tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69321822066531946462024-03-05T18:57:56.492-05:00dream sequence"art is never finished, only abandoned" -Leonardo Da VinciAlec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-72541362126425021792013-06-11T19:08:00.000-04:002013-06-11T19:08:01.525-04:00REFLECTIONWhere do I even start?? First off, I just want to thank Ms. Kiick for an AMAZING experience and for all of the very hard work that she does for our school's art community. Even though the budget cuts took away all but one art course, the arts at HTHS have survived and thrived all thanks to Ms. Kiick and her incredible dedication as an art teacher. Secondly, I can't believe I'm graduating high school next week!! I also can't believe that this will be my last HTHS art blog post! I will be attending Bucknell University next year, and will continue my journey as an artist, with a Major in Studio Art. My three years of art in high school have aided me in discovering many new forms of art and countless new ways of looking at the world. These are years that I shall never forget, and will no doubt affect me for the rest of my life.Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-83375061633490905632013-06-09T20:47:00.000-04:002013-06-09T20:47:17.217-04:00SLIDESHOW 2012-2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He lived in a house unlike any other. It was a two-story home fabricated
entirely out of glass of every color a person could imagine. Mountains upon
mountains surrounded the little house. He was 15 years old and loved to explore
and always wondered what lay beyond the monstrous mountains that enveloped his
family’s house. He was very tall for his age. He had short black hair and eyes
as green as the moss that grew on the tree he could see from his bedroom. He
and his family had acquired acute hunting skills over the years. They had to in
order to survive in their harsh environment. They feasted only on the
occasional wild creature that would pass though their area. But despite their
living conditions, as a family, they were content with living in the mountains.
He had no siblings. Only the boy and his two parents lived in the house and he
had yet to tell his parents his secret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every night a spider would come to him in his dreams. This spider would
take him on adventures over the wall of mountains he so wished to climb every
day of his existence. His parents always told him that the mountains were too
dangerous to climb but the spider obviously had a very different opinion on the
subject. It was the same spider in every dream. The spider was massive. Its
legs were very skinny and long and were as sharp as daggers at the ends. The
spider’s eyes were like two very deep pools of blood. Unbeknownst to him, this
would be his last night with the spider.</span></div>
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start out in his bedroom, where it had always started before. This time they
didn’t travel over the mountains. Each experience was always different, but
never this different. This time the dream started off at the foot of a dark and
rather forbidding forest full of twisting black trees that came together to
create a walkway into the forest. As always, he willingly followed the spider
into the woods, trusting the spider’s judgment as he always did. The boy heard
a screeching noise in the distance. It was the most terrible sound he had ever
heard in his life and it only built in intensity as they made their way farther
into the forest. The noise became so unbearable at one point that the boy had
to stop in his tracks before the spider saw and forced the boy to push onward.
They finally reached the spider’s destination. At the dead end of the forest,
there was what appeared to be a well. It was constructed of little red bricks
and looked as if it had been there for a very long time. The noise vanished as
they started to approach the well and a deafening silence enveloped the two of
them. The spider had never had the ability of talking so he only motioned
toward the boy and then towards the well as if asking him to go into the well.
The boy then hastily replied to the spider’s request with a shake of his head.
The spider had always been very convincing but had never asked him do something
like this before. It was clear that the spider wouldn’t take no for an answer.
The spider took the boy and tossed him down the well. It seemed like forever
before he heard the deafening sound of his head crashing against water. And
that was the last time the spider visited the boy in his sleep.</span>Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-89911543845715980872013-01-18T19:54:00.003-05:002013-01-18T20:08:50.251-05:00BLIND CONTOUR<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">A
few weeks ago we started making blind contour self portraits. I haven't finished
mine, but you can see the work in progress below. So far, I have dyed the
background, outlined the original blind portraits with a different pen, and
used a special pencil along with the help of a little water to bring out the
lines in the drawings. I haven't decided what to write on it yet and I'm hoping to
do something else with it after finishing up with the pencil.</span></span><br />
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Bowls Dinner. This year I wanted to create special looking bowls as opposed to
the usual small bowls that I made last year for the event. I tried a different
design for each bowl/tray and experimented with different glazes that I </span>didn't<span style="font-family: inherit;"> use last year. Below are some pictures of a few bowls that I created and glazed.</span></span></div>
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Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-10963908730863437022013-01-18T19:48:00.001-05:002013-01-18T20:10:38.446-05:00PAPER LANTERNS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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completed 3 (two of which I gave to family members for </span>Christmas)<span style="font-family: inherit;"> so far and I'm
currently finishing another one. My main lantern (above) was inspired by the
season of fall. The barren trees suggest winter but I was thinking more of the
wind and the motions that the trees make when the wind blows against them,
especially in the fall season. My original lantern's color was not altered from
its original white while my other three lanterns were colored before cutting
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<br />Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-15621567927186222082013-01-11T19:22:00.002-05:002013-01-12T22:49:04.976-05:00Artist Research Post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Roy Lichtenstein, born October 27, 1923 in Manhattan, was a pop-artist who, starting in the 60's, transformed people's overall perception of art. Today, Lichtenstein is best known for his blown-up comic book portraits of girls & other cartoon-ish images. Lichtenstein used Ben-Day dots in his art in order to give his pieces a comic book-like feeling. Lichtenstein's new style of pop art was anti-everything, including the previous style he used and the most popular style of the time, Abstract Expressionism. Lichtenstein wanted to see "the difference between commercial drawing and fine art drawing". Lichtenstein differed from the other "king" of pop art, Andy Warhol, in that he had a different style of painting and lacked the celebrity persona that Warhol had. Lichtenstein was against the "pop machine" and opposed to much of what Warhol was doing at the time. Lichtenstein took the concept of commercial art and flipped it upside down. </div>
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I really like Lichtenstein because he proved that he wasn't afraid to mess with what the public felt comfortable with. He turned the art world upside down when he first arrived on the scene and many were wondering if the pieces he was creating were even qualified as works of art. He wasn't afraid to do something that nobody else was doing, and I really respect him for that.</div>
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I love this painting a lot because it differs greatly from some of his other earlier paintings which strictly feature the three primary colors and the color black. <i>Girl In Window</i> (above) uses brighter hues of all three primaries plus a dark green for the window. I also love all of the energy that was put into in the painting.</div>
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I saw this piece, <i>Perforated Seascape #1</i>, when I visited Lichtenstein: A Retrospective in D.C. this past December. I loved how different this one was from all of the other landscape paintings he did. It consisted of two panels (about 8 inches apart) which were either covered in blue dots or red dots. When you got closer or farther away, these giant spots (visible above) would start to form and change shape/disappear.</div>
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I've always really enjoyed his <i>Brushstroke</i> paintings but the one above has to be my favorite. I love that the brushstrokes are painted to look almost like the hair of the girls he also paints.</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">This marking period proved to be a very productive one for me. I had the chance to work on my drawing skills and completed a collage project based on the upcoming election. I also had some time during my study hall period to work on a piece for my portfolio that will eventually find it's way into my book at the end of the year. I'm really excited for our new lamp project and many of the other </span>upcoming <span style="text-align: start;">projects this year. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Here's the piece that I have been working on for my portfolio. I really like it so far. I still haven't done anything with the teeth and I need to shade a little bit more but I just felt like sharing a picture while in the process...</span></div>
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My collage was about how the U.S. should stop it's involvement in Middle Eastern countries and how the continuing conflicts and wars are killing more and more of our troops. I conveyed this message by using images that pertained to my topic (bombs, soldiers, blood, etc.). The over all tone of my collage is very dark consisting of blacks and reds. Sometimes it was hard to figure out what to do next but I almost always ended up either covering-up certain areas or ripping-off certain things to make it better. I wish I had kept some of the images of the original background uncovered but I think that that it turned out alright.</div>
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I'm actually really happy with how my drawing turned out. My favorite parts of my drawing are the heel of the high heel and the side of the boot. The one thing I would have done differently is either zooming in closer on a specific area and filling the whole page or by moving the drawing slightly over to the right to cover up some of that open space. But overall, I'm happy with how it came out and I really love the shading that I did (especially on the left portion of the drawing).Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-42734100358640280812012-09-19T21:55:00.000-04:002012-09-19T22:13:36.146-04:00The first blog post of the final year!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm very excited to be back in art class for my final year at HTHS. The three things I'm most excited about are the ceramics unit, the collage unit, and the creation of paper lanterns (the last of which is a totally new experience for me). This past summer I made the decision that I was going to to pursue a career in art instead of architecture. Some of my top interests are design, sculpture, film, & photography. My goal for this year is to improve my skills as an artist and build up a strong portfolio along the way.</div>
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Here's a sampling of some of the papers i have been making in class for the past 2 weeks: </div>
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<br />Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-60634552611711344422012-06-05T22:07:00.001-04:002012-09-18T21:36:57.989-04:00Reflection Post<span style="font-family: inherit;">Going into this year I had many advantages and a few disadvantages. One of my major advantages coming into this class was my overall interest in creating art. Another one of my advantages was that I had taken an art class, Art Affects, in 9th grade. One disadvantage I had coming into the year was that I had taken a full year off from taking any art class in our high school. Throughout last year I found myself doodling all over my notebooks of various classes as a result of having no set time during the day to express my artistic side. This year has helped me push my artistic capabilities to new heights. Before this class I, had never put together a book before or made a place setting out of clay or worked with any type of metal. I hope to continue making art up until the day I die and I believe that the various skills that I learned this year will aid me along the way.</span>Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-39389989282568717472012-05-31T21:26:00.002-04:002012-05-31T21:40:50.425-04:002011-2012 portfolio // slideshow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marc Chagall (born 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia) grew up in a poor Jewish family where he learned all about Russian folklore, Jewish mysticism, and life in the village. his mother urged him to attend art school and in 1910, he was offered an allowance to study in Paris. Chagall was exposed to many different art forms while in Paris. In his paintings, there are often images depicting farm animals and the village where he grew up in as a child. A lot of these images hover in space or are superimposed the way there are layered in memory. His paintings are intensely colorful and often cubist looking. Chagall also illustrated many books, painted a ceiling of the Paris Opera Building, and fabricated stained glass windows for multiple churches and for the United Nations in NYC. He died in 1985 in France.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When we first started drawing the apples, it was a little difficult since I had never drawn so intensely with colored pencils before. But as we progressed into the drawing, I became more and more comfortable with the colored pencils that I was using.</div>Alec Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06668218860773006136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6932182206653194646.post-35143855093869716142011-09-21T20:10:00.001-04:002011-09-21T21:31:37.146-04:00first blog post!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Greetings readers! Thank you for joining my new art blog! This is my first blog post so I don't really know what to say so i guess i'll just talk about what we are currently doing in art class. We are currently preparing pages for books that we will be assembling later on in the year. For each page, we have to dye, paint or make a magazine transfer onto sheets of paper in order to make an interesting background to draw on. This is a picture that I took today of the things that I am currently working on...<br />
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