preparation to create your first portfolio piece

So for my first piece I'm going to do a self portrait. i started off with a few fast sketches first then grab a mirror and a board. I map out my basic face. Now I'm going to start painting a basic color and just mapping out where my shadows are on my face..

Blog 3

My process took long but i feel that i have a strong theme that i would like to explore more and that i have very strong feeling for. In my first piece/pieces talks about hispanic and how people always thinks they are immigrants in the United States by the way they look and dress, which for me is wrong and a real issue that bothers me. I spend countlies hours searching about that isuue and reading about how people react from that.

Few links below
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/27/arizona-immigration-law
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/26/AR2010052601200.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-immigrant-art-20100602,0,1072812.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fentertainment+%28Entertainment+News%29

Senior Year

My vision for senior year work in my art class is to create a couple of art work that reflects where I want to go in life. To build off what I have learned from the last two years and have art works that show what I am really capable of. I want to explore more in all classes that BAA has to offer in the visual arts department. Also I want to explore and create new pieces with paint. I want to have a nice foundation that can support me when I go to college. So that I can be ready for whatever college throws at me. That is my vision for my senior year work in my arts class.

Where have you been as an artist? Where are you going?

In this assignment I painted a time line where it shows from how I started to how I want to finish. I started off finger painting and I want to end up painting/drawing very detail/meaningful pieces of art. From painting on a canvas to designing a house. That where I want to see myself in the future.
I remember when I first got interested in the arts. I was little and I always loved to finger paint, it was messy and fun to do. Then as time progress I started to pick up a pencil and draw simple shapes. That why I painted a "finger Painting" piece first. After a while I started to get better and better. That the middle hand where you can see it’s not perfect. There’s still some work that I can do. That how I feel right now, that I need to keep practicing. Then the last hand shows where I see myself in the future. I want to be a very skillful in the arts. I want to paint/draw realistic figure. I want my art to be very detailed and that every single mark has its reasons. That where I want to be as an artist.

Q&A

1. Why bracelet on the last hand?

The yellow bracelet represents where I'm from. The yellow bracelet represents the Dominican republic. I only have it on the last hand because I feel that I still have a lots to learn about me and and the island that i grew up to love. That's why in the future I want to say that I'm a true Dominican who understand the ways of the island and the history of how it became to be.

2. Why paint finger paint W/out finger painting?

I was trying to paint a kids hands not mines because the finger paint represents me as a child not as a teen.

3. Why pencils? Don't you want to be a painter?

I choosed pencils because my goal is to be an architect and yes I want to be a painter. I want to do both.