Finally I Get My Hands Back On Some Wax!

 

 

For this piece we were given the assignment: Make an encaustic Piece that includes and image transfer and some type of controversial issue. I chose to do animal rights within the circus.

 

This is an encaustic collage on a 12x12 piece of Masonite, which includes: Acrylic paint, found objects and image transfer.

 

I really enjoyed this piece because it was the first time I was able to reunite with encaustic. I absolutely loved working with the encaustics in Art 4 Honors and couldn't wait to get my hands on them this year. This project was also a huge learning experience for me. It allowed me to become familiar with the encaustic wax and tools again as well as reminded me what the wax will allow me to do. I also learned a new image transfer technique that does not involve the image transfer paper that I used the year before. This piece showed me that it is extremely hard to put paint in between two layers of wax with out the paint going everywhere.

First Peice In AP Art

Planing

Gesso-ing my board

  

 

So our very first assignment this year was a gesso and charcoal drawing or painting or whatever you want to call it. I chose to do a self portrait of myself at a young age. My first reaction to this project was, man this is going to suck sooo bad; I absolutely hated it and wanted to throw it out. this project discouraged me to no end and  I felt like I would never be able to even half way master this technique. But I refused to give up. It wasn't until I began the hair that I felt like t was going to actually come together. This was one of my largest pieces but in the end I feel like it will be a strong piece to put in my breadth since it was such anew skill for me. I learned a lot from this project and plan on using this technique more in the future. this project taught me to be more open minded to new mediums and techniques.

SUMMER ASSIGNMENT #4

This is my fourth summer assignment. I choose to do the bathroom counter prompt. I used charcoal, watercolor, and watercolor paper. Im not sure of the dimensions because I can't find my ruler, but I can say that is a little bit smaller than a sheet of notebook paper. I really had trouble making highlights to make the cup look like glass.

I chose the eggs in a towel prompt for my second summer piece. It was done with pencil and charcoal on an 8x11 piece of drawing paper. I tried to show the roughness of the towel, but I'm not sure that I like the way I approached it.

Charcoal Drawing of Anna

 

Encaustic Collage Number Two

Encaustic Tryptic