Art Overload Pt. 1

Over the past couple of weeks I have been making entries in my 'art journal.' A few have seemed to be pretty successful, and others have been all right.

My next step in the process will be to scan in a couple of pieces that I like and mess around with them in photoshop to create something better than before.

The following are two pieces that I feel really deserve to be looked at:


This piece is a collage I did with pictures from Time Magazine. During that time they had an article about some children in school in Africa, an advertisement about home loans (the guy with one eye), an article on the Virginia Tech shootings, and more.

The piece was really randomized. I really appreciate the effect of the monks walking down the piece of ice. It was kind of weird for me to be putting Bill Clinton behind the Virginia Tech girl, because it can have two very different meanings. I really am not entirely sure what this piece is supposed to mean or what it should make you feel. Honestly I don't.

I plan to do more with the negative space instead of just leaving it white. There are also more people that I would like to add into the piece as well.




This piece is made from both water color and colored pencil. You can see a large eye with many different colors and unusually shaped people walking around the side of it. The people become more simple of a shape as they move down the eye until you see just a stick.

The eye is meant to represent people in general. More specifically people's perspective. The top sled person is extremely complicated, and rather nice and fancy compared to rest. Then, that same person loses his fancy sled. Then the person looses the skis and some colors. Then the person loses all of his color except some yellow-brown color. As it progresses the person looses his angles and becomes a very rectangular person, until eventually it is simply a line. This all is meant to represent our judgment towards individuals. We see them and label them. However, if you get to know that individual, you may find out that they really aren't something so complicated, but as simple as a line.

I hope to change the colors around, but thats about it. Not much more I can say about this one.

Please make comments and offer feedback if you would like. My next post will show you some pieces that I am not sure I should mess with.