Teasha Dee - Art Fundamentals 2031-B

 Oh gosh... what a tough one this was.  So, before this week, I had never - I SAID NEVER!!!!! - done a collage before. I had never even done a dream board, or even hand written dreams down before. So, when it came to this week's assignment, I had no clue how to start, even after almost a whole week of looking up several collage artists and many many illustrations... Needless to say, but Sunday, I was mentally exhausted. So I kept going back to some of the examples our professor gave us and one of them caught my eye.  Kara Walker. I saw her collages were simple, elegant, mystical, and creative. Simple Silhouettes. So I somewhat based my portrait collage off of her design. I started by finding some scrapbooking paper, a scalpel, and printed off several silhouettes that caught my eye.  After that I used photoshop to place images where I wanted them... Then I cut them out... Then, I touched up some of the discoloration... And, finally glued it together... Title: Me - Ste...

 So for the next couple of weeks, our assignments are based on color. We've been asked to start off with exploring our immediate environment and reproducing colors based on our environment, using acrylic paints. For this week, we're only required to have two palettes done, but we will need at least 12 and we'll need to create a still life painting using one of those palette. Starbucks Cup and Sleeve Covid Mask Local Leaves Kleenex Box Hair Straightener Favorite Dresses Current Desktop Wallpaper Wet Bar Backsplash Decorative Fall Leaves Sunset on Halloween Painting in my Space Stuffed Pokémon (Espeon) For my Still Life painting, I chose my current Desktop Wallpaper colors, as I think they're so pretty. I set up a wine bottle with a lamp shining on it to cast the shadow in such a way that it was obvious where the light is.  Size: 18" x 24" Paper: Newsprint Medium: Acrylic Paints Out of curiosity, I held up the finished painting up against the window, and really ...