1. This painting is called the Nighthawks, it was created by Edward Hopper in 1942. Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York, on July 22, 1882. The masterpiece was painted with oil on a canvas.
2. My first impressions of the painting was how it portrayed the shadows in detail. It looked made it look almost like a photograph. I also was impressed with the depth. Nothing was crooked or "off" their position.
3. Edward Hopper was a painter who studied for five years under Robert Henri, a member of the Ashcan School of painters. He doesn't paint the chaos of urban, he paints about urban isolation. He painted the Nighthawks to show the loneliness of life in the city during late nights. A nighthawk is like a night owl to Hopper, he refers it to people who stay up late; like the people in the diner in the painting.
4. He emphasized the diner by contrast; he gave the diner a bright light, compared to the dark and glum outside. I like how the light in the diner flooded out to the street through the window casting specific shadows.

Finding images that are balanced.

Asymmetrical, yet with balance,
the tree balances with the building on the right.



















Radial Symmetrical
















Almost Symmetrical












Symmetrical

Reflecting on Found Objects Sculptures.

The first object that inspired me to make my sculpture the way it is was the bike seat. It looked like some kind of animal's head with the snout pointing down. It reminded me of a cow and a dog. From that I decided to create some kind of creature, and I did not want to create a regular animal so I created a creature with the combination of qualities of a dog and a cow. I made it out of a stereo and parts of a mini bike. I expected my sculpture to be about this size and color. It basically turned out what I was expected with minor changes such as the wheel attached to the top of the tail and the grill at the neck, but it just made the sculpture better in my eye.

I think I did a good job in this term so far, I know I was not a perfect student, my work had not always complete on time, but my work had always exceed the projects' expectations, I had always followed the directions of each projects. I was on time everyday, I was even a bit early on some days. I tried to be creative with my work and to express my feelings about each found objects and picture it in my mind before I do each step. I checked in a rage of A and B, not below C, I think it represent most of my efforts in my last term.

What's in the Sack?

Today was drop everything and draw (DEAD) day. We drew a picture with charcoal of objects in a trash bag.
The goal was to draw it quickly at the beginning and add details at the ending. The difficulty of the project was to draw the clear trash bags. The trick was to draw the object inside the bag first and then use the eraser to make white lines that looks like the reflection of light on the bags. It worked pretty well for me. I focused on the texture and the shading of the objects and the sack itself. I was happy with the results of my work.

Keeping Up To The Changing Still Life.

Keeping up to the changing setting of the still life pose on the table was really difficult and tiring. It is hard to erase every thing and drawing something else in its place over and over. It created a giant smear on the paper which irritated me. The three most difficult thing I had to keep up with the changing still life was erasing a lot over and over when something is taken away or overlap something else, and drawing the object over and over when something is taken away or added in the front of it. Lastly, the most hard thing was to try and keep the objects proportional to the table and drawing it in the right size.

Found object sculpting

Artists find objects that are random and sometimes inspiring and combine it with other random found objects to create a sculpture of something random made of something random.

Reflecting my first critique.

My group liked my work, it was a bit funny. They were polite and said there was not so many things that are wrong with my picture. They said that the love came out in the wrong place from the dog towards the baseball. The love symbol looks like it came out of his butt. I know that was awkward and I should have put the love symbol from else where on the dog. They also misunderstood my symbol of anger, fear, and confutation, and I agree with them, they were not exactly clear.

Ingrid Calame

Ingrid Calame's artworks reminds me of our project with found patterns and shapes in the past week and the paint pouring project. It has a lot of amorphous and colorful shapes overlapping each other. Her arts are abstract; she doesnt draw from memory nor still life; she make her arts from found shapes like we did in the past week. Ingrid Calame was born in the Bronx, New York in 1965. She is an abstract artist with her own unique styles and methods. She started her type of abstract art in the early 1990s. She traces real life shapes such as graffiti or tire skid marks or cracks from specific sites over the country on large rolls of Mylar (a see- through polyester tracing paper). She collects her traces and overlaps them over each other in her studio in Los Angles and adds color to the lines and shapes with a color pencil and paint. Her hard work resulted into beautiful, colorful and abstract masterpieces. She makes her paintings the way because she wanted to "map" the world of art with her found images.
The art work in the upper right corner is my favorite art by her. I like the color and the pattern. It just makes it pleasant to look at it. I could look at it for a long time without getting bored. It also has depth; the pattern was painted in a certain way that it gives some depth into the picture.