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morimess · 4 years

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Hey, I'm bored and just wanna put out some art. This is stuff I did last semester for my art class in the order I made it.

First one was a "self-portrait without the self." It was meant to be in a personalized style, and I thought that my people sucked (they did) but had a cool idea with a pun and other symbols. So I tried to draw my face in a cartoonish style. Mixed media- watercolor, acrylic paint, and colored pencils. Title- "Turn out the Lights"

The next one was an atmospheric perspective practice. I took several refrences of the grand canyon and combined them. Done in oil pastel. Title- "Walking All Day"

Another oil pastel, atmospheric perspective piece. This one was done on colored paper (I, like an idiot, decided to grab the literal darkest shade of blue the teacher had available. It was a nightmare to get the orange to show up right) and the focus was on The Devil's Tower. This thing is poster sized, the only thing big and flat enough for me to color it on was a Bob Ross meme poster I have framed. Title- "Sleeping Giants".

This time the teacher wanted to combine atmospheric and one-point perspective. Not much to say on this, other than it was done in Crayola colored pencil. Title- "Steady, Steady"

I somehow managed to allow my art teacher to let me use an OC for an assignment. The point of the assignment was to take an already existing artwork (not made by us), then enlarge it (taking note of atmospheric and one-point perspective as we went along). I saw the piece I wanted and my brain just went "but what if we put Alehandro in there", so I did. This scene may or may not occur in The Moss when I get that started. Done in Crayola pencils. Title- "Little Lion Man"

After that there was an illusion piece. I don't think I did it right, but I still got high marks, so... From the teapot spills spaghetti, which falls on a plate. The meatballs roll away, and into a basket. From the basket, they go into a cannon, bounce off of a trampoline, then end up back in the teapot. Done in my crappy Crayola's. Title- "Unraveling"

The last one was another self-portrait, but this time- using what we learned- make it realistic (I have several portraits in my sketchbook from the classes, just none I want to share on this post- I wasn't going in blind). Again, there is symbolism EVERYWHERE in this. If you want an in-depth analysis, this is not the place, but I will provide later if anyone asks. I will preface that: yes- I do work in healthcare, grew up religious, and am a fan of Greek mythology. No- my hair is not that red, and I hate looking at pictures of myself so using “selfies” as reference was the worst. Done in oil pastel. Title- "Hard Sell"

Oh yeah, and all the titles are songs. Because I can make stuff like this, but cannot come up with titles that sound better than existing songs. And, yes, a lot of these songs are by The Crane Wives. It was a lot of what I did my school work to, and they tell stories with angry emotion in most of them. For whatever reason, anger is the one emotion I find hardest to achieve or express, so for a lot of their songs it’s just “you ever wanna go apeshit.”

#my art #art dump #art class #Alehandro the Coyote #self portrait #please ask questions #i need interaction #and the portraits have SO MUCH SYMBOLISM #I nearly wrote a 5 paragraph essay on each piece during the semester #and the teacher encouraged it #I think my art page had about 5000 words #I am working on Caralee I promise #not ts #the answer to the last question is yes

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