This is How We See The World

This is an still-life acrylic painting assignment students from Visual Art - Painting class did last  November and December.

Taking a look at these paintings, isn't it amazing to see paintings on the same subjects done by artists from different perspectives and with various styles?

Yes, York Mills' got many art talents. ;)

Artist: ChaoYing

My friend said that I should name my painting "The Romance between Mannequins" or "Star-cross'd Dummies". The colours are very powerfully used in this painting. and it turned out very emotional and enthusiastic, as if there is somehow a story between the two mannequins. 

Red, Purple, Yellow are the basic colours I used, and they are like a great team that works amazingly together. But I explored a lot with colour theory in this assignment and I followed a consistent style for this painting with smooth, fresh brush strokes. 

Artist: Rasa

I was really drawn to the relationship between the male and female dummies -- I ultimately created a narrative using the aforementioned, as well as a dummy head. I used mostly expressive brushstrokes and colour so as to incorporate some movement and action into the still objects. My palette consisted of red, cadmium yellow, magenta, cobalt blue, and white.

Artist: Kayleigh

My painting is called Dinosaur King, I guess. I was inspired by the dominative look of the dinosaur within the still life- that something that was so comparitively small could have such a dramatic presence. I wanted to experiment with brighter colours, so I exclusively used primary blue, red and yellow, with some cadmium yellow and lots of white. Overall, I think the painting looks great- and is a more optimistic portrayal of dominating personas, but I digress.

Artist: Naomi

This painting was an entirely experimental piece, where i explored a method of painting outside of my comfort zone. Although i still don't know how i feel about it, i am proud of the colours involved and would like to pass on that even though you may be unhppy with the end result, or decide to go back to the artistic style you are comfortable with, take all that you can from your detours because sometimes there are valuable skills you may pick up.

Artist: Kelly

 It was my first time to paint still-life in such a huge canvas and it was fairly fun. I tried to create a casual and free style so that the brushstrokes were kind of short and broken. I focus on dealing with the entire colour and construction relationship rather than small details of each objects. I use rich colours in order to show the reflectional colours betweeen the objects.