3 Major Finalize Artworks

Art Work Title: The Green World

Visual Treatment: 

i) Art Movement: Cubism

ii) Reference Artist: Pablo Picasso

iii) Theme Chosen: Environmentalism

iv) Idea & Concept: Buildings, factories, vehicles and houses that emphasized go green rather than just plant more trees. More towards cool colors for example green and blue in order to express 'Go Green'.  I hope this artwork will be able to raise awareness towards environmental problems that happen around us everyday in order to have a better future for the coming generation. 

Art Work Title: The Hands 

Visual Treatment: 

i) Art Movement: Cubism

ii) Reference Artist: Pablo Picasso

iii) Theme Chosen: Environmentalism

iv) Idea & Concept: Based on this drawing, it resembles our earth is on the hands of us. Everyone of us need to pay our responsibilities and work together hand in hand to protect the earth from environmental issue.

Art Work Title: The Tree House

Visual Treatment: 

i) Art Movement: Cubism

ii) Reference Artist: Pablo Picasso

iii) Theme Chosen: Environmentalism

iv) Idea & Concept: The idea of tree house come from the primitive that built their house on the tree. The primitive are more close and love to be in the nature.

Art Work By: Lim Sze Yee

Student ID: B1101298

Personal Blog Address: http://beyourselfyouarewonderful.blogspot.com/

Technical Execution - The Hands

The Hands

1. First, I created a new canvas (16x20 inches, 300dpi), transferred my sketch, using a move tool into the canvas. I did some clean up on my sketch also.

2. I used Brush Tool to color the parts of my hand with different colors and tone.

3. I overlaid the layer of texture of skin that i chose for my hand so that it became more realistic. 

4. I also used Brush Tool to color some of the part in order to make some shadow.

5. I used brush tool to color my arm and wrist part with Brush Tool, I also used Splatter 14 Brush to make some freckles and unbalance skin color.

7. Then, i applied the same technique by using Brush Tool to color up the background of my artwork with black and purple color.

6. Polygonal Lasso Tool was used to draw the shapes that u want to color, then clicked on the Gradient Tool then Angle Gradient was chose to produce different shapes for the land on the earth. 

7. I also hide the other layes and i used Blur Tool to blur the land are so that it is not that shape. 

8. I unhided all my layes then I selected a texture that i want to apply to my artwork. I soft laid it with the opacity of 25%,

9. Here is my final artwork

Technical Execution - The Tree House

The Tree House

1. I created a new canvas (16x20 inches, 300dpi), transferred my sketch, using a move tool into the canvas. I did some clean up on my sketch also.

2.  I clicked on the Gradient Tool or Color Bucket Tool to pick the color i wanted to use. Under Gradient Tool, I also created shapes with different color tones using the Angle Gradient

3. Texture for the tree trunks was chosen.

4. I overlaid the texture onto the tree trunks

5. Then, again I used Polygonal Lasso Tool and Bucket Tool to put some color on the buildings.

4. In order to make my leaves in different shapes and colors, i used Rectangular Tool to create them. 

5. Then, I chose some leaves texture and overlaid it so that i will make the leaves look more realistic. 

6.  Texture was added.

7. I tried to blend in some leaves colors with Brush Tool so that it looked more like a tree with a lot of leaves on it. 

8. Then using the Brush Tool again, i painted the sky and the grass. Using the Grass Brush (112) and Dune Brush (134), i added some details to the grass

9. I also overlaid in the texture of the grass at the bottom part so that the grass look more real.

10. My finalized design of The Tree House

Technical Execution - The Green World

The Green World

1. I created a new canvas (16x20 inches, 300dpi), transferred my sketch , The Green World using a move tool into the canvas.

2. Using the Eraser Tool to remove some unnecessary lines or dirt in my sketch

3. I used Polygonal Lasso Tool to draw out the shape I wanted.

4. Then, I clicked on the Gradient Tool or Color Bucket Tool to pick the color i wanted to use. Under Gradient Tool, I also created shapes with different color tones using the Angle Gradient

5. Then I created one layer after my original painting for my background coloring to prevent my background color from overlapping the earth. I used Brush Tool to color my background black.

6. I add in a layer of galaxy picture and overlay my background. I overlaid the picture without desaturation onto it. I also filtered my layer with dust & scratches so that its not flat and bored.

7. Then I added in some smooth rock texture into my artworks and overlaid it.

8. Finalized design of The Green World

The 18 Sketches

Art movement: 

Cubism

Chosen Theme: 

Environmentalism 

Introduction:

Environmentalism is known as advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment. The reason I choose this theme is because no matter where we go or what we do, it always related with our surrounding or environment. 

Problem Statement: 

Problem towards environment always being addressed by government or NGO and etc but there is less changes done. For example, deforestation, air pollution, go green and others. 

Purpose: 

The main purpose of my artworks is to raise awareness towards these problems that happen around us everyday. My inspirations from my surrounding such as friends, magazines, newspaper and so on.

Research Question: 

Go Green? Love Green?

The Green World

Buildings, factories, vehicles and houses that emphasized go green rather than just plant more trees. More towards green and blue color in order to express 'go green'.

Elements of Design Analysis

Line: Straight , horizontal, vertical & curvy line used.

Shape: Square, circle; Used of colors tone produce different shapes such as square, triangle and etc.
 Value: Strong contrast between the red-orange heart with the green land.
  Color: Hue / Bright and bold
 Texture: Visual
 Alignment & Proportion: Two D art
 Eye movement: Yes

Principles of Design Analysis 

Hierachy: Yes, focus on the heart in the middle of the globe then only spread to the others part

Balance: Yes, asymmetrical balaced 
 Repetition: Repetition of houses, trees, leaves, factories but in different sizes. 
 Scale: Is not that real, leaves tend to be bigger than the size of car.
 Unity: Yes, sense of completion

The Tree House

The idea of tree house come from the primitive that built their house on the tree. The primitive are more close and love to be in the nature.

Elements of Design Analysis

Line: Straight, horizontal, vertical & curvy line used.  

Shape: Square, rectangular, Circle & Triangle. Colors tone of the trunk has different shapes such as square, triangle and etc.
 Value: Strong contrast between the brownish tree trunk and buildings that is slightly light color.
  Color: Hue / Bright and bold
 Texture: Visual
 Alignment & Proportion: Two D art
 Eye movement: Yes

Principles of Design Analysis 

Hierachy: Emphasized on the big tree than only moving forward to the building.

Balance: Yes, asymmetrical balaced 
 Repetition: Yes,repetition of the building and the trees
 Scale: Normal for the tree but the building seems a little smaller
 Unity: Yes, sense of completion

Alice in the Timberland

Big city are protected under the gigantic trees. People are very close with nature.

The Bicycle

Cycle along is much more environmental friendly. The colorful path represents hope for us to survive.

The Garbage Collector

Stop producing rubbish towards the earth. Go Green Love Green.

The Hands

There is an earth on the hands represents the earth is on our hands, and need to work hard in order to protect it.

Elements of Design Analysis

Line: Straight & curvy line used  

Shape: Cirlce; Colors in green has different shapes such as square, triangle and etc.
 Value: Strong contrast between the light blue ocean and the green land.
  Color: Hue / Bright and bold
 Texture: Visual
 Alignment & Proportion: Two D art
 Eye movement: Yes

Principles of Design Analysis 

Hierachy: Yes

Balance: Yes, asymmetrical balaced 
 Repetition: Yes,repetition of line
 Scale: Hand size seems to be normal, but the globe size is smaller than the real one
 Unity: Yes, sense of completion

The Finger Cutter

Deforestation is as pain as cutting your own finger. Think twice.

The Recycle City

The buildings are made of recycled stuff such as boxes, water bottle, cans and etc. 

The Hope

A little small plant brings hope for everyone in order to have a better and clean future.

Plant & Water

Plant is as important as the water that we drink everyday. 

The Leaves

The Brightness

The Rubbish Dump

 The Nature View

Deforestation

Re-plant

The Art Movement: Expressionism & Cubism

Introduction to Expressionism

Expressionism originated in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a modernist movement initially in poetry and painting. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality. 

The term expressionism is more towards to emotional angst. In a general sense, painters such as Matthias Grunewald and El Greco are sometimes termed expressionist, though in practice the term is applied mainly to 20th-century works. The Expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as naturalism and impressionism.

The Artist

Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was an expressionist painter and printmaker from Oslo Norway. He was regarded as the pioneer of the amazing Expressionist movement in modern painting. Munch’s art from the 1890s is the most well known, but his later work is steadily attracting greater attention, and it appears to inspire present-day artists in particular. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.

Images of Expressionism

The Scream (1893)

Elements of Design Analysis

Line: wavy serpentine ones that constitute the landscape and delineate the protagonist, and the straight ones that form the bridge
Shape: Not much shapes involved
 Value: Strong contrast between the dark blue ocean and the orange sky
  Color: Hue / Bright and bold
 Texture: Visual
 Alignment & Proportion: Two-dimensional art (bridge fading into the distance behind the screamer.)
 Eye movement: Yes

Principles of Design Analysis 

Hierachy: Yes

Balance: Yes, asymmetrical balaced 
 Repetition: Yes,repetition of line
 Scale: Human size seems to be normal
 Unity: Yes, sense of completion

The Sick Child (1907)

Introduction to Cubism

Cubism was known as one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914. It was revolutionized by European painting and sculpture and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. 
In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. 
Often the surfaces intersect at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space, one of cubism's distinct characteristics.

Historians have sought to analyze the history of cubism in terms of phases. In one scheme, a first branch of cubism, known as Analytic Cubism, was both radical and influential as a short but highly significant art movement between 1907 and 1911 in France. In a second phase, Synthetic Cubism, the movement spread and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity. English art historian Douglas Cooper proposed another scheme, describing three phases of Cubism in his seminal book, The Cubist Epoch. According to Cooper there was "Early Cubism", (from 1906 to 1908) when the movement was initially developed in the studios of Picasso and Braque; the second phase being called "High Cubism", (from 1909 to 1914) during which time Juan Gris emerged as an important exponent; and finally Cooper referred to "Late Cubism" (from 1914 to 1921) as the last phase of Cubism as a radical avant-garde movement

The Artist

Pablo Picasso, (Born Oct. 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain—died April 8, 1973, Mougins, France) a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century and the creator of Cubism, Georges Braque. The enormous body of Picasso's work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the 20th century.

Images of Cubism

Guernica, 1937

Elements of Design Anaylsis

Line:  Straight, jagged, horizontal & vertical used

Shape: Geometrical shapes used.

 Value: Obvious dark and light areas.

 Color: Very low saturation, gray color

 Texture: Smooth

 Alignment & Proportion: Two-dimensional art

Principles of Design Analysis 

Hierachy: Predominant

Balance: Yes, asymmetrical-balanced
 Repetition: No
 Scale: Bigger size to smaller size.
 Unity: Yes, sense of completion

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

References
Expressionism:
http://www.edvardmunch.info/
http://www.arthistory.net/artstyles/expressionism/expressionism1.html
Cubism:
http://emptyeasel.com/2007/10/17/what-is-cubism-an-introduction-to-the-cubist-art-movement-and-cubist-painters/
http://www.arthistory.net/artstyles/cubism/cubism1.html