Breadth #11

This week I decided to draw a map of the world. I used prisma color markers to show desert, mountains, forests, grasslands, and tundra. My original idea was to incorporate designs representative of various colors, but that proved to be too complicated, so I showed geography instead. I am still debating whether to add certain details like an elephant in Africa or the Eiffel Tower, but I haven't decided yet.

Breadth #10

This is a piece I did a while ago with a palette knife. The buildings are supposed to be really loose and textural, but I think the perspective is off on the shorter ones, so I might change that.  The focus principle is rhythm through the brush strokes.  Also variety through color and texture.

Breadth #9

 I did this acrylic painting in the fauvist style by using extremely bright colors that do not match the subject matter. I also tried to emulate the large brush strokes. I was especially inspired by a couple of boat paintings by Derain. For this piece I focused particularly on contrast through the individual brush strokes, the value range, and the complementary colors.
Here is the updated picture:

Breadth #8

Ink and watercolor. In this piece I tried to show a sequence of ten images. Reading from left to right (and top to bottom), each diagonal set of squares shows one image of the story. So, the first one is the very top left corner and the last one is in the bottom right corner. Following the yellow umbrellas from the first image to the last image shows the whole sequence. Now, I don't think the viewer necessarily gets all that, but I think the general idea of a girl dancing in the rain does come across clearly. I used a generous amount of salt in the background to make it look like rain. I used Emmy's idea of the lamp post, and I think that is one of the most interesting aspects of the painting. I think its changing position from image to image reinforces the idea of movement and a sequence.