Annie Owens’ piece for the “Suggestivism” show in May curated by Nathan Spoor
image 10”x13’ , frame 16”x20”
watercolor on archival cotton paper — at http://www.boldhype.net/schedule.php.
Impossible not to reblog.
This was an assignment from my Drawing II class. We had to make a contemporary interpretation of a landscape. It was partly inspired by a little scribble I made, called “The End of the End,” which actually is in the post preceding this one.
There’s a power plant I can see very clearly from my room on the 7th floor, and for some reason or another, I find it compelling. So I took a photo of it at sunset and painted it for my project.
I used acrylics and spray paint. I used the wrong spray booth for it, so I got yelled at by a TA. I didn’t use any brushes for the sky, either. I just finger-painted everything.
This is really huge. It’s about 8 feet long. At the time, it was the biggest thing I’d ever done.
I inked this picture of Gideon last night and slapped some cheap, flat computer color onto him this morning. Until I finished this, I hadn’t drawn anything for myself that had turned out well for a good couple months. I hadn’t been in the right mindset to do so; it’s very difficult to focus on anything when you live at the dorms in college. I really missed being able to sit down by myself and work feverishly on a drawing until I was satisfied with it.
Even though I’m not fond of making art on the computer, I like the juxtaposition of flat color with tight ink detailing. I might do this again in the future, but next time I won’t torture myself by using the stupid trackpad on my laptop to do everything.
