2Victoria

Leonid Afremov born: July 12, 1955 died: still kicking (alive) media type="custom" key="12412536"
 * ART.VA.IV.HS.1 || **// I can observe and describe a work of art in reference to its place in history. //** ||
 * ART.VA.IV.HS.2 || **// I can see the connection between art, history and culture. //** ||

=P.S. Pictures were taken and they are backwards to the original paintings= Line Drawing Value Study Digital Study Shape and Space Texture and Form I chose this piece because it had lots of color and it was not bland. the color was brilliant and I loved it, plus it was not too hard to draw. My favorite study would have to be the value study. I had the greatest time painting it and I think that it was the one that turned out the best. the one I liked the least was the shape and space one. it was the one that i thought just didn't turn out as well as the rest of them. The way this helped me was that I could see the paintings differently than I could previously, i could appreciate what the artist went through to make the artwork.
 * ART.VA.III.HS.1 || **// I can discuss a work of work of art based on its elements and principles of design. //** ||

Mask Project Pre Thoughts The letters on the mask would be words, at this point I do not know what they will be. The mask will be resting on a stack of books, all painted to be unique and different. My original idea was to make the mask the moon and have a bunch of fantasy characters in a woods at night. It was to be so because I read quite a lot and I read fantasy novels. The book idea sounded more interesting.
 * ART.VA.III.HS.5 || **// I can understand the relationship between personal experiences and the development of a work of art. //** ||

Final Product The reason behind the project that I chose was that I love to read, to the point of distraction. Most of the books themselves are just random colors and feelings that happened to catch my fancy the day that I was working on the project. The green book on the bottom with the silver pages is one of my favorite colors and the dark purple book is the same. The smaller green book is actually one of the books that I did last. It is what I call the grass book because when I painted the book I used three different shades of green and I painted it thin to look like grass. The book across the board is what I would call the splatter book and it happened completely be accident. What happened was that I was painting the dark green book and I was dragging the brush too hard and it splattered the smaller book next to it and that was how I discovered how to do that. The book above that one is called the sea book because it was painted to look like the sea and that was the start of the cracking problem and i have no idea to this day how that happened, the first two were fine and the next just wouldn't stop cracking. It was annoying to say the least. I finally had to leave it because I was running out of time. The book on top is the war book and it looks like it was splattered in blood on a battlefield... at least that was what I was going for. The book with the mask in it was just something that I came up with at the last minute because I was really running out of time. The sparkly pages are made by painting the pages with paint in the color that I wanted and then I took acrylic paint and painted over it. Overall the project was a good one but I would wish for more time because it just wasn't as finished, as I wanted. It looks sloppy in my opinion and not very well done.

Hands Project Overall this project was a success and I loved almost every minute of it. the original hands were not something that I would have put into the public view but as I practiced more it became easier to create beautiful hands and I created a most beautiful work. The thumbs were the easiest to make because there were so many of them. The lines and such along the palm needed to be less embellished and needed to be simple. As things were changed beautiful hands emerged and it was beautiful. the zentangling was not as much fun after a while because the running out of ideas were common. the tangles themselves turned out quite nicely though.