cool how he does not go all out of this woman's face but instead goes simply into the iconic smiley face.

older and newer paintings

Puss and Boots- Walter Wick-2006-U.S.A.

Scottish-1848

Both a very similar in the way the artisits show the sky. The artisits also have their paintings seem very magical. A very cool aspect is also how the castles are not in your face but they are shown farthur away from ur view and the way both painting use leading lines somewhat to come up to the castels.

Both are very different however since the more modern one the colors are much brighter which makes it feel magic while the older painting resembles a layout for a architect.

Nighthawks

Nighthawks- 1942- Edward Hopper U.S

First Impressons:when I first look at this painting i look at the man sitting with the lady in the red dress. I also just focus on everything in the diner. It is night time but it also seems like a very dark and gloomy time. You also start to look at everything in the resturant before u even notice the outside so I found that to be a very cool affect.

The Real Story: The painting actually does focus on the light and this painting is when florescent lights cam into play. Hopper was also try to portray a period of time in America call the "film noir" period. The "film noir" time was focused on crime and corruption in major metropalitan cities like New York where Hopper is orginally from.

How He Incoporated Some Principles: Symmetry and Asymmetry are not big things hopper focuses on. Neither half of the page is different and there is no radial balance because there is the large amount of light in one part of the paper. Hopper uses emphasis as a major part of this painting because the first thing your eyes go to is the people in the resturant. You focus on these people because of the lack of light outside. And the intense amount of light in the diner. There are no leading lines or repetion because Hopper just uses emphasis to foucs on the people in the diner.