Back to charcoal!

I just love charcoal! It's incredibly stimulating. Smearing black chalk all over a page in particular shapes is just so fun...and makes you feel so free. It's a really fast form of art. I did this one in like two or three hours...as opposed to the twelve hour pointillisms I've been doing lately. Not that I don't enjoy every minute I do my pointillisms, because believe me I do, it's just fun to sit down and carelessly scratch out a sloppy picture. Quite therapeutic.

This is Jim Morrison.

Wesley

My friend asked me to draw a pointillism of her son. I was kinda nervous to do it because I know him off one picture, and she knows him off a lifetime of pictures. I hope I captured the love in his eyes and the happiness in his smile that she sees in him everyday. :) It was pretty fun. The shirt was insane though!

That's right baby! I used a pen to draw a million dots.

Smoking Jimi

Here's a pointillism of Jimi Hendrix. I mixed all shades of purples, pinks, blues and black to do this one. I'm going to be honest, it's not my favorite picture so I won't be hurt if you guys don't like it.

Lightening tiles

I did these tiles my last semester of high school but I just got around to picking them up. Not really much here to explain, six tiles put together to create a picture, more time consuming than it looks.

Smoking Colors!

So I thought I'd have some extra fun with pointillism! These pictures are ugly, and a little on the psychadelic side, but they were kinda meant to be that way. I went against my usual art preference with a more nonrealistic point of view here.

This first one is George Harrison. The purple actually looks more purplier in person.







Then here's Paul McCartney. I didn't think the real picture looked much like him, but it's the only picture I could find of him to go with my theme.







Here's Ringo Starr. Yes, he is supposed to look like he's staring...because he is. His page looks a little empty so I think I might add some more to him, but I wanted to post now so here he is.







And last but not least, John Lennon. Looking quite red and evil. Like the purple the red looks different in person. This red actually isn't as bright as it appears, the flash makes it seem more neon than it really is.

Pointillism again!

So, I've fallen in love! I am absolutely enjoying pointillism. It's so fun! Quite time consuming, but very fun! Here is a picture I just did of Little Dellie blowing bubbles.

Here it is sketched.

Here it is partly done

And here it is finished. :)

Pointillism!!!

So I haven't really ever done much pointillism before, but I wanted to try it so here we are. It's freakin' crazy!! For those of you who don't know, it's billions of dots put together to make a picture. I personally used felt tips and perminant markers, I don't really know what other people use. I found it easier to use different thicknesses of pens too. This picture that I just finished today is John Lennon.




Here is the beginning of my picture.





Here it is in the middle.




Here it is finished.

Oil Pastels

I've never done oil pastels before, so I don't really know if there's some special technique....but if there is, I didn't use it. I was at the craft store one day, and I saw the pastels and I thought to myself, "Lilly, those look like fun." So I bought them. They're pretty fun. They were kinda hard to get used to, they remind me of crayons. They're not pointed at all so details are hard...however if you accidentally leave them in your car and they melt in their trays, a point can conveniently be formed. This first picture of my Little Dellie was my very fist picture with oil pastels.

I'll take you through the steps. :) Here I have drawn the majority of the left side of the paper...

...And here it is almost done...

....And here it is done!

This next picture is also of Little Dellie. This was my second, and also my most recent oil pastel. Everytime I see it I touch it up more, so I don't really know if it's finished yet, or when it officially will be. :)

Here it is from the top.

This picture turned out clearer than the first one.

Dead Tree

This is my Dead Tree collage. It was really hard to get a picture because of the glass, but I tried. These pictures are of it in the Salt Lake Community College art show.

In this picture there's less reflection on the glass than the others.




Here it is by itself.





Here is my name on a cute little tag. I named my picture Dead Tree and everyone made fun of me for it. ...It is a Dead Tree after all.

And here I am with my picture. Notice all the pictures AROUND it that got ribbons. :( sad.

Slash

I finally went down to the Springville Art Museum where my tiles of Slash were on display. It was a really cool museum with a lot of cool art projects. I enjoyed it.


This one is my name on a nice little piece of construction paper that was taped to the wall! (would have looked more official had they taken the time to at least laminate it..but whatever.) You may think the NFS stands for Not For Sale, but in this case you'd be wrong, it stands for Neat, Fantastic, and Super! :)

Here I am desplaying it on the wall next to it's neighborly projects. It's the one in the middle...next to me...of Slash...that my arms are under...

So it's really hard to take pictures of tiles because of the reflection. This picture you can kinda see it. Hey look in the right corner...it's my construction paper name tag!! :)

So I found if I take the picture at an angle you can see less reflection. Here it is from the top.

...And here it is from the bottom. In these pictures you can tell better that there six different tiles put together to make the picture.

Glass Etching

This is my glass etching of a wolf. I Actually sand blasted it instead of the usual glass etching stuff, but it has the same effect. I sand blasted it instead because it's so intricate, if you look close it's almost pointillism.

Metal

Here are two of my metal impressions. I personally fancy the metal over the copper because it's easier to mold...and it matches my room better. The cool thing with the metal is that you can lightly spraypaint it black and scratch parts of it off. It's rad because it makes it look like it's old like from the sixties. :)

This was the first metal I ever did. I did it in my art class for extra credit, and I got eleven out of ten! How cool is that, and it didn't even follow the rules. That may be just because Fack likes the beatles but hey an eleven is still an eleven.

This one I entered into the Taylorsville art show. It won third place!

Charcoal

You can always tell when I've been doing charcoal because I look like I'm a miner. I'm not the cleanest artist, but honestly, how clean can you be with chalky rocks. Although it is a messy art, I sure do love it! Taking pictures of art is hard, sorry if they aren't the cleanest pictures, but you get the gist.


Here is a charcoal picture of my dear friend George Harrison I did back in October of 2006.

This picture is of the one and only John Winston Lennon. (Lace, I know it's technically Ono now, not Winston, but I choose not to recognize that)

This one of Sir Paul McCartney appears to be dirtier than the others, that was the lighting.

And to complete the collection, here is a picture I did of Ringo Starr.

This is a picture I did of Frank Sinatra, old blue eyes himself. I took the photograph is at an angle so he looks a little chubby.

A little out of place amongst all my rock stars, but here is a picture I did of Keith Urban.

This picture of Jim Morrison I just couldn't get to turn out right with my camera. The lights and darks are a little off, but you get the gist.

This picture is my most recent. I have yet to complete it. I kinda fancy the unfinished look though. It's another one of Jim Morrison.