Perspective Piece

For this piece of art (beautifully displayed above) I was truly challenged as a new artist, I was working with the concept of perspective which I had little worked with in the past. The perspective I chose for  this piece was one point perspective which though it may not seem, is not as simple as you'd think. I used first perspective view to its full potential in this piece, I poured my time and effort into this piece as to make up for my inexperience on the subject material. As for my process of thinking, getting an idea, and doing, I put a lot of thought into my subject for this piece. I needed a subject I could relate to and at the same time, use perspective to its full extent. So, as seen in the photo above, I once again chose the timeless subject that I have chosen before to be my main subject. I made the Tardis (police box) the center of the piece with the background and foreground complementing it. And for those who will understand, the piece in whole is the Tardis flying through a time vortex. My medium for this piece was pencil as are all my others, because I feel I can cram the most detail and emotion into my piece with pencil. And on a final note I'd just like to write a quote from an anonymous source because I can, "Your perspective on life can only be reflected by what you think and know to be true, and by this, I realize that life is precious and should be cherished, but what comes afterword even more so."

Relief Piece

This is where my relief piece would be... if I had one. Just kidding, so for my relief piece I chose to create a lady-bug, simple yet elegant. Relief is making art against a flat surface and adding X amount of layers to make it pop out & look 3D realistically. The 3 different kinds of relief are, High relief, Mid relief, and low relief. The thing I am most proud of in this piece is the fact that I fit four layers into the piece seeing as it's size would restrict layer number. If I could go back & change one thing it would be to take tame to add more detail.

stenciled self portrait

This photo is part of my stenciled self portrait piece that I completed some time ago, I am very proud of how it turned out. Nonobjective art: art that is used to bring attention to the main objective & give the whole piece a small blast of color. The way it was used in this piece was as a background with assorted colors for my self portrait.  I couldn't find the picture miss Sudkamp!!! :)

land art project

The way our group concocted this amazing feat of art is all in the planning. We had our entire table draw 2-4

thumbnails each, then we presented our ideas & chose what we thought was the best one for the project. We came up with a rough idea of the completed result above. We used dry sticks & autumn red leaves, we chose these materials as to best portray the wanted affect, (a campfire).

Finished color project

This piece (my color project soon to be posted), has by far been my favorite of all my pieces so far. There aren't exactly "three" objects in this piece but why limit yourself to few when you can portray one that is infinite? And that brings it to what my objective goal was, to draw a realistic likeness of The Tardis. as for my medium I chose colored pencil because I felt that I could cram in the most possible detail with them, this was true. This has been a fun as well as inspiring project; I hope to keep posting pieces such as this.
                                                 -Joshua

My name project

The color scheme I used for this piece was slightly unique seeing as I used primary colors on the left hand column and used secondary colors on the right hand column. The medium I used in the piece was oil pastel outlined with sharpie. I chose oil pastel because I'd had success with it in the past

My Realism Photos

My take on the new Van Gogh

                         My Take on The New Van Gogh     Josh Oakley                                                                                        9/25/13 Art 1

                                     "How to know it's a Van Gogh"

In the artistry world there are many techniques, styles, & things you can use to create what is modernly considered "art". The artist "Van Gogh" had a very unique and different style which he later became famous for. His style of painting was out of the average and elegant, with a mixture of unheard of realistic detail and a flowing type motion of the numerous small brush strokes he implemented. Van Gogh was a post-Impressionist so he used a lot of brush strokes. The work, (art), he did in his lifetime can be separated into two stages, 'The Potato' stage & the 'Colour' stage. In the Potato stage he used much duller colors & his painting were very realistic. In the Colour stage is the stage where he painted very vivid pieces. The piece "Sunset at Montmajour" in my opinion would have been from the Potato stage because he has many low colors and has extreme detail and depicts a simple country side. There are other ways to identify paintings, the most obvious would be a signature either on the back or in the bottom right corner of the painting. But processes stated above can easily be faked & forged, it requires experienced artistic detecting professionals & high technology to identify a genuine classic these days. And as time goes by, forgers & criminals grow all more intelligent in their foul play, so historians and artitians alike are always coming up with ways to thwart those who mean to tear down the artistic world.
                                                     -This has been an article on an art article by Josh Oakley

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Josh Oakley

September 4, 2013

                                                                                                                                    Art 1

First Period

The Restoration of Historic Art

The recent story about the 80-year-old woman who “restored” a portrait of Jesus at her church may have people wondering about how someone REALLY goes about restoring a piece of art.  Someone’s grandmother does simply walk up to a painting and start smearing paint around.  As is evidenced by granny’s efforts and results in Italy, some sort of process is to be be followed.

The entire process of restoring a painting is tedious and time-consuming.  First, a ultra-violet light scan is typically done.  This shows any previous restorations that have been done.  Next, the painting is test spot cleaned to see how it holds up to stronger and stronger solvents.  This is usually done using a cotton swab.

After seeing how the painting does in the spot clean, the whole canvas is cleaned.  This takes a while and removes years of old varnish and previous restoration. 

If necessary, the next step is to reline the canvas.  This must be done if the canvas is very old and/or damaged.  The painting may also be re-stretched at this point.

Lastly, the painting is “retouched” to match the original painter’s style, strokes, and color as closely as possible.  The painting is also varnished to protect it and make it last long.

After describing these steps it is easy to see that not just any “granny” can restore a painting!

References

"The Steps In Restoring A Painting." Welcome To Broadway Fine Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 04  Sept. 2013. <http://www.broadwayfineart.co.uk/info/the-steps-in-restoring/>.

"There’s a Surprise Happy Ending for That Catastrophically Botched Jesus Painting." The Blaze. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2013. <http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/15/theres-a-surprise-happy-ending-for-the-catastrophically-botched-jesus-fresca-that-became-a-worldwide-sensation/>.