PRISMACOLOR METAMORPHOSIS
ADVANCED 2-D ART
prismacolors on black construction paper
I am so very pleased with how this piece photographed.
Without the right lighting it was a bit on the dark side
because of the night scene.
Senior Samantha Tun,
my only 3rd year 2-D student this last year created this work.
But first she had to learn to work with the Prismacolors.
They are a bit waxier then regular colored pencils and require a special touch.
But as you can see below,
Sam handled them beautifully.
Her value ranges and blending them together are seamless.
The assignment was to morph two unlike objects.
Sam chose balloons and faces.
And then to figure out an environment to put the morph into that made sense.
The entire work was done in Prisma after Sam did several practice pieces.
I was so pleased with how it came out and how it has a story
that the viewer gets to figure out
Another terrific work Sam!.
So much to see ... colors fading to gray moving away from the light, painstaking cobble-work with believable perspective, intriguing shadows and objects in the gutters, and the realistic arc of light on the wall.
ReplyDeleteThe story evoked for me with the dark ground underlying the whole has a sense of nightmare or delerium.