Green Ball

This piece is really old. It's from my sophomore year when I did an observational study using oil pastels. We were not aloud to use black to create shadow, so we had to improvise using other colors. You can see that I used reds and greens to create the black shadows under the plate; and I used light blue to show the grays. This piece is actually really good for my sophomore year. I pulled it out of my portfolio to use it in my quality and breadth sections for AP 2-D Final Portfolio. It's good to show an observational study with your other pieces so colleges and jurors can see that you can still do the traditional stuff.

Robert Rauschenberg: Marilyn Monroe

In this piece I focused on the painting and the colors. I began with a photograph of Marilyn Monroe and a few collage elements. Starting with a lighter purple for the background I continued with different shades of blacks, whites and grays. The translucent wave falling from the upper left and ending in the lower middle of the board is a long ribbon of folded Acrylic Acetate. I hot glued it on then gave it some black splatters of paint.

Since the Acrylic Acetate and the film strips (upper right) have the same glossy texture, I saw them both as stories each telling the level of fame in different parts of her life. I heard once that Marilyn was in porn films before she was in bigger films. The Acrylic Acetate represents the quality of her adult films; they were messy, uneven and unsophisticated. The film strips above her head represent the quality of the big films we all recognize her in; they were clean cut and higher class. Maybe the black drips show her attempts to put some fame and recognition into her earlier career as a porn star. She could only get a few splats onto the film.

slipper

This piece is an excellent example of what Robert Rauschenberg created called a "Combine" which is a combination of his love for painting and sculpting. He did this by adding a 3 dimensional object to a 2 dimensional piece. Most of the objects were random, having nothing to do with the painting.

I started by painting a few places with turquoise and some other colors. Once it dried I covered it with a layer of pink. Then I used the end of my brush to scratch away some of the pink, while it was wet, thus revealing the turquoise underneath. One of the differences between Rauschenberg's work and mine is that I make sure to incorporate the objects into the paintings. I do this by using what Iv been taught in principles and elements of design.

First I placed the slipper on the canvas diagonally and glued the ribbon through out the top of the piece. I then added the lace to the left in order to let your eye travel through out the whole piece and to calm the attention away from the slipper. I changed the appearance of the slipper by painting some parts with the same colors.

The Brookhaven Scholarship

I got it! I got the scholarship! The High School Art Club Scholarship from Brookhaven Community College. It is given to only two high school students majoring in the Arts. I sent in a Power Point with 15 of my pieces along with a photo of me, my artist statement and my resume. I'm so Excited!

Robert Rauschenberg

This piece was originally four separate pieces. Our class was assigned to create four postcards each 4" x 6". The pieces were to be exhibited and auctioned off while the proceeds went to Haiti. I however failed to enter my cards on the right day for the exhibit.

It turns out the exhibit was not what we were lead to believe. So meanwhile I decided to use my jewelry making skills to attach each piece with jump rings, an it made a successful Rauschenberg.

Robert Rauschenberg

Piece number 4.

Robert Rauschenberg

Piece number 3!

Self Portrait

This was one of my summer assignment for AP 2D. The assignment was to do a self-portrait in the style of an artist you liked, so I chose Andy Warhol.

First I took a photo of myself with my phone, actually has great quality, and worked on it in Photoshop. After cropping it the way I changed it to black and white, so no color and more shadow.

Then I changed the threshold level so it captured the shadows and the only thing showing were the lights and dark's. But I couldn't show all the detail I wanted to on the first change. So I duplicated a bunch of layers and worked one at a time. Each one a different threshold level and then changing the blacks to greys on others. so what you see that is grey in my face was a different level on the computer, and the black on each feature were different levels. I later added all the levels together and added bright colors to the sponge curlers in my hair.This baby went through an emergency delivery as a sequel of one of my many failed concentration studies.

Robert Rauschenberg

Piece number two!

A Real Pig!

My Promise to you...

Dear people, I'm not so positive that my blog is always the highlight of your day, I know that you don't wake each morning anxious to read what I have posted.

The main idea of my blog is to present my talents and interests to the opportunists of the art world through my portfolio, but I think that most of the time it serves its purpose by letting anyone and everyone see my art and share the same interests. The blog is also important because its a big part of my grade in my GT Mentorship class.

I would never have though of using a blog to share my portfolio with others on the Internet. I have always wanted to create my own website to serve that same purpose, but this is the first step. I think to my self that I have probly neglected you all the true potential of my creations. And if I were to plant more flowers in my garden, would more people stop by to look?

So I will make a promise to you, to the world and to the Cham Cham. I will update my blog everyday and make it as spectacular as can be with my art, if you spread the word to your friends, your weird brother, the mail man! your art teacher! your hot and single brother! and all the opportunists of the world! All in hopes that more people wake up in the morning anxious to get on that computer, or your new I-Phone, and look at my blog!

And that is my promise to you!

A Confused Artist

Robert Rauschenberg

As a Final in my AP2-D class we had to choose one artist from a list of 5. In addition to writing a report on the artist we were all given an 18" by 16" canvas board to create a piece in their style. The artist I chose was Robert Rauschenberg. I got a 100 on the final and my teacher liked it so much that she wanted me to continue it as a Concentration!

Printmaking II

This print was from my freshman year printmaking class. The assignment was to create an image telling how we felt about 9/11. The image you see is an angle wearing an ammo belt and below her is the city of New York during the attack.

The image represents how Americans cope with 9/11, some cope with their faith and others with violence. I felt it appropriate to call it "Faith vs. Violence" I originally drew the angle with her bare bottom showing, but my teacher made me cover it up sue to public school policy.

Printmakeing

These are prints I did my freshman year in high school. They are both done in black ink on white paper except the second print I colored in with Prismacolor colored pencils. I call it "The Tree of Life" The Earth represents a seed and the tree represents the life growing from it. I used planet Earth because its the only planet with life in our Solar System.

Aphrodite

This is a drawing of Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of love, beauty and sexual relationships. At the bottom of the page you can see I wrote her name in Greek letters with the end of a burnt match. You can also see Zeus written above it to the left. The page is from my old deconstruction book, an old copy of "Come On Seabiscut!" I like to experiment with textures and colors in my collages. You can see I used blue and gold glitter as well as ink pens, gold shoe polish and watercolor. I used blue and gold colored foils from the Five Gum wrappers to make the Greek Key pattern.