CAMERON CRAMER ART BLOG
Independent Study
Introduction
Hello, This page is about an independent study I am currently taking with Mrs. Maclay of Advanced Drawing and Painting. I am working on strengthening my painting skills to get ready for AP and hopefully College.
Ethnicities
This is one of my Ideas that I have chosen to work on studying the feminism structures of different women of different race. I understand I sketch a lot of women but that is comfortable to me. I feel more comfortable around women. Any who. I think Anatomy is pretty interesting too. The anatomy of different races is very similar BUT the facial structures are very different. I did some research on three types of races. Asian, African American, and Hawaiian.
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So turns out the theme only turned out semi of what I wanted. I decided to do diptych of the Asian ethnicities and African ethnicity. I bought two 24in by 18in. canvases and chose to use acrylic paint to paint the faces. I planned on collaging some of the issues the races had suffered from in the past to show how they are brave and powerful but I seemed to not be interested in that. I was mostly interested in how each race had different facial features. Like Asians had thin eyelids and a rounder face as African Americans had wider noses. the structures fascinated me and I had started paying attention to the details in the faces more.
I've been working on these and I been using the same three colors for the flesh tones and I have been struggling getting them to work. Maclay has assisted in showing me famous artists who included other colors to spice up the tone. "You wanna make it more real. Add some blues and purples."
I've been working on these and I been using the same three colors for the flesh tones and I have been struggling getting them to work. Maclay has assisted in showing me famous artists who included other colors to spice up the tone. "You wanna make it more real. Add some blues and purples."
So unfortunately.... Asian Beauty isn't happening because the artist struggled way to hard and had to put her to the side. SHE WILL GET DONE EVENTUALLY but I did take a break. Good news though, black beauty is finished and I believe I did a decent job on her. Honestly I don't really see any interest in my work but I thin I did a well job on her. I would change a few things though if I could. I would mess and paint the nose and cheek bones shadows more and make them look more depth but I am okay with her. The think is IT TOOK FOREVER. I feel like I put so many details on her face and didn't enjoy them so I would like to pick at it. I also am one of those people who have an idea in my head but the piece never turns out like I wanted to.
What is She?
The day I started painting a portrait of a female during class the one day, my brain instantly sparked more ideas in my head. like I said I'm interested in weird things like anatomy and such so I came up with the idea of a triptych of a body. I understand if you think that it is kind of inappropriate but you don't have to like it. As in my planning for this piece, I plan the first one to be the portrait, of course. The second one is going to be a chest. The third one, lastly, is going to be the genital area but not like an OBVIOUS area. I wanna take zoomed in parts of each area and have them all different. They will all be on Water Color Paper, 8x10in(each) and be done with watercolor.
As you look at my planning I have the question "Male or Female." WELL... I understand why I should make it all female and stick with just the boobs or whatever... But I really think that the diversity of male and female AND Even |
transgender should be appreciated and I sick and tired of the same old thing. LIKE just do what you want. I learned something from planning this because I went around and asked "what should I do?" and they weren't really a fan of the gender diversity and whatever but honestly I stopped and looked at them and said "I honestly don't need your opinions. You don't have to like it. I just want you to understand it." It also if confusing to eye because of my sexuality and interest and it kind of relates to that but I also what the diversity. I chose the male chest and women's anatomy.
I struggles the most on the chest and I still am iffy about the nipple
I struggles the most on the chest and I still am iffy about the nipple
Self Portrait...
Ahhh yes. You get to witness a self portrait of I in the shower. It's Totally legal though I swear. I took a picture of my face in the shower dripping water down my face. I wanted to try something "edgy"-like because I'm trying to force myself into new things. The reason I'm acting out is due to my personal which helps me produce different art- which is totally strange but it's fine.. I had a canvas and I originally was going to edit some parts on the computer but I never have a design class and I am too stupid to do that so I created my own wacked piece. I was inspired by the Andy Warhol and his abstractions of portrait he did and wanted to do something similar in my own way. I took 20in x 16in canvas and sketched out the self portrait I had took in the shower with sharpie. I then added more colored markers to it to high and low light some areas. I then took water color and dripped it down.
This is what I had and I kept thinking that its missing something. I went to Mr. Martin and asked for assistance and he said "Come On boy. You're in the middle of the road right now. You know what happens when you're in the middle of road? You get hit." I really took that as some good advice and I just thinking and I added a lot more water color and splashed it on there and made some pigment really pop and show more. I wanted to get the water dripping effect, which I sort of did, but it really isn't like that anymore. I had fun with this and I really am Glad Martin gave me that advice because that is what I think of when it comes to anything anymore.
I currently don't have an image of the final piece but if I could do anything different about this piece, I would work on proportions and make it more crazy but I actually am kind of happy with it believe it or not.
I currently don't have an image of the final piece but if I could do anything different about this piece, I would work on proportions and make it more crazy but I actually am kind of happy with it believe it or not.
Censored
This piece I had made without planning. I honestly was angry and just let myself out on canvas. The reasoning is because our school had recently put up artwork and mine had a little area with my paintings. I mostly paint nudes so I had placed two on the board with the rest of my paintings and I had to take one of them down and move the other one up higher because underclassmen seemed to be immature and touched it. They also seemed to have meetings during class to "look at the boobs." I was very irritated because that was a bad week as is and that made it worse. I didn't want to express my anger verbally or physically so I just expressed it through art. This is all acrylic on canvas. If I could change anything I would work on the proportions more and make the face a little less yellow. Other than that I'm okay with it.