Ideas are cookin'!

Ah! so ideas for new pieces are cooking inside of my head. unfortunately, i have been lazy and have not started on putting these ideas on paper/canvas/wood/etc. ideas are floating around, but if i'm not doing anything with them...then it's pretty much useless. well. i do have two weeks of winter break. must get workin' then!! haha...first mission is to find a space where i can work.

I definitely need a workspace. it's hard for me to get started on projects if i dont have space where i can work. i really liked it when i was taking the art class at UCLA. i had a gigantic studio to use whenever i wanted. it felt great to stay in there overnights and work. :) i miss those days...

what are some good, impromptu, last minute work spaces out there in the world?

Painted Gifts

Ah, it's that time again. I'm not writing my composition and I am updating a blog. Sad.
Alas! Being the poor college student that I am, buying gifts for people is not always a feasible option. Thus, I have found a better solution! What else could be better than a gift of hand painted picture by yours truly? :)
The one to your immediate left is a picture I painted for a friend who suffered with me in French 139 Winter 2009. She moved back to China, so I thought I'd give her something to remember our times together. :)

It's a scene of Paris at dusk. Some problems I have with this: You can't see the Eiffel Tower very well. It's blended it with the background. I didn't plan it out too well; Also, the lamp looks cool, but the other lights aren't doing too much for me; Another thing, too much sky, not enough of anything else; The colors are too dark, so nothing really sticks out. There's no focal point.

medium: acrylic on canvas

The awesome painting that you see on your left is a portrait of Garrett. I gave it to him for his 21st birthday. :) The story behind the painting...
I told Garrett that I wanted a harem of beautiful men :D and he said that he wanted one with naked women. So I made a rough sketch of how I imagined him and his harem. Voila! The resulting product! :D

I tried to make it look like a classical painting. There is a reclining naked woman. A bowl of fruit. The three basic colors. oh...I guess its more mannerist because there is a column and a random curtain in the background. I declare this to be a fusion of motifs!

I was rather proud of this one. Can you feel the awesomeness that it is spreading?

medium: acrylic on canvas

Developing my own style

First off, ah! I should really be doing my homework right now, rather than spend my time on this blog!

Secondly, I'm having some difficulty developing my own style for my artwork. It seems to me that there isn't any style or flair to the artwork that I produce. Everything comes out looking okay or good, but they're not exciting. I think developing a unique style would change all that. But as always, this is easier said than done. How would anyone go about making their own style anyways? Isn't it just something that we are born with, because the way we draw is the way we draw.

My weakest point, I feel, is composition for a new idea. I'm not good at planning or at layout. Everything i come up with has a problem somewhere and I'm not sure how to fix it.

That's why i like doodling on homework.

Art Projects for Painting 11B at UCLA

These are some of the paintings that I did as assignments for the painting class I took at UCLA in Winter Quarter 2007. Most of the assignments were actually centered around Modern and Post-Modern art styles. hahah, i didn't take a Modernism class before I took this class, so I actually wasn't really sure about how to tackle the topics assigned to me. Well, these are my final products. I liked the way they turned out. But seriously. I should not have procrastinated on them and should have spent more time doing research about Modernism.

Medium: Acrylic on canvas
So...This one is kind of weird. It was the first assignment I was given in this class. I really had no idea what I was doing. I had a live model and a skeleton set up in the middle of the studio. I felt bad for the model because she posed for so long and no one wanted to use her in their work, and since no one else in the class wanted to, i decided to incorporate her in mine. however, i wasn't exactly sure what i wanted to do. So i tried to go for that classical painting again. My professor said: this is a dead subject. It's been used so many times, it's dead and gone. So my work was kind of like something brought back from the dead. The good thing about this one: I built the canvas myself! :D Cost me a thumb (Actually it just bruised, but it still hurt!).

Medium: Acrylic on canvas
It starts off at the top with a lot of detail and precision. Then as you make your way down, it gets more messy and flow-y. All-nighter. The topic was any style/subject that I wanted to do.

Medium: Acrylic on canvas
I painted this one in one night, mostly in Caitlin's room. haha. the topic for this assignment was Minimalism. I painted everything, except the head, with my fingers. haha...messy fun.

Medium: Acrylic on canvas
This was just for fun, but my professor said that i should submit it with my Shirt painting. They didn't really go together, but some art students tried to make sense out of the two together! :D i just like the way the legs look.

Medium: Acrylic on paper
This was just an assignment to practice gradation. I picked a hard subject to try, but i'm not entirely unhappy with the outcome.

Post the First

This is my first post on a new blog, how exciting! can you feel the energy already?

So, here goes!

This is a portrait that I painted for Mother's Day 2009.

Medium: acrylic on canvas