Self Portrait

My self portrait
the left hand side got cut off a little bit i'll try to get a better picture up soon

Landscape Painting

Tea Party

Apple Still Life 3

In this third and final still life I added a red apple to create a contrasting color composition. I again began with an imprimatur. In this painting I used a quadratic color scheme including, red, yellow, green and blue. I used blue and raw umber to paint the values in the background. I also used blue in the green apples to get a shared value between the bottom of the apples and the bottom of the box. I also used green to help tone down the red at the bottom of the red apple. I painted all these apples by using the panel technique as well.

Apple Still Life 2

In this second Still life I used a slightly different composition by adding a glass bottle into the box. I again started with an imprimatur painting in raw umber. I used a cool warm color scheme using green, yellow green, orange and red orange. I used a high key red orange to create a sense of light in the box and a more muted red orange mixed with raw umber to create the shadows in the box. In the bottle I used a very low key orange. In the apples I used green and yellow green and used some of the low key red orange in the bottom of the apples to try to show the shadows and the similar value of the bottom of the apple and the cardboard box.

Apple Still Life 1

This first still life painting was done in an analogous color scheme. the colors used were green, yellow green and yellow. I used raw umber and white to create various tones of the original colors used. I started by painting an imprimatur using raw umber to help bring out the values of the objects. Then I added color to the background, the cardboard box, with different shades of yellow. I tackled the apples by beginning with panels of the shades of green I needed and then blended the panels to create a rolling effect and make them look more three dimensional.

Art History Assignment

It is really amazing to see the progression of art over time. The earliest of this being the cave paintings that date back over 30,00 years. These Paintings were done on cave walls and usually depicted animals and rarely people. Its seems that most of these early paintings mostly told stories or showed these early peoples way of life which was very heavily dependent on the animals.
Similarly the Ancient Egyptian paintings mostly seem like they are meant to recall events or tell stories or honor the many gods that they believed in. Also Egyptian paintings had a very different style from those of the cave paintings, Egyptian paintings contain many more human figures and they are painted much more realistically than the stick figure like paintings in the caves. I find it very interesting that in most Egyptian paintings human figures are painted with their bodies facing forward but there head shown as a profile, as well most animals are usually painted as seen from the side, as similar to the cave paintings.
In contrast to these two forms of painting The Greek and roman paintings and all the styles that developed from these are extremely different from the cave and Egyptian paintings. These newer paintings are not only much more realistic but also explore very different subject matter. these more advanced paintings included realistic portraits and landscapes that were not seen in the earliest forms of painting or sculpture. this paved the way for the many styles of art that have appeared from then until present day.

Thistle

Waiting to be found

Charcoal still life

Charcoal Drawing of a still life

What happens when birthday cake and oil paint mix.

"To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower.
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour."
- William Blake

Untitled

The birds in this photo are representative of the elements earth wind and fire.

Sunset Lake

This painting was done from a photo I took of a beautiful sunset on lake Ontario